The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-03-16
GREAT Jewish
LEADER SPEAKS
Oscar Straus Pleads the
Cause of Roosevelt and
Refutes Critics.

big meeting held in Manchester. N. H,
Hon. oscar 8. Straus, formerly secre-
tary Of commerce and labor. recently
United States, ambassador to Turkey,
and q permanent member of The
Hague tribunal, had this to say on the
presidential romination:
THE great principles for which
Senator Clapp pleads and for which
your young but distinguished COVER.
nor 80 bodily stands lead US back into
the promised land, that land where
virtue was vitalized and the moral
conscience of the people was vitalized
under the seven years administrst ton
OF Theodore Roosevelt. This govern
ment was based and founded upon the
broad principles Of the rights Of the
people. It was q plain and simple
principle. That principle cannot be
maintained simply by giving the peo-
pie the right to vote. They must have
the right to determine who they shall
vote for ana that right is and has been
largely taken away from the people,
and instead Of these men like Senator
Clapp and Others. being reacttonertes
they are the real conservatives to lead
the people back to- those principles
where they shall be endowed with
those fundamental principles that are
inherent and absolute In q democ-
racy.
"On February. 10 last, tho repMbli-
can governors. Of seven states who as
sembled at Chicago for the purpose Of
&C nsidering what would be best for the
tho 'continuance of the repub blican par:
ty. addressed q letter ia rsx- -Prasfdenf
RooPveh and apbseled TO his sense Of
public duty not Is decline The nom
;nation for president coming - vol.
untary expression Of the wishes Of the
majority Of the. republican voters Of
the United States. Mr.. Roosevelt re-
piled that in the interest Of the people
as q whole he would accept the NOM
inatiOn for president II rendered him
Iand that he hoped that the people
n light be given the chance through d.
rect primaries to express their prefer
ence as to who should be the nominee
of the republican presidential conven.
ton.
-Four Year Nonsense.
Because a president has been a
president for four years no matter
how good a president he has been,
another four years. and the people OF
this country can secure somebody
whom they think will make a better
president. The ONCE Of the president
is pre-eminently the peoples ONCE and
the people should have the unrestrict.
ed right to select their nominee.
1T is claimed not only by our poll
tical opponents but by some of our
friends that while freely admitting all
this to elect Roosevelt again would be
a violation. Of q cherished precedent
against O third term. That is q sub
ject I want you to thoroughly under
stand. There has been great deal Of
mystifcstion on that subject and
should be clarified and 1t is not clari-
fed in the headlines Of the press, that
is controlled by interests which speak
and spit out spiteful untruth against
Theodore Roosevelt. Let US see what
the truth IL. BY article 2 Of section
l of the constitution of the United
States 1t is provided that no person
holding any office of trust or profit
under the United States shall be ap-
pointed as a presidential elector. The
purpose Of this provision. clearly was
to prevent choosing q president or re-
electing one without regard to the
welfare of the people, but with only
regard to such, electors personal inter.
est in order to prolong their continu-
ance in Office. One thing is clear that
this practice Of . president using the
power Of officeholder to gain q re-
nomination should be effectually pro-
hibited in accordance with the spirit
IL not the very provision of the con.
stitution itself. The republican party
should not forget that methods such
as these outraged public sentiment in
the time Of Harrison and the result
was that he was defeated and deserv.
ed to be defeated 49,,