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Show ROOSEVELT COMES OUT FOR HUGHES DECLINES TO MAKE RACE ON THIRD TICKET AND WILL SUPPORT SUP-PORT THE REPUBLICANS. Progressive National Committee De. cides to Support Hughes in Coming Com-ing Campaign When Colonel Makes Known His Attitude. Chicago. At the end of a stormy session here on Monday, June llt, the national committee of the Progressive party, by a vote of 32 to 6, with nine members declining to vote, endorsed Charles E. Hughes for president, and the Progressive party practically went out of existence as a national organization. This action of the Progressives came after a letter had been read from Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, in which he finally declined the presidential presi-dential nomination of the party, and urged that Charles E. Hughes be supported sup-ported in order to defeat President Wilson. In his letter declining the nomination nomina-tion for president on the Progressive ticket, Colonel Roosevelt, in giving reasons for his favoring the candidacy candi-dacy of Charles E. Hughes, said: "It has become entirely evident that the people under existing conditions are not prepared to accept a third party. "It remains for us, good humoredly and with common sense, to face the situation and endeavor to get out of it the best that it can be made to yield from the standpoint of the interests of the nation as a whole. "The present administration through its three years of life has been guilty of shortcomings more signal than those of any administration since the days of Buchanan. "In my judgment, the nomination of Mr. Hughes meets the conditions set forth in the statement of the Progressive Progres-sive national committee, issued last January and in my own statements. "Under existing circumstances, the nomination of a third ticket would, in my judgment, be merely a move in the interest of the election of Mr. Wilson. Wil-son. "I regard Mr. Hughes as a man whose public record is a guarantee that 'he will not merely stand for a program- of clean cut, straightout Americanism before election, but will resolutely and in good faith put it through if elected.' "It would be a grave detriment to the country to re-elect Mr. Wilson. "I shall therefore strongly support Mr. Hughes. Such, being the case, it is unnecessary to say that I cannot accept the nomination on a third ticket. tick-et. I do not believe that there should be a third ticket. "In Mr. Wilson's case-we do not have to consider his words, but his deeds. His deeds absolutely contradict contra-dict his words, and for the matter of that his words absolutely contradict one another. "We owe all our present trouble with the professional German-American element in the United States to Mr. Wilson's timid and vacillating course during the last two years. "As regards Mexico, the situation which Mr. Wilson confronted was nothing like as difficult as that which President McKinley confronted in connection con-nection with Cuba and the Philippines at the time of the Spanish war. "I wish very solemnly to ask the representatives of the Progressive party to consider at this time only the welfare of the people of the United States. We shall prove false to our ideals and our profession if, in this grave crisis of the nation's we permit ourselves to be swerv'fcfS111 tne one Prime duty of serving witlfTe1 Judgment lj" gle-minded devoSS. fLr? needs- 'Nation's "Mr. Wilson and his pa' actual practice lamentab' . ave jn safeguard the interest aT yf A to 1 the United States. They ot us to impotence abroad br0ught sion and weakness at b'n(j to divi- "Mr. Hughes has s'nov reer the instinct of efn! ', hig ca will guarantee that under H. -which ernment will once more tne gov-vigor gov-vigor and force. He posse,'ork witu habit of straightforward .ses tliat which means that his word thinking correlated with his deeds a m De lated into facts. His PastJna trans-the trans-the warrant for our belief t.f career ;g be the unfaltering opponeif , be win system of invisible governnS' Qj that finds expression in the dom? t which the party boss and the PartJynation of His past career is a guaraf ' roachine. whatever he says before electee that be made good by his acts :j.ti0n will lion. Moially, his public re(Tfter elec-him elec-him to be a man of unbendV j snows 'ity; intellectually it sno"VnK integ-oe integ-oe a man of original and tr, Y, m tc Vmed abil "We; have the alternative L uing in office an adminisira I qj contin has proved a lamentable fa. I. .on wbicl putting into office an adm l;ure or o which we have every reasiynjstratio lieve will function with effi. 1 t0 D( '.he interest and honor of a F.jency fc ,le- ' f i our pe "I earnestly bespeak fro: I low Progressives their i, mv f( support of Mr. Hughes." ' lngrudgii |