The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-07-07
ROOSEVELT COMES
OUT FOR HUGHES
DECLINES TO MAKE RACE ON
THIRD TICKET AND WILL SUP
PORT THE REPUBLICANS.
Progressive National Committee De.
cldes to Support Hughes in Com
ing Campaign When Colonel
Makes Known His Attitude.

Chicago.--At the end of storm.
session here on Monday, June 26, thu
national committee of the Progressive
| party, by vote of 80 to 6, with nin'
members declining to vote, endorsed
Charles e. Hughes for president, ant
| the Progressive party PRACTICAL.
vent out of existence as nationa
organization.
This action of the I'rogressivei
came after letter had been reat
from Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, IL
| which he finally declined the presi
| dental nomination of the party, ant
urged that Charles e. Hughes be sup
| ported in order to dc ieat President
| Wilson.
In his letter declining the nomina
ton for president on the Progressive
ticket, Colonel Roosevelt, in giving
reasons for his favoring the candi
dacy Of Charles E. Hughes, said:
1T has become entirely evident thai
the people under existing conditions
are not prepared to accept third
| party.
1T remains for Us, good humoredly
and with common sense, to face the
situation and endeavor to get out of ii
the best that it can be made to yield
from the standpoint of the interests
Of the nation as a whole.
THE present administration through
its three years of life has been guilty
OF shortcomings more signal than
those of any administration since the
days of Buchanan.
In my judgment, the nomination OF
Mr.. Hughes meets the conditions set
forth in the statement of the Progress
sive national committee, issued last
January and in my own statements.
Under existing circumstances, the
nomination of third ticket would, in
my Judgment, be merely move in
the interest of the election of Mr.. Will
son.
Il regard Mr.. Hughes as a man
whose public record is a guarantee
that he will not merely stand for
program of clean cut, straightout
Americanism before election, but will
resolutely and in good faith put it
through if elected
1t would be a grave detriment to
the country to re-elect Mr.. Wilson.
Il shall therefore strongly support
MIR. Hughes. Such being the case, it
is unnecessary to say that cannot
accept the nomination on a third tick
ct. do not believe that there should
be a third ticket.
In Mr. Wilson's case we do not
nave to consider his words, but his
deeds. His deeds absolutely contra
dict his words, and for the matter of
that his, words absolutely contradict
one another.
We owe all our present trouble
with the professional German-Ameri.
can element in the United States to
Mr.. Wilson's timid and yacillating
course during the last two years.
AS regards Mexico, the situation
which Mr.. Wilson confronted was
nothing like as difficult as that which
PRESIDENT Mckinley confronted in con-
nectlon with Cuba and the Philippines
at the time of the Spanish war.
wish very solemnly to ask the
representatives of the Progressive
party to consider at this time onlv
the welfare of the people Of the
United states. We, shall prove false
70 our Ideals and our profession it,
IN THIS grave crisis of the nations
lie, we permit ourselves to he
swerved from the one prime duty Of
serving with cool judgment and sin.
gie-minded devotion the nations
needs.
Mr.. Wilson and his party have il,
actual practice lamentably failed to
safeguard the interest and honor If
the United States. They have brought
us TO impotence abroad and to divi.
sion and Teakness at home.
Mr.. hughes has shown in his ca
reer the instinct of efficiency which
VIII guarantee that under him the gov.
eminent will once more work With
vlgor and force. He possesses thar
naDlt of straightforward thinkinp
which means that his words will he
correlated with his deeds and trans
lated INTO facts. His past career Is
the warrant for our belief that he will
De the unfaltering opponent of that
system OF invisible government which
mus expression in the domination of
the party BOSS and the party machine
MS past career is a guarantee thai
he says before election will
pc made good by his acts after elac
tlon. Morally, his public record shows
nlm TO be man of unbendine intaa
rlty; intellectually it shows him 70
pc man of original and trained ahil.
we nave the alternative of contin.
Jung IN Office an adminiStra+;o,, -,
a L's. proved lamentable failure. or Of
pu..lhs INTO office an administration
y nlcn we nave every reason to he.
tieVe wlli junction With efficiency for
lne interest and honor of all our neo.
! earnestly bespeak from INV "a
.ow Progressiyes their ungrndoinn
of Mr.. Hughes" i'is