Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-05-01

adaptability to general or national
conditions and therefore, the east has
never favored western man for the
presidency; the republican party has
never, during its periods of power
named distinctively western man
as candidate for President. Bryan,
the democrat, was named from Ne
braska, but he did not represent DOM
lnant ideas and was defeated, not be-
cause he was from the west, but be-
cause he represented ideas that were
repugnant both to the east and west.
So it has come about that the states
west of the Mississippi river have been
either from one cause or another
pushed aside at national conventions
or in the electoral college.
There should be no such thing as
sectionalism in the parties that are
potent in deciding the presidency; the
candidacy of good man should not
be determined by geographical loca-
ton but by his fitness for office and
his integrity; also his clear under
standing as to the principles that
should govern the chief executive of
a great nation.
There has never been a President
who has combined within himself
more of these qualities of high leader
ship than Theodore Roosevelt. He is
an eastern born man, but at the same
time he has as many of the traits OF
western independence as though he
had been born in the west; he has
participated in the most strenuous
conditions that surround a plainsmar
and a pioneer; he took upon himself
all that anyone would encounter, in
undertaking to conquer the wilder
ness. During his residence and ex
perience in the west he did not for a
moment exempt himself from the
hard terms that We're imperatively i'm
posed upon those who sought eithel
pleasure or profit in subduing the
desert. He was constantly at thu
front among his cowboys in pacifyins
| the herds of stampeded cattle, ant
/ was not backward in resisting the as
saults of the red and white barbarians
who made attacks on the corrals o
| the settlers. Theodore Roosevelt Ii
more than any other man prominen
before the country, the true represen
tative of that stalwart Americanisn
of which we boast. There are other!
| who were his associates and cOmpeer
who were no doubt as rugged and de
termined as he, but they have not al
rived at the prominence that has bee
/ attained by their former comrade, nov
| President of the United States.
| Mr.. Roosevelt'S career entities hin
to be known as the President of the
entire country, not only of the east
but of the west. Then his recent re
ception at Charleston, South Carolina
demonstrated that the barriers of pre-
i JUDGE have been broken down an
i that he is a favorite in the sout
where manhood is held in high regard
4 Amid all the acclamations that hav
come to him, it is to be said that the
President himself has remained un
moved; he has not for a moment bee
carried away; he has sought no favor
and has not asked for endorsements
4 indeed it is charged to his indifference
4 by his friends, that he has not beel
\ diligent in organizing for future poll
zeal campaigns by taking advantag
! of the personal triumphs that hav
: come without asking.
, #*#
i Mr.. Roosevelt is civil service r.
5 former as well as man of action. II
, has adhered to the system during hi
! term of the presidency with the sam
} integrity that distinguished his caree
Il as commissioner. Whenever it he
/ become necessary to make an appoin
ment to fill a vacancy he has exercise
his, prerogative and appointed n
publican, but he has never created
J vacancy without good cause, nor ha
| heiever made an appointment that hi
2 judgment did not approve as an a.
pointment on the ground of meri
4 Heretofore, appointments have bee
A somewhat on geographical lines
, Roosevelt's system has nothing to {
] with locations except as the law d.
: fines. He appoints because he fine
\ the man he wants and this he do'
= without reference to state boundarie
: Mr.. Roosevelt is not an easter
a President in the sense that has bee
f heretofore understood; nor is he
e. western President. He occupies p
+ sition that makes him President of tt
: entire people without regard to la
a tude or longitude. The states west
!. the Mississippi as well as the ter
S tories have never had such repr
n sentation in the executive Office as
a present, Roosevelt understands al
.e appreciates their needs and is as rea
1T to uphold their claims as though
n were a citizen of Nebraska, instead
lie New York.
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= DEATH OF j. STERLING MoRTO
d J. Sterling Morton died at the re
In dapon IF bic con MorlY Morton