The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-09-18
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III. M. MURDOCH, Editor.
ROOSEVELT AND HIS FUTURE.


uttered while group of citizens were deporng the deaf
OF William Mckinley Since then editorial expression
and interviews leading Democrats United State.
have spoken in a similar tone
Why is it?
This Democrat said: q have watched his career fol-
twenty years and he has always appeared be
Of destiny The late President Arthur of the
shrewdest politicians Republican party produced
During his ascendency in New politics. before his
transition from politician to statesman he selected
Roosevelt then mere boy, Of his Ieutenants
Roosevelt had not element greatness him Arthur
would not have selected him. 1884 Roosevelt then in
his twenyixth year. was extraordinary force
ability It was on that year that he became national
character with Mckinley, Foraker and Others all men
his seniors by many years He big figure in the nat
60naI convention nominated James c. Blaine for the
presidency He was opposed to the Plumed Knight and
Played masterful part the opposition dele
gate the Empire state that it required the ability of
the who is lying dead-William McKnleyto de
feat him Roosevelt his feet in that convention
TO make speech-possiby great one-when McFlnleys
voice was heard as Bryans in Chicago by everybody
in the great hall He was recognized by the chair and
the tide G. Blaine. While Roosevelt
manned unheard at that great crisis, yet he became,
Of the dash and boldness Of his youth Of
promise The giants that convention had noticed him
noticed him at % at the age at which Napoleon attract
attention From that till the present he has advnc
ed steady-advanced against opposition. He then
school boy Harvard; he is president OF the
United States IN those seventeen years he has disn-
gushed himself political reformer in the greatest city
on this continent as political reformer the public ser
vice the nation essays biographer historian
as business man an assistant to cabinet officer mill
tary organizer daring soldier governor Of the greatest
state the union and as vice president the United
States
Rooseves advancement could not logically have been
accidental He never was policy man He never ca
powers that give men artificial greatness
He came down from the purple summit proud aristo-
crcy and conquered the prejudice of the Democratic mass
A Vanderbilt Astor could not have done it.
Nobody done it. but man Of tremendous men
tally with tremendous courage behind it, For seventy
five years so positively securely part of the
social uppercrut of the nation has darngy challenged
the tremendous power of commOner for equal right to
his country Had he been man Of pronounced
greatness he would not have yentured down;
he would have been content with struggling
for distinction bah rooms of Newport or with
telling how his country should be governed through the e
elusive magazines
g have heard men say that Roosevelt is too radical to
safe He is No man ever becomes unsafely radical
when he stands for the right against the wrong Roost
welt has always stood for civic decency and has stood for
not radically but with force that commanded respect
have heard say that fond of the spectacular
do not believe it That charge made against every
who works energetcally for reform. Roosevelt is
intelligent, courageous and honest Nobody will deny
this. These virtues are never combined in man silly
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is genius and genius always more or less odd to men
who do not understand it.
My belief is that the administration Of Roosevelt viii
be epocal believe that responsibility will make him
more conservative than he appears to be think he is
intensely patriotic that he viii exert his tremendous
energy not in his but the interest and for
the glory Of his country he win command more respect
from the south than president in forty years This
may to be an unreasonable statement but coming
history viii justify He is outspoken and aggressive
qualities that peculiarly admired by the donnent spirit
of Dixie His kin the mothers side lived long enough
in Georgia to mbbe the southern spirit and there is no
doubt but what he inherited enough Of it to give him
prestige with the southern people.
In the west Roosevelt VIII be well supported He is
the oay president the history Of the country who has had
practical knowledge of western life and a personal
knowledge Of the ideas sentiments that govern the
Hetsen people He has slept with them on the battle
fields on the and in the hunters camp and have
the utmost confidence in them they have in him The
people who followed his fortunes on that memorable day
on San Juan hin win not be without influence in his ad
nnistration
Every wee president who has succeeded to the presi
deney through the death his predecessor wrecked himself
the patronage and this fate is predicted for
Roosevelt but y belief is that he is fonaly welded to
the civil service idea 70 be lead into The dangers common
to the wholesale changing Of Office holders hsre an