El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-10-04
ROOSEVELT, TAFT AND HUGHES
TAKE FILINGS At WILSON POLICY
Two Former Presidents Shake Hands for First Time in
Years and Speak from Same Platform in Support of
Republican Candidate Weakness of Wilson
Policies Assailed by All in Speeches.

TEW YORK. Oct Two former
! ~ presidents OF the United states.
L long estrsnged. met Tuesday
: night and shook hands ar tine Union
/ League clubs reception to Charles r.
/ Hughes. They were Col Theodore
Roosevelt and William II. Taft. whose
I meeting siGnalized the union Of the
Progressive and Republican parties for
the election Of Mr.. Hughes as presi-
deur.
For fraction Of a second their eyes
met and each looked into the others
unsmilins face. Then Mr.. Taft ex-
tended his hand and Col Roosevelt
took n.
How do you dog~ said Mr. Taft.
How dc you do" said Col Eoo>e-
feit- They bowed Eravely and then
parted 10 greet others present s. mo-
ment or two later they were i'm the
receiving line. welcoming arrivals at
the reception Chauncey Depew stood
IN line between them
Did Not Meet Again.
Thus. standing in the same receiving line
they shook hands with the hundreds OF club
members and their guests who filed past
aSain- however or exchange any other worG
than common place greeting.
~ 10 shook hands Mr. Taft said after
wards Just Ike any gentlemen woulL shake
hands
Col Roosevelt declined TO comment on the
meeting
After the handshakin- was over and the
library was cleared Elihu Root. president OF
the club escorted lfr Hughes through a
flag draped corridor 10 a small platform
IN the main club room Beneath q life
size picture Of Abraham Lincoln. Mr. Root
lntroduced the nominee and Ar Hughes
Col Roosevelt and air. Taft were called
upon by Mr- Root and each responded with
First Meeting since 1913.
The meeting between Col Roosevelt ana
AR Taft was the first since April 1c- 1913
when both were paUbaarers at the funeral
Of Thomas r Louusherry. professor ur .-nE-
iish al Yale university and a close friend Of
both On that occasion thew merely shoe
hands, exchanging no word
Roosevelt Applauds Hughes
We have heard IN recent days Sir
HuEhes said in his address. that th- alter
native Of the policy Of the present admins
tration is war 1 think the alternative oil
me policy or rho present administration is
peace with honor We are not c0urtius
struggle. but I do saw with an seriousness
that we have been living IN "a period OF ma
tional humiliation"
Good" shouted Gel Roosevelt
our citizens have been murdered th
-opertv destroyed and our commerce inter
rupted-' MI HuEh=s added THE alternative
n a weak and vacillati1g policy IS not war {
world where an nations desire our friend ,
ship and desire the friendship Of al Z
and where only the most ineEcusabIc blur .
cerinE could drag INTO strife
Roosevelt's speech
To cries OF Teddy Teddy -' col Roosevelt I
mounted the platform a. the close Of Gr. !
Hughes address.
NO man has a right 10 claim spiritual .
kinship with Abraham Lincoln II he is too 4
proud 10 fight" Col Roosevelt said. "FiftF 4
odd years ago there were men in this couu-
Try who were too proud 20 fight but they 4
were not found in this club and they did /
rot vote for Abraham Lincoln
Fifty odd years ago there were men In &
the nation that were too proud 70 fight the
Zoe OF the nation, but they were perfectly
willing TO fight she police and the oratr riots
followed
stand StaunehIy for the Right
And now in the greatest crisis that we
have seen since the civil war in the greatest
crisis OF the world as a whole that the
world has seen since the Napoleunie wa-s.
II is our duty and privilege 20 stand once
more for the principles for which the men
Of the early sixties who founded This cluL