The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-19

clined 10 talk on state issues became
known generally about the hall before
he delivered his address and plans for
a prolonged demonstration with stan1-
peding potentialities were quickly
changed.
The colonel was received warmly as
he strobe down one of the main aisles
with bands playing The Star Span
gled Banner" and the crowd on foot
cheering, shouting and waving hats
and handkerchief. There also were
some shouts of I'VE want Teddy" but
there was nothing in the demonstra-
ton that could be remotely construed
as serious attempt at a stampede.
+ During his ad1.ess the colonel was
frequently interrupted by applause
and cheering. These reached their
height when he declared the sinking
of the Lusitania was the firing on
Sumter of this war;"
Wouldn't Talk State Politics.
Immediately after his speech, Col
onel Roosevelt left the hall, amid an
other enthusiastic ovation He went
out, as he had come in, on the arms
of the campaign managers of the rival
candidates for governor. He went i'm
mediateIy to his hotel and shortly
afterward started for Albany by mo-
tor. During his entire stay in the
city. except for his appearance on the
platform, he was in tou III only with
members of his family. This and his
refusal to discuss state issues with
committee considerably 1essened the
Roosevelt for governor talk among the
delegates, altho it was not discon-
tinued.
The colonel adhered closely to his
| prepared speech, except on one or two
occasions, notably, when he appealed
of citizenship. At no time did he refer
to the death in France of his son
| Quentin, but his audience felt he had
this keenly in mind when he said:
Loyal Idealism.
'In this great world crisis, prhaps,
the greatest in the history of the
| world, during the Christian era, where
profoundly influence for good or i'll
our children and our children's chill
dren for generations; sure
| ly in this great crisis where we are
making sacrifices and making ready
for sacrifices on a scale never be-
fore known; surely when we are rem
dering such fealty to the idealism on
| the part of the young men sent abroad
| to die, surely we haveaga right to ask
and to expect a loyal idealism in life
| from the men and women who stay SIT
| home.
"Our young men have gone to the
other side-very many of them to give
up in their joyous prime all the glory
and all the beauty of life for the
prize of death in battle for a lofty
ideal. Now while they are defending
you. can't we men and women make
up our minds to try to insist in public
| and private on a loftier idealism at
home? I am asking for An idealisn
which shall find expression beside the
| hearthstone and in the family and in
i the councils of state and nation.
| And I ask you to see that when
yT-h ~
| dure every species of hardship, to risk
| their lives. to give their lives-when
| those OF them who live come home,
that they shall come home to ma
| ton which we, by our actions, have
made a nation they can be proud to
have fought for and to have died for"
| Woman Was Speaker.
| At last nights session or the conven-
ton Elihu Root. Will H Hays ma
tional Republican. chairman, and Miss
Helen Varick Boswell, executive Sec
rotary of the organization of Republic
! can women of the state, were the
| speakers.
| Mr.. Root and Mr.. Hays both coun-
seled against disloyalty. Miss Boswell,
whose address marked the first ap-
pearance of a woman in convention
| of one of the big parties on a political
equality with the men. declared poll
| tics is patriotism on the job" Both
addresses were strongly patriotic.
Chairman Hays emphasized these
| thoughts: st do not want any al1ega-
tons from either one side or the other
! concerning disloyalty in this coming
| campaign. Any such allegation will
| give totally false impression of con-
ditions in this country to the enemy,
and the man or committee or party
who starts anything like that will be
guilty OF the worst kind of disloyalty.