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Show 'ROOSEVELT COKES OUT FORIGHES DECLINES TO MAKE RACE ON THIRD TICKET AND WILL SUP- PORT THE REPUBLICANS, ft Progressive National Committee Decides 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, Juno 26, tho national committee of the Progressive party, by a vote of 32 to C, with nlno members declining to vote, endorsed Charles B. Hughes for president, and the Progressive party practically wont out of existence as a national organization. This action of. the Progressives came after a letter hadbeen read from Colonel Theodora Roosevelt, In which ho finally declined tho presidential presi-dential nomination of the party, and urged that Charles E. Hughes bo supported sup-ported In order to defeat President Wilson. In his letter declining tho nomination nomina-tion for president on tho Progressive ticket, Colonel Roosevelt, In giving reasons for his favoring tho candl dncy of Charles E. Hughes, said: "It has become entirely evident that tho pcoplo under existing conditions aro not prepared to accept n third party. "It romalnn for ya. good humoredly and with common sense, to face the situation nnd endeavor to get out of it tho best that it can be made to ylold from the standpoint of tho Interests of tho nntlon ns a whole, "The present administration through Its threo years of life has been guilty of shortcomings more slgnnl than those of any administration slnco the days of Buchanan. "In my Judgment, tho nomination of Mr. Hughes meets the conditions set forth In tho statement of tho Progressive Progres-sive national committee, Issued last January nnd In my own statements. "Undor existing circumstances, the nomination of a third tlcket'would, In my Judgment, bo merely a movo In the. Interest of tho 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, stralghtout Americanism before election, but will resolutely and In good faith put It through If olectod. "It would bo a grave detriment to tho country to re-elect Mr. Wilson. "I shnll therefore strongly support Mr. Hughes. Such being the case, it is unnecessary to say that I cannot accept tho 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 deedB absolutely contradict contra-dict his words, nnd for the matter of that his words absolutely contradict one another. "We owe all our present troublo with the professional German-American element In the United States to Mr. Wilson's timid nnd vacillating course during tho last two years. "As rcgardB Mexico, the situation which Mr: Wilson confronted was nothing like ns difficult as that which President McKlnloy confronted In connection con-nection with Cuba and tho Philippines at the time of the Spanish war. "I wish very solemnly to. ask tho representatives of tho Progressive party to consider at this time only tho welfare of tho people of tho United States. We shall prove false to our Ideals and our profession it, In this grave crisis of the nation's life, wo permit ourselves to bo swerved from tho ono prime duty of serving with cool judgment und sin-glo-mlnded devotion tho tuition's needs. "Mr. Wilson and his party have In nctual practice lamentably failed to safeguard the Interest nnd honor of tho United States. Thoy have brought us to Impotence abroad and to division divi-sion and weakness nt homo. "Mr. Hughes has shown in his career ca-reer the Instinct of efficiency which will guarantee that under him the government gov-ernment will once moro work with vigor and force. He possesses that habit of straightforward thinking which means that his words will bo correlated with his deeds and translated trans-lated Into facts. His past career Is tho warrant for our belief that ho will bo tno unfaltering opponent of that system of Invlslblo government which finds expression In tho domination of the party boss and the party machine. His pnst career is a guarantee that whatovor ho says before election will be made good by his acta aftor election. elec-tion. Morally, his public record shows him to bo a man of unbondlng Integrity; Integ-rity; Intellectually It shows him to bo a man of original and trained ability. abil-ity. "Wo havo the alternative of contln ulng in office nn administration which has proved a lamontable fnlluro, or of putting Into office an administration which wo havo every reason to bo-lievo bo-lievo will function with efficiency for tho Interest nnd honor of all our people. peo-ple. "I earnestly bespeak from my fellow fel-low Progressives tholr ungrudging support of Mr. Hughes." |