Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-09-01
TEDDY MAKES
FIRST SPEECH
FOR HUGHES
Roosevelt Addresses Progressives
and Republicans in Behalf
of Nominee.
Is RENDERED A
GREAT RECEPTION
Noted Hunter of African Wi1ds
Attacks Administration
Vigorously.

ACW1Slo1, MIC, aus. oI' AO6A0o-
sives united with Republicans in
greeting Theodore Roosevelt, who de-
livered here tonight his first speech
in the campaign in behalf of Charles
E. Hughes, candidate for the presi.
dency. A large delegation met him
in Portland and escorted him here,
where he reviewed an old-fashioned,
court-like procession, in which many
former Progressive leaders marched.
From the time he landed in BOs-
ton today from the New York steam
er until he retired to his room to-
night, the former president received
enthusiastic demonstrations. His ad-
dress was devoted largely to an at
tack on the administration and a
criticism Of hyphenism.
The speech delivered by Mr.. Roose-
welt follows: ...
Il come here to Maine to advocate
the election of Charles E. Hughes as
president of the United States, and
the election of a senate and house of
representatives to support him, and to
give some of the reasons why in my
judgment it would be a grave mis-
fortune for the people of the United
States to re-elect Mr. Wilson.
II make no merely partisan appeal.
I ask the support of all good citizens
for our cause. ask the support of
all good Americans. And l not mere.
ly ask, but demand as a matter of
right, that every citizen voting this
year shall consider the question at
issue from the standpoint of America,
and not from the standpoint of any
othernation. .
"The root idea of American citizen
ship, the necessary prerequisite for
patriotic service at home, and for ser
vice to mankind at large, is that there
shall be in our citizenship no dual al
legiance. There must be no divided
loyalty between this country and the
country from which any of our citi
zens, 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 in
terest of the United States, and sec
Ond, with a view to it's interest of the
of the world as whole. 1t is there
fore our high and solemn duty, both
to prepare our own strength so as tt
guarantee our own safey, and also tt
treat every foreign nation, in any Civ
en- crisis, as it's conduct in that crisis
demands. The citizen who does not
so act. and who endeavors to shape
Americas policy in the interest of the
country from which he or his ances
tors have sprung, is no true American
and has not moral right to citizenship
in this: country. Any attempt to or
ganize American citizens along politi
coracial lines is foul and evil thing
Any organization of American citi
zens which. acts in the interest of 6
foreign power is guilty of moral treas
on to the Republic. 1t is because Of
such action that I condemn those pro
fessional German-Americans who ir
our politics act as servants and allies
of Germany, not as Americans inter
ested solely in the honor and welfare
of America; and l would condemn
just as quickly English-Americans OF
French-Americans or Irish-Americans
who acted in such manner.
Matter Of Spirit.
'Americanism is a matter of the
spirit, of the soul, of the mind; not
of birthplace or creed. We care moth
ing as to where any man was born
or as to the land from which his fore
fathers came, so long as he is whole
heartedly and in good faith an Ameri
can and nothing else. If the man is
a good American we care nothing as
to his creed, whether he be Protestant
Catholic or Jew; we care nothing
whether his ancestors came over in
the Mayflower, or whether he himself
was born in England or Ireland, in
France or Germany, in Scandinavia
or Russia. Some of the very best
Americans I have ever known were
men who were born abroad; and in
every great period of American his
tory, the Americans who deserved
best Of their country have included
men of different creeds; men whose
ancestors had for generations lived or
this soil; and other men who them
selves, or whose servants, had come
from some of the lands of the Old
World. But all these men alike acted
as Americans and nothing else, and
with an undivided loyalty to this ma
ton, and not with a half-loyalty to
Do