Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-06-13

the Republicans and Progressives as
sembled at Chicago.
what / thus said / meant with all
my soul, and l mean it now; and l ASK
you and the members of the Progressive
convention, which | am informed APP
plauded that telegram when read to the
convention, now to help me make those
words good by our deeds
II deeply appreciate your loyalty 20
me and the position in support Of me
which you have taken. But it would
be an injustice both to you and myself
not to regard that loyalty to me as
fundamentally a loyalty to the princi-
Piles you and l represent. In the state
ment of the Progressive national cont
mittee issued i'm January last and in my
statement made at Trinidad in February
last. we pledged ourselves to leave
nothing to reach an honorable agreement
with the Republicans in order to
achieve the end we have i'm view.
IN view of the conditions existing
| suggest the name of Senator Lodge.
of Massachusetts,. He is a man of the
highest integrity, of the broadcast ma
tional spirit and of the keenest devo-
ton of the public good. For thirty
years he has been in the house of rep-
resentatives and i'm the senate at Wash
ington. For twenty years he has been
mittee. For a very long period he was
a member of the naval affairs commit
tee. He has not only a wide experience
in public affairs. but a peculiarly close
acquaintance with the very type of
question now most pressing for settle
ment. He has consistently fought for
preparedness, preparedness for the navy
preparedness i'm fortifying the Panama
canal, preparedness in upbuilding the
army.
"He has been on the whole the mem
Der with the largest vision and the most
intelligent devotion to American needs
that we have had on the foreign af-
fairs committee during this genera
ton. He rendered distinguished serv-
ice on the Alaskan boundary interna-
tional commission. In addition, he has
been one of the staunchest fighters for
different measures of economic reform
i'm the direction of justice, championina
such measures as the pure food law, the
safety appliance law, the workmen s
compensation act, the national law pro-
hibiting the labor of children, the Hep
burn rate bill, the bill creating a but
reau of corporations, and many similar
measures j, therefore, urge upon you
favorably to consider his name and re:
port on it to the conferees from the
Republican national convention, and if
YOU do not agree with me i'm this
respect. nevertheless, to transmit this
telegram to the Republican conferees
and to request them to place it before
their convention, at the same time your
self laying the telegram before the Pro-
grCSs i've convention.
Let me again quote from my tele-
gram of the day before yesterday G
Senator Jackson, of Maryland, the diff
ferences that have divided, not merely
Republicans and Progressives, but good
Americans of all shades of political be-
lief from one another i'm the past, sink
into nothing when compared with the
Issues now demanding decision, for these
issues are vital to the national life
They are the issues of a unified Ameri-
canism and of national preparedness. II
we are not all of us Americans and
nothing else, scorning to divide along
/ lines of section, of creed, or of nation
al origin, then the nation itself will
crumble into dust. If we are not thor.
oughly prepared. if we have not dcvel.
oped strength which respects the
| rights of others, but which is also ready
1 to enforce from others respect for its
/ own rights, then sooner or later we
shall have to submit to the will of al
alien cOnqueror'
IL wrote the above sentences because
/ I felt them deep in my heart They SET
l forth the vital needs of this time. The
nomination of Senator Lodge will meet
/ these vital needs. / earnestly ask that
what you can do to bring about thai
nomination i'm the name of our common
\ Americanism be done
| 0THEOnORE ROOSEVELT. II"