Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1901-09-27

he expects by the end oI hls lAfee
four years In Office TO bring this TO a
definite and final solution A better
statement of his views would doubtless
be that in the course of four years the
| Fiiipinss can be carried a long distance
forward on their way toward self gov
eminent 1t is Uncomfortable that a
man Of Mr.. Roosevelt's moral type
would favor the retention of colonies
merely for the sake of retaining them
Ii majorfties both Of the colonists and
OF the citizens Of the parent country
frankly desired q separation. Ii Is
equally out Of the question for any one
who knows the workings of his s-asad
TO suppose him IN favor of turning sch
q people as the Filipinos loose upon
the sisterhood OF nations till they have
been instructed In the ways OF self gov
erning commonwealths. He would tell
you that he is never an oppressor. al
ways civilizer, but he would hardly
Judge a people capable of passing in
telligenfly upon the question Of their
permanent future form Of government
till they had tasted and tested what he
regards as the ideal form.
What will be our new presidents at
pend upon its motive and its method
He has never had any quarrel with the
critics who attack his opinions or his
politics or his mode of putting those
policies in force, provided only that
they tell the truth about him and alb
stain from imputing to him dishonor-
able motive. No one has relished more
keenIy than he the satires and cartoons
in which he has figured ever since he
came into national prominence. but
when writer or artist has assailed his
honesty or tried to throw suspicion
upon his worthiness of purpose all the
warlike impulses within him nave
sought expression at the surface. His
enemy may condemn his projects as
foolish. his logic as juvenile. his ap-
pearance words and manners as ludi-
crous, and he is ready to shake hands
and break bread with the censor 1--WE
minutes later, bat the man who hints
that he is hypocrite or rogue hnds
q very ugly and quite unappeasable an
tagonist in him from that gay forth.
Mr.. Roosevelt is a democrat with
small ID" Ii will surprise no one to
see him in a few weeks walking the
streets of Washington as freely as
Lincoln and Grant did. He has al
ways lived his own life and chosen his
own friends in defiance of the carpers.
Some persons have accused him of be-
ing theatrical in his methods. If this
charge be true, the tendency is as nat
ural in him as his sense of humor, and
that is simply irrepressible. He is
certainly not without a sharp eye for
bod oft
shows itself in some isolated act de-
signed to convey a lesson than in one
which is merely incidental to his gen.
eral course of conduct. A typical in
stance occurred when DIR. Ahlwardt, /
the anti-Semitic agitator from Berlin, /
visited New York in 1895. Mr. Roose- /
welt was then police commissioner. and /
not a few of the New York anti
Semtes came to him in alarm lest the I
Jews should arise and mob the orator /
on the night of his first address. The +
response was to select /
from the whole police force squad OF +
Hebrews whose physiognomy bespoke +
their race most eonspieuously. These /
officers he placed in charge of the hall /
where Ahlwardt was to appear, with /
a reminder that in this country of free
speech they could show their good citi- I
in no more striking manner
than by protecting the very man who /
had come to hurl contempt and abuse +
at their people. The effect of this bit
of comedy, worthy of Gilbert. was to
make Ahlwardt ridiculous and cause +
his whole crusade to fall pitifully fat.
There has been some curiosity among
the politicians to know who is going to /
run" the new administration. Some +
have been unkind enough in their feel
ing toward Senator Lodge to suggest
that he might attempt the task. Obvi-
ously they know neither their proposed
runner nor his ''runnee." Three years
from now they will probably wake up
to the fact that the Roosevelt admin
has been run throughout by a
man named Theodore Roosevelt