Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-12
EVELT HELMET
sIED INTO ARENA
METER TO FRIEND
writes to Secretary of
,tisau League, Approx
- It's Campaign
for Him
TX ON THE HYPHEN

1IsI ~ -. -..vsit Yesterday formally en-
'fi' ~, u. ,he nomination as Presi-
- republican and Progressive
!, chicago on June z In
r,rsrson. secretary of the
Nonpartisan League The
.rsanIzed with the object Of
~ co,onel Roosevelt's nomination
,,,d marty. Colonel Roosevelt
many words that he "ap-
'N x shat the league is doing.
H'|H .'..t ..,,elt letter places an entirely
~ ngSs,n upon the political situa-
1qnp'o ..rtence was considered es-
81 u,Iacant. as It was generally
sfl9 rnssr 10 Justice Hughes, whom,
~ Y y many Inspired stories, Roose-
,he Progressive party were READY
81 ~ The sentence reads;
w NJ, have to 0improvise my con-
'. elthers Americanism or pre-
...l I,oosevelts letter SAYS.
~ have to lmprcvise my con-
~ ~, an either Americanlsm or pre-
tflsns - have fought for them all
ess lonr, and when l was Presi-
81 ", ,ransiated my convictions con-
~ shen, into governmental policy.
t'n'es ...rts OF the last two years in
p. ard OF the lest four or five years
1890 have brought into vivid re-
y, ,ss vital need of preparedness and
" 'sri.ter revival OF the politico-racial
s.e.r Z, in our politics has emphasized
y Rp,.,'d ssed az stern insIstence on thorough
v ~ Americanism within our own
i,.ders , -
..Ilua commissioner of New York, said:
Ts,re must be feeling of broad. rad
81 snd intense Americanlsm, If good
~ Il TO be done in any direction.
az citizens must act as Americans;
~ " a. Americans with a prefix and
'ssliecations; not as Irish-Amerlcans,
f..ss.n. Americans, Native-Americans--
j, y Americans pure and simple. 1t Is
= mirage for a man to drag foreign
..l,s.os into our contests and vote as an
i.i.sn,an Aor German, or other for
efbers"
Wbat / thus said before is what
s.r Nv Nineteen years ago, when I
=, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, l
"A: Preparation against war Is the
,1rsst guarantee for peace. Cowardice
- race, as in an individual, as the un-
,.ysonable sin, and a wilful failure to
s9,bare for danger may in its effects be
4 bad as cowardice. The timid man
~ cannot fight and the selfish, short
,.,if -
III he steps that will enable him to
ask, stand on almost the same plane"
We ask for an armament fit for. the
na,lon's needs. not primarily to fight,
bat 70 avert fighting as long as fight
in9 can honorably be averted. Pre-
1srsaness deters .the foe and maintains
Tirht By the show of ready might with
ou. ne use Of violence.
Toer league emphasizes It's devotion
% these principles. and supports me
only as representing these principles,
This Is emphatically the proper atti,
iude to take; and because this Is your
attitude, and because you are working
IN this spirit ] very earnestly approve
your work
OR present troubles with Mexico
our utter allure to prepare, and of our
governmental policy of almost unbe-
Ilsrahe timldity and vacillation. A
pellcY of vigorous preparedness and
courteous but immediate, insistence on
1AF nghts from the beginning of the
nzt would instead of being provocative
all chance of trouble. 1t
crime against this nation and
lsslnst mankind that there has been
Q such PREPARATION,
| am glad AMI proud, as an American.
at you are fearlessly and efficiently
'aeking these ideals.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
b Eneral opinion tonight was that
htier would rip the political situa-
! eire open and would mark the start
4 real fisht of Colonel Roosevelt and
fends and advisers in the Republi-
! and Progressive parties to obtain |
aemnatlon for him. 1t was generally
deled that 1t would be followed by a
Esalgl conducted on the basis that |
eael Roosevelt was out in the open
making the fight for the nomination
: these lines. and that the fight would |
.'p' up until there was showdown
chicago,
e new angle which the fight has |
q i was felt, would end all hope of |
gnpromlse on Justice Hughes IL the
Iee failed to come out with some |
EAsnt before the conventions,