New Britain herald., 1916-04-14
NATIONAL HONOR IS
 TEDDY'S' PLATFORM
America Must Be First, Last and
 All the Time

l
 marked his trip to Massachusetts and l Connecticut has jumped into the pre- convention campaign with redoubled vigor. He was asked to comment on
 The New York Tribune's editorial l pledging the support of that republi- 1 can newspaper, and he dictated the following statement:
 or course l deeply appreciate what 1 The Tribune says of me, but I appre- l c1ate infinitely more what it says in advocacy of the things for which I stand.
 The final sentence of the editorial says: We are choosing which way the country shall go in the era that is
 now opening just as our fathers chose the nations path in the days of 1S60. This sentence sh ould be in the mind of every man who at Chicago next June takes part in formulating the platform and naming the candidate
 The men at Chicago should act in the spirit of the men who stood behind
 Abraham Lincoln. From time to time it has recently
 been announced that the fight against
 MT. Wilson is to be waged only or almo only, on the tariff. Such an appeal would be an appeal to the 1
 belly and not to the soul of the Amer l jean nation.
 By all means provide for the things l of the body, but only on condition ] that we treat the body as the servant 1 of the soul. !
 T believe heartily in a protective l tariff
 "Unless we return to a protective l laYxr .-,4o,, T through a commission of experts, we 1 shall face a widespread economic dis aster at the end of the war.
 But this is not the great issue on which the fight is to be made if the American people.
 The issue is that the American people must find it's own soul Ma tional honor is a spiritual thing that cannot be haggled over in terms of dollars. We must stand not only for America first but for America first and ] last and all the time and without any l second
 Wants No Peace of COWardice.'
 Our loyalty must be to the whole United States The east must stand for the safeguarding of the Pacific COcSl dS d1llSL every IoS. l IC "Coh must stand for the safeguarding of the coast against every foe. East and west and north and south alike must hold the life of every man and the honor of every woman on the most remote ranch on the Mexican border as a sacred trust to be guaranteed by the might of our united nation.
 We can be true to mankind at large only if we are true to ourselves. Ii we are false to ourselves we shall be false to everyone else. We have lofty ideal to serve. a great mission to accomplish for the cause of free dom and of genuine democracy and of justice and fair dealing throughout the world
 If we are weak and slothful and absorbed in mere money getting and vapid excitement we can neither serve these causes nor any others. We must stand for national conscience, for national discipline and for pre- paredness, military, social and in dustrial, in order to help the soul of this nation.
 We stand for peace but only for the peace that comes as a right to the just man armed and not for the peace which the coward purchases by abJect submission to wrong. The peace of cOWardice leads in the end to war after record of shame.'
 Political observers feel that the Col onel by his assurances that he is for a protective tariff, has pretty effectu- ally dug the ground from beneath the feet of Senator Warren G. Harding of Ohio. Harding has been selected as temporary chairman of the republican national convention, and it has been reported on excellent authority that a number of the Old Guard leaders are quietly booming him as the dark horse candidate to be run on the "economic issue'' in order to head off the colonel who has taken over, ap- parently beyond recovery by any other candidate, the issues of preparedness and Americanism.
 Robs Harding of Issue.
 Senator Harding, by the colonel's adroit move, has been robbed of the only issue he had on which to base his claim upon the nomination, as the l colonel in few words said all and 1 more than Harding recently said along economic lines.
 The colonel refused to make any more definite statement about the Mexican situation created by the la test note received from Carranza. He read the reports in the late afternoon newspapers, including full report of the note, and then shook his head ] when pressed for further information concerning his views. But the colo nel's statement in which he hit at the Wilson policy made after he had ob- tained as full knowledge of the MeM- can situation as could be obtained