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May 22, 1914.

Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N.Y.

Dear Sir:

In common with Progressives all over the United States, I am delighted at your return from the wilds. In fact, we are in the wilds here in the States and need a leader to show us the way out.

Men of all political faiths are looking forward to an opportunity to vote for you again. The country is realizing that the peace fellows are mere flunkies to their fears and trying to lead the people into the beastly attitude of the ostrich which permits the hunter to slip up on it.

It is charming to us "old line" Roosevelt, to hear the Democrats "take water" on the assertion they so often made in the past, that...