The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-01
7. R. RAPS WILSON
AND DEMOCRATS
IN maine SPEECH
Mexican Policy Scored by Col
Onel at Lewiston.
PrOgressiyes and G.. o. p. Unite
in Big Demonstration.
COST MORE THAN SPANISH WAR
Lives Lost in Mexico Outnum-
Der List in Cuba.
Preparedness and Pure Patri-
Otism Also Got Notice.
PrOgressives and G.. o. p. Unite
in Big Demonstration.
COST MORE THAN SPANISH WAR
Lives Lost in Mexico Outnum.
Der List in Cuba.
Preparedness and Pure Patri-
Otism Also Got Notice.

Lewiston. Me-, Sept Progress
sives united with Republicans in
greeting Theodore Roosevelt, who de-
livered here his first speech of the
campaign in behalf of Charles Evans
Hughes, Republican candidate for the
presidency. A large delegation of Re
publicans and Progressfves met him N
Portland and escorted him here, where
he reviewed an old fashioned torch
light procession in which many for
mer Progressive leaders marched.
From the time he landed in Boston
from the New York steamer until he
retired to his rooms, the former pres
ident received enthusiastic demonstra-
tons. His address was devoted large
J ly to an attack on the administration
and to a criticism of hyphenism.
There should be in American citizen
ship no dual allegiance, he declared.
Why He's for Hughes.
| MIR. Roosevelt spoke as follows: Il
come here to Maine to advocate the
election of Charles E. Hughes as presi-
dent of the United States, and the cleo
sentatives to support him, and to give
some of the reasons why, in my judg-
| ment. it would be a grave misfortune
for the people of the United States to
| re-elect Mr.. Wilson.
| Il make no merely partisan appeal.
l ask the support of all good citizens
| for our cause. I ask the support of
all good Americans. And 1 not mere
| ly ask, but demand as matter of
right, that every citizen voting this
year shall consider the question at is
sue from the standpoint of America.
| and not from the standpoint of any
other nation.
THE root idea of American citizen
ship, and necessary prerequisite for
patriotic service at home, and for
service to mankind at large, is that
| there shall be in our citizenship no
dual allegiance. There must be no di-
vided loyalty between this country and
| the country from which any of our cit
| liens, or the ancestors of any of our
citizens, have come. The policy OF the
United States must be shaped with
view to two conditions only: First,
with view to the honor and interest
Of the United States, and, second,
| with a view to its interest of the
world as a whole. 1t is therefore our
high and solemn duty, both to prepare
| our own strength SO as to guarantee
our own safety, and also to treat every
| foreign nation, in any given crisis, as
| its conduct in that crisis demands. The
| citizen who does rot SO act and VINO
| endeavorS to shape American policy in
the interest of the country from which
he or his ancestors have sprung, is nc
true American, and has no moral right
to citizenship in this country.
| ANY attempt to organize American
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foul and evil thing. Any organization
of American citizens which acts In
the interest of 9, foreign power is guilty
of moral treason to the republic. II
is because of such action that 1 con-
| denim those professional German
Americans who in our politics act as
servants and allies OF Germany, not
as Americans interested solely in the
| honor and welfare of America; and
I would condemn just as quickly Eng
Esh-Americans or French-Americans
or Irish-Americans who acted in such
manner.
"Americanism is matter of the
spirit, of the soul, Of the mind; MOI
4 of birthplace or creed. We care moth
irs as to where any man was born
or as to the land from which his fore
| fathers came, so long as he is whole
heartedIy and in good faith an Ameri
can and nothing else. If the man /:
a good American we care nothing a:
4 to his creed, whether he be Protest
Il ant, Catholic or Jew; we care nothing
whether his ancestors came over II
the Mayflower, or whether he himself
was born in England or Ireland, il