Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 232, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1916 — HUGHES OR WILSON? ROOSEVELT’S ANSWER [ARTICLE]

HUGHES OR WILSON? ROOSEVELT’S ANSWER

“Against Mr. Wilson’s combination of grace In elocution with futility in action, against his record of words unbacked by deeds or betraye<#by deeds, we see Mr. Hughes’ rugged and uncomnromising straightforwardness of character and aetion in every office he has held. We put the man who thinks and speaks directly and whose words have always been made good against the man whose adroit and facile elocution is used to conceal his plans or his want of plans.- The next four years may well be years of tremendous national strain. Which of the two men do you, the American people, wish at the helm during these four years—the man who has been actually tried and found wanting or the man whose whole career In public office is a guarantee of his poWer and good faith? But one answer is possible, and It must be given by the American people through the election of Charles Evans as president of the United States.”— Roosevelt In Maine Speech.