The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1912-02-19
Roosevelt VIII Accept.


Chicago Tribune: Eight progres-
sive governors Of eight progressive
states met in Chicago on Saturday and
declared themselves for Theodore
Roosevelt for president,
There can be but one meaning to
this action: Roosevelt win accept
the nomination If it is offered to him.
This can be stated unequivocally.
For the eight governors are all po-.
litical and personal friends of the ex-
president. They would not have used
these words in their statement to the
public
We express our firm conviction
that he will accept the nomination
as a duty he owes to his country,
and we wish to present his name
in this united manner and urge
that all who desire prosperity
with progress shall join in the
demand for his nomination and
election.
IL their conviction were not based on
personal knowledge. Each of these
governors has had recent interviews
with Colonel Roosevelt, and their
statement Of Saturday necessarily
bears the stamp of authority.
If the republican national conven-
tion, which meets in Chicago next
June, should nominate Theodore
Roosevelt he will obey the will of the
delegates and become the standard
bearer of the party.
What the RooseveIt Movement Means.
Pittsburg Leader: The bare out
lines OF the overwhelming Roosevelt
movement were shown to Taft,
"the interests" and the whole coun-
try in the great and harmonious meet
ing at Chicago of the governors and
delegates from twenty eight states.
Never has a candidate for president
shown such a remarkable following
months in advance of a nominating
convention.
Such strength in a man who is not
a candidate is even more remarkable.
The crisis in the country is great,
even vital. The man to lead the ma
tion through the crisis must be great
great in capacity and great in his
grasp of the means to solve the prob
lems that are stirring the people to
the danger point.
That the voters and the governors
of twenty eight states should unani-
mously turn to one man as the only
way out of our troubles is phenom-
email.
People struggling for life determine
upon leadership regardless of the
wishes of the man himself.
The people have determined to make
Roosevelt their leader in spite OF
himself.
It is nothing to the people of these
| twenty-eight states and others that
Roosevelt is not a candidate.
| For their own sake they propose 10
make him candidate.
They say he cannot refuse IN view
of the honors they have hesped upon
him in the past, and that, in the
memory of the honors, he will not
Erefuse to help them when they call.
The people want revival of the
square deal. Roosevelt is the mar
to give it to them.
They want all the momentous prob.
| lens that are frightening the coun-
| try settled, and they feel that Roose-
/ welt is the one man to settle them or
1 a foundation of justice.
They want equality and Justice be-
tween man and man, and they know
that Roosevelt is the man to give II
and safeguard it through his own
rugged strength of character.
They want government by the
people, and they know Roosevelt will
see that they get it.
The times demand ?. man of exe
ceptional courage, not a good-nasured
complaisant man, who allows him
self tc be hoodwinked, and made 8
laughing stock by handful OF
tricky little politicians, the Penroses
the Aldriches, the Shoots, the Cranes
and the Ballingers.
Roosevelt has the courage to give
the people all that is theirs.
The meeting of the representatives
and governors of the people of TWEEN
! ty-eight states Is the strongest warn
ing yet given to tthe interests" thai
their grip on the throat Of the nation
is to be torn away,
The flght is no longer one between
the old republican and democratic
parties. 1t is not a fight among men
1t is bitter struggle for principles
a battle between the people who have
i made the country with their labor
and the few who have controlled II
through the power Of their money.
Roosevelt is the Abraham Lincolr
of today. He is not afraid of the
great money power. He is afraid oi
nothing.
The critical character Of the situa.
ton cries out for such a man. Ant
the people know such man wher
they see him.
The open fight between the people
and "the interests" has just begun
The reactionary Taft wing is tTyinl