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Show NEW YORK TRIBUNE FOR ROOSEVELT. The whole country Is much interested interest-ed in the conversion of the New York Tribune to the cause of Theodore Roosevelt. That paper has been a vigorous opponent of the former president presi-dent and In 1912 fought his candidacy. candi-dacy. The endorsement of Roosevelt is thus explained In the editorial col-umns col-umns of the New York paper: "Colonel Roosevelt and no 'pussyfooting.' 'pussy-footing.' " "The Tribune likes this candidate and this issue. It regards Senator Root, its favorite so long as ho had a chance of nomination, as now practically practic-ally eliminated It cannot Interpret any more hopefully the failure of the 'oxygen treatment' which his candidacy candi-dacy received in the shape of tho manifesto with 70 signers. Tho party thinks that Mr. Root would not bo so likely to win as either Colonel Roosevelt or Justice Hughes, and it wants him as secretary of state in the next Republican administration, since It cannot have him as President "We aro for Colonel Roosevelt because be-cause we believe the country needs him. No one else will quicken the pulse of the nation as he will quicken It. No one else will stir the conscience consci-ence of the people as he will stir it. "No one else will inspire patriotism as he will inspire It No one else personifies per-sonifies the issue which the Republican Republi-can party must make as he personifies personi-fies It. No one else presents so effective ef-fective an antithesis to Wilson as he. If we are Americans, real Americans, the colonel is our man. While timid politicians were consulting the census books and counting the German voto, he spoke and tho country barkened. He Is the leader in the fight for Americanism and we don't believe in changing leaders when we aro going to the front. "We are for Colonel Roosevelt In spite of tho fact that we were against him four years ago. "No one fought him harder than we No one will fight harder for him. It has not been easy to put aside our pride, our sense of resentment at what occurred In 1912, and tho hundred other oth-er things that tend to keep alive the division. But we have put them aside and are putting them aside because wo 'feel that they have no place in a crisis like this. We come out for Col. Roosevelt as a Republican newspaper news-paper Intending to remain Republican, and we feel that In doing so wo are doing the best not only for the nation but for the Republican party. "We might have preferred another leader, but there Is no other leader Justice Hughes might have spoken If ho had been free to speak. Indeed, we feel sure he would have spoken, and for Americanism, had silence not been Imposed upon him, and then we should have preferred him. But the plain fact Is that he did not speak, that he could not speak. "If the justice should be chosen leader in tho fight for a worthier nationalism, na-tionalism, he would have to take the torch that Col. Roosevelt has thus far borne. lie would have to accept an issue that meant Its most only In another an-other man's hands. Surely In the transfer we should lose our stride. As a people we should feel that we had hung back, that we hadn't 'gone the limit' in the true American way. Tho governments of Europe would feel this, too They would conclude that wo mant to temporize. Something Some-thing would be lost of moral effect of moving straight on under the leadership leader-ship of the man who represents tho purpose of this country as no one else does or can. "ThP colonel stands for the things the Tribune stands for. These things will be advanced more by his nomination nomina-tion than by any other nomination that can be made. The Tribune must support him "We aro doing more this year than choosing a new president. We are choosing which way the country shall go In the era that is now opening, just as our fathers chose the nation's path In the days of 1S60." |