Show ROOSEVELT GUME OUT FUH HUGHES TO MAKE RACE ON THIRD TICKET AND WILL SUP PORT THE republicans progressive national committee de da aides to support hughee hughes in coming campaign when colonel make makes known his attitude chicago at tho end 0 of a stormy session ce elon hero here on monday june 26 tho the pat lonal committee of the progressive sive party by a vote of 32 to 6 with nine members embers in declining to vote endorsed charles hughes for president and the progressive party practically went out of existence as a national organization thia this action of the progressives came caine otter after a letter had been read from colonel theodore roosebelt Roose in which ho he finally declined the boresi dentali nomination nomi nution of tho the party and urged that charles 13 E flushes bo be sup ported la in order to defeat president wilson in his letter declining the nomina tion for president on tho the progressive salve ticket colonel Rw roosevelt sevelt in giving reasons u for hia his favoring the bandl dacy of charlea charles E C hughes ll eald said it hau has become entirely evident that the under existing are not prepared to adept ai ept a thlin party it remains teus good humo I 1 und and with common rense to face the situation and or to got get out of it the bast tatt it can a bo be made to yield from the standpoint of the interests of lot the nation as a whole tho the present administration through ita its three years of at life has been guilty of shortcomings more signal than thesa of any since the daas da of buchanan Du chanan in my judgment the nomination of mr meets the conditions set forth in the statement of the progressive national committee issued last january and in my own statements under existing arc cn the nomination of at a third ticket would in my judgment bo be merely a move moc in the interest of the election of at air mr eon son 1 I regard mr as a man whose public record la Is a guarantee that th t he will not merely stand for a program of clean cut americanism before election but will and in good faith falth put it through if elected it would bo be a grave detriment to the country to reelect re elect mr wilson 1 I shall 11 therefore strongly support r Il such being tho the case it la Is unnecessary to say that I 1 cannot accept tho the nomination on a third tick et t I 1 do not believe that thero should be le a third ticket in mr wilsons case vs c do not havo have to consider bis his words but his deeds ills deeds absolutely contra diet his words and for the matter of that his worda words absolutely contradict fae one another wo we owe ah an our present trouble with the professional german american element in the united states to mr wilsons Wll sons timid and vacillating course during thelast the th last two years ALs regards mexico melco the tho situation which mr wilson confronted waa itching nothing like as difficult as that which a president resident mckinley McK tnIe lel confronted in con with cuba and the philippines at the time of the spanish war aar 1 I wish very solemnly to ask tho the representatives of the Progress progressive ivo anity to consider at this time only the tho welfare of tho the people of the united states we shall prove false to ito our ideals und and our profession if it in this grave crisis of the nations life wo ue permit dur ourselves selves to bo be swerved from the one prime duty of at serving with cool Jutt judgment ment and sin sla file minded le devotion the nations t deeds eeds mr wilson and his party have in actual practice lamentably failed to ard the interest and honor of at the slates states they have brought us to Impo tinco tanco abroad and to divi elon ision and weakness ca kness at home mr 1 T lushes has shown in his career the instinct of efficiency which guarantee gia rantee that under him the government will once more work ork with vigor and force lie ile possesses thai that habit of straightforward thinking roeana means tant ta it hia his words will bo be correlated with his deeds and enns into ills past career la is the warrant arrant for our belief that he will bo the unfaltering altering opponent of that beetem of invisible government which rinds expression in tho the domination of the party boss ard the party machine sills ills past career Is a guarantee that whatever he says before election will bo be made good by his acts alter after et election morally bis his public record shoes him to bo be a man of unbending integrity intellectually it shows him to bo be a hian man of original and trained ability we have the alternative of continuing in office an administration which has proved a lamentable failure or of putting into office an administration which we A e have every reason to believe will function with efficiency for the interest and honor of all our people 1 I earnestly bespeak from my teltow tellow progressive Progress iver their ungrudging support of mr If hughes 11 |