Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-09-28
Assassination of the President Called
Attention to It's Evils.
PROTECTOR OF EVERY INIQUITY
Tragedy Sobered Down the Head
long Speech of Demagogues.
YELLOWISM ON THE WANE
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

SpeciaI Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
NEW YORK. September q, 1901.
1t is probably safe to say that no Ameri-
can city was so thoroughly affected in and
out and through and through by the start
ling event at Buffalo. as New York The
term affected is not here employed in
it's sentimental use, although it must be
said that New Works part in it's attitude
toward the striCk ken President noble
me from the beginning 10 the end of the
treat incident. The word is intended to de-
scribe what an immediate. almost instant
effect the tragedy at the far end of this
state had upon the daily life of New York
and Of all its citizens 1t seemed as if the
community was frozen into sobriety all in
a minute The headIong speech of I'M
reasonably disconnected men was so sud-
IDENTIFY arrested that the silence which fol-
lowed was as strange as it was grateful.
Partisanship of every kind and description
was buried out of sight as If it were
thing unclean. Hatred of unwarranta Die
agitation. the Kind that twists and mad
dcus the brains of foolish and ignorsI mt
men. doomed into Kew as a force which
Will perhaps forever obtain in this neigh
bOrhUod-
In a word the city which unquestionably
needed a lesson more than any other on
this continent, bowed to the lesson in
manner that was superb and inspiring to
take note Of: and it is safe to predict that
the tlTect efteclS OF the lesson VIII bt
perceivabIe in New York for at least a
generation.
yellow journalism Dead.
Yellowism is already absolutely dead in
journalism, and every sign points to the
fact that yellowism will soon be dead in
New York politics. The believers in and
uphoIders of the loot system of municipal
nisgovernment, as exemplified by Tam
many, showed how shattered they were
from the hour the news was flashed from
Buffalo. They had the common sense to
that the striking down of so high a
life was bound to call attention to the
beauties of the civic virtues of the possess
sOr of that life, and that the effect of this
would be 10 detach tens of thousands of
decent men from their outfit who had pre-
viOusly leaned in the direction of their or
ganization only by reason of political
heredity or environment
Tammany never received such body
blow in its history it received at the
assassination of President Mckinley. And
Tammany knows it. You don't hear a
word from the chaps who up to the very
day the fatal shot was fired were Haunting
the Tdmmany deyiltry wherever they went
and swearing that PROSTATE New York
would swing them into control again in the
face of all the besiegements of reformers,
and with their Dsvery. their Croker. their
whole pack of sneerers at public decency.
The Squire of Moat House, Vantage, never
issued orders chat will be all unavailing)
In such husky, cOnfdence-lacking tones.
Anent the Ne. President.
1t is curious, in a way. to reflect upon
how many years of right conduct on the
part of Theodore Roosevelt it required
for the present President to induce the
people Of his own state TO take him seri-
ously. Here was man springing from one
of the finest of American families who
started out. when little more than a boy
In public life. From the very hour that he
put himself before his neighbors as a youth
ambitious for political hOnors, it was plain
that his political ideals We're high and
would always remain high, that he was
man Of uncommon brains and, for his
station and temptations of very unusual
spOtlessneSs of character and that his hon
eSty was an armor which was little liable
to be penetrated throughout his life in
political success or political defeat.
1t exhibits the then cynical state of the
public mind in New York that the young
Roosevelt was laughed at; actually and
positively sneered at. He didn't carry his
honesty OF purpose and his ideal of what a
public man should be in the shape of rib
bons decorating his spear but he vas
sedate and properly modest from the begin
nlng; yet when his conduct began to prove
that he couldn't be swirled along with
any faction that wasn't an upright fac
ton. the folks of Roosevelt's own state
inside as well outside of his chosen
party, began to call him poseur, attftudin-
izer. and to accuse him of taking the 81
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As a Civil Service Commissioner.
When he went into the civil service COM
mission and took up the duties of his posi-
ton as he conceived they should be taken
up. they called him theatrical again. and
declared that he couldn't keep out of the
1ime-Hght to save his soul. The writer
has seen him. when he was a civil service
commissioner. screw up his features into
an expression Of boyish disgust over these
accusations His alleged political friends
IN New ork undertook the job OF calling
him on. but he replied that his name
wasn't Towser, or words to that general
effect, and went ahead
In time he drifted into the Office of police
commissioner of New York So able men
as ne had never worn police commission
ers shoes before. but he saw a chance to
Go lot of good work and he was always
a gluttOn for work And so he started in
70 90 some house cleaning in the police
department of New York Lime lightY'
they bawled at him again In his own party
as Wen as out of it. The yellows could
ma no better way of getting at him than
by cartooning his teeth, which, by the way,
are mighty fine, well-kept serviceabIe
teeth and even the men of his own class
at the clubs shook their heads sadly over
what they called "Teddys posing He
the duties of his job in the manner of an
upright citizen and a good business man.
but ne could not. seemingly, get away
from the posing" opprobrium IT CALLED
him very deeply. but he wasn't an individ-
uaI OF the fading flower variety, and he de-
clined to let them down him
nee of assistant secretary of the navy and
WORKED IN that position with an effective
ness tnat the country knows all about:
ana yet even there he was accused of pos
seSSlrg a disposition to overturn old rules
ami standards and to crowd his way to
ths iront-aiSeit newspaper men who were
In constant contact with him at that time
reeiy testify how completely he kept him
sell IN the background and how in the
smallest details he deferred to his chief
His Career n Soldier
Then he organized the Rough Riders nut
ting an old friend and competent soldier
at the head of them. But even this grace
ful act did not keep the crowd of detract-
ors who hung even on the borders of his
own camp from smiling at each other over
what they called ''Teddy's attitudinizing''
again. Mr. Roosevelt smiled grirnly over
ali this, went through his campaign like a
man and a soldier. only to come back to
MS New York neighbors to find them car
looming and lampooning him Johnny
on-the-Spot-' Throughout his whole cam