The Devils Lake world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1920-1982, 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
i the Minds of Patriots.
BY William Hoster

NAuy oAbS ~ was VI 1888 IDL1s
mately associated with Theodore
Roosevelt in the last fifteen years Of
his life say a 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 momentous
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 1t
appear that 1t is into his hands that
the torch borne by Colonel Roosevelt
was entrusted when the latter passed
on.
Addressing the Ohio Democratic
State Convention ut Columbus on
August 18th, among other things
Governor Cox said:
"Need l remind you that it was In
this State that Theodore Roosevelt,
that great American, made his speech
%proclaiming his creed, not that the
Judges alene 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 we'll, 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 cut
standing note in Roosevelt's great ca
rec was his uncompromising, tried
and true A~mericanism. 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
promote that national unity which he
believed to be one of the safeguards
OF the Republic; and his faith In
rWashington's Farewell Address and>ln
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
were necessary to prove these asser-
tons, 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-reliaDt and
Independent.
Roosevelt's Position Clear.
One does not have to ponder long to
reach a conclusion, therefore, where
Roosevelt would stand if happily he
in 1915 avowed that the supreme ma
tional need was the overthrow Of Viii
%,sonism and all that wisconsin repre-
sents would have a mighty wefl-def1ned
position in the fighting today if he
we're with us, and he would not be
ranged on the siAe 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 grizzly laid down the
plea that BY his end or 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 a candidate whose news
papers proclaimed sixteen months aft
;er the sinking of the Lusitania, that
"The German U-boats have committed
NO 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 fina4ly
was compelled to face the inevitable.
There is no law against Governor
j!C0x's use Of Colonel R~oosevelt's
name. Nor is there any law on the
statute books providing for the crimes
which are committed In the name of
lprogressiveness for (Which Colonel
Roosevelt stood. There are Napoleons
iof finance. of wheat, OF oil and Of
industry, hut there was only one Ma
,poleon. There are Jlmmies and Ed
dies Ind 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 q those
who followed Roosevelt will be de.
y. ceived. They know above all other
things that the safety and Integrity
{ the UnifeI States lay closest q
Theodore Reasevelt's heart, and viii
stthsn his doctrine Of astalwapt Anneri
aeantsm WIN prevail against any preach.
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