The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-09-18

rich hut by those who had from the time NJ
Peter Stuyycsant been esteemed the leading fam.
ilics. 80 far as cultivation, breeding, refinement
and an understanding of the finer impulses Of
the city are conccrncd. It was circle to which
the very rich were seldom admitted, to IL
belonged Hamilton Fish and his family, the
LivngStons, tho Van Rcnscacrs, the Schuylcrs,
and TO tt were admitted mon prccininent for
ability or cultivation. hut who were not Of New
York birth; as, for instance. William VI. E,arts
and Joseph H. Choatc. II was amid these en-
Nronmcnts and ia a peculiarly refined and cul'
tWdtcd circle that Roosevelt was bred 20 carly
manhood. II was this environment that stmu
lated a natural disposition to literary attanmcnts
aftcrward 50 finely developed in Rooscvclts
studies and writings upon the conqucring Of our
great west by the forces OF civilization and in
duStry. Measured therefore by European stand
ards, Roosevelt, instead Of being typical COW.
hoy or frontcrsrntn. represents the very flower
OF New York cultivation, Just as tho Adamses
did that u Boston.
Every one here who had personal acquaintance
with both President Mckinley and with Thco.
dorc Roosevelt know that the essential distinction
between the two men was simply difference Of
temperament. In all the fundamental attributes
Of character, in moral hbcr, in exquisite
sense, both Of sclfrcspcct, personal honor and
what the obligations OF intercourse between man
alike In temperament, however. it would be
difficult 10 discover two more wholly unlike OK.
ccpt that 50 far as temperament touches upon
moral qualities there was strong resemblance
between them. Mckinley was conservative, eau.
tious. tentative by natural disposition. lie need.
ed no training for the cultivation OF those Quali'
tics With Roosevelt they have been very largely
acquired, although his friends have some times
thought that there was strain Of distrust Of
others in his nature. Of which Mckinley failed
ever TO give evidence. not the distrust that en-
Gcndcrs dislike hut that which impelcd Roose.
welt always to know his man before he gave TO
that friend his unbounded confidence When
once given, however, 1t was supreme and un.
Fhakahle.
It is temperament that is discovered in what
many regard az Rooscvclt's impulsivcncSs,
quality that at times caused him to face sccu.
sdtionS that he was not always taCtful Never.
thcc,s, he displayed great tact when he was at
Albany serving as governor. Rooscyelt's vision,
30 far rs all of the activities oi nature, of exist
Cncc of tic whole world around him arc con-
,crucd is undoubtedly broader than Mckinley's
was. Mckinlcys iondncss for activity found its
chief grltiAcation in the activity Of movement
which explains his delight in railway travel lie
once told the writer that he always had been
very fond Of travelling When he was a hoy
it seemed TO him that tho highest qualification
possible was that obtained Ivy a man who was
able TO ride on the cars" lie did not look
forth upon nature with almost tho poets eye, as
Roosevelt always docs. nor was his Imagination,
native or cultivated, comparable to that which
Roosevelt possesses. Ne had but little interest in
literature as such, excepting the applied litcra.
turc of statistics, Of politics aud Of all that ap-
pertains TO government. lie studied men. where.
as Roosevelt seems to know them intuitvcly.
The tcmpcamcntal qualities which distinguish
Roosevelt explain his intimacics. Mckinley s
closest companions were men or authority or
experience knowledge in affairs OF govern
mcut state or economic. Rooscvclt's intimates
have always been men of high intellectual cuiti.
Nition lie has not had a large cirCl" of friends
composed of men who were prominent in finance
or industry or commerce His temperament and
his taste caused him to throw down his law
books in disgust, not so much at the abstract
principles Of law as with what he perceived must
hc the tedious rcfnemcnts cntailcd by its prac.
tiCc. Here in recent years his very intimate
friends have been men who were both scholarly,
highly cultivated, Of vast knowledge, and yet
not mere aCadomiCidns hue men OF affairs, a
for instance, Dr Nicholas Murray Butler, dean
of the School of Philosophy at Columbia uni
vCrSty or Frederick W. Hollis. lately one Of tho
United States commissioners at the Hague con
| ference and now a member of the International
| Tribunal II was the scholarly qualities Of SEN
ator Wolcott, his command oi language, his
| poetry, Lis imagery, his rhetoric, his dctou,
| that especially attracted Roosevelt to him and
| the intimacy long established between Roosevelt
| and senator Lodge is traceabe to their Harvard
associations rather than to any friendship or any
understanding or sympathy created by political
| alliance or views
| In methods Of work. in the priyacies oi tho
| library. in the personal but superficial Chdrac
| tcriStics Of executive action, there Will he dis
| covered a marked difference between thoSc that
| distinguished Mckinley and those which viii
| identify Roosevelt. lie may have no more en-
| crgy, no greater power OF concentration than Me