Arizona republican., 1916-04-23
FINDING PLACE
 IN BAND WAGON
Republicans Formerly Pro- minent / Machine Politi- clans Bitterly Fighting Roosevelt Lining Up Be hind Him

Roosevelt Lining Up Be
 hind Him
 That republicans of all varieties including republican machine poli- ticians are climbing into the Roose- velt band wagon is everyday more evident. It has become plain to them that the issue of Americanism must win. Though they have been fight ing Roosevelt they prefer to accept him as winning candidate. Lem ual Ely Quiigs has for many years been an most important figure in New York politics, and he has been bitterly opposed to Colonel Roose- welt. MT. Qiugg's change of heart appears in the following letter to the New York Tribune:
 Will. you let me submit through your paper some Hints to the Mighty?
 T. Senator Harding, who has been selected by the Republican Ma tonal Committee to preside as tenn porary chairman of the national convention, says. or is quoted as saying, that the issue of the coming campaign is the tariff. Assuming that he said it, there is not a repub lican, from one ocean to the other who believes that he thinks what he says.
 There is not single repub- lican, from one ocean to the other who does not believe that he is sim ply trying to obscure the real Issue and the real man. If, in his address to the convention, he attempts this he will give us. so far as he is con cerned. d bad start.
 "2. No party. since national con. ventions and partly platforms cam, into existence, has ever nominated candidate for President whose view upon the immediate issues befor, the country were not distinctl, known. No candidate is d safe can didate whose views (being unknown before he is nominated,) stated |, the country only after he is nomin ated. cannot be tested by a previou record.
 Justice Hughes
 "3. The efforts that are making to induce Justice Hughes to suppl to the country a notion of his posi- ton upon pending issues are effort to have him reflect upon the his ow integrity, He has said that he i not a candidate He has said that in his opinion, he should not be- H said that he will not give color. b political discussion. to the likelihoo of his having an ambition which h does not have. If, anything is cer tain it is that Justice Hughes wi by no word or act cast discredit n on his own sincerity.
 "4 Americans look ahead. The move ahead. They look back, if q all. only by observation and relied tion to get the points of the com pass for their forward movemen There is no use trying to bring th issues of 1912 into 1916. Ossawa tonic is forgot, except by that sma number of persons who don't kno how to forget, whose pleasure in lii is to keep their heads on a hinge.
 Root a Wise Man.
 
 friends of his who signed circt lar letter advising his nominatio He knows that what this countr wants is inspiration along the lr of it's own deep and deepening sent ment. Advice. yes. and his kind , advice; but only after that sentimel J has been consolidated in vote al exhibited in a man.
 l G. MT. Ford's victory over M l smith, in Michigan. by small m;
 iority can hardly be taken as pro that his country does not want wh
 is being called Preparedness. It
 comment on primary elections, : applied to presidential candidate : nobody has permitted his name
 go on the ballot who does not kno $ in advance that he is going to o nominated If this country is r favor of preparedness. it will D : it's business into the hands of | q man of whom it believes that t knows what preparedness is; that 2 has absorbed the lessons of t t Russian Japanese war and of t S present war in Europe: that his pla q for preparedness will be intelliger IT ly made and honestly and vigorous e executed If the people mean pr
 paredness they will not content thei Q selves with four-flush Roosevl 9 Tariff Talk is Dust. @ S. "7. Senator Mills resolution abo $ nominating true or tried repub
 can, however he expressed it; '" Bannard's talk about the impossih IS ity of thinking of a party going o' ." side it's own body to find d can IS date-all this. like Harding's t ey about the tariff. is dust. There ne no difference between Roosevelt 8 m