Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-06-27
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ROOSEVELT
COMES OUT
FOR HUGHES
Progressive Leader Says This is No
Time to esitate-Must
Choose Between the
Cd Candidates.
iFESMl VI;
WILSON TRIED, FOUND WANTING
FIJI. Is.i
Writes Letter to the National Com
mittee of His Party, Stat
ing His Views.
WILSON TRIED, FOUND WANTING

ing His Views.
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Chicago, June 20. (Noon.) The
letter of Theodore Roosevelt to the
progressive national committee,
which meets here today. was given
to the press at noon. Mr.. Roosevelt
comes out strongly in favor of the
election of Charles e. Hughes and
scores the present national admins
tration for it's policy of indecision
and evasion. The ex-president says
in part: a tas
In my Judgment, the nomination
Of Hughes meets the conditions set
forth in the statement of the Pro-
gressive National Committee, issued
last January, and in my own state
ments. Under existing conditions,
the nomination of third ticket
would, in my judgment, be merely a
move in the interest of the election
of Mr.. Wilson. ! regard Mr.. Hughes
as man whose public record is a
guarantee that he will not merely
stand for a programme of clean-cut
straightout Americanism before cleo
ton, but will resolutely and in good
faith put it. through if elected" He
is beyond all comparison better fit
ted to be President than Mr.. Wilson.
1t would be grave detriment to the
country to re-elect Mr.. Wilson.
shall, therefore, strongly support
Mr.. Hughes. Such being the case, it
is unnecessary to say that cannot
accept the nomination on third
ticket. do not believe that there
should be third ticket. I believe
that when my fellow Progressives
coolly consider the question they
will for the most part take this po-
sition. They and have but one pur-
pose-the purpose to serve our COM
mon country. 1t is my deep convic-
ton that at this moment we can
serve it only by supporting Mr..
Hughes
1t is urged against Mr.. Hughes
that he was supported by the var
ious so-called German-American AL
liances. believe that the attitude
of these professional German-Amer-
leans was due, not in the least to
any liking for Mr.. Hughes, but SOLE
ly to their antagonism to me. They
were bound to defeat me for the
nomination. The only way by which
they could achieve this object was
by supporting Mr. Hughes and they
supported him accordingly, without
any regard to other considerations.
need hardly repeat what l have al
ready said in stern reprobation Of
this professional German-American
element-the element typified by the
German-American Alliances and the
similar bodies, which have, in the
REORGANIZATION campaign, played
not merely an un-American but a
thoroughly anti-American part.
These men have nothing in common
with the great body of Americans
who are in whole or in part Of Ger
man blood; and who are precisely as
good Americans as those of any 9TH
err ancestry.
Mr.. Hughes character and his
whole course of conduct in public
affairs justify us in the assured con-
viction that the fact that these men
have for their own purposes sup
ported him will, in no shape or way,
affect his public actions before or af-
ter election. His entire public life
is guarantee of this.
The events of the last three and
half years have shown that as
much cannot be said for Mr.. Wilson.
In Mr.. Wilson's case we do not have
to consider his words, but his deeds.
His deeds absolutely contradict his
words; and for the matter of that
his words absolutely contradict one
another. 1t is folly to pay heed to
any of the promises in the platform
on which he now stands in view OF
the fact that almost every import
ant premise contained in the plat
form on which he stood four years
ago has since been broken. We owe
all of our present trouble with the
professional German-American ele'
ment in the United States to Mr.
Wilson's timid and vacillatine
course during the last two years
The defenders of Mr.. Wilson have
alleged in excuse for him that he
confronted a difficult situation. A:
regards Mexico, the situation whicf
Mr.. Wilson confronted was nothing
like as difficult as that which Presi