Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1920-10-01
No One VIII Be Deceived by
Democratic Attempt to Use
GreaI Presidents Name.
THE PEOPLE KNEW ROOSEVELT
Death of Foremost American Has
Not Dimmed His Deeds in
the Minds of Patriots.
BY William Holster

n
5 mately associated with TheOdor,
Roosevelt In the last fifteen years o.
, 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 nomentous
campaign, and whose support of Mr..
COX's sO-called policies would be forth
coming were Roosevelt alive. Al least,
Governor Cox is at pains to make 1t
appear that II is into his hands that
the torch borne by Colonel Roosevelt
was entrusted when the latter passed
/ on.
Addressing the Ohio Democratic
State Convention az Columbus on
August nth, among other things
Governor Cox said
Need | remind yon thar il 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
the 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 uncOmpromislng, tried
and true Americansm. 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 Its traditions, Jealous In the !
maintenance OF its integrity and indie
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
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 1t
we're necessary to prove these asser-
Ions, columns could be quoted from
his writings and speeches in support
hereof But one has only to mention
he name Of Theodore Roosevelt to
'rlng before the mind picture Of
United States strong, self-reliant and
Roosevelt's Position Clear.
One does not have to ponder long to
each a conclusion, therefore, where
Roosevelt would stand II happily he
we're among us today. The man who
n 1916 avowed that the supreme ma
lonal need was the overthrow of VIII
onism and all that wisconsin repre-
ents would have mighty well-defined j
osition In the fighting today If he
Iere with us, and he would not be
lnged on the side of Governor Cox.
The man who, though age was creep
lg upon him, demanded as his right Z
nat he be sent across to face with the
vo hundred thousand men that clam
]
enace; and who grimly laid down the /
ca that by his end on the field of
little the dropping morale of the en-
nte forces might be revived, though
e death of former President of the
nited States would have had little in
mmOn with a candidate whose news
pers proclaimed sixteen months aft
the sinking of the Lustania, that
he German U-boats have committed
crime against u.s." I'LL
Remember In what stirring words
Osevelt denounced the Lusitania
king, and how, throughout all that III
,b period of American neutrality, HI
powerful voice rang through the
d awakening the patriotism OF our
'ple to the elimination In April, Vii
q when even Mr. Wilson finally Nh
5 compelled to face the inevitable III
here IS no law against Governor iii
IS use Of Colonel Roosevelt's \
ne. Nor is there any law on The as
lute books providing for the crimes VII
ch are committed in the name OF III
gressiveness for which Colonel ~
'sevelt stood. There are NapoIeops IN
finance, Of wheat, of oil and of I'LL
istry, hut there was only one Ma III
'on There are Jlmmies and Ed Ill
and Harries, but there was only I'LL
Teddy. kHI
the campaign upon which we iii
2 entered, the name Of Roosevelt 5Hl
be invoked many times in many HkI
es IN behalf OF many things. But Hill
IN all the great army of those HI
followed Roosevelt will be de- EbE
ed. They know above all other SfE
IS that the safety and integrity sl
he United States lay closest to Hill
'dore Roosevelts heart. and with AR1
his doctrine of stalwart Amerl-
'm Will prevail against any preach ksa
OF progressiveism which seeks
IRE them from the path Of patrl- q
duty. @zg