Imperial Valley press., 1922-10-27
SALVATION ARMY
MAN TELLS WORK
OF COL. ROOSEVELT
Edwin Tuttle Here to Make
Plans for Campaign of
Salvation Army

Edwin F. Tuttle, the civilian repre-
sentative of the Salvation Army who
is in the Imperial Valley arranging for
the coming campaign of the army to-
day gave out the following interview
in regard to his old friend and politi- |
cal leader, the late President Roose. |
welt.
To-day is being quietly observed as
Roosevelt day, the birthday of that
great American that so many of us
loved. This year there is even an
added interest in Roosevelt Day and it
seems very fitting that the governor
of the great state of California has
set this day part to be known asl
Roosevelt Day and I predict that in a |
few years every state in the union
will TO a much greater extent observe
it.
"My blood always quickens as II
read of the lives and ac,s Of the great
men of the past. From child the
story of the lives of the great sons of
Massachusetts has been sweet music TO
my ears but in Theodore Roosevelt
there ever will be the thought of per-
sonal association and though the dust |
of fleeting years may gather in the |
chambers of memory 1 am confident
to me they will only serve for me to |
forget his faults and to remember his
many virtues.
:While from my boyhood T had
been strong admirer of Theodore
Roosevelt it was not m~ good fortune
to have known him until the political
campaign in 1912. In that wear in |
common with thousands of other disat- |
isfied men and women I became one of |
the founders of the National Progress |
sive Party. Progressives were almost |
as scarce as hens teeth in Rhode Island |
at the starting of that movement. IT |
was not to be wondered Mt that I |
practically unknown except to few
of the people of my little city should |
have been chosen to take such part !
in that movement. I was selected as |
chairman of the provisional state com
mittee and it was some job to get |
seven men to form that state committee |
| wa selected a delegate to the Pro- |
gressive National Convention al |
Chicago and there I was. elected Pro- |
gressive National Committeeman from
Rhode Island for four years. Why
Colonel Roosevelt selected me as one
of his personal advisors in that great |
campaign / never knew for, surely I
had no one to recommend me and had
no political reputation. / surely was
very much surprised at our first meet
ing to have him tell me he wanted to
see me privately and then at that in
terview tell me he was to open his
campaign in the city of Providence
and that he expected me to stage al
rally "that would be bully one!'
Well the opening rally was ''bullv
one' and was undoubtedly the greatest
political demonstration ever held in
Rhode Island and one the Colonel
never forgot for just before his death
he gave me the credit of giving him
the best introduction he ever received
in his life.
"Theodore Roosevelt has gone from
us. He has gone on to join the states
men and patriots and sages on the
other side. In life he was strong in
his likes and equally strong in his dis
likes. He was ever ready to defend
that he considered right and ever
ready to denounce what he considered
wrong He was firm friend and q
bitter enemy. He loved truth and
hated falsehood. He was real red
blooded man. He was one of those
who quickened the public pulse on
great questions and made the world
better for having lived in it. / know
of no man who can the better be held
up to the school boy and the school
girl as shining example of real man
hood than he and ] am confident that
on each returning twenty seventh day
of October the light of his life will
shine with great splendor around us
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