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Show ROOSEVELT GOMES OUT FOR HUGHES DECLINES TO MAKE RACE ON THIRD TICKET AND WILL SUPPORT SUP-PORT THE REPUBLICANS. Progressive National Committee Decides De-cides to Support Hughes In Coming Com-ing Campaign When Colonel Makes Known His Attitude. Chicago. At the end of a stormy session here on Monday, June 1!G, the national committee of the Progressive party, by a vote of 32 to 6. with nine members declining to vote, endorsed Charles K. Hughes for president, and the Progressive party practically went out of existence as a national organization. This action of the Progressives came after a letter had been read from Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, In which he finally declined the presidential presi-dential nomination of the party, and urged that Charles K. Hughes be sup ported In order to defeat President Wilson. In his letter declining the nomination nomina-tion for president on the Progressive ticket. Colonel Hoosevelt, in giving reasons for his favoring the candidacy candi-dacy of Charles K. Hughes, said: "It has become entirely evident that the people under existing conditions are not prepared to accept a third party. "It remains for us. good humoredly and with common pense, to face the situation and endeavor to get out of It the best that it can be made to yield from the standpoint of the interests of the nation as a whole. "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 Puchanan. "In my judgment, the nomination of Mr. Hughes meets the conditions set forth in the statement of the Progressive Progres-sive national committee, issued lal January and In my own statements. "I'nder existing circumstances, the nomination of a third ticket would. In my judgment, be merely a move In the Interest of the election of Mr. Wilson. Wil-son. "I regard Mr. Hughes as a man whose public record Is a guarantee that he will not merely stand for a program of clean cut. stralghtout 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 Mr Wilson. "I shall therefore stronrly support Mr. Hughes. Such being the case. It Is unnecessary to say that I cannot accept the nomination on a third ticket. tick-et. 1 do not telioe that there should be a third ticket. "In Mr. Wilson's case we do not have to consider his words, tut his deeds His deeds absolutely contradict contra-dict his words, and for the matter cf that his word absolutely contradict one another. "We owe all our present trouble with the professional German American Ameri-can element In the I'nlted States to Mr. Wilsons 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 McKlnlcy confronted In connection con-nection with Cuba and the Philippines at the time of the Spanish war. "I wish very solemnly to ask the representatives of the Progressive, party to consider at this time only the welfare of the people of the I'nlted Statea. We shall prove false to our Ideals and our profession If. In this grave crisis of the nation's life, we permit ourselves to be swerved from the one prime duty of serving with cool judgment and single sin-gle minded devotion the nations needs. Mr. Wilson and bis party have In actual practice lament aMy failed to safeguard the Interest and honor of the I'nlted States They have brought us to Impotence abroad n,u (0 dlvl-slon dlvl-slon and weakness at home. "Mr. Hughes has shown In his career ca-reer the Instinct of efllctcncv which will guarantee that under Mm the gov-erniuent gov-erniuent will once more woik with vigor and force. He possesses u,.it habit of straightforward thinking which means that his words will be correlated with his deeds and trans lated Into Tacts. Ill past career Is the warrant tVr our belief that 1. ,Vii be tho unfaltering opponent of that system of Invisible government which hnds expression In the domination of the party boss and the pattv machine His past career Is a guarantee that whatever he says befote election will be made good by his acts after e'ec-tlou. e'ec-tlou. Mo.-ally. his public record shows hi 111 to be u man of unbending Intcg 'll.v; Intellectually t ..hows him to o a man of original and trained ahU It y. "Wo have the nltei native of contln nlng In oftlce tin administration wh,., bus proved a lamentable failure or of putting Into orilce an administration which we have everv reason to believe be-lieve will tunollou h eittclencv for 'lie Intern.! d honor of all our peo-de. peo-de. ' "1 enrneslly bespeak from mv fel-low fel-low Progres'oies ,!.,,- mu-.nidglng support of Mr. Hughes." |