The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-09-15
No One Will Be Deceived by
Democratic Attempt to Use
Great Presidents Name.
THE PEOPLE KNEW ROOSEVELT
Death of Foremost American Has
Not Dimmed His Deeds in
the Minds of Patriots.
BY William Hoster

mately associated with Theodore
Roosevelt in the last fifteen years of
his life say word in regard to the
I, developing tendencies of the pending
| presidential campaign?
Governor James NJ. Cox, the Demo-
cratic candidate, with increasing fire.
luency is using the name of Colonel
| Roosevelt in his speeches, as of one
| from whom the Governor has derived
mis- inspiration for this momentous
campaign, and whose support of Mr..
Coxs so-called policies would be forth
| coming were Roosevelt alive At least.
Governor Cox is at pains to make 1t
| appear that it is into his hands that
! he torch borne by Colonel Roosevelt
vas entrusted when the latter passed
On.
Addressing the Ohio Democratic
State Convention at Columbus on
August 18th, among other things
Governor Cox said:
NEED I remind you that 1t was in
his State that Theodore Roosevelt,
that great American, made his speech
proclaiming his creed, not that the
judges alone should be recalled, but
hat the judicial procedure itself should
'e subject to recall"
Acknowledged Error.
First and foremost, no man who
Knew Theodore Roosevelt well, and
was proud to follow his leadership,
needs to be told that he lived to realize
he error of that specific doctrine which
Governor Cox now drags from the
political limbo of dead things.
| But aside from this, the one out
standing note in Roosevelt's great ca
reer was his uncompromising, tried
and true Americanism. He was an
American above and beyond every
| thing else His Americanism arose
above all party considerations. He
| was Jealous of his country's honor,
proud of it's traditions. Jealous in the
| maintenance of its integrity and inde-
pendence He labored necessarily to
| promote that national unity which he
| believed to be one of the safeguards
| Of the Republic; and his faith in
| Washington's Farewell Address and in
| the Monroe Doctrine was such that
| he regarded strict adherence to the in
| functions of both as the two great bull
warks of our national existence. If it
we're necessary to prove these asser-
| lions, columns could be quoted from
his writings and speeches in support
1 thereof But one has only to mention
| the name of Theodore Roosevelt to
bring before the mind picture of n
United States strong self-reliant and
Independent.
RooseveIt's Position Clear.
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| reach a conclusion. therefore. where
Roosevelt would stand if happily he
we're among us today. The man who
In 1916 avowed that the supreme ma
tional need was the overthrow of Will
sonism and all that wisconsin repre-
sents would have a mighty well-defined
position in the fighting today if he
we're with u.s. and he would not be
ranged on the side of Governor Cox.
The man who, though age was creep
Ing upon him, demanded as his right
that he be sent across to face with the
two hundred thousand men that clam
ored to accompany him, the German
menace and who grimy laid down the
plea that by his end on the field Of
battle the dropping morale of the en-
| ltIlt IpittS Dc iCNlNCis
the death of a former President of the
United States would have had little in
common with a candidate whose news
papers proclaimed sixteen months aft
cr the sinking Of the Lusitania that
"The German U-boats have committed
30 crime against u.s.
| Remember in what stirring words
Roosevelt denounced the Lusitania
sinking, and how, throughout all that
drab period of American neutrality,
his powerful voice rang through the
land awakening the patriotism of our
people to the elimination in April,
1917, when even Mr.. Wilson finally
was compelled to face the inevitable.
There is no law against Governor
Cox's use of Colonel Roosevelt's
name. Nor is there any law on the
statute books providing for the crimes
which are committed in the name of
progressiveness for which Colonel
Roosevelt stood. There are Napoleons
of finance, of wheat, of oil and of
industry, but there was only one Ma,
poleon. There are Jimmies and Ed
dies and Harries, but there was only
one Teddy.
In the campaign upon which we
have entered, the name of Roosevelt
will be invoked many times in many
places in behalf of many things. But
few in all the great army Of those
who followed Roosevelt will be de-
ceived They know above all other
things that the safety and integrity
of the United States lay closest TO
Theodore Roosevelt's heart, and with
them his doctrine of stalwart Ameri-
canism will prevail against any preach
ment of pregressivelsm which seeks
to lure them from the path of patri-
otic duty