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Show Roosevelt Out For Nomination By Republicans i Notified of Organization of Committee Commit-tee to Boott Hit Candidacy, He Welcomes Their Support Oyster Bay, N. Y. May22. In ror B ply o George Von L. Meyer, formeij secretary of tho navy, who toilajr of-I of-I flclally notincd him that tho Itooso-I Itooso-I velt nepubllcan committee, with H memborahip In thirty stateB had been I organized to work for htg tiomlna- tlon for the presidency by the - lie-I lie-I publican party, Colonol Thcodoro W RooBevelt enumerated tho principles M fop which ho declared ho was fight- Mj lug, adding They are tho principles " you 'are organizing to support. 'and I with all my heart I welcomo 'such B support. . v t M Mr. Meyer lieadcd a delegation of m twonty-nvo members of tho comralt- tco. In his speoch of notification he 8 told Mr. ItooHovolt that ono of tho Bj purposes 0 tho committee 'wns to aid, tho nepubllcan party In going bofore S the country reunited and In full Bj Htrength, with a candidate who Is 3 listened to nnd trusted by tho great K mass of tho 'jwoplo'. A group ofOyS tcr bay Progressives woro visitors at tho Roosevelt homo and witnessed tho notification. Reply to Delegation Colonel nooBCVelt'a reply to tho delegation follows: "I am naturally very deeply touched touch-ed and pleased by your notion. I accept ac-cept It absolutely in the spirit which you hnvo taken It. You are for mo because you regard me as representing represent-ing and embodying tho aggressive, movement for thorough going Am-orlcanlsm Am-orlcanlsm and thorough going preparedness. pre-paredness. Your devotion Is to tho causo and to tho man only in so far as ho for tho tlrao being cmbodloj. tho. causo. ,Thnt Is precisely tho latitude la-titude I took In my Trinidad state, ment. I now hold, and shall continue to hold, this a great time ot crisis In our country's history, because it is a great crisis In tho history of tho (orld. ,lf wo oro unprepared: If wo uro split nnd sundered by rivalries of coed, of section and national origin: ori-gin: If our country's action is to bo conditioned by lielplessness without nnd of thq hyphenato within, tho career ca-reer of tho United States as a great factor In the world's civilization la at nn end,' No Half Measures There Is no uso of being for half measures of Americanism nnd preparedness. pre-paredness. Still less is It of any use for nny public man to announce him-solf him-solf in vague geiiiral terms bb In fa vor of Americanism' and preparednosb unless big wholo course of action in puulic",TiroW made It evident, and5 now makes it evident, that ho means Just oxactly what ho say's: unless if ho is In olllco or 1ms been such us In fullest measuro to warrant the belief that ho is a man or deeds and not of words In this matter, and unless In every crisis, whether ho bo In or out of offlco, ho frankly nnd fully takes a position on tho concrete facts that aro up for decision and applies tho abstract statement directly to those concroto facts. "General professions nro utterly worthless unloss, In tho first place, tho mnn making them is ready to Immediately Im-mediately apply them to every concrete con-crete caBo ns It actually arises and unless in tho second place, when ho hng tho opportunity he at once turns his words Into deeds. "I am fighting, for theso principles Tlioy are tho principles you aro organizing or-ganizing to support and with all my heart I welcomo such support, nc-editing nc-editing It ns given, primarily to tho principles and only'secondarilyfor mysolf. ' i "Any man nt this time of crisis who U not aggressively, openly and specifically for these principles Is against them, and' ovory patriotic man should treat our public servants pri this basis." , |