The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-05
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midableness as candidate for the
Republican presidential honor; and
also it's usual symposium of the ex-
pressions of opinion that the new
Roosevelt crusade, as the Literary Di-
gest characterizes it, have drawn from
the newspapers of the country. This
article in the Literary Digest, follows
in part:
Theodore Roosevelt presents him
self to the consideration of the dele
gates meeting at Chicago as the most
conspicuous preacher of preparedness
and Americanism and critic-in-chief of
the present Democratic administra-
ton. Although he has not yet for
malIy renewed his allegiance to the
party he left four years ago, he looms
now one of the two most formidable
candidates for the Republican nomin-
alton, and Progressive, Republican,
and ''non-partizan'' organizations are
vigorously supporting him. Men like
ex-Secretary Meyer, Seth Low and
Thomas A. Edison advocate his NOM
nation and election. Even more re-
markable are the tributes of praise
which his recent utterances have call
ed forth outside the circle of his poll
teal friends and among the supporters
of other candidates. and other parties.
The New York Times Qnd. Dem.)
called his Detroit speech of May 19 "a
great public service" The New
York Sun Ond.), a consistently Sc
we're critic of the Roosevelt career,
saIuted him as the patriotic pro-
claimer of sentiments that have no
party label and that ought to be uni
versal in the United States" In The
Evening SUMS opinion the frank
courage and patriotic wisdom" of this
speech put to shame the hesitations
and the reticences of his competitors"
The Brooklyn Eagle (Dem.) found it
difficult to imagine a fine exposition
of Americanism." When old-time foes
were thus impressed. what wonder is
it that followers of 1912, like the Chi
cago Evening Post and the Philadel-
phia North American, should be in
spired to long editorial eulogy, or that
the Topeka state Journal (Ind. Rep)
should ask:
who, pray tell, is the man to lead
the United States of America to this
preparedness that is so essential for
the welfare and salvation of the nation
if it be not Theodore Roosevelt, phS-
stefan not only sufficiently skilled to
diagnose the ailments from which the
also able to suggest the remedies
that will effect a cure?"
Editorial applause for these senti-
ments, as has been noted, is by no
means confined to the true-blue
Rooseveltians. The speech is praised
in whole or in large part by such jour
nails as the Boston Transcript (Rep),
Journal (Ind.), and Advertiser (Ind.),
New York Times and Sun Ind.), SYRIA
cuse Herald (Ind.l. Philadelphia Pub
lie Ledger Ind.), Baltimore News
Qnd.). Washington Times Gnd.), De-
troit Free Press Qnd.), and the Chi
cago Herald Gnd.) and Daily News
Qrd). The Progressive Philadelphia
North American thinks 1.-The American
people have cause to be profoundly
thankful that in this crisis in their
history they have a spokesman whose
very soul is on fire for this vital cause.
and whose character is such that
friend and foe alike yield to the spell
of his earnestness, his consummate
knowledge of his subject and his I'M
equaled record of accomplishment for
the doctrine he represents" 'At no
time in his public career" according
to the New York Globe Und.), has
Colonel Roosevelt displayed greater
powers of leadership than during the
Ia ST twelve rnonths"-
"He has induced the administration
to reverse it's course and to adopt his
program in principle if not in all its
details. Whoever is elected president
this fall will be Rooseveltian."
Taking up the political aspects of
the Detroit speech, the New York
Commercial, by no means a Roosevelt
paper. declares that by it he has
made millions of people regard him
as Mr.. Wilson's natural and logical op-
ponent, and that is exactly what the
colonel wants" The Lowell Courier
Citizen Cnd.), another conservative
eastern journal, says:
We have no doubt whatever that
Mr.. Roosevelt should be nominated,
and we believe that he would be elect
ed py Such vote as no American can
didate ever received before"
The Democratic Macon Telegraph
believes that the Republican party
must align itself back of the man
who turned on the party and rent it
three short years ago, If it is to VIM"
In South Dakota, the Sioux Falls Press
(Ind-), sees in the various newspaper
polls and the talk that drifts around
in the streets and in the clubs, on the
trains and out on the prairies, indica-
lions that If Roosevelt perchance were
nominated at Chicago next month he
would be the next president of the
United States
BOOM IN SHIPBUHDING.
Numerous announcements made re-
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