Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1916-01-06
ROOSEV VEL. I STOCK
WITH HEAD HIGH
AND STILL A-RISIN'
ULTRA PREPAREDNESS sENTi'
MENT TRYING no CRYSTAL
LlzE BEHIND Roo osEvEL LT

L,ze BEHIND ROO osgvEl
James cray, Washington Correspond
ent, says Former Presideos i
Bic Factor q q ..
tBy James Gray. Manager dc Mime
& apolis Journals washington Blu
Teau,
Washington, d. G Developments
OF the last few days show that Theo.1
dore Roosevelt has the Old Guard ofI
the republican party III the hole,
His stock is rising SO fast that,
within q. few weeks il will be appar-3
ent tnat the republican parry will have
to take a man Roosevelt pract. t.calIyI
will dictate or take Roosevelt him
SELF. 3sa
The evidence of the Roosevelt boom
is both oral and written The great
volume Of written demands upon Mr..
Roosevelt that he stand for the re-
publican nomination continne I'd pour
IN increasingly Within u few days
At has assumed the appearance 81 d
tidal way
Assueara sc From Every Quarter.
Republicans from all over the eoun-
try are writing IT'D him asling him ID
come out and assuring him of heavy
republican states both fo,s the noniis
|nation and election
One of these charact sistic letters
That ] have seen was frcm former
Governor q. . g. Stokes Of New Jersey.
who will be d republican cndidate for
lsenator from that state. Iia reply to
Ithe suggestion that the people were
looming round to him, Colonel Roose.
lvelt wrote that he did not care SC
much for the people coming round til
/ him personally as for their coming
round to the ideas he is champ pioning
coIonai Discounts Reports.
Another letter from n Michigan pol
Il litician whose writing to- II Roosevelt Il
tall would be a shock to the part,
Headers In that state, told Mr.. Roose
AIvelt he carried Michigan as d repub
llican, and could and would carry i
iagain.
Colonel Roosevelt has been inclined
Ito discount his personal strength be
Icause Of the stand he las ii take,
Iagainst Germany's invasion of Be
lgium. But recently he seems to hay,
iput that behind him. He has sh.fte,
1.-THE defensive TO President Wilson b
4 his fierce attacks on the administra
sltion. He Is challenging the admtnis
4 ltration military plans and today ha
them absolutely backed Off the TRACK
College Men for Preparedness
Il have attended several cf the NEE
.Iings Of the pan-American Scientifl
congress this week with the idea d
learning what the college men thin
alof preparedness.
There is q keen appreciation OF th
Il Isubiect among them. One eolleg
j man summed 1t mp iii a discnssio
Immediately following the reading q
a paper prepared by Colonel Rooss
Iyelt. The college man said:
There are three possible position.
n first, real non-resistance: second, foe
rrepaerdness, and third, effectis
preparedness, and third. effectiY
would bring IN a resolution to scra
the navy and disband the army The,
would at least have The courage 6
Z their convictions.
Where Roosevelt Comes ia.
But such program would not ge
one vote in d thousand. Wha. Is left.
u Fool preparedness and effect We pre
4 lparedness.o
Fool preparedness. this genIlcsnal
left It to be inferred from III, tola
Iof his remarks, ii Synonymous wit
1.-THE administration program. Wher
i does Roosevelt come m rs
III this way The pablic suldenl,
fhas come to believe thai hts prepar
tedness would be real ami that Arf.ei
lea would be made ready u such
way az 70 give the country confidence
i Hence the amazing revival Of Iioose
Il Vel SIN in he repilhl sisa part III,
Headers don't wanf i, ,oosse vcis ttat,,ssyl
i they don't hate him as tlley affect Il
Y hate him. They 4 n was. is co,nsag i
\ THEY see farther d Is il lrnaslg slaas,
Roosevelt does Il ilrseif. rllis III sil.;