Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-05-10
THE MIDDLE WEST AND ROOSEVELT

The ar-BulIetin commented weeks ago tina
Roosevelt was gaining strength as preslden
tial candidate with startling rapidity. One o
the recent indications of it is the conversion
the Topeka State Journal.
The Journal announces its support OF Roose
welt In a three-coIumn editorial, whose sahen
points are these: -. @#
Theodore Roosevelt is today the safest sanest man
who can handle the great questions Of national honor
which have been propounded unanswered TO the pres
emit administration This leads to the growing impress
sion Of this paper that will be nominated at
Chicago by the Republicans. and that ne VIII be elec'
ed In November and be our next president ..
Five or six months ago, the State Journal felt con-
WINGED that Justice Hughes the logical man TO lead
the opposition to President Wilson. In November,
was question of getting the two factions OF the re
publican party together again. or you prefer IT, the
two parties Republicans and ProgresslVes INTO one
Hughes was generally acceptable to all the RepuDlf
cans regular and recalcitrant strong. high minded
capable man like Hughes was needed. 1t appeared
that he did not want the Office that his ambition was
erathed by the service he could do on the supreme
bench 1T was evident that II the nomination were
given him, it must be practically he reclamation, 10
one who was not candidate
Conditions have changed lately within the last
few weeks. No longer is needed man to bring the
factions together they getting together The old
issues of 1912 forgotten The Initiative and refer
endpm and the recall not discussed today neither
is prohibition as national platform plank ytally as
cussed at this time suffrage nor child labor, and
yet they all good things for good men and good
parties to stand for.
The issue is being sharply defined Indeed
there is but one issue today: Protection Not the
mere protection of which the reader may at first
think but protection for the American nation, protec
ton for Americas honor, protection for Americas re-
spect protection for Americas proud position among
the nations protection for people and our repub
lie, the protection which is synonym fer prepared
ness protection also but secondarily, for our indus
tries: for the American workmen who must be kept
far above the plane Of the European aborer who must
be given what richly deserves full credit for his
work full enjoyment for the opportunities and the
recreatons to which he has an American citizen is
entitled
None better holds the training, craftsmanship and
diplomacy and preparedness to be president in these
times fraught with history making periods than Col
ohe Theodore Roosevelt and he has the faculty OF
drawing strong men to him. into his cabinet and con-
.6dences He consults men Of moment be they work
ers by the hand the head Wilson's disposition is
10 retire In secuson to work out his grave problems
That powerful newspaper in Kansas shoulc
support Roosevelt means more than that
powerful newspaper in Massachusetts,, or il
New York of Pennsylvania or in California
should support him.
Nebraska and others of these great, prosper
ous c0htented inland states are supposed t,
D6strohgly against bigger army and bigge
navy. 1T has been taken almost for granted
By many of the political wiseacres that the.
would be for the safe candidate, for tn
pacifsti candidate, for the man who is sure t,
avoid war and hold down the military appro
priatioH bills.
The Topeka Journal must represent the feel
ing of Its section to large degree. When i
declares for Roosevelt, the strength of the ex
president in the country at large receives
striking proof