Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-09-19
President Roosevelt.

There is wise provision for the sue
cession, and under the Constitution
Vice President Roosevelt becomes
the head of the Nation. 1t is now
President Roosevelt, says the
Philadelphia Inquirer.
What will be his policies? b?
OF course there will be Cabinet
changes after the funeral. That is
unavoidable. A new President
must surround himself with advis-
ers of his own choice. But the
great work that has been done by
President Mckinley is not fully
completed: None will grieve more
deeply than Roosevelt himself that
the dead chieftain was not spared
to watch the fruit Of his plans ripen
into full maturity. But that was
not to be, and the new President
must take up the uncompleted
work where he finds it.
While Roosevelt has always been
positive man in everything he has
undertaken, while he was Il sturdy
advocate of the Spanish war, even
while President Mckinley was
doing his utmost to secure the
evacuation of Cuba by the Span
iards by peaceful measures, there is
every reason to believe that he will
pursue a conservative course. He
believes in the doctrines of the
Republican party-protection, the
gold standard, the extension of
trade. He will aid in the building
up of d merchant marine, OF course,
and in the construction of the inter-
oceanic canal. The revolutions
now proceeding in South America
require skillful handling, and that
question is one that Secretary Hay
was beginning to make progress
with when the assassin fired his
death-dealing bullet. His views
on the Monroe Doctrine we're given
at Buffalo on the Goth of May last,
and here are his words:
believe with all my heart in
the Monroe doctrine. This doctrine
is not to be invoked for the ag-
grandizement of any one of us here
on this continent at the expense of
any one else on this continent. 1t
should be regarded simply as Il
great international Pan-American
policy, vital to the interests of all
OF us.
The United States has, and ought
to have, and must ever have. only
the desire to sister republics in the
Western hemisphere continue to
flourish, and the determination
that no Old World power shall
acquire territory here on this
Western continent.
There is nothing alarming in
this. 1t is the speech Of an Ameri-
can citizen, who understands the
Doctrine. and is one which Presi-
dent Mckinley might himself have
made. Right after the election of
1890 he said:
President Mckinley has had to
face the most serious and compli-
Gated problems that have been
faced by any President since Lin
coin, or by any President for more
than a generation before Lincoln.
I do not see how there could have
been any material improvement in
the way that he has faced and
solved each problem.
There is no reason, then, why
every confidence should not be
placed in President Roosevelt
There is no doubt in onr mind
whatever that he will take up the
work of Mckinley and shape his
own administration so that it will
conform with that work in the
closest detail possible. He has al
ways proved himself to be a safe
leader, and now that the response
bilities of this greatest of all offices
fall upon his sturdy shoulders, that
he will fully appreciate those re-
sponsibilities cannot be questioned
even by his political enemies.
There will be, there can be, no
radical departure from the Nc