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Show FASSETT PAYS TRIBUTE TO ROOSEVELT. , H (Prom a Staff Correspondent of the N. Y. Press.) H Saratoga Springs, Sept 14. fjH J. Sloat Fassett in his speech 'today as tempo- jlfl rary chairman of the Republican state convention, ' IH praised the Federal administration and paid a ifl splendid tribute to the achievements and person- , ;j!S ality of President Roosevelt. He said in part: l JH "We have waited in vain for some strong, If lfl clear, unmistakable, commendable American pol- . m "1H icy to be announced by the Democratic candidate j SH j ii Mw Up to the present time he has contented himself m chiefly by challenging comparison with the four m unfortunate years of Cleveland's administration, K and accusing President Roosevelt of converting a H surplus of $80,000,000 into a deficiency of $42,000,- m 000. This accusation might be passed over light- HK ly coming from any other source, but coming from m the candidate for the Presidency of the opposition H party we may be justified in giving it considera -mm tion. Judge Parker must have known the cir- m cumstances which have produced the situation to m which he referred. B Roosevelt Center of Attack. B "But after the chief issue in the present can- ,H vass, the chief figure looming up foremost in the m picture, the central mark for the most persistent H and aggressive assaults of the opposition, is the B commanding figure of our own candidate for the. m Presidency. For many months, in many ways, K v by direct assault and indirect intimation, it has R ' been tha continuous and aggressive purpose of H the Democratic campaign managers to convince H the American people that Theodore Roosevelt was m an unsafe man; that he was impetuous and head- H strong; that he was willful and perverse; that he IH was strenuous and iconoclastic. From his vig- H orous and altogether wholesome writings they H have assembled garbled extracts and separate par- H l agraphs to enforce their argument. Men who H have themselves openly and defiantly shattered B two amendments to the Constitution intimate that H the Consitution is unsafe in the hands of our H President. Unable to shake the faith of the peo- ,H pie in the results of Republican policies, the at- H j tempt is made to shake the confidence of the Hj i people in the reliability of the Republican leader. H Wo can accept this disposition on the part of the WW Democracy to get away from principles aad resort H to personalities with perfect equanimity and com- H' plete confidence. Theodore Roosevelt Is not a K i new man. He is not an unknown factor. Fcr more H j ! than twenty-five years he has lived in the bright H glare of the limelight of publicity. We have H known him as boy and youth and man. H Tried in Every Post. H 'We have known him as Legislator, as ad- H ministrator, as Governor, as executive officer, as H soldier, as Vice-President and as President. In all H his many doings and all his many sayings he has H been constantly a progressive and aggressive H American patriot, desiring the best . interests ot H I his country, struggling for the best welfare of the H society in which he lived, sacrificing his time and B imperiling his life if so be that by any means great- H er security could come to our Constitution and H j our Institutions and greater glory attach to the IH a flag. Never at any time, under his hands or by IH I his acts, has any good law been imperiled has any H established institution of excellence been in dan- H ; gar, has he been any menace to any men or any B measures except bad men and bad measures. H "He is strong, true, unswerving and conserva- H ; tivo. President Roosevelt was called to his high B office by saddening and tragic events. Handl- H capped by the shadow of assassination and on- jH shrouded in the gloom of horrible murder, he has mm superbly met all requirements of his trust. Young, H enthusiastic, full of red blood and aggressive H Americanism, suddenly thrust by misfortune into H the most conspicuous position any man in the H wide world can occupy, the Presidency of these H - eighty millions of wideawake American people, he H has persistently fulfilled the pledge given at H McKinley's bier, to carry out the polices and ful- H fill the promises of his murdered chief. The Profl- H dent is young, he is positive, he is aggrelssive, he H is abrupt, but he is honest, he is loyal, he is high H minded. Hj Endrd to the People. H 'His intense Americanism, his devotion to lofty H ideals, his blameless personal life, his high no- H tions of national obligations and honor, his pas H sionate belief in the future career of his country ! mm f and his rough and ready scorn of all that imperils or seoms to threaten that career have deeply endeared en-deared him to the people, the plain people, the everyday, you-and-I sort of people of the United States. He may be Impulsive, he may be abrupt, but no President ever was, In all essential things, more conservative. The people love him, for his heart is pure; they admire him, for his courage is high; they trust him, fcr his open life corresponds corre-sponds to his open creeds. President Roosevelt typifies vigorous, ideal American manhood. He is no cririger, he is no time-server, he is no coward; for such a one would never have dared to defy the coal barons, on the one hand, nor the labor unions, on the other; nov would he ever have voted for Bryan had he believed in the gold standard. stand-ard. "Theodore Roosevelt fortunately does not have to be judged by what his enemies say of him. He will be judged, as hel has a right to demand to be judged, by what he has done through all the years of his public life, by what he has accomplished accom-plished in the public service. President Roosevelt Roose-velt is renominated. President Roosevelt will be re-elected. To think anything else will be to impeach im-peach the intelligence of the American people." |