El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-14
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
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They concluded IL was mis- Luck. IL Wa
not Il was EI= sense. He told N
once after such q time tia. IL was q
matter of conviction with him that nc
frank aud honest man could be in the
long run entangled by the snares oil
ploGters, whatever appearances might
for the moment indicate. So he ~slk'
ed unhsrned in IL all. Bismarck con-
times by practising R,osevelt's plan "a
q trick. he spoke she truth oluntly
when the plotters expected him 20 lie,
and rounded them up easily.
RooSzvELTs IDEA OF LAW ENFoR CE-
MENT.
One charge his enemies made against
him In which there was trutn- IL
summed itself all up In that with Q
heat that was virtual acknowleogm ent
OF its being the whole arrsianment
that there was always . fight where ne
was. always trouble" said the
peace ay-aoy- price men. Who counsel
ed surrender when Roosevels was
lighting for q decent Sunday through
tue enforcement OF the law compelling
the saloons to close. Never any rest"
Mol There WAS never any rest for the
ls~breakers when he WAS around,
nor for those who would AVOID
trouble" by weakly guaranteeing TO
them. Roosevelt gagged New York
exactly right when he set ABOUT his
turbulent programme OF enforcement
Of law. The scandal Was NOS that we
were being ROBBED by political cut
tbroaJs, but that we submitted tsmely-
The formula we heard SO often from
his lips in the years that followed
honesty, manhood, couraRe-was the
the metropolis are abundsptly able to
run the robbers out of tom and keep
them out by just following the road be
made for Us ~ he q he ran them OFT OF
the police department. But he made
IL, fighting. II was true that there
never was any rect while be was at It.
night or day. When he had b.tsleo
ali day 10 Mulberry street, he would
would some times get up at two O'Clock
In the morning and 60 GU, on patroI 10
find out the policemen who were steal
ing the city's time. IL became sudden
~ possible to find a policeman any
where a. any hour OF the night In New
York. Within year after the ole
Tammany regime mad come back, an
demic Of night fires that cost u any
lives brought from the 6remen the
loud protest that polict men were not
awake, and the chief found 1t necessary
TO transfer half the force OF q precinct
for sleeping on post.
ALWAYS ACTING, AND ACTING RIGHT
No; there Was never any rest when
Roosevelt vas around. There was none
In congress during the six years be was
a civil-service commissioners under
Harrison ndCleveland: and as Q result,
where there had beet IA UUO places
under th merit and capacity rules of
the commission when he came in, tn r t
were AZ, 600 when he went out. To
that extent spoils politics had been rob-
bed of its sting. There was even less
repo<e in the my dtpartnent When
he went there sssis tart secretary,
FIRE sh from the fight in Mulberry street.
TO sharpen the tools Of war. 1t had .
familiar .ound TO Us in New York, when
we heard the cry go up that Roosevelt
waited Q row, and didn't care what
is cost. He was asking. IL | remem Der
rightly, for something lees than
81 900 900 for target practice on the
big ships. The only notice be took
OF IL wss to demand another $500 600
about the time he got Dewey sent TO the
east. | was In Washington at the
time, and / remember asking him
about that. Commodore Dewey was
sometimes spoken OF in tho.e days
as IL he were kind OF fashion plate.
And l remember MS answer, as we
were waleiug up Connecticut avenue:
Dewey Is ell right" he said. 'Be
has q lion heart. He Is the man for
that place"
FAR SIGHTED STATESMAN.
Not many Of US will quarrel With him
about that now, or about the wisdom
of shooting away u at million in target
practice. Il made 'It e n an behind
the eup," OF whom we are ali go proud.
The fact is that Roosevelt, so far from
being q basty man given TO snsp iugd
mepts. is one of the most fsr-sishted
states men of spy day. He has shown
IL in everything he has taken hold OF .
Ii was in Waship gton as Z was In New
York. The thing that beclouds the
Judgment OF his critics is the man &
amazing capacity for work. he can
weigh the pros and cone of Q case and
get al the meat of it in lees time than
IL takes most of us to state the mere
propositoin. And he is surprisir 2 ly
through. Nothing escapes him
His judgment CONS some
times as q shock to the man of slov er
ways. He dc es not stop at convention.
alities. If thing lie right, it is 10 be
done and right awsy. It was notably
go with the roupd-robin 10 Cuba sskip o
the Government to recall the peris hin q
army when it had won the fight. Peo-
pie shook their heads, and talked of
OF precedents. Precedents. 1t hiss been
Roosevelt's business to make them
most of his time. But is there any one
to-day who thinks he set that one
wrong? Certainly no one who with m Q
saw the ermy come home. 1t did not
come . day too soon.
ROOSEVELT IN CUBA.
L IL