Arizona republican., 1916-10-04
WITH UNSDlILIl(C EYES ROOSEVELT T AND TAFT MEET
SHAKING PIJRELYF0RNAL , FORMER FRIENDS WERE AGREED
 THEIR EST|MA TE OF MR. NILSOI

Taft. General Horace Porter, former president of the Club Governor Whit man of New York Senator Fall of New Mexico. Governor Beeckman of Rhode Island, MT. Wilcox, MT. Calder, Senator Weeks, MT. Bacon and w. Cameron Forbes. The line of guests was nearly two hours m passing and then the speaking began.
 We have heard in recent years" MT. Hughes said, in his address, that the alternative of the policy of the present administration is war I think the alternative of the policy of the present administration is peace at the price of honor We are not counting struggle but l do say with all seri- ousness that we have been living in a period of natural humiliation"
 Good! shouted Colonel Roosevelt. Our citizens have been murdered, their property destroyed and our com merce interrupted" Mir Hughes added "The alternative of a weak and vacil- ! lating policy is not war, it is firm | insistence upon knCWn rights in 9 1 world Whrre all n@t''rs desire our | friendsh'0 and We desire the friend 1 ship of all. and where only the most ineXcusahle laundering could drag us into strife"
 1 To cries of Teddy, Teddy Teddy" Colonel Roosevelt ascended the plat 1 form at the close of MT Hughes ad dress.
 .No man has the right to claim i spiritual kinship with Abraham Lin ! coin if he is too proud 10 fight" Colo nel Roosevelt said Fifty odd years l ago there were men in this cauntiy who were tuo proud to fight. bTt they were not found in this. club and they i did not vote fo1 Abraham Lincoln. i Fifty odd years ago there were men in the nation that were too proud Co fight the foe of the nation ] hut they were perfectly willing to fight the police in the draft riots.
 And now in the greatest crisis that we have seen since the civil war iC l the greatest crisis of the world as d i who'll" that the world has seen since i the Narrlennlc wars. it is our duty and privilege to stand once more for ! tfe principles for which the men of the early sixties who founded this 1 club stood. to stand for peace, hen estv and sincerity by every honorable ] eXpedient but 10 stand for it in that {, effective way wEich means that tha man standing for it, asks it as a right, ir the spirit of justice and does not cr;nge for II as a favor Il
 he granted contemptlously by a wrong -doer
 "T believe that on the whole the
 Gettycburg speech and the second in-
 augural were the two greatest speech es ever delivered. If. after the Gettys- hurg speech Abraham Lincoln bad Iapuointed d conference of the type
 nov sitting in Atlantic City, we would
 not think of the Gettysburg speech
 except with bitterness or laughter.
 If after the second inaugural, Ab-
 raham Lincoln had sanctioned the re-
 tertion of slavery in any form. in this
 nation we should hang our heads
 whenever We thought of that inaus-
 Urai or of Abraham Lincoln himself
 We have right now to ask the mea of this country to decide in the spirit
 of the men Who in 1864, elected Ab-
 raham Lincoln to the presidency.
 MT. Hughes has alluded to Mir
 Wilson's speech on Saturday in which
 he said in effect that if you do not (COntinued on Page TWO1