The Washington times., 1915-12-29

therefor, IN It's proceedings, ana perhaps
The Interrogation mark upstands after
the question In multiplied forms as tC
whether or not Theodore Roosevelt is a
candidate for the Republican nomina-
ton.
A compa Mon Interrogation mark rears
itself after the question which seeks
information concerning which one of y
, group of Republicans the colonel VIII
support for the Presidency, provided the
party convention goes to the group for
its candidate.
What Wall Street Doesn't Like.
/ have said that If there be patience
to read this article these questions may
be answered and tho mysteries, where
there are any. may be cleared up. A
few preliminaries to the task Of answer
ing and clearing may be justifiable.
TO me they seem necessary.
Just before l took the train for
oyster Bay l met a Wall Street stock
broker who Is a standpat Republican.
/ never had seen the man before. He
jumped into uolitics, and without know
ing anything about his hearers predt.
lections he said, tho majority in Wall
Street is for the colonel" -.
l said. THAT may be good news or 1t
well" he answered, wall Street
does like the yellow that Is in gold and
perhaps some Wall Street men are
tempermental enough to like the yellow
in sunset, but l never yet met any
one in Wall Street who likes yellow in
a man. Down underneath what all you
Westerners and others who are not
Westerners call the sordidness of the
street there is a foundation of Ameri-
oanism. Wall Street likes a man. who
dares to be an American and it hates
a coward. The ajority in Wall Street
today is for the colonel"
Everywhere in New York. and 1 talked
uyh hn nODed
with Wall Street that every lion
would do it's duty" I found a new
born affection for the colonel. These men
probably always have had an admira-
ton for him, because metaled man
hood compels admiration. but of affec-
ton where he was concerned they knew
| nothing. They hated him because In
their view he was business smasher.
Wall Street Greatly Stirred.
Theodore Roosevelts Americanism.
his fearlessness In this war time, his
refusal to give a thought to political
advantage or disadvantage in dealing
with questions of dual citizenship have
stirred the Americanism in these former
enemies of the colonel. He Is first
American and they know 1t. This
Americanism of Theodore Roosevelt ac-
counts for the rapid change OF per-
| sonal and political sentiment in New
York. Men told me that If nominated
the colonel would sweep the state.
l went to Oyster Bay with one COM
panion, a Maine Progressive, a man
with the roots of his faith as deep and
as gripping as those of any pine in the
| forest at whose edge he was born. This
man knows, as everybody else ought to
know that the Roosevelt Progressive
| ism Is today what 1t was in 1912. You
cannot breathe any doubt from the air
in the African trophy room at oyster
Bay.
| The Gary dinner has been made a bi g
incident. The incident in way grew
out of an accident. The host Of that
| evening, and probably most people know
| it, always has been an admirer of Theo-
| dore Roosevelt. One or two of the
! guests not only always have been ad-
mirers. but have been supporters OF
| Theodore Roosevelt. 1t is so likely that
| you may take 1t as a fact that the
host asked a prospective guest or two
II there was any chance that the
colonel would like to sit at the even.
ing board and meet some men whom
he had not been meeting socially with
any great degree of regularity withir
the last eight or ten years.
Why Of course. the colonel was gIac
to sit at the board with them. VIII,
shouldn't he be glad? | have an ides
that he thought that there was a gooc
deal of Americanism in some of thes'
men who had differed from him on Ger
tain matters of economic. and perhaps
other legislation. The colonel went t
the dinner and had a good time and I
was dinner which had only one touci
of political Significance.
or the political significance later
There seems to be no room for doub
that the moving sentiment about th
table at this much discussed dinner wa
Americanism. You can get nothing. o
course. of this particular matter from
| Roosevelt. but YOU can get it every
where else from Montak Point to tn
rttynr :.
Gary dinner feels today toward Roose
welt as the stock broker told me tn
majority of men in Wall Street feel to
ward him. The feeling for him is tha
tor man who has dared to he al
American and to speak for Americanisn
as II used to be spoken for in the tim
when Administrations We're unafraid
1t is my belief that Americanism muc
more than politics made strange Dime
mates at the Gary board.
No White Flag at T. RS Plate.
Now for the political Significance, bu
better it should be called an economi
significance. although economics merge
into politics just at this point. Nearl
all the guests of Mr.. Gary were me
who not long ago looked malevolentl
on the progressive policies of Theodor
Roosevelt. Now they are of mind t
believe that the regulation Of busines
Is to be preferred to the destruction O
!
are becoming progressives American
ism and economics. and if you will. poll
ties. met cOmpanionably at the Gar
board If there was any surrender ther
was no white flag displayed at tn
coloners plate.
In an article recently written by an
other and which was widely read
was said that if the Republicans shoul,
nominate Philander Chase Knox. fOrme
Secretary of State, for the Presidency
Theodore Roosevelt would support hin
There is not the slightest reason {
doubt that the writer of this artiCl
believed that he was justified in writ
ing this.
However, Theodore Roosevelt will no
support Philander Chase Knox for tn
, Presidency il the Republicans see f
to nominate this Pennsylvanan an
, former Secretary Of State for the Pres
idency.
If any one seeks the reason for tn
certain refusal Of the Progressive lead
er to support Knox let him read
paragraph or two in the colonel
article which has appeared with
forty-eight hours in the Metropoita
Magazine. The paragraphs have TO d
with Mexico and there is discussion /
the article of Mexican matters, not onl
, under Mr.. Wilson. but under Mr. TAT
whose Secretary of State was Philandc
, Chase Knox
Americansm apparently is the over
{ shadowing issue today as most me
Z view It, Theodore Roosevelt will sur