Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-10-04
TAFT AND ROOSEVELT
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"Good," Shouts Roosevelt

"Good," Shouts Roosevelt
1--WE have heard in recent days" Mr..
Hughes said, in his address, that the
alternative of the policy of the present
administration is war. | think the al
tentative of the policy of the present
administration is peace with honor.
I'VE are not counting struggle but
| do say with all seriousness that we
have been living in period of nation
al humiliation"
Good" shouted Col. Roosevelt.
To cries of Teddy. Teddy, Teddy"
Col. Roosevelt assembled the platform
at the close Of Mr.. Hughes address.
NO man has a right to claim spirit
ual kinship with Abraham Lincoln if
he is too proud to fight" Col. Roose-
welt said Fifty odd years ago. there
were men in this country who were
too proud to fight. but they were not
found in this club and they did not
vote for Lincoln.
And now in the greatest crisis that
we have seen since the Civil war, in
the greatest crisis for the world as a
whole that the world has ever seen
since the Napoleonic wars, it is our
duty and privilege to stand once more
for the principles for which the men
of the early COS, who founded this
club, stood; to stand for peace. hon.
esty and sincerity by every honorable
expedient, but to stand for it in that
effective way which means that the
man standing for it asks it as a right
in the spirit of justice. and does not
cringe for it as a favor to be granted
contemptuously
Mr.. Hughes has alluded to Mr.. Will
sons speech on Saturday, in which he
said in effect if You do not re-elect
him, the country might have war. This
is substantially what he said and the
inference was that if he We're there,
there would not be any war, leaving 1t
to be inferred by the outside world that
nobody could insult him so that he
would fight.
AT this moment We are Informed
that in the German Reichstag there is
debate going forward as to whether or
not they will resume what they call the
u boat warfare-what ] call the muir
der on the high seas on men, women
and children. And you can guarantee
that there would be no doubt on that
subject if they knew that they had as
President of the United States man
who would not tolerate any kind of &C
ton of that sort.
Mr. Wilson's speech last Saturday
was an invitation to foreign powers to
do whatever they wished because if he
were in power they need not be afraid. >
Another thing" Col. Roosevelt con-
tinued, lin Mr.. Lincolns speech of &C
ceptance I think it was in that place
that he so happily named Shadow
lawn.
Mr. Root interrupted Col. Roosevelt:
you said Mr.. Lincolns speech. YOU
meant Mr. Wilson's speech" Mr., Root
said.
Good heavens exclaimed Col
Roosevelt. that was a verbal inaccur-
acy with a vengeance In Mr.. Wilson's
speech of acceptance, few weeks age
there was one sentence-among many
of which 1 took note, in which he said
that if all essential rights We're invad-
ed by any nation they must be met by
prompt challenge and resistance. How
Take the sentences about keeping us
out of war at all costs last Saturday
and these sentences about prompt chal-
longing and resistance together and one
group Of sentences is the weasel and
the other the egg. 1T is open to Mr.,
Wilson which Is thesweasel and Nsiich
is the egg. But one sof them sucks all
the meaning out of the other"
Later in the evening Mr.. Taft and
Mr.. Roosevelt met again in the eleva-
tor, Col Roosevelt it was said, inquif-
ed after the health Of Mr.. Taft. They
did not meet again during the evening