The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-06-26
IN RINGING STATEMENT,
TEDDY" FLAYS WILSON
AND NDORSES HUGHES
Urges All ProgreSsives to Sup
port the Republican Can
didate for President.
SCORES ADMINISTRATION
Third Party Ticket Would Mean.
-Four More Years of vii
son, He Says.

CilGAiO, Juno 26. Theodore
Roosevelt In lettOr road To the Pro
grcSsiVc national committee In cessation
here today finally declined to accept
the presidential nomination OF tht
party and strongly urged tho organixa.
ton to support Charles T.. Hughes. The
colOneTB letter was read by Oscar
King Davis, secretary OF the commit.
tee. Colonel ROOEOvelt's letter In full
Is as follows:
TO the Progressive National Com,
mlttOe: M
Gentlemon--In accordance wi.h
me message sent 10 the Progreaslya
national convention as soon rs / had
received the notification that Il had
nominated me fer president, I nov
communicate to you my reasons fol
declining tho honor which l so deeply
appreciate. Since the adJournmont
or the convention. have received
between two and three thousand let
ters and kilograms from men who had
supported mo for the nomination. the
majority expressing the desire that i
WouIu rotuse to run, while minority
urged that should accept the noml
hation. AZ Il is physical impossi
pity TO answer these letters and
kilograms individually, I beg OF the
courtesy Of the sOnders that they win
accept this public statement In llet
OF such answers.
Before speaking OF anything else
wish TO express my heartiest and
most unBtlnted admiration for tfs
character and services OF the men and
women who made up the Progressive
national convention In 1916. 1 car
give th--' m higher praise than tc
say that In all respects they stood
level with the men and women WHOM
1919 'oined at Chicago to found the
Progressive Party. These two con.
ventions. In character. In disinterest.
edness, In vision, in insight, In high
purpose. and in desire 10 render prac-
Teal service to the people, typined
exactly what such bodies ought 70 be
IN great self-governing democracy
They represented the spirit which
moved Abraham Lincoln aud his poll
teal associates during the decade
preceding the close OF the Civil War
The platform put forth in 1912 was
much the most important public
document promulgated in this coun-
Try since the death OF Abraham Lin.
coin. II represented the first effori
on n large sSale to translate abstract
formulas OF economic and social JUS
lice into concrete American national
Ism: the effort to apply the principles
OF washington and Lincoln TO the
need OF the United States IN the
twentieth century. No finer EFFORT
was ever made to serve the American
people. in spirit OF high Loyalty Ia
all that Is lofttest in the American
tradition.
Events have shown that the Pro
gressive party In 1919 offered the
only alternative 20 the triumph OF
the Democratic party. Moreover,
these events have shown that the ap-
plieation OF the principles which we
then advocated ls even more neces-
sary to this nation than we at the
time supposed.
The results OF the terrible world
war OF the past two years have now
made Il evident to all who are wiiline x
to see. that In this country there must
be spiritual and Industrial prepaid
ness. along the lines OF efficiency. or
loyal service TO the nation. and oil
practical application or the precep,
that each man must be his brother
keeper. Furthermore. Il Is NO les,
evident. that this preparedness for the
tasks OF peace forms the only sound
basis for that indispensable militar,
preparedness which rests on uniyersa
military training, and which finds exI
preston In universal obligatory ser
vice In time OF war. Such universe
obligatory training and service ar,
the necessary Compliments OF univer
sal suffrage. and represent the reail
zation Of the true American, the de
mocratic, ideal In both peace and
war.
Sooner or later the national prInci
Piles championed by the ProgressIve
OF 1912 must In their general effec
be embodied in the structure OF on
national existence. With all my hear
shall continue to work for thas|
great ideals, shoulder TO shouldo|
With the men and women who In 81
championed them: and am sure tha
these men and women viii show
like loyalty 10 the other. the fund.-
mental ideals which the events OF 81
last two years have proven to be vit1
TO the permanency Of our nauonI
existence. The method BY which VI
are TO show our loyalty to those idcn
must be determined IN each case h