Albuquerque morning journal., 1916-06-10

Americans and through this action
| any loyal American may he nominated
here.
/ "Mr. Chairman ladies and gentle
men," he said, this convention has
adopted n platform which every loyal
American citizen can support in the
/ coming election. and upon which any
| LOYAL American citizen can become a
candidate for the votes of his fellow
citizens. You have declared your in
tention respecting the internal policies
of this country, and you have also
gone upon record in most unequivocal
| language respecting the foreign policy
which you propose To adopt.
Foreign Policy Vital.
Il want to call your attention for
moment to the fact that an internal
policy may he changed. may be re-
| pealcd, may be amended at any mo-
ment, and for only a moment possibly.
or for a short space the general well
fare of the country affected. But, fell
| low citizens. in your foreign affairs,
one act of omission or of commission
| may change the history of this coun-
try over and may affect the destinies
of 100. 600, 600 Of people,
upon the platform which you have
made and in the critical period In
which we are now laboring, at any
rate, it behooVes you to be careful as
to whom you select for your leader,
because upon the executive depends
the administration of foreign affairs
The Eyes of the World.
The eyes of the leaders of all the
great warning nations are upon the
proceedings of this convention today
The hopes of every neutral nation in
the world are with you in your pro-
ceedngs that you may secure for
them and for yourselves able and ef-
fective leadership in the protection
of their neutral and your neutral
rights. The prayers of every one OF
your fellow citizens are being offered
today for. your success that in your
deliberations you may unite under
one banner and under one leader
those voters of this country who have
at heart, not the welfare of one sec
ton but the welfare of the entire
country--who are endowed by the
spirit of those who made this country
and of those heroes who preserved It..
zone Colossal Figure"
Fellow citizens. in the vision of
every leader of those great warning
factions there appears one colossal
figure of American manhood. on
the crest Of the hope of every neutral
nation there is borne one of one
great American In the prayer of
every American praying for that sue
cess here today, although in the heart
Of that American may be the favored
name of some favored son, there Is
yet whispered the name of one great
American.
Mexico. torn by civil strife, pros
trate and bleeding has made her plea
to you and noby the republicans have
responded" said Senator Fall. you
have given them your promise and !
every American who lives, who has
suffered in Mexico, pleads with you to
select as your leader the one man |
whom they all know will effectively |
carry out your promise.
The Appeal Of Mexico.
Starving mothers in Mexico who
viii hear the promise which you have /
made, will put their hope in one
and one alone, and that is
Theodore Roosevelt
(At this point the speaker was in
terrupted by cries for Mr.. Hughes
and Chairman Harding called for or
der)
"Of course, fellow citizens it was
not necessary that | should be as
sured that a republican speaker
would be heard in republican con
me the assurance that the candidate
for which | am speaking will he heard
by the people Of the entire United
States.
An Open Record.
You have heard the record of the
yarious candidates who have been Of
'ered to you. This mans record, his
private life, is as open as the day. In
lis private life he is a loyal and a
aithful husband without question.
lis worth is written in the language
II every nation on the globe. II is
written in the farthest corners of the
,arth and his acts are written indeli-
,ly upon American history.
ITO refer to his birthplace, to his T,
arly life to what he has said and to
What he has done. may be futile be-
ause he is known TO every one of
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