Arizona republican., 1916-05-23
In Reply Former President Enumerates Principles for
 Which He Is Fighting and Welcomes Support of the Organization
[RepubIlcan A. p. Leased Wire]

OYSTER BAY, N. Y, May 22.-In reply to George Won L. Meyer for-. mer secretary of the navy, who to- day officially notified him that the Roosevelt republican committee. with membership in thirty states, had been organized to work for his nomination for the presidency by the republican tparty, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt enumerated the principles for which 1 he declared he was fighting, added: ! They are the principles you are
 organizing to support, and with all | my heart l welcome such support" MT. Meyer headed a delegation of 25 members of the committee In his speech of notification he told Mir. Roosevelt that one of the purposes of the committee was to aid the repub- llican party in going before the coun- l try reunited and in full strength. with candidate who is listened to and trusted by the great mass of the people A group of Oyster Bay pro- igressives were visitors at the Roose- | - lcation.
 l Colonel Roosevelts reply to the del Iegation follows:
 1 T am naturally very deeply touched and pleased by your action. accept it absolutely in the spirit lyou have taken it. You are for me because you regard me as represent ling and embodying the aggressive movement for thoroughgoing Ameri- Icanism and thoroughgoing prepared mess. Your devotion is to the cause land to the man only in so far as he for the time being embodies the fcause. That is precisely the attitude II took in my Trinidad statement. inow hold, and shall continue to hold this great time of crisis in ouI icountry's history, because it is a great crisis in the history Of the
 world. If we are unprepared if wt
 are split and sundered by riyalrie'
 of creed, of section and national or. igin: if our country's action is to ht
 conditioned by helplessness withou | any of the hyphenate within. the ca
 reer of the United States as a grea factor in the worlds civilization is a an end.
 There is no use of being for hal measures of Americanism and pre- e paredness Still less is it of any us for any public man to announce him self in vague general terms as il , | favor of Americanism and prepared
 ness unless his whole course of ae
 ton in public life has made it evi
 .dent. and now makes it evident tha . he means just exactly what he say. , ltnless. if he is in office or ha :, been in office. his career has bee such as in fullest measure to war 7 rant the belief that he is man (
 idceds and not of words in this mat
 ter. and unless in every crisis. wheth
 el he be in or out of office, he frank -' ly and fully takes a position on tn - concrete facts which are up for de . cision. and applies the abstract state U ment directly to these concrete fact General professions are utterl U worthless unless, in the first plac ' the man making them is ready to i'm
 mediately apply them to every COT = crete case as it actually arises an
 unless, in the second place. When
 has the opportunity. he at once turr
 his words into deeds
 T am fighting for these principle
 They are the principles you are oi r. ganizing to support and with all m f heart 1 welcome such support, aC
 lcepting it as given, primarily to u
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