The Nome nugget., 1901-10-01
AS TO PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT.

r. Theodore Roosevelt, the twenty sixth president of the United States. has bean commanding figure for twenty years in the contemporaneous history or his country, which he has helped to make. He is the youngest man who has ever occupied the high l position, having been born on October D. 1858. For twenty years he has been in the public eye an'l, therefore. for this same period he has been making friends and enemies Roosevelt cannot be said to be Il political accident; he may be said to have been reared in the school of strenuous politics, and is full of that sturdy Am+ricanism and candor, which have always been shown in his public utterances. and which have made him one of the most interesting | figures in American politics. It has taken tho pub lie time to learn that the popular conception of Roosevelt as an inpetuous, unbalanced, har-trgger sort of statesman liable to make embarrassing breaks" at any moment. is erroneous The fact is that he has gradually acquired the reputatio Of being of the most judcious, well poised speakers 1 in the country.
 If the president is anything. he is independent ill all that the term implies. His record as police commissioner in New York City showed his sturdy | independence of character; he detests bosses and bossism; and, therefore, he is most cordially hated and feared by that class of men who dominate at tempt to dominate and direct their political parties Roosevelt did not seek the nomination for the vice presidency. Literally it thrust upon him. The rank and file ef his party enthusiastically favored him for the position, and he declined the profered honor time and again. It suited some of the bosses to have him nominated and it was done despite his protests for the bosses considered that he would be irnocuous in the vice presidents chair; and, follow ing precedent he would again reappear in the political arena to interfere with their plans. But
 Roosevelt has shown that he is not made of the kind sf,H hat ho eat o1, squelched He has never ceased to assert himself and his strong individuality has stamped itself upon the minds of the American people, His political star l is just rising above the horizon. He is young cultured rich and ambitious. He also will help shape the course of American history; he will aid in extending the greatness and power of the naton and in all human probability will succeed himself as l president of the United States.
 l We apprehend that he will not be loved by the professional politicians, but believe that his ad. mnstration of national affairs will be such as will make him strong with the people, As illustration of the postiveness of the president, quote an extract from speech recently delivered by Mir Roosevelt the regulation of trusts, question: by the way, which most politicians now very re-
 uctant to discuss. President Roosevelt is on record as being in favor of state supervision and publicity as the remedy for combines that formed to re- strain trade destroy competition and keep up prices He has rot receded from that position While there
 is no justification for great deal of the oucy against wealth, the president believes that the state having created corporations have the right to super wise them. On this question he:.sai
 It is not only desirable but necessary that there should be legislation which shalt carefully shield the
 interests of wagewoikers and shall discriminate in
 favor of the honest and humane employer by remov- ing the disadvantage under which he stands when compared with interruptions competitors, who have no conscience and will do right only under fear of punishment
 Our interests are at bottom common. In the lonp run we go up down together. Yet, more and more 1t IS evident that the state, and if necessary the nation has got possess the right of supervision and control as regards the great corporations which are its creatures; particularly regards the great bus ness combinations which derive portion of their i'm. portance from the existence of sonae monopoIistic tendency.
 We merely quote the above for tho purpose of showing the caiber of the Fears are expressed of financial calamity overtaking the country be- of the succession of Roosevelt to the made vacant in such deplorabls and tragic manner
 We do not believe that any industrial revolution will follow because an honest, fearless man, with, tbs courage of his convictions, is president of the United States It has not in the past, and zee no reason for Dredicfinu Srch A continoAncv mn, Th> l.%.I