The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-11-01

Washington, Oct. I.-(Special.)- IA
boys composition for boys, would De
the judgment of the ordinary man re-
gardinR Mr.. Roosevelts brief paper on
the powers of the President. which a
Boston publication for boys sees mt to
give out now. nearly. three years after
the thing was written 1t reads like a
piece from a primer: "Is this a box! IL
is a box. Which letter of the alphaoet
Is on the box lid? NJ. What does the
M stand for? Mary. Who Is Mary? She's
the owner Of the box"
Intensely interesting, to be sure. For
the boys papers paper was written oy
a full-grown man when he was IL years
old and the man Is now President of
the United States. Behold the man!
Just why this remarkable production OF
Mr.. Roosevelt's generally graceful pen
should have been so long withheld from
an eager public, and brought out at this
particular juncture, could not perhaps be
explained by even the Boston editor. Its
value as an advertisement for the editor
paper would surely have been greatest
at the moment Mr.. Roosevelt assembled
the throne.
In the whole world there Is no other
ruler, certainly no other man under free
institutions. whose power compares with
President Roosevelt's, Governor Roose-
welt wrote for the information of Amer
lean boys. a
The publication tends to place the Pres
ident in an absurd attitude, and to that
extent 1t is unfair. There Is no use to
discuss the question of dignity involved.
because Mr.. Roosevelt is notoriously,
assertively undignifed. He glories in
his disregard of what men ordinarily call
dignity: he is chief of all the tribe OF
free-and-easy.
OF coarse, the thing Is meant to have
effect lpon the pending electi IN, though:
how it can do 50 1t is difficult to per-
ceive, since it was written for boys and
boys can't vote. except In Philadelphia.
whore the Republicans keep in stock
$4,000 dead voters for emergencies; the
cadavers being pulled out when required.
Our friends the enemy are truly hard
pushed for campaign literature. Some
unknown person is said 20 have come
away from the Presidents house yester-
day and repeated to some other person
unknown certain words which the pres-
dent is not reliably known TO have spoken.
and 10! those words are instantly ac-
cepted as a battle-cry and already are
emblazoned upon the dead walls of the
United States and of Iowa. These are
the words that arc being proclaimed to
the confusion Of those wicked Republic
cans who have found out the wicked
ness of their own party:
II have no use for any man who cares
more about the defeat of members
of his own party who belongs to another
faction than he does Tor the defeat of
the common enemy, the Democrats"
That's what he said. At least that Is
What ,i1k told another
unknown person Mr.. Roosevelt SAID.
That saying was carried to some prom
inent Wisconsin RepAblicans in town and
they will use it for all 1t may he worth
in their own campaign from now till
election day. particularly in behalf of
Senator Spooner. whom not few of the
Wisconsin Republicans seem willing to
slaughter because OF factional differ
ences, so it Is said.
Reports are that Mr.. Spooner is in
great danger of losing his Senatorial seat.
Alas. that is too good to be true. Talk
about eating hats-there are lots of good
people who would be glad to eat their
hats to see Mr.. Spooner retired from the
Senate.
The Republicans at the last moment are
striving to make all possible use of Mr..
Roosevelt's personality. reference to
which strong factor was made in this