Show HOOSE E ELT CO ES OUT FOR HUGHES DECLINES TO MAKE RACE ON THIRD TICKET AND WILL SUPPORT THE republicans progressive national committee comm attee de do cide to support hughes in corn com ing campaign when colonel make makes known HI his attitude chicago at the end ot at a stormy 11 assion here on man monday day june 26 the national ati orial committee of the progressive par tyby a vo vote te of 32 to 6 with nine members declining to vote endorsed charles hughea hughes for president and the progressive party practically went out of existence as a national organization this action ot of the progressives came after a letter had been read from colonel theodore roosevelt in which he be finally declined the prest dentral nomination of the party and urged that charle charlei E hagnes a be supported in order to defeat president N ilson in his ae letter ater declining the nomina tion for president on the progressive ticket colonel roosevelt Hoo sevelt in giving reasons for his favoring the candi dacy of at charles E hughes Il aid said it has become entirely evident that the people under existing conditions ons are not prepared to accept a third party I 1 it remains for us good humo huma and with common sense to face the situation and endeavor to get out of it the best that II 11 can be bf made to yield from the standpoint ot of the interests of the nation as a whole I 1 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 I 1 in my judgment the nomination of mr air hughes meets the conditions set forth in the statement of the dive 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 wll wil eon son I 1 I 1 regard mr hughes as a man whose public record Is a guarantee that he will not merely stand for a program of clean cut 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 reelect re elect mr bir wilson 1 I shall therefore strongly support N mr 11 r hughes such being the case it is 1 unnecessary to say that I 1 cannot accept the nomination on a third tick et I 1 do not believe lit there should be a third ticket in mr air wilsons Wll sona case we dj da no not have bave to consider his words but his ill feeds his deeds absolutely contradict 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 c al n element in the united states to mr 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 with cuba and the philippines at the time of the spanish war 1 I wish very solemnly to ask the representatives of at the progressive party to consider at thi this time only the welfare of the people of the united states we shall prove false to our ideals and our profession it in this grave crisis of at the nations life we permit ourselves to be swerved from the one prime duty of at serving with cool judgment and sin gle minded devotion the nations needs mr wilson and his party have in actual practice lamentably failed to safeguard the interest and honor of the united states they have brought us to impotence abroad and to divi slon and weakness at home mr air hughes nas has shown in his career the instinct of at efficiency which will guarantee that under him the go will once more work woric with vigor and force he ile possesses that habit of straightforward thinking which deans mean that his worde will be correlated with his deeds and translated into facts hig ills past career Is the warrant lor fur our belief that he will be the unfaltering filtering opponent of that system of invisible government which finds expression in the domination of the party boss boas and the party machine his Is past career Is 18 a guarantee Kua rantee that whatever hi says before election will be made u b ills acts after election morally his public record s hows him to be a 9 mw man ot of unbending integ RY intellectually it hos shows i him to ae oe a man mail of original and trained aali ity we f have the alternative of cont conten in aing in office an administration which has proved a lamentable failure or of rutting 3 18 into ant office an administration birbich we e hate halve every ever easo i reason to be aleve will function 10 with claucy cl the hu interest tn efficiency eucy for le and honor of all our peo pea low 1 I earnestly bespeak from my fel el progressive their ungrudging aul support of mr str hughes Il |