Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 240, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1916 — COL. ROOSEVELT APPEALS FOR THE ELECTION OF MR. HUGHES. [ARTICLE]

COL. ROOSEVELT APPEALS FOR THE ELECTION OF MR. HUGHES.

I appeal to my follow citizen# that they shall oloot Mr. Hughes jtnd repudiate Mr. Wilson because only by so doing can they eave America from that taint of gross selfishness and cowardice which wo owe to Mr. Wilson’s substitution of adroit elocution for straightforward action. The permanent intoroete j»f .the American people Ho, not in ease and oemfort for the moment, no matter how obtained, as Mr. Wilson would teach ua; but In resolute championship of the Ideals of national and international democratic duty, and in preparedness to make thio championship effective by our strength. Presidortt dent Wilson embodies In hie par* eon that moot dangerous doctrine which teaches our people that when fronted with really formidable responeibiltiee wo can shirk trouble and labor and risk, and avoid duty by the simple process of drugging our souls with the narcotic of meaningless phrasemongering. Mr. Hughes, to the exact contrary, embodies ths ideal of service rendered through conscientious effort in the face of danger and difficulty. Mr. Wilson turns hie words into deedb only if this can bo achieved by adroit political maneuvering, by bartering a deh.uiA.4 alvtl. aend—W ***• gresslonal votes on behalf of some measure which ho had eololmnly promised td oppose. Our own self-respect demands that wo support the man of deeds done in the open against the nnan of furtive and shifting political maneuvers; the man of service against ths man who whenever opposed by a dangerous foe always takes refuge in empty elocution. —From the Speech of Col. Roosevelt at Battle Creek, Michigan, In Behalf of Mr. Hughes.