The Sentinel=record., 1918-07-19
MOVEMENT STARTED TO
 NOMINATE ROOSEVELT
OPPONENTS OF WHITMAN HOLD A ROUND ROBIN AND START
 ROOSEVELT BOOM.

Saratoga Springs, N Y. July lS- Colonel Theodore Roosevelt delivered 8 stirring patriotic address before the
 republican state convention here to-
 day. He did not. however, either publicly or privately discuss state pol
 itics.
 The fact that the colonel had de olined to talk on state issues became
 known generally about the hall be-
 lore he delivered his address and plans for n prolonged demonstration with stampeding potentia1lties were quickly changed.
 The colonel was received warmly as he strode down one of the main aisles with bands playing "The Star
 Spangled Banner" and the crowd on
 foot cheering. shouting and waving hats and handkerchiefs. There also V ere some shouts of: "We want
 Teddy" but there was nothing in the demonstration that could be remotely
 construed as a serious attempt at a stampede
 Curing his address the colonel was
 frequently interrupted Gy applause
 and cheering. These reached their
 height when he declared
 The sinking of the Lusitania was
 the firing on Sumter of this war and
 that if the United States had de-
 clared war at that time, we would
 have couple Of million men across
 the seas months ago, Russia would
 never have broken and the war
 would have been over now Immediately after his speech Col pnel Roosevelt left the hall amid an other enthusiastic ovation. He went out as he had come in. on the arms of committee managers of the rival candidates for governor He went immediately 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 plat form he was in touch only with mem bers of his family. This, and his re- fusal to discuss state issues with a committee considerably lessened the Roosevelt for governor talk among | the delegates, although it was not discussed
 The colonel adhered closely to his
 prepared speech, except on one or | two occasions, notably, when he ap-
 pealed to his hearers to perfect their ideal of citizenship
 At no time did he refer to the re | ported death in France of his son , Quentin Hut his audience felt he had
 this keenly in mind when he said: 'ln this great world crisis, perhaps | the greatest in the history of the | world, urins the Christian era, where
 ,he events of the new few years will profoundly influence for good or i'll | our children and our children's chil- dren for generations; surely in this l great crisis where we are making | sacrifices and making ready for sac rifices on q scale never before l known; surely when we are render ing such fealty 10 the idealism on the part of the young men sent flhrotd to die, surely we have a right l to csk and to expect a loyal idealism in l..9 from the men and women who stay at home
 Our young men have gone to the | other side-yery many of them to | give up ill their joyous prime. all the glory and all the beauty of life, for
 the prize of death in battle for a 1 loity ideal Now, while they are de- 1 tending you. cant we men and women make up our minds to try to insist in pu- lie and private upon loftler 1 idealism at home? l am asking for | an ideallsm which shall find expres- : sion beside the hearthstone and In the family and in the councils of 1 the state and natiL
 And ask you to see that when I those who have gone abroad to en- dare every species Of hardship, t1 l risk their lives, to give their lives when those of them who live come ; home, that they shall come home to a nation which we, by our actions, | have made a nation they can be proud | to have fought for and to have died for"
 At tonight's session Elihu Root, will , II. Hays, national republican chair
 man, and Miss Helen Varick Boswell, 1 executive secretary of the organiza- | tion of republican women of the state, were the speakers. Mir Root and Mir. Hays both coun- selled against disoyalty Miss Bos- well. who address marked the first appearance of a woman in a conven- tion of one of the big parties on a
 political equality with the men, de-
 clared politics is patriotism on the
 job"
 Both addresses were strongly patri-
 otic
 Chairman Hays emphasized these thoughts q do not want any allegations from aifhar oua efdp Or tha Othar ponoarn