The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-06-30
ROOSEVELT COMES
OUT FOR HUGHES
DECLINES TO MAKE RACE ON
THIRD TICKET AND WILL SUP
PORT THE REPUBLICANS.
Progressive National Committee De-
cides to Support Hughes in Com
Ing Campaign When Colonel
Makes Known His Attitude.

Chicago.-At the end of a stormy
session here on Monday, June 26, the
national committee of the Progressive
party, by a vote of 32 to 6, with nine
members declining to vote, endorsed
Charles e. Hughes for president, and
the Progressive party practically
went out of existence as a national
organization
This action of the Progressives
came after a letter had been read
from Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, in
which he finally declined the presi-
dental nomination of the party, and
urged that Charles E. Hughes be sup
ported in order to defeat President
Wilson.
In his letter declining the nomina-
tion 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 that
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 it
the best that it can be made to yield
from the standpoint of the interests
of the nation as 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.
I'm 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 a move in
the interest of the election of Mr. VIII
son.
Il regard Mr.. Hughes as 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 1t
through if elected
'It would be a grave detriment to
the country to re-elect Mr.. Wilson.
II shall therefore strongly support
Mr.. Hughes. Such being the case, 1t
is unnecessary to say that l cannot
accept the nomination on a third tick
ct. l do not believe that there should
be a third ticket
"In Mr.. Wilson's case we do not
have 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
1--WE owe all our present trouble
with the professional German-Ameri-
can element in the United States to
Mr.. Wilson's timid and vacillating
course during the last two years.
GAS regards Mexico, the situation
which Mr.. Wilson confronted was
nothing like as difficult as that which
President Mckinley confronted in con
nection with Cuba and the Philippines
at the time of the Spanish war.
Il wish very solemnly to ask the
representatives of the Progressive
party to consider at this time only
the welfare of the people of the
United States. We shall prove false
to our ideals and our profession If,
in this grave crisis of the nations
life. we permit ourselves to be
swerved from the one prime duty of
serving with cool judgment and sin
gle-minded devotion the nations
needs.
'Mr. Wilson and his party have In
actual practice lamentably failed to
safeguard the interest and honor of
the United States. They have brought
us to impotence abroad and to divi-
sion and weakness at home.
Mr. Hughes has shown in his ca
reer the instinct Of efficiency which
will guarantee that under him the gov
ernment will once more work with
.vigor and force. He possesses that
habit OF straightforward thinking
which means that his words will be
correlated with his deeds and trans
lated into facts. His past career Is
the warrant for our belief that he will
be the unfaltering opponent of that
system of invisible government which
tinds expression in the domination OF
the party boss and the party machine.
His past career is a guarantee that
whatever he says before election will
be made good by his acts after elec-
tion Morally, his public record shows
him to be a man of unbending integ |
rity; intellectually 1t shows him to
be a man of original and trained abil
.ity.
I'VE have the alternative of contin
uing in office an administration which |
has proved lamentable failure, or OF
putting into office an administration |
which we have every reason to be-
lieve will function with efficiency for
the interest and honor of all our peo
pie.
II earnestly bespeak from my fel
low Progressives their ungrudgine
support of Mr.. Hughes" |