New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-24
Detroit Business Men Ask
Rest of Delegation to Back
Man People Want.
HYPHENISM ISSUE
OF FIGHT, SAYS HURD
Head of Lawyers Mortgage Co.
EnIists as Supporter-Colo-
mel Returns from Capital.

lFrom a Stsr Correspondent o. Tho rribune
Oyster Bay. May % Colonel Theo-
dore Roosevelt has broken into the
Ford delegation in Michigan. II. T..
Stanton is the first to declare for him,
and reports from Detroit indicate that
several, if not a majority, Of the dele
gates will follow his example.
This is one result Of the Colonies
Detroit speech Another is an appeal
20 all delegates to the Republican con
vention, signed by leading bankers and
manufacturers Of Detroit. asking them
in the name of Americsnism and the
Republican party TO unite IN nominal
ing Roosevelt. Thus does Detroit re-
pudiate Ford and assure the world That
the city. and Michigan as well. IS not
committed to peace at any price as the
election of Ford delegates TO Chicago
might seem to indicate.
People Want Roosevelt"
The appeal reads:
as one Of the delegates to the Re
publican National Convention you are
10 determine the course Of our party
in a supreme natonsl crisis. We feel
that the wonderful AmericanIsm and
absolute rightness Of Theodore Roose-
welt in the great questions TO come
before the country make him the man
to win the next election with by lar
the largest majority.
1.-THE patriotic uprising here 10 re-
ceive Colonel Roosevelt's speech on
Americanism last Friday reveals the
hold he has on the hearts of the peo-
pie. Its effect is growing every hour.
Hundreds Of dyed-in-the-wool Republ-
cans here who were actively and force
fully antagonistic TO Roosevelt four
wears ago. feel that existing conditions
demand united Americsnism ard Re
publicanism. and that this Amerlcanlsm
and Republicanism is best represented
BY Roosevelt. We feel that the won
derful demonstration Of all parties ana
nationaltes here warrants the under
signed in believing thoroughly that the
great majority Of people want koose-
Welt, and will want him much more
when they come TO understand his
Americanism as he explained IT here
Friday last
Signers All Business Men.
David Gray. ce-president Mer-
chants National Bank; Eugene W.
LOOMS. vice-prcsident Timken Detroit
Axle Company; Hugh Chalmers, presi-
dent Chalmers Motor Company; Henry
B. Joy. president Packard Motor Car
COMPANY; Abner L. Lardner, president
Lardner, Carter Co.; Trumen II.
Newberry. eX-Secretsry Of Navy; John
Kelsey. president Kelsey Wheel Com
pany; Frederick VI. Alger, treasurer Al
ger. Smith & Co.; Avian MacCauley,
vice-president and general manager
Cadillac Motor Car Company; Harry NJ.
Jewett, president Paige Detroit Motor
Car Company; Roy D. Chaplin, presi-
dent Hudson Motor Car Company;
Frederic w. Dennis, secretary and
treasurer Detroit Union Railroad Depot
and Station Company; Charles y.
Hughes. secretary Detroit Athletic
Club: Frank II. Croul, president De-
troit Oak Betting Company"
In the Colonefs mail was also a
copy of letter from Richard NJ. Hurd,
president of the Lawyers Mortgage
Company. of New York, accepting mem
bership on the advisory board Of the
Roosevelt Non-Partisan Committee. In
it he assails the hyphens, saying, IN
part:
"A moral decision Of vital impor-
lance hangs on the action of the ma
tional conventions in June and OF the
voters in November. Whether this ma
ton is willing TO have its women and
children drowned by an enemy sub
marine. whether il is willing to be gov
erned by pacifsts and skulkers, wheth-
er it is willing to be part hyphenated,
these questions are soon to be de-
cided.
"Hyphenism Must CO."
"Onlv one issue confronts the voters:
Americanism and national honor or ny
phenism and national disgrace. Lin
coin said this nation could not endure
half slave and half free. II is equally
true this nation cannot endure half
hvphenated and half American. That
considerable part of our population
should take its orders from Berlin
whether TO blow up our factories and
ships or TO obey our laws is intolera-
bic. Only one public man has spoken
out boldly to rouse the American spirit
and to defy our enemies without and
within. Theodore Roosevelt has voiced
the heroic principles upon which this
republic was founded. He stands for
America first. last and all the time"
Colonel Roosevelt arrived early this
evening from Washington. While
pleased with his reception there, he
would not comment on H. He will be
at his Offices in New York tomorrow,
where he may hold several important
conferences.