Woodruff County news., 1901-09-26

the foreign military attaches who ob- served his conduct in the field as one of the first military officers of the day. He was in Santiago at the surrender, brought his regiment back to the Unit ed States and disbanded it at Montauk point in the fall Of 1898. It contrib uted among the volunteer troops more to the success of the American arms in Cuba than any other regiment formed.
 Is Chosen Governor.
 The colonel became governor of New York Immediately after his return to this country. As governor he stood for radical taxation Legislation and state control of the trusts. His term was marked by pronounced fight on his part against the New York repub- hcan machine. He did not seek the vice presidential nomina tion last year, but had it forced upon him, and he ac- cepted at the last moment. During the campaign he made trip of over 21 ,O00 miles, speaking for the ticket, and was received everywhere with popular ac- claim. Since his inauguration he has presided over one extra session of the senate, and made several trips throughout the country, attending public functions.
 As to the real Theodore Roosevelt, authentic things that he has said give ample revelation as to what manner of character he will bring to the presi- dency. On "Americanism," in an inter- view in 1893, he said
 q naturally disapprove of the half conscious spread-eagle Amercanism, which is ever eXerting itself at the wrong moments. I dislike it, of course, when it is put forward as a plea to excuse moral shortcomings of a kind usually connected with public af- fairs. Nevertheless, in spite of this abuse, I am sure that no man can we'll play his part in our life who is not hon. estly American in heart, belief and in- stinct.
 Admirer of Parkman
 "If one wishes to find a typical Amer ican, one may consider Francis Park man. He always appealed to my admi- ration, because he made his life work largely of the description of that from tier warfare between our backwoods- men and their foes which has been of such incalculable importance in our lands history.'
 In one of his published works he says: ''In speaking to my own coun- trymen there is one point upon which I wish to lay especial stress; that is, the necessity for a feeling of broad, radical and intense Americanism, if good work is to be done in any direc- tion. Above all, the one essential for success in every political movement which is to do lasting good is that our citizens should act as Americans, not as Americans with prefix and quail tication-not as lrish-Americans, Ger man-Americans, native Americans but as Americans pure and simple.
 Opinion on Caste
 Ut is an outrage for a man to drag foreign politics into our contests and vote as an Irishman or German or oth- CT foreigner, as the case may be, and there is no worse citizen than the pro- fessional Irish dynamiter or German anarchist, because of his attitude to- ward our social and political life, not to mention his efforts to embroil us with foreign powers. But it is no less an outrage to discriminate against one who has become an American in good faith, merely because of his creed or 
 Of caste he has written: ''As for the upper social world, the fashionable world, it is much as it was when DOT trayed in 'Potiphar Papers, save that modern society has shifted the shrine at which it pays comical but sincere homage from Paris to London. Per- h nS if is ra her. hettar for it ;c lnS.r l