New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-01
VOTERS & THEIR women FOLK


ar Knowledge of the human animal in all his many
81 ~ coverings.
va have in America to-day ready, waiting. eager
to IKE this generalship, man who stands so far
out trom the ranks of all his fellows to to
be gore than man. All men and women who list
enCtwth me to this man Wednesday night in Madi-
soc Square Garden and who visoned back to the
assassins act Involuntary said: Theodore Roose
welt is more than man; he is the hero of our magma
tons, the inspiration of our Dreams
Mr. Voter, between now and Tuesday, gather
about you your women-folk, your mother, wife,
daughter, sister, and ponder the problem which is
yours ard theirs. Disregard your likes and your
disi IS and ask yourself and your women-folk the
que Oh: Can l, as American citizen, let this
God er instrument pass without giving him the
OPT Gty to right Our wrongs?
Jlnic there have focked to the Progressive
parry horde of undesrables, it must be admitted
tina arge majority of the undetermined, un-hide-
bounl-to-party men and women of the land also
have rallied under his standard.
Admitting that some of his lieutenants are dam
gerors to the peoples interests, that some have
sought him and his party solely for sef-interest,
that some are contemplate in their hypocrisy, and
admitting that it is unfortunate tc break down the
third term tradition, and admitting all the other petty
charges of his enemies can deny this saunch, fear
less, heroic American Of Americans the opportunity
to match his strength and his courage with the
greatest problem we have had to face"
When you have found your answer and when
your women folk have endorsed it, go to the polls
and cast your ballot.
For my part with no other feeling for President
Taft than sympathy for the misfortunes brought
him by his whole-soued confidence in the trickster
politicians who have used him for their own ends,
and with nothing but profound admiration for the
qualities Of Governor Wilson, and knowing Theo-
dore Roosevelt from shoe-sole to hat-crown, I cam
not believe that the American people will deprive
themselves of his powerful aid in this crisis.
1t does not seem possible that the people of New
York, whose Governors for the past four decades,
with few exceptions, have been taken from the poll
ticans rank can orego the impulse to drop to their
knees in thanksgiving that they have the oppor-
tunity of placing in their Governors chair such a
man as Oscar Straus does it seem possible that
the people of our own Commonwealth of Massa-
chusetts could hesitate in sending to the State
House that rare, old-fashioned American gentleman
business man. Charles S. Bird.
If Theodore Roosevelt had nothing to recon-
mend him to the people of America but the indorse-
ment of men OF the Straus and Bird character and
calbre they should eagerly embrace the opportunity
to place their troubled affairs in his keeping. When
one thinks of the recent performances in the State
Houses OF New York and Massachusetts,, Of the
mountebanks who have dragged the States tradi-
tons and the States honor through the sewers OF
vulgaritv and the catcbasns of blatherskite poll
tics in their endeavor to boost themselves to positions
as fitting to their ability and manners as cathedral
shrines are to the prayers of chimpanzees ones in
telligence is taxed in the endeavor to comprehend
why there should be any uncertainty in the coming
election
In adding this my mite, to this campaign, |
hope that the thoughtful voters of America will
keep this one burning fact in front OF them as they
vote That the people have one fundamental prob
lem which must be solved, and now-High COST
Living; that before this problem all other consid-
erations OF personal hatreds, selfnterests and am
billions must give way; that this problem, when
has bafled the best minds of the nation for forty
wears can be solved only by men OF rare honesty,