Evening journal., 1915-07-20
ROOSEVELT WON'T
talk TO 'SAPHEADS"
Believed TO Have Told Pro-
gresSives That New Party
Could Not Win
SITUATION, He SAYS,
is UP TO REPUBLICANS

PORTLAND, Ore. July 20.--"What
| will have to say IN the future will
not be for sapheads or mollycoddles,
declared ex-President Theodore
Roosevelt here yesterday during a
brief stay of twenty minutes as he
addressed 1000 enthusiastic follow
ers, who quit work in the middle Of
the afternoon TO greet him at the
depot.
Il am not making political speeches
and whenever ] have anything to say
1t will be over my own signature. so
don't believe anything you see in the
newspapers to which people give out
statements purporting to be informa-
ton ! have given TO them From time
to time I will give out statements on
vital subjects 10 the whole country"
About 1000 men and women came In
a stcaminp mob 10 shake the hand Of the
ieN-President and he accommodated all.
even ~ith the temperature at 9S Sew
cral women said they wanted 10 faint,
but that Il would mover do to show such
weakness before the Colonel.
1T will be mp to the Republican party
TO say whether the Progressive Party
/
tence," he declared
For two hours last night at Seattle
five l1ogressiNes, headed by J. H. G.
Kellogg. county chairman. argued for an
out and out Progressive party. but IL is
said Roosevelt refused to commit him.
self TO such a policy.
Would Support Hughes
II is asserted that Roosevelt told the
IPro9ressives in effect that II the Repub.
licans would name some one like Justice
Hughes he would receive the Roosevelt
support He stated his reasons sub
lstantiallv as follows.
"A large part Of the world is in a
state OF war. The vital interests OF
, the people of this country. as we'll as
Of others, are centered about the war
! Internal politics can be only secon-
dary TO il. The people Of the United
I States are not interested and cannot
be made so in political reforms in
this war atmosphere 10 such a de-
4 gree as to make il possible for a new
party to win any measure of sue
cess.
AS matters stand now, II would
take about twelve years 10 make def
J.
party. and in my part Of the country
the Progressives cannot be held TO-
/ gether that long If there is an oppor-
tunity 10 carry forward the princi-
i pies of the party through another
channel
stand on Statements.
"I made two comprehensive ttate
! ments on the Lusitania incident a
Syracuse and stand on them nov
/, precisely az I did then" he furthe
u told the crow, and he placed Roose
yeltism emphasis on the word pre-
( clsely."
81 wrote two long articles for tn
= papers on the Mexican situation an'
II stand on them now precisely as
did then" And again he emphasized
precisely"
Il haven't changed my views on'
/, iota. and the sooner that Uncle San
acts on those two statements anc
: those two articles the better II viii
be for the country.
at seems inconceivable that we car
refrain from taking action in this
matter. for we owe II not only q
humanity but to our own self-re
spect."
The Colonel was not slow 10 exer
else his notions Of the peace-at-any
price propagandists, whom he termed
repeatedly "moliycoddles' and isis
sizes"
1T does me a lot OF good 10 se'
some real men when mollycoddie'
seem TO be so much 10 the fore h'
had said al Vancouver. where a grouI
of stanish-American war veterans
greeted him with a flag.