The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-10-06
TWO FORMER PRESIDENTS MEET
AND SHAKE HANDS AT RECEP.
TON GIVEN TO NOMINEE
IN NEW YORK.
LINCOLN NOT TOO PROUD
TO FIGHT" COLONEL SAYS
I'VE Arc Not Counting Struggle, But
We Have Been Living in Period Of
National Humiliation" G. o. p.
Candidate Asserts-Pros-
perity Temporary.

New York, Oct. 5.-Theodore Roose-
velt and William H. Taft met, shook
bands, spoke and passed on at the re-
ception given by the Union club to
Charles e. Hughes. That is about all
there was to it in the way of forget
ling past differences, although Repub-
Hcan friends of both protested to
Tee a mutual burying of the Ratchet
ind a willingness of the two former
presidents to work together for the
common good and the election of Gov
trnor Hughes.
After the handshaking was over Eli.
~ Root, president of the club, escort
III Mr.. Hughes through fag-draped
corridor to small platform in the
pain club room Beneath a life-size
picture of Abraham Lincoln Mr.. Root
again introduced the nominee and Mr.
hughes made brief address.
Roosevelt and Taft Speak.
Colonel Roosevelt and Mr.. Taft were
called upon by Mr. Root and each re-
sponded with a short talk.
The meeting between Colonel Roos-
evelt and Mr.. Taft was the first since
April Is, 1915, when both were pail
bearers at the funeral of Thomas R.
Lounsberry, a close friend of both. On
that occasion they merely shook hands,
exchanging no words.
Says Alternative Is Not War.
I'VE have heard in recent days."
MIR. Hughes said, in his address, that
the alternative of the policy of the
present administration is war. 1 think
the alternative of the policy of the
present administration is peace with
honor.
I'VE are not counting struggle, but
do say with all seriousness that we
have been living in a period of ma
tional humiliation
The alternative of a weak and va
cillating policy is not war, it is firm
insistence upon known rights in a
world where all nations desire our
friendship and we desire the friend
ship Of all, and where only the
most inexcusable laundering could
drag us into strife"
"LincoIn Not to Proud to Fiaht."
To cries of Teddy, Teddy, Teddy"
Colonel Roosevelt assembled the plat
form at the close of Mr.. Hughes ad-
dress.
mo man has a right to claim spir-
ltual kinship with Abraham Lincoln If
he is too proud to fight" Colonel
Roosevelt said. Fifty odd years ago
there were men in this country who
were too proud to fight, but they were
not found in this club and they did
not vote for Abraham Lincoln.
And now in the greatest crisis that
we have seen since the Civil war, in
the greatest crisis of the world-as a
whole, that the world has seen since
the Napoleonic wars-it is our duty
and privilege to stand once more for
the principles for which the men of
the early sixties, who founded this
club, stood; to stand for peace, hon.
estly and sincerely by every honorable
expedient, but to stand for 1t in that
effective way which means that the
standing for 1t asks it as right in
the spirit of justice and does not cringe
for It as a favor to be granted con-
temptuously by wrong-doer."
Taft Makes Small Talk.
Mr.. Taft followed Colonel Roosevelt
II concur" Mr.. Taft said, Gin the
view Of Mr.. Roosevelt that this cleo
ton is the most important that we
have had in this country since the
war. Our adversaries rely on an ap-
peal to the people that we have not
been put into war-when 1t was not
necessary for us to go to war at any
rate-and that we have now great
temporary prosperity"