The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-06-04
SEES T. RS SPIRIT
IN DEFENCE PARADES
Perkins. After Watching Chi
cagO Affair. Says Colonel Is
only Real Leader.
WEEKS IN TALK CONTEST

CHICAGO. June 3.-The preparedness
parade and the North Sea light figured
extensively in the output OF Interviews
M the different Presidential h%eadquar-
ters to-day. Both were seized upon
as furnishing an argument why the re-
~spectivc candidate should he nominated
TO save the country.
Naturally George W. Perkins saw in
1t a convincing demonstration of why
the Colonel should be chosen unani-
muusly. Mr.. Perkins. after watching
the parade from his windows in the
Blackstone. issued a statement declaring
IT the greatest parade Chicago had ever
witnessed and as evidence that the ma
,,on was waking up to the dangers con-
fronting it. He added
But where is the leader. I saw the
krcat parade in New York the other
day. There was no leader. In other
states there have been those same great
paradcs-no leader. The name of the
President of the United states not only
tails to he mentioned but Is scarcely
Thought of in any of these demonstra-
lions, those deeply impressive parades.
r. u. the Moving Spirit.
Far be 1t from me in any way to
try TO make capital for Col. Roosevelt
VuN VI Widt haNG rttI ITOm lily
windows during this long day. but l
ammo help repeating that every one
mas been saying to me az they wit
Messed this parade, viz, that 1t was
his courage. mis- foresight, his great
patriotic spirit that started the hearts
and the minds of our people t%hrobbing,
moving in the direction they are now
taking.
HE typifes, II ever a man did. all
that those great parades mean. He is
the leader. There is no other leader
there can be no other real. genuine leader.
The people know this: they are calling
for him they are expecting that the two
conventions that are to assemble here
this coming week will make him in fact
what he Is now in spirit-the leader Of
r~eauakened America"
Senator John w Weeks. who is here on
the ground managing his own boom. was
interested in the North Sea naval battle
and his interview took this as its theme.
Senator Weeks said
This country needs more battleships
II must have more battleships. The
naval bill will now go to the Senate and
] propose to take up the fight Tor a real
naval building programme programme
which will really protect the country.
This is not the time for Secretary
Daniels or any other layman to set his
theories above the knowledge OF experts
n his own Department.
Mr.. Wecks's MOdesty.
Mr.. Weeks was too tactful 10 say 80.
but he let 1t lie inferred that III would
b a good man to correct these Demo
cratic mistakes in this matter Of naval
and military policy.
Not 10 DO outione by these other head
quarters the Root headquarters in the
afternoon rushed through the machines
an interview with ex-Secretary OF War
Henry l.. Stimson, citing the parade and
the naval battle as proof Of the fac;
hat the country needed Elihu Root to
give it "a genuine American policy and
enuine preparedness"
At "A late hour the Fairbanks and
Cummins men were said to be preparing
Interviews along the same line.
The parade managers made every eff
fort to make the AFFAIR a non-partisar
demonstration. The marshals had strict
orders to keep all banners Of a politica
character out of the line. Several Roose
welt banner were seized and confiscatec
under this rule.