Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-05-23
Replying TO Committee Work
ing for His Nomination,
Colonel Sees Himself as Fit
test for President,
GREAT TIME OF CRISIS
NOW ON COUNTRY
Professions Worthless Unless
Words Are Translated Into
Immediate Action, Is Rough
Riders DiCtum,
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OysterBay, ~ y, May 22.--In ro-
ply to George Won l.. Meyer. former
secretary OF the navy, who today Of
ficially notified him that the Roose-
Welt republican committee. with mem-
bership in thirty states, had been or
eanized To work for his nomination
for the presidency by the republican
party, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt
enumerated the principles for which
he declared he was fighting, and ad-
ded.
They are the principles you are
organizing to support, and with all
my heart | welcome such support
Mr. Meyer headed delegation of
twenty-five members of the commit
tee In his speech of notification, he
told Mr.. Roosevelt that one of the
purposes of the committee was t.
laid the republican party in going
before the country reunited and IN
full strength with n candidate who
is listened to and trusted hy the
great mass of the people" A group
OF Oyster Bay progressives were vis-
itors at the Roosevelt home and wit
messed the notification.
Colonel Roosevelts reply to the
delegation follows:
The Coloncrs Reply.
II am naturally very deeply touch
cd and pleased by your action. ac-
cept it absolutely in the spirit in
which you have rendered it. You
nre for me because you regard me as
representing and embodyine the ag-
gressive movement for thoroughgo-
ing Americanism aud thoroughgoing
preparedness. Your devotion is to
the cause and to the man only inso-
far as he. for the time being, embod-
les the cause. That is precisely the
attitude | took in my Trinidad state
ment. | now hold, and shall con-
tinue to hold this great time of
crisis in our country's history be-
cause it is a great crisis In the his
tory Of the world. If we are unpre-
pared If we are split and sundered
by riyalries of creed of sectional ori-
gin, if our country's action is to be
conditioned by helplessness without
and OF the hyphenated within, the
career Of the United states as a great
factor in the worlds civilization is at
an end.
Opposed TO Half Mcasurfs.
There is no use Of being for half
measures Of Americanism and pre-
paredness. Still less is ii Of any use
for any public man to announce him
self in vague general terms as in ia
aF A,,n IL nj nj fpHnGcS
unless his whole course of action in
public life has made il evident, and
row makes ii evident. that he means
exactly what he says. Unless, If he
is In office or has been in office, his |
career has been such as in fuliest
measure to warrant the belief that |
he is man of deeds and not of words |
in this matter. and unless in every |
crisis, whether he be in or out of Of |
flee, he frankly and fully takes a |
position on the concrete facts which !
are up for decision. and applies the !
abstract statement directly to these !
concrete facts, he Is not available.
Wants Aggressivcness.
General professions are utterly
worthless, in the first place, the man
max ing them is ready 10 Immediately !
apply them to every concrete case as
ii actually arises, and unless, in the |
second place, when he has the op- |
portunity, he at once turns his words
into deeds,
81 am fighting for these principles
They are the principles you are or
gani2ing to support, and with all my
heart / welcome such support, accept
ing II as given, primarily to the prin-
ciples and only secondarily for my
self.
ANY man at this time of crisis who
is not aggressiyely, openly and spe-
cifically for these principles. is
against them. and every patriotic
man should treat our public servants
on this basis