Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1914-06-26
7. r. WILL RUN
FOR PRESIDENT
Believes j, S, is Sick and Wants
Him to Cure Its Ills.
CENTRE ATTACK ON WILSON
Mr.. Roosevelt Says "Deplorable Con-
dition of Affairs Is Due to Presi-
dents Lofty ldeaIism."

Colonel Theodore Roosevelt will &C.
cept the Progressive party nomination
for the preniIency in 1916.
The colonel made this known in an
interview given out in Southampton
just before emDarhing en- the Inpera-
tor for New York.
In so doing Mr.. Roosevelt dropped
the mask of silence. about politics
which he had put on when he landed
on British soil and plunged into the
subject with his old-time enthusiasm
and vtgor.
Mr.Roosevelt declared emphatically
that he would not run for the COVER
norship of New York, because he
hasn't the time," nor will he consent
to be candidate for the United States
senatorship, because the suggestion is
"palpably preposterous." He will be a
candidate for president, however, be.
cause he Is convinced the country is in
the most unhealthy state and the ma.
jority of the men of the nation want
him to cure it.
The colonel will not take the stump
this fall for any party or individual.
because his physician has forbidden
him to speak in the open air. The for.
mer president admitted that the fall.
ure of his voice by reason of throat
affection was a great disappointment
to him. He plans to prepare two or
three comprehensive speeches contain.
ing his reasons why the Progressive
candidates should win, which he will
have printed and distributed all over
the country"
Mr.. Roosevelt In his campaign for
the presidency will SHOW up" what
he characterized as the "errors" and
"botches" of the Wilson administra.
ton. Among these, which he will point
out as being largely responsible for
the present deplorable condition of
affairs" are: Mr.. Wilson's so-called
"loEty idealism," which he characterize
ed as "pedantic theorizing, cropping,
delaying, the entire diplomatic hand
ling of the Panama canal question,
and the persecution" instead Of the
regulation of big business
When asked concerning remark h :
had previously made that the payment
of $25000,000 to Colombia by the
United States for taking Panama"
was blackmail, the colonel thundered:
"The Colombians are nothing but
gang of despicable blackmailers. They
tried to blaclmail us when | was
president, but they didn't get away
with it, and now to think of paying
those blackguardly blackmailers $685.
0O0,000-oh, 1t makes me sick. Here
we go to work and push t through to
completion the greatest work Of con.
structive engineering the world has
ever known-only to have the whole
handling of the diplomatic end of the
project messed and botched. Its
enough to make anybody sick"
When asked for his explanation of
the seemingly unwarranted universal
depression from which business all
over the United States seems to be
suffering, Colonel Roosevelt was quick
to reply:
"It's nothing but the same old thing
I denounced in the Taft administra
demonstrating the meaning of the
word regulation and translating it to
mean persecution. Of course, when ]
said this before, my numerous enemies
seized on 1t as proof that was work
ing for the interests of big business.
81 am honest enough to say that ]
believe big business must be let alone
at least to the extent that 1t has got
to have a chance. Regulate big bIsi
ness, yes. But to continue the Iro2.
ent idealistic-lofty-ped pedantic- -grop~i is
delaying policy toward American II
dustries Is to persecute it until 1t will
realize it has had plenty of this lofty
brand of misgoYernment."