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I THEODORE ROOSEVELT. J I * * By Savoyard. * -?-? ??-? ?? ? -?-? M? It is firm in the minds of many Americans that Theodore Roosevelt is greater than Caesar and wiser than Solomon, that to more than the geni^ us of Napoleon he adds more than ; I the character of Washington. Hear him but reason in divinity. And all-admiring in an inward wish You would desire the k.ng were made a prelare; Hear him debate of commonwealth af L iair?' ^fou would say it hath been all in all his study; List his discourse of war. and you shall hear A fearful hattle render'd you in music: Tnrn him to any cause or polit'y, The G^rdi&n knot of it he will unloose. Familiar as his garter; that when he speaks The air.achartered libertine, is still. And niuta wonder lurkeih in men's ears To steal bis sweet nd honey'd sentences. I am sorry that I cannot agree with this estimate of Col Roosevelt, though I am ready to admit that he is the most popular American that ever lived, and that he has received mnm flntti-rv and adulation than any other human being that ever lived. Go out on the highway, in town or country, and accost the first damphool you meet, and the chances are seven out of a possible ten that he will tell you that Teddy has a stronger hand than Csesar and a finer brain than Bacon, more patriotism thar. Tell, and more honesty than the law allows anybody else to have. I don't believe any such stuff. I think Mr Roosevelt is fashioned of clay.and very common clay, at that. I am sure that he is more mud than i marble. I am convinced that the 1/ only true picture of the man yet is 1 that limned by Annie Riley Hale of Tennessee, the most intellectual woHian I ever saw, or ever expect to ^^e. And the inexorable historian ^|iat will come from a remote gen SRfition will not omit to take a Ion? at the picture Mrs Hale draws ^^^Teddy. ^Wrhere is much vicious hostility to Hrce Taft administration, that, in my ^mmble opinion, is the very best Republican administration we ever had. Certainly it is the only one that ever recognized in the South a full sister, and not a step-daughter of the national household. Did Roosevelt so look upon the South? I'll tell you. I was somewhat amused and not a little angered to read a paper on Roosevelt a few days ago. It was separated into 12 chapters,and headed: "What Has Roosevelt Done?" It went on to enumerate some scores of things he did as member of the Leg islature, Governor and President,for the "uplift." And a youth reading it is sure to conclude, if he has a plastic and receptive mind, that there is little or nothing fit for anything in this life, at home or abroad, that Teddy did not invent, forge and put kon the market, free as air for alb to 3enjoy. ^ But there was a painful hiatus, so ?o call it. There were things unmen^ Boned. For instance.no account was gRaken of the fact that Theodore Roosevelt has an utter and absolute contempt for the binding force of low whpn it comes in conflict with one of his pragmatic snd damphool ideas of what is expedient. That he is a consummate politician I admit; as a grandstand player he is unequaled. He can pray with Sir Priest and he can curse with Sir Knight. Theoretically he is a civil service reformer with Carl Schurz; practically he is a spoilsman with Tom Piatt. Heiis Janus-faced and fronts every ivay. When the people of Indianola, Miss,expressed dissatisfaction with a negro postmaster, Theodore Roosevelt,in contemptuous defiance of the plain law of the land, abolished the ? " 1 * ti j _ office. Had Anav jonnson aone me like of that, the impeachment proceedings would have resulted in a conviction. Sooner than treat Zanesville, Ohio, as he treated Indianola, Miss.,Teddy would have taken a raging Bengal tiger by the throat. He was as sectional a President as Hayes ; or Harrison. He did not believe the j South was entitled to the same treatment he meted out to the North. j He forced the negro Crum on Charleston because it was Charleston. He would no more have acted ? that way toward either Portland?1' 4-V,o+ A flontii* cirlo r>r that on the 1 ' | mac \jii ui\. nuauviv ?iuv v. ? ^ J Pacific?one in the Republican State I of Maine and the other in the Re- i publican State of Oregon?than he 1 ' would have taken to bed with him i a venomous cobra of the Indian jun- 1 ; gle. j i Hence he writ himself down a < bully to punish Charleston simply J i j because it is Charleston. Noa * I want. i I to see the Southern Democrat who i j will toss his cap in air in honor of this Gessler. 1 |l But how about Tennessee Coal and Iron? I'll tell you. Col Roose- , velt, President, posed as the only ] great, original and genuine octopus i chaser. He kept the country in hot l water for seven years. He never ] ) touched an octopus. Show me one ^ trust he ever harmed. He thundered in the index. He marched up the hill with 40,000 men and then j marched down again. As a carpet > knight he was simply superb, and i could look and talk the reformer as ? never man did before. As Presi ( dent he was the very essence and \ incarnation of the Turveydrop of 1 reform. * Well, there was a panic in 1907, notwithstanding the blessed and divine tariff. Some folks were ill- 1 mannered enough to call it a "Roose- c velt panic." It brought unnumbered disasters to the financial and ( commercial world. Millions crum- * bled into thousands, and thousands ^ into nothing. The very devil was to pay. I There was the Sherman anti-trust . law that was very embarrassing to monopoly. The steel trust had one J competitor, and that was the Ten- j nessee Coal & Iron Co, that the panic had hit hard. Here was the opportunity of the steel trust, and it came down to this town at the hour of I midnight, and after a ldng conference with President Roosevelt, he j granted the steel-trust men immunity and licensed them to violate the < anti-trust law and buy and absorb i their rival, the Tennessee Coal & * Iron Co. ( Take down your history of the T 16th century and read how popes of Rome granted indulgences to commit sin, and for largess Leo X would j allow one to commit every crime denounced in the decalogue. That was the precedent for Roosevelt's indulgence to the steel trust, to t which every hill of corn, or plant of * g tobacco, or row of cotton, or field of wheat, oats, rye, barley, every blade of grass of the meadow, has paid tribute every year the past s third of a century. Nay, every inhabitant, man, woman and child, of all races and conditions, has been c laid under tribute by this grasping ^ monopoly, that bestowed on Came- gie half a billion,and filled Pittsburg fuller of millionaires than Tophet is nf fidHlprs J That is what Rooseveltism means, and all it means?that whatever such a matchless character as he shall order shall be the policy of the Federal establishment. There is nothing new in it. Take down your Gibbon and read of 100 Roosevelts and more?only he called them Caesars?who had changed the commonwealth of Rome, that had some respect for law, into despotism, that knew no law except the will of a Tiberius, or a Domitian.or a Caligula, or a Trajan, or a Nero or a Probus. And why should not Theodore Roosevelt come to think himself in- . fallible? If he would put out his toe 10,000,000 American voters would kiss it. If his mantle were < in their reach, all of them would j touch it, implicit in the faith that ? virtue would issue out of it to them, 1 and the worst of it is that the Dem- s ocratic party is full of voters who * religiously believe such rot. That is the misery of the whole business. * If there wTere no Roosevelt Demo- j cratsin the land, I would have some ( hope of my country. 1 ? But let me get back. These Roose- j < , r velt eulogists have little to say of Col Roosevelt's exploit of the "My Dear Harriman" letter. What was that letter? Harriman was the most brilliant, the most adroit, the most successful monopolist since Midas. Judge Parker got'the information in confidence that the trust would buy the election for Roosevelt, as they had for McKinley. Roosevelt made a speech in which he denounced Parker as a liar. When he made that speech the ink was yet not dry on a letter he had written Harriman,asking for $250,000 boodle to buy the electoral vote of New York, for that j is what the letter meant, and all it meant. Harriman raised the boodle, all right and gave it. And this is the man the American peopi? to tail down ana e .11 be the next Presiants the job. He is thor3u0 vaded of his own infalli-1 bility a..- ..is utter incapacity to do i wrong. Before he dies, he will be firm in the opinion of his divine right to rule this country, and then ve will have the empire, unless? 1 would swim in the river to vote :or Theodore Roosevelt in 1912 if I vere assured that early in his third idministration he would be confronted with the difficulties that beset Cleveland in 1893-97. Then we vould see the yaller streak in him onger than the comet's tail.? the State. "Sic Transit." old subscriber ("may his tribe increase") laid to his better half: "Wife, I'll take a piece )f this nice beef <h>wn to the editor, 5or more than a year he's been our creditor? ^nd though they say his ilk livesonthe air, Jpon inv word. I solemnly declare Tis a mistake! I'll also take a ham \nd you niuy send some pickle> ami some jam." ?o went the dream-but (alack and alas!) jike all my other dreams, it never came to tass! ? The Jeffersonian. state of Ohio,City of Toledo, 1 Lucas Counts I Frank J Cheney makes oath that le is senior partner of the firm of F 1 Cheney & Co,doing business in the :ity of Toledo, county and State iforesaid.ann that said firm will pav he sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of tatarrh that cannot be cured by the lse of Hall's Catarrh Cure. FRANK J CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscrib'd in my presence, this 6th day of December, A D 1886. A W GLEASON, (Seal.) Notary Public. 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