The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-03
ROOSEVELT IS DASHED
WEBSTER DAVIS GIVES FIERY
 TALK ON looSEVELN
Says Executives Own Acts Will De- feat Him in 10O4-Round Robin and Censure of Miles and
 Dewey are Cited.

ANohDesD
 Roosevelt will be renoninated for tht Presidency and defeated for the omce. said Webster Davis, former Assistant Secretary of the Interior, today. H' knows the President well, and, discuss ing the man rather than the situation continued.
 President Roosevelt Is not halter broken. No, he has not shed his mill teeth He signed round robin fol which he ought to have been court martialed, inasmuch as he was in thu face of the enemy, and last week he de graded the general commanding the arm! and the admiral commanding the first lin' of defense for a little break. IWhile MT Roosevelt himself was inditing letter! criticising his superior officers and chal lenging the national administration fol leaving the army in Cuba, the millions from President Mckinley down to mysel and the other humble citizens on the side walk. were weeping for love at the sount of the names of Dewey and Schley. Roosevelt Differs from Mckinley. Tn sheer good nature. In not broad. mindedness, President Mckinley let gt uncensurcJ the round robin to which the signature of Mir. Roosevelt was at- tached, and in the breadth of his com mon sense which marked his administra- tion he even needed it.
 Now comes the signer of that offense against the articles of war. Colonel Roosevelt of the round robin,' and re- fuses to pass newspaper knterview un- censured, and, so far from needing it. disciplines the author of minority re- port. President Roosevelt delivers dis graceful scoring upon the head of Ad- miral Dewey and through the press humiliates General Miles.
 Knowing the Man, is Not Surprised
 But this does not surprise me. While in Washington l was on even footing with MT. Roosevelt. He was, like my self. an assistant secretary in the cabi- net. He was distinguished then among the rest of the assistant secretaries as an Ishmaelite. At functions his neighborly qualities were confined to shutting his eyes and gnashing his teeth. but in official circles he was more communicative. His chief. Secretary Long, was constantly prodded by him.
 "One of the most genial of men. much like the late President, Secretary Long was sadly disturbed by his turbulent as- sistant secretary and the outbreak of the Spanish war afforded him a positive re- lief when it invited MT. Roosevelt to go into the field The tail had shaken the dog, if it did not succeed in wagging it.
  patriotic enthusiastic and unbroken. He is not bridlewise and his folies are his own. He would not listen to the advice of anyone when he was an assistant sec retary and that propensity seems to have been much enlarged since he has beer called to the executive chair.
 Says Play is to the Gallery.
 No one will charge him with neglect ing to further the interests of the re- public or. arraign his patriotism, but nc one in official circles will accept his judg- ment.
 "The audience in the parquet, the or chestra circle and the two first balconies will pay no attention to him. He is fax ing his lines and will not stick to the text
 He came in on a gust of wind and when the storm has exhausted itself ht will find his level. It will be his felicity to escort Democrat to the White House where the chief justice is standing tc administer the oath to the next Presi dent.
 Will Defeat His Own Party.
 ''rhe Republican party surely will gC down by Roosevelt's weight. Republi cans will defeat him. In the convention he will prevail, because almost any Presi dent save some magnificent fellow like Chester A. Arthur can control conven toin through the medium of his fedora officerhoIders.
 Nominated by himself, Mir. Roosevelt will not be able to elect himself. Thos' who remember that brief dispatch iron Manila one May day will not forget las weeks centure when again they come t' vote. They once thanked God wheI they read on the bulletin boards; It l. | believed Dewey has cut the cables H. | was his own master then, 1000 mile away, with an enemy to negotiate with The country believed in him. w | thanked God twice when the interregnun was told: I have destroyed the Spanisl | fleet
 Voters Remember Dewey and SchleJ "The nation has stood on its chairs t cheer the name of Dewey and on tn | tables to grow frantic at the race 0 | Schey, Captain Cook and Phillip an' Evans and Clark of the Oregon. and tn nation has not forgotten these things an' will not forget them.
 Roosevelt is President by a catastro | phe. He may not be a catastrophe Presi dent. It argues not well that his frs l undertaking is an insult to-hOw man, millions of people shall I estimate? He will be nominated by the machtn he will build and ignominously defeate' | by the machine the people will build."