The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-05-23
ROOSEVELT TOLD
He HAS SUPPORT
IN SO STATES
Informed Of Organization Inside
Republican Party
RESTATES HIS PRINCIPLES
Career of United States as World
Power Must End Unless There is
Unity.

Oyster Bay. n, Y, May 23.-ln reply
to George Won l.. Meyer former secre-
tary oil the navy, who yesterday OF
fcially notified him that the Roose-
welt republican committee, with mem
bership in 36 states, had been organ
lied to work for his nomination for
the presidency by the republican
party, Col Theodore Roosevelt emu
merated the principles for which he
declared he was fighting.
Mr. Meyer headed delegation of %
members of the committee. In his
speech of notification he told Mr.
Roosevelt that one of the purposes of
the committee was to laid the re-
publican party in going before the
country reunited and in full strength
with a candidate who is listened to
and trusted by the great mass of the
people
Col. Rooseyelt's reply to the delega-
tion follows
Il am naturally very deeply touched
and pleased by your action. / accept
it absolutely in the spirit which you
have taken it, You are for me be-
cause you regard me as representing
and embodying the aggressive move
ment for thoroughgoing Americanism
and throughgoing preparedness Your
devotion is to the cause and to the
man only in so far as he for the time
being embodies the cause. This is
precisely the attitude ! took in my
Trinidad statement ! now hold and
shall continue to hold this a great
time of crisis in our country's history
because it is great crisis in the his
tory Of the world. Ii we are unpre-
pared, If we are split and sundered
by riyalries of creed, of section and
national origin; if our country's ac-
tion is to be conditioned by helpless
ness without and the hyphenate with
in the career of the United States as
a great factor in the worlds civiliza-
tion is at an end
There is no use OF being for half
measures OF Americansm and pre-
paredness. Still less is it of any use
for any public man to announce him
self in vague general terms as in
favor of Americanism and prepared.
ness, unless his whole course of action
in public life has made it evident,
and now makes it evident, that he
means just exactly what he says I'm
less, If he Is in Office, or has been in
office his career has been such as in
fullest measure to warrant the belief
that he is man of deeds and not of
words in this matter, and unless in
every crisis, whether he be in or out
of office, he frankly and fully takes a
position on the concrete facts which
are up for decision and applies the
abstract statement directly to these
concrete facts.
General professions are utterly
worthless, unless in the first place. the
man making them is ready to imme-
diately apply them to every concrete
case as it actually arises, and un-
less, in the second place, when he has
| the opportunity. he at once turns his
words into deeds.
81 am fighting for these principles.
They are the principles you are or.
ganlzing to support, and with all my
heart | welcome such support, accept
ing 1t as given primarily to the prin-
ciples and only secondarily for my.
self.
ANY man at this time of crisis who
is not aggressively, openly and speci-
fically for these principles is against
them and every patriotic man should
treat our public servants on this basis.