Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1916 — ROOSEVELT RETURNS TO LIFE [ARTICLE]

ROOSEVELT RETURNS TO LIFE

Theodore Roosevelt, who has been indisposed and under cover I for the past month, has again come j out of his shell and gives his post 1 mortem of the results of the balloting of November 7. He cannot refrain from taking a shot at former President Taft by saying: “When a public man who for three years praised each of Mr. Wilson’s acts separately turned round and during the campaign condemned ■ them all collectively he did not carry conviction.” In regarding “he kept us out of war” cry and the wide prosperity of the nation as the decisive factors in the Democratic victory, he does not charge the citizenry with moral obtuseness” but excuses the millions who voted for the President on the ground that it was not shown to them “in convincing fashion where their duty lay.”