Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 250, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1912 — WHY ROOSEVELT IS LOSING GROUND [ARTICLE]

WHY ROOSEVELT IS LOSING GROUND

Lifelong and loyal Republicans will not follow him out of the Republican party. The American people will not gratify the disappointed ambition of a man who, in a spirit of revenge, would wreck the Republican party because it refused him a presidential nomination. The country does not want for president a man who eagerly grasps at every wild and radical theory merely to gain votes. Honest men will not support a candidate who instituted dishonest contests to help his nomination and who accepts money for his cam-' paign from the Harvester and Steel trust directors. Thousands of Republicans do not believe that men of unblemished character who disagree with Roosevelt are thieves and liars. Right-thinking people cannot trust a candidate who violates bls solemn Diedges. Republicans are beginning to realize that the only possible effect of his candidacy may be the election of Wilson, and they are not willing to bling upon the country the disaster of a Democratic administration merely to gratify one man’s hatred or ambition. The people win not Mexicanize the United States by electing to the presidency a man whd declares that he sees no objction to any number of terms provided there is a recall. That is, if again made president he would expect to remain in that office until the people drove him out. What Washington would not take, what Grant could not get, Roosevelt shall not have.