Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1916-05-26
COLONEL AGREES
TO enter RACE.
Roosevelt VIII Seek Republican
Nomination.
COMMITTEE At OYSTER BAY
Rooroo Won L. Meyer Heads DeIsoa.
ticn Visiting Sycamore Hill Which
Secures Former Presidents Consent
4 % Become a Candidate.

% Become a Candidate.
Oyster Bay, N. Y, May 23.-Theo.
s'idore Roosevelt followed his hat into
The presidential ring when in un.
4 oquivocal language he accepted the
! offer of the Roosevelt Republican com.
mittee. represented in thirty states.
headed by former Secretary Of the
Navy George Won L. Meyer, to work
1 Tor his nomination by the Republican
national convention.
In accepting the offer voiced by Mr..
Meyer Colonel Roosevelt paid his re.
opects to the candidacy of Justice
Hughes.
WAile he did not refer to the JUS
sltics By name there Was no room for
AOsbt In the mind Of his hearers 10 to
Z Whsln he had In mind.
WIN Mr.. Meyer came more than .
I ocoee Of Republicans who had Joined
q the movement to organize Repab-
Ncan efforts in his behalf. With him
also come . delegation Of the home
1olkS," including the local station
Agent, H. L. Marsh.
Colonel Roosevelt received them in
10 north room at Sycamore Hill,
where amidst the trophies Of the chase
and souvenirs from all parts of the
world they awaited him.
Meyer Pops the Question.
Secretary Meyer got down to bust
ness quickly, saying that the colonel
better than any other man is listened
- and trusted by the great mass of
The people"
In reply Colonel Roosevelt said:
II am naturally very deeply touched
and pleased by your action. l accept
Il absolutely in the spirit in which
you have taken it. You are for me
because you regard me as presenting
and emb0dying the aggressive move
0ent for thorough going Americanism
and thorough going preparedness. :.
"Your devotion is to the cause and
{ - the man only in so far as he for
The time being embodies the cause.
This Ii precisely the attitude took
n my Trinidad statement now hold
and shall continue to hold this time
~ great crisis in our country's his.
tory. because it is great crisis in
Tie history Of the world.
II we are unprepared, if we are
SPLIT and sundered by rivalries of
creed, or section and national origin,
4 our country's action is to be condi-
toned by helplessness without, and
tie hyphenate within, the career of
the United States as greater factor
IN the worlds civilization is at an end.
Half Measures Useless.
There is no use of being for half
measures Of Americanism and prepar-
edness. Still less is it of any use
for any public man to announce him
self In vague general terms as in IA
vor OF Americanism and preparedness,
unless his whole course of action in
public life has made it evident and
now makes it evident that he means
Just exactly what he says.
Unless, If he is in Office, or has |
been in Office, his career has been |
such as in fullest measure to warrant |
the belief that he is a man Of deeds |
and not of words in this matter, and |
unless in every crisis, whether he be |
IN or out Of Office, he frankly and fully |
takes position on the concrete facts |
which are up for decision, and applies |
the abstract statement directly to
these concrete facts.
General professions are utterly |
worthless unless, in the first place, |
The man who makes them is ready I'm |
nodtately to apply them to every cor |
crete case AZ 1t actually arises.
II am lighting for these principlos.
They are the principles you are or