The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-12

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| country. our people. our industries,
our honor. our self-respect, our stand
| ing as a nation at home and abroad.
1t was and is a doctrine that not
only punctured the inefficient and de-
structive policies and plans of Iresi-
dent Wilson, but one that also out
lined a program of political progress
that would rectify the mistakes of
Democracy and place these United
States once again in the position that
they should occupy among the nations
of the world, and put the domestic
affairs of the country on a safe and
sound basis that would work for the
greatest good for the greatest num-
her.
Theodore Roosevelt's suggestions
and contentious that comprise this
policy of Americanism were and are
| essentially Republican.
They are strictly in keeping with
the best ideals and traditions of the
party that has played such big and
successful part in the development of
this nation and its government, and in
giving it the prominent standing that
it possessed until two or three years
ago in the worlds family of nations
The response of the people to Theo-
| dore Roosevelt's new crusade for the
nations welfare was electric.
This was reflected in the big news
papers of the country, regardless of
their party stripe or political allie
glance; and also in the weekly Jour-
nails of opinion which are for the most
part wholly impartial in their political
discussions.
| There was almost a united chorus
from the thinking press of the coun-
try to the effect that Theodore Roose-
welt had sounded the real and only
| political battlecry that would be pre-
sented to the people with any hope of
| success in opposition to the program
| that the Democratic party had evolved
| for the presidential campaign
Perhaps the most notable response
that Colonel Roosevelt aroused was
| that which came to him in such vol
ume from the "standpat' Republicans,
from the Republicans whose disfavor
he incurred in 1912.
| And so, Theodore Roosevelt doomed
up as an heroic figure, as the man of
the hour for the Republican presiden-
l
tial nomination.
! He had given definite shape to the
only policies that the Republican
party could use with any chance for
victory in the presidential campaign.
He would have brought back to the
party all of the 100000 voters who
followed him from it and into the
Bull Moose party four years ago.
He appToximated the ideal presi-
Dental candidate for the Republican
party.
That his views were sound and the
only ones that could be placed in the
field as issues against those that the
Democrats had raised, is evidenced by
the fact that they are incorporated
almost in toto in the platform adopted
at Chicago last week by the Republi-
can national convention.
I Moreover, Charles Evans Hughes
reiterated them almost in entire de-
| tail in his telegram late Saturday
evening last to the Republican ma
tionaI, convention accepting the presi-
Dental nomination it had accorded
him. This was the very first express
sion of the Republican nominee for
presidency, telling the people how he
stood, what he will advocate, and
what policies he will pursue and fol-
low if elected.
In these columns little while ago,
there were presented the suggestions
of The New Republic that even if
Colonel Roosevelt were not nominated
for the presidency by the Republican
party, % the issues that he had
raised must of necessity be adopted
by the party as the principles for
which it would stand in the presiden-
tial campaign, il it hoped to have a
chance for success, because they were
the only issues that properly contrast
ed with those developed by President
Wilson; CD that they necessarily must
be endorsed by the presidential can
didate of the party; and, further, CD
that the latter must have the support
OF Theodore Roosevelt if he was to
win in November.
The first two Of these propositions
have already come to pass.
The Republican party has written
it's platform around the Americanism
pounded by Theodore Roosevelt.
The party's presidential candidate
has pronounced his views even more
emphatically along the Rooseveltian
lines.
The third and most consequential OF
| these suggestions@the one involving
Roosevelt's support of Hughes-is yet
| to be announced.
If Colonel Roosevelt reaches the
conclusion which he is likely to reach
now that Hughes has let the people
know where he stands. that Hughes
and the Republican party with his help
as q fighter in the ranks can present
these big issues of Americanism and
preparedness, as they should be, to the
people of the country, and that his
staying out of the presidential field