Phoenix tribune., 1920-09-25
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,
developing tendencies of the pending
presidential campaign?
Governor James NJ. Cox, the Demo-.
cratic candidate, with increasing fire.
quency is using the name of Colonel
Roosevelt In his speeches, as Of one.
from whom the Governor has derived
his inspiration for this momentousI
campaign, and whose support of Mr.
| Cox's so-called policies would be FORTH
coming were Roosevelt alive. At least,
Governor Cox is at pains to make it
appear that it is into his hands that
the torch borne by Colonel Roosevelt
was entrusted when the latter passed
/ on.
Addressing the Ohio Democratic
! State Convention at Columbus on
August 18th, among other things.
/ Governor Cox said:
"Need 1 remind you that it was in
This State that Theodore Roosevelt,
that great American, made his speech
proclaiming his creed, not that the
judges alone should be recalled, but
that the judicial procedure itself should
be 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 countrys honor,
proud of its traditions, Jealous in the
I 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
D
functions of both as the two great bull
warks of our national existence. If it
were necessary to prove these asser-
tions, columns could be quoted from
his writings and speeches in support
thereof. But one has only to mention
the name of Theodore Roosevelt to
bring before the mind a picture Of a
United States strong Self-reliant and
Independent
RooseveIt's Position Clear.
One does not have to ponder long to
reach a conclusion, therefore, where
Roosevelt would stand If happily he
were 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 mighty well-defned
position in the fighting today if he
were with us, 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 grlmly laid down the
plea that by his end on the field Of
battle the dropping morale of the en-
tente forces might be revived, though
the death of a former President of the
! United States would have had little in
common with candidate whose news
papers proclaimed sixteen months aft
er the sinking of the Lusitania, that
1.-The German U-boats have committed
no crime against u.s."
Remember in what stirring words
Roosevelt denounced the Lusltania
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.
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