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Show ESTIMATES OF ROOSEVELT. (From an address of George Haven Putnam, before the National Liberal Club of London, June 9, 1904.) "It is my own belief that voters of the country coun-try will decide in November for the re-election of Roosevelt. I class myself with the Democrats, but it is my conviction that in the present unsatisfactory unsatis-factory condition of Democratic leadership, and in connection with the influence of Roosevelt on the sido of the more conservative and sensible Moments Mo-ments of tys own party, his election will, on the whole, bo for the advantage of our country. He is a man of undoubted integrity of purpose and Of action. His high-minded patriotism and sturdy character, the earnestness of his convictions, the naivette with which ho takes his fellow citizens Into his confidence, the personal charm of tho man, have secured for him throughout the whole country so large a measure of personal interest anil of personal affection, (notwithstanding sharp criticism of certain actions) that the strength of tho Republican party of which he is the personal leader, has undoubtedly been largely added to." And, Dr. R. S. MacArthur of the Calvary Baptist Bap-tist church of New York: "I have seen the utmost enthusiasm over Col. John Hay and our American diplomacy. I stated to my audiences that the greatest diplomat under God's clear skies was Col. John Hay, and no one contradicted me. I told of Col. Hay's speaking for Mr. McKinley and of his defining American diplomacy di-plomacy as first the Monroe doctrine and secondly the Golden Rule. "We have a government that does things. When the history of Russia and Japan's waf Is written the most marvelous chapter In It will be about America's influence in preventing all Europe from going to war. I feel so grateful to Almighty God for Col. Hay, and I honor and revere re-vere President McKinley for having appointed him and President Roosevelt that he has retained him. "I said to my audience that the foremost man in all the world today was the president of tho United States; the foremost man in the human race is President Roosevelt." |