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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: OCTOBER 24, 1920.
V
Talks With T. K.
Following it the fourth of The Bee's series of accounts of John J.
Leary, jr., of his Intimate talks with the late Theodore Roosevelt In
some respects this is the most interesting chapter of all. Leary tells of
Colonel Roosevelt's real attitude towards his possible candidacy lor presi
dency in 1916 and 1920. . j - ,
By JOHN J. LEARY, JR.
Roosevelt and 1920
"All that is near to me in the male
line is in France. If they do not
come back, what is the presidency
to me? - . . ... .
"If they do come backhand the
republican party wants me, and I
can see where, by accepting the nom
ination, I can advance the ideals for
which I stand, I will be a candidate.
But I will not lift my finger to se
cure the nomination. ' .
That was Coi Theodore Roose-
velt's position as expressed to me in
June of 1918, wTien it began to ap
pear that nothing could prevent his
nomination. It was his position in
December, when, convalescing from
rheumatism, he talked politics with
me in Roosevelt hospital. I had
remarked tht it had begun to look
as though he would be nominated by
acclamation.
A Duty to People.
"That may be," said he, "but if
I am, I will accept only because I
see where as president I can do
things, can advance those ideals for
which all right-thinking Americans
stand. And if I accept, it will be
because the platform is 100 per cent
American. Nothing less would in
duce me to consider the nomination
for a single minute.
"To be president is an honorable
and commendable 'ambition in any
man. I have been president. Per
se it would mean nothing to me to
be president again. Its only value
would be in what I could do, what
I could accomplish." 1
This was substantially his position
In 1916 when, it will be remembered,
they issue at the republican conven
tion in -Chicago was Roosevelt or
Hughes, and the republican conven
tion deadlocked with the progres
sive ort this point; a deadlock broken
by Colonel Roosevelt's declination
to run as a progressive and his dec
laration that he believed it his duty
and the duty of all Americans, who
felt as he did, to support Justice
Hughes. ;
Planned Retirement. ,
With Judge Hughes' nomination,
Colonel Roosevelt abandoned, tem
porarily at least, any thought of
again running for the presidency.
Two days before the decision of the
voters for Mr. Wilson over Mr.
Hughes, my notebook says, he de
clared he would be out of it in four
yeWe can," I remarked, after he
hed bemoaned the probable re-election
of Mr. Wilson, "look forward
to 1920.' There will be nothing to
it then but Roosevelt No one can
stop It." . t
"You are wrong there," he ans
wered. "This was my year 1916
was my high twelve. In four years
1 will be out of it. This was my
year to run. ' I did not want to run
m 1912. Circumstances compelled
me to run then. IThis year it was
different This was my year.
"My Year."
"Colonel," said I, "I know that
many things may happen in four
years, but I also know that every
where I go it is the one thing: If
thev had only named Roosevelt.
"True," he countered, "but dont
you see that you are merely prov
ing what I say this was my year
to run. I have no doubt the mass
of the people wanted me to run.
The gang did not To beat-me
they had to take Hughes--they
hated him only n a lesser degree
than they hated me." -
Following the defeat of Judge
Hughe3 he made no effort toward
securing the 1920 nomination, for
himself or any other man. His ef
forts were directed first, last and
all of the time to bringing the re
publican party and its leaders
around to . what he believed to be
the real American ideals and reeds
of the hour, and to make the party
the instrument through which the
real will of the American people
might be registered and the ancient
landmarks defended. ...
If, in doing this, the party should
nominate him, well and good. If
the nomination went to another,
Well and good, provided that other
was 100 per cent American and de
pendable in his Americanism. v
." Another Crisis.
"It was," he said to me early in
1916, "the necessity of saving the
minn that railed the reoublican
party into being. It accomplished
that purpose, and for many years
governed the country wisely and
well. Then it became fat, and soft
and lazy. It ceased to be the party
of all of the people and it, has been
punished for its sins.
. "Now another crisis is at hand.
The danger to our institutions is as
treat today as it was 1861. Then
' faced disunion. Now we face
disgrace and worse. The party now
in power is the same 'party the
" people, acting through the republic
an party, hurled from pwer in 1860.
It is as unfit to govern this country
now as it was then; it is just as sec
and it is fullv as inefficient.
The only difference is this: In 1860
the country was lacing war ana me
democrats deliberately .and crimin
ally did their best to so arrange mat
ters that it would not be ready for
war, while now, with the country
facing war, it is doing nothing to
prepare tor war.
"ConsrenitaT Inefficiency."
"Tn the one case it was criminal
intent, in the other it is congenital
inefficiency; in one -instance they
were crooked, in the present case
thev are foolish. The results to the
country will be the same.
The democratic party - cannot
wreck the country, but it can do dam
. age that a generation won't be able
to repair. Under Mr. WHson's lead
ership it is backing us into war stern
foremost There are men in his
party that see the danger, that feel
as we do, ; but they are helpless.
There Is no hope for the country in
that party. , ,
Democrats in War.
"If, when we finally get into war,
formally and officially as we now
are nnofficially, and the democratic
' party happens to be in power, ft
will be just as inefficient ia war as
it is in peace. . .
The hope of the country is in, the
republican party. Through it the
mass of the people will have to
work, will express ineir reai opm
' inn.
"The mass of th people arc all
right Just now they are suffering
trom a talse sense of security into
which they have been lulled by sweet
words and beautiful phrases. They
will be, they must be awakened. And
when they are awake they must turn
to the republican party for leader
ship, ior there is none in the other
party. They will turn to it when
they realize the needs of real pre
paredness and the plight they face
through false leadership. ,
"For that reason and that reason
only,jl am interested in party pol
itics. I would not give a snap of
my hnger for the nomination. J
would take the nomination only be
cause of the chance to do things,
were I again president, that must be
done."
, With thii background it Is easy
to see why, following the defeat of
Justice Hughes in 1916 he began, a
campaign to bring all wings of the
republican party together.
He Sought Harmony.
This campaign began the last Sat
urday of the 1916 campaign. It be
gan in Bridgeport-where the colonel
closed his speaking tour, with a
whole-hearted appeal for the election
of Mr. Hughes. - Incidentally it is
worth noting here that it was
Bridgeport's big vote (Bridgeport is
the chief city of Fairfield county)
which saved Connecticut to the re
publicans and made California's vote
so all-important.
After this meeting Col. Roosevelt
went to the Stratfield hotel where
John T.-King, the republican na
tional committeeman, had a light
supper waiting. King had been anti
Roosevelt, but had come around to
Mr. Roosevelt's way of thinking, and
between bites of supper the two
talked organization
"I am not against the orgsniza
tion and never have been against it
because ' it was a party organiza
tion," he declared, "but I have been
against it because it was an organi
zation for private plunder. That is
what I" am against.
't Justice for All, 1
"You have -the right idea here
taking the working men into the or
ganization and making it a popular
institution in which the idea of so
cial justice for all is uppermost. It
is a splendid idea, that of insisting
that the man who takes a place in
the organization must quit drinking
and start a savings-bank account.
"I want to see that sort of an or
ganization everywhere an organi
zation where the workers and the
small farmers sit in and really be
long. That sort ot an organization
will not stand for plunder. It will
stand for what is right and- decent
in public life. You can call such
an organization a machine if you
will and I'll stiU approve of it Call
ing it a machine will not make it of
fensive to me. A machine is just
as necessary for successful party
work, tor a party to serve the pub
lic, as organization is in the army
or in a bank.
v Old Quarrels Forgotten.
"I have no quarrel with any man
who has been in he organization
for what he has done hi the past
if he's straight now. There are a
good many things everybody sees
are improper now that only a few
thought were improper a short time
back. . It's like the joftery Har
vard college and many of your old
churches about- here were financed
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by lotteries in the old says. Times
have changed.
"If the organization is straight,
runs straight, if its leaders andjthe
men in it run straight, I have! no
objection to it. I will work with
it just so long as it is straight and
I won't worry over the possibility
that some of its members have not
always held as high views as they
o-.now. 1 ' -
"Well." laughed King, "that would
let Barnes in."
Thii conversation not long after
resulted by Mr. King becoming The
closest of Colonel Roosevelt's politi
cal advisers. Through King "he
worked for . the reorganization of
the republican ' national committee,
which made Will H. Hays of In
diana national chairman. King
was his choice for that place, but
when on the eve of the St Louis
meeting of February, 1918, at which
Hays was chosen, it became evident
King would have to rfight for the
Street Car Steps Too High
For This 75 -Pound Dwarf
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Willard L. Lloyd, 20, has nc rivals
as i the shortest student in Boyles
Business college. He stands 2
inches J.n his spx and weighs ' 75
pounds. V . V
'Lincoln saicf that a man's legs
should be long enough to reich to
the ground," said Lloyd. "Mine do
that, so I'm not worrying."
t Although Lloyd . is lacking in
height and he doesn't weigh enough
to make even the flyweight limit in
the ring, he has a powciful chest,
a normal-sized head and his grip is
that of a strong man. '
Lloyd was a leader in sthoot af
fairs at the Nebraska City High
school, which he left after finishing
the eleventh grade to come to Oma
ha and take a business bourse. He
plans to enter some commercial line
ot woric wnen ne , complexes ms
course at Bovles. -
Lloyd has had many offers from
.showmen, but has turned tnem an
down. He prefers to enter busi
ness, he says.
The little fellow's parents are Mr.
and Mrs. W. R. Lloyd of Nebraska
City, where his father owns a shoe
ctore. He has two brothers and one
sister. They are all'of normal statue.
He is the oldest of the children.
"There Is just one thing that I
have to 'find fault with in Omaha,"
he said. "You built your street car
steps too far away from the pave
place, the f colonel advised ' him to
keep out ,
Illness Comes, r
"The place-is not worth a fight."
he advised, "especially where there
is so much at stake."
This was his last, political act be
fore "the serious operations which
brought him to the doors of death
that winter. He - was semi-convalescent
when he was told of
Hays' election and insisted on wir
ing him immediately. He saw Hays
before he was out of bed and he was
much impressed with him.
"Hays," he told me before leaving
the hospital, "is a trump. He is all
right He may make mistakes, but
he won't make many. The party
seems to be united on him and that's
something well worth while. Now
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Hays at work and ,on the job, I
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The Drink Story :
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Few things in Colonel Roosevelt's
later life are fresher in the public
memory than his suit against a
Michigan editor who accused him of
drunkenness. The unfortunate edi
tor, unable to produce a scintilla of
proof, admitted his fault and so far
as the records go, the matter was
disposed of. There was nothing
developed, however, to show where
the tale started or what foundation,
if any, it might have had
Colonel Roosevelthad an explana
tion. . '
, "Now it so liappens that the Lord
in His infinite wisdom elected to
create some persons with whom it
is never safe to joke solemn asses
who lack a sense of humor. I am
very fond of that story of Sidney
Smith's, who, playing with his chil
dren, stopped suddenly, saying,
'Children, we must now be serious
here comes a fool.' You know the
kind he meant those poor unfortu
nates who must take everything said
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drinks hard.' The other fool replied,
'Yes, that's true. He told me so
himself.' "
"And so the story , went on its
travels. '
"That is all there ever was to the
talk of my drinking. From that
start, it Spread and spread until, in
self-defence, I was compelled to take
action to stopjt. Some folks have
said I went out of my way to find
a little editor of small means and
few sources of evidence who could
not weir defend himself. The fact
ts, he was the one editor . I could
hold to account. There were and
are editors nearer New.York I glad
ly Would have sued under" like cir
cumstances, but they knew better
thanto print what they knew was
untfue. Had any of them done so,
I would have hauled them up short
and with much more glee thjm I "did
the Michigan man, for the men I
have in mind have real malice toward
me and he, I am satisfied, had none.
"We parted good friends. I cer-
ktainly had nothing against him. In
his zeal to do things, he put in print
what shrewder and really malicious
men who would harm if they could,
dare not print, I believe he was
honestly sdrry whenv he found his
error. . . . , ;
"However, the thing had its value.
We're never too old to learn and I
learned to be careful with whom I
cracked the simplest joke. Thanlc
God, there are many you can joke
with in safety. If we couldn't laugh
once in a while, what a world this
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it would be a madhouse."
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