Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-07-02

| at Chicago, to address the Marquette
club, and Warner Miller was the pond
erous speaker there, think.
| But the young men all wanted to
| hear Roosevelt, and that was long be-
| fore the Cuban war.
| Roosevelt as a quantity preceded
war.
Roosevelt delivered from manu-
| script, but with force, his address upon
the realities of politics. It was plain
to me that the youths of the republi
can party forefelt, or foresaw, in
Roosevelt the man we now see in 1900
carrying away the convention.
A few weeks ago happened to be in
the parlor car from Washington to
New York, and saw Governor Roose-
welt reading a book beside his wife,
as supposed her to be, fne-looking
lady, with every Indication upon her
countenance that her husband had
never worried her. I had slight
doubt as to this being Mrs. Roosevelt.
because she seemed so satisfied with
the state of things.
Roosevelt is both reader and
| writer, and differs from Lodge, of
Massachusetts, in that he retains
temperament, while Lodge seems only
! to have retained his literary industry.
Roosevelt has union of the physi-
cal and the intellectual type.
| Though not with a coarse neck, his
neck has something bull-like about it,
as could be seen in Robert E. Lee,
George H. Thomas and other men of
| battle, yet gentlemen
AS Roosevelt has won almost every
thing by directness and velocity, the
rounding up of his career has been
somewhat worried by the necessity of
subduing himself.
Time, however, will do its own sub
DUNG.
To sit over that self-worshipping
senate and it's many stupid beings will
subdue him more than Tom platt, who
is only one of the number.
The senate, while it has wider dis
tribution of capable men in it than
formerly, will not allow any hero.
When Hobart, with his experiences
as speaker at Trenton over the legis-
lature, first addressed the senate in a
j voluble way, queer old beings there
were seen to look at each other, as If
to say: why, the thing talks.
AS to what may ensue, if Mckinley
and Roosevelt are elected, I should
/ Judge that the efforts Of Roosevelt will
/ be directed towards Strengthening his
party without becoming an executive
dispatch bearer.
Mr.. Hobart had very little prospect
to be the republican nominee for
president if he had lived.
The addition of Roosevelt to the
ticket by no means relieves Bryan
from his prominence as an opponent OF
the trusts, which have received no
very black eye up to the present time.
Roosevelt has betrayed no passion to
become very rich. This is perhaps
why the corporations in New York city
are said to fear him.
When a man becomes indignant at
offers of corporation money and to be
l0I Ill Ou SIOulu LIZ oCOAA-
something wild or unreasonable.
Yet that is the sort of man millions
of people are looking for.
If the corporations themselves We're
wise, they would respect the govern
ment which is the common safety OF
everybody.
The passion fer big money has over
come even Augustus and Robert Van
Wyck
But nobody expects to find Roosevelt
in the ice trust.
When he came home from Cuba no
body thought of Offering him a sub
scription.
/ should say that he was not very
rich man and perhaps poor among the
Roosevelts who belong to both the
political parties.
Robert B. Roosevelt, the ex-demo-
cratic congressman, grew particularly
brilliant in the eyes when his nephew
Theodore was running mayor OF
New York. He took pleasure il the
boy who had shot beyond the previous
record Of the family, which was some
what frugal and pecunious.
New York and Pennsylvania have
drawn nearer together in this corven-
ton than ever before, and Chicago anc
New York have also come closer to-
gether.
The former ignorance Of the two
greatest states about each other has
been cured by railroad, social and
mercantile mixing.
General Henry H. Bingham said tt
me on Sunday morning that Roose
welt was a necessity, and heartily
welcomed by Pennsylvania, while he
, would relieve the state politics in New
York of some perplexities.
I am reminded, in Roosevelt's sue
cess, Of one of the figures in this con
vention, Chauncey M. Depew, who, II
1888, was almost the candidate =. SEQ
York for president.
His connection with the Vanderbilts
. operated against him in the western
states.