Teddy Roosevelt: “But we can not keep the service as high as it should be kept unless we have adequate salaries.”

Therefore I hope that so far as possible the people may be given the chance, through direct primaries, to express their preference as to who shall be the nominee of the Republican Presidential Convention.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

I congratulate you thereon.

I deeply appreciate your letter, and I realize to the full the heavy responsibility it puts upon me.