Arizona republican., 1916-06-11
SENATORLODGE |SPROPOSED
 BY ROOSEVELT
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 COLISEUM, Chicago, June 10.-The communication from Colonel | Roosevelt was read by MT. Perkins to the progressive convention and by | Senator Shoot to the republican con- vention:
 party:
 Gentlemen: I understand that this | morning you are to have your last | conference with the conferees of the republican national convention, that | they have repeatedly asked you to pre- sent for their consideration a second ! choice but that your committee has not seen it's way clear to do this.
 For months I have thought of this has been the chief thing of which I have thought, as I feel with all my heart that it is the imperative duty of all of us who wish to see our country restored to the position she should hold to sink all minor differ ences and come together if by any possibility We can find a common standing ground. The day before yes terday in my telegram to Senator Jackson 1 said:
 Gan we not forget past differences, now join for the safety and honor of our country to enforce the policies of genuine Americanism and genuine preparedness. Surely we can afford to act In accordance with the words of Abraham Lincoln when he said: May not all, having a common interest, reunite in a common effort to save our common country" May We ask those who have not differed with us to join in the same spirit toward those who have. As far as my soul l is known to me it is in this same | spirit that all this time I make my | appeal to the republicans and pro- | gressives assembled at Chicago.
 What I thus said I meant with all my soul, and I mean it now and l | ask you and the members of the pro- | gressive convention which l am in | formed applauded that telegram when l read to the convention now to help me make these words by our deeds. | 'I deeply appreciate your loyalty to | me and the position in support of
 me which you have taken. But it
 would be an injustice both to you 1 and myself not to regard that loyalty
 to me as fundamentally a loyalty to
 he principles you and I represent 1T the statement of the progressive na-
 'ional committee issued in January
 last and in my statement made al | Trinidad, in February last, we pledged ourselves to leave nothing undone tC
 reach an honorable agreement witt the republicans in order to achieve the end We have in view.
 Tn view of the conditions eXistins U suggest the name of Senator Lodg' | of Massachusetts. He is man of th' highest integrity, of the broadest na
 tional spirit and of the keenest de | votion to the public good. For thirt,
 years, he has been in the house O
 representatives and the senate a
 Washington. For twenty years h has teen a member of the foreign af , l fairs committee. For a very loni period, he was a member of the na
 ional naval affairs committee. H
 has not only wide experience il | !, iuaintance with the very type, Q question now that is pressing for set l 'lement He has consistently tough
 Or preparedness. preparedness for tn l 7avy. preparedness in fortifying tn
 Panama canal, preparedness in up | building the army He has been O | The whole the member with the larg | ast vision, and the most intelligen , | devotion to American needs that W | have had on the foreign affairs com l mittee during this general conven ! ion. He rendered distinguished ser | vice on the Alaskan boundary inter | national committed In addition h | has been one of the staunchest fight , | ITS for definite measures of economi ! advancement in the direction of jus ! tice. championing such measures q
 he pure food law, the safety appli | 1nce law, the workmen's compensatio | 1ct. the national law, the pro rat ! hill the bill creating a bureau of COT | o0rations and many similar measure
 q therefore. urge upon you favor ably to consider his name and repol | m it to the convention conferees ft z | the republican national conventlo
 md if you do not agree with me l ! his respect, nevertheless to transm | his telegram to the republican cor | erees and to request them to place
 | 1efore their convention at the sam n | 'ime~ yourself taking the telegram be n | 'ore the convention. Let me agal | 1uote from my telegram Of the da | before yesterday, to Senator Jackso , | of Maryland, the differences that haN Q divided not merely republicans an orogressives but good Americans
 Fl shades of political belief from or mother in the past, sinking nothir when compared with the issues no ' demanding consideration, for these iS sues are vital to the national If
 They are the issues of an /Ivance
 >merican and national preparedness olf We are now all of HIS American
 | md nothing else scorning to divit \ 'lorg lines of section creed, or of nf | tional origin, then the nation itse | will crumble into dust. If we a not thoroughly prepared if we ha' y not developed a strength Which r \ spects the rights of others. but whi' is also ready to enforce from othe \ respect for it's own rights. then soon v 1o{a rl,oll n CIIhy