Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-09-28

the foreign military attaches who OBJ
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. 1t contrib
uted among the volunteer troops more
to the success of the American arms in
Cuba than any other regiment formed.
L. 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 fern
was marked by pronounced fight on
his part against the New York repub-
lican machine. He did not seek the
vice presidential nomination last year,
but had it forced upon him, and he ac-
cepted at the last moment. During the
campaign he made trip of over $1,000
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:
81 naturally disapprove of the half
conscious spread-eagle Americanism.
which is ever exerting itself at the
wrong moments. / dislike It, of
course, when it is put forward as plea
to excuse moral shortcomings Of q
kind usually connected with public af-
fairs. Nevertheless, in spite of this'
abuse. I am sure that no man can well
play his part in our life who is not hon.
estly American in heart, belief and in
stinct.
Admirer of Parlsman.
III one wishes to find typical Amer
lean, one may consider Francis Park
man. He always appealed to my admit
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
wish to lay especial stress; that is,
the necessity for feeling of broads
radical and intense Americanism, II
good work is to be done in any direct
ton. 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 a prefix and quail.
ication-not as Irish-Americans, Cert
man-Americans, native Americans
but as Americans pure and simple.
Opinion on Caste.
"It is an outrage for man to drag
foreign politics into our contests and
vote us an 1rishman or Gerpan. or 9TH
er foreigner, as the case may be, and
there is no worse citizen than the pros
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
birthplace"
OF caste he has written: "As for the
upper social world, the fashionable
world, it is much as it was when por-
trayed in sPotiphar Papers, save that |
modern society has shifted the shrine
at which it pays comical but sincere
homage from Paris to London. Per
haps it Is rather better, for 1t Is less
provincial and trifie more American.