Sunday Washington globe., 1902-03-02


great amount of ink over the Tillman.
McIaurin episode. They babble of dignity
and tradition and with a fine flourish of
sophomore ignorance proceed to label Till
man "boor." Will the journalistic Peck
sniff thumb the files of their respective
sheets and follow me3
Mr.. Roosevelt cancelled Mr.. Tillman's
name and that gentleman was not present
TO meet Prince Henry.
Mr., Roosevelt, according to the New
York Journal, knocked down a drunken
man. Roosevelt at the time was being fol-
lowed bya number of stalwart secret ser
vice men
Mr.. Roosevelt reprimanded in a loud
voice a thoughtless boy who thought so
much of his strenuous style of theoretical
greatness that he desired a photograph of
him.
In a magazine article Mr.. Roosevelt an
nounced in patriotic fervor worthy Of Lord
Kitchener that he had shot fleeing Span
lard in the back.
Mr.. Roosevelt censured Admiral Dewey,
a sailor, philosopher and a gentleman,
whose practical exhibition Of greatness has
all his life been more or less a thorn in the
side of those distinguished heroes of the
Mahon type, whose deeds are committed
fountain pen OF a typewriter
Mr.. Roosevelt, il is alleged. referred at
one time 10 Mckinley as being with
out backbone, saying that he had as
little of that desideratum as a chocolate
eclair
Mr.. Roosevelt sfterward became the vice
presidential nominee on the ticket with a
man for whom he had expressed contempt
Mr. Roosevelt, who was only a colonel
during the war, signed a round robin which
proclaimed to the world our condition in
Cuba. The round robbin is a form of letter
little above the anonymous kind OF com
municatiOn. Anonymous letters are some
times traced to the true writer. 1t is inn
possible to discover who JfySf signs a round
robin.
Mr.. Roosevelt had his name among the
rest of the disgruntled, iusubordinate Of
hcers and therefore escaped the cultured
reprimand that he, as President, later gave
to General Miles.
And yet Mr.. Roosevelt could not tolerate
Mr.. Tillman
Mr.. Roosevelt has questioned the action
of Senator outside of tne Senate, and has
held him accountable for his remarks and
the resenting Of the lie which any Southern
gentleman would resent physically, even
though the offense was perpetrated in
church.
I believe have read somewhere in the
Constitution that no Senator can be held
accountable outside for his actions on the
aoor of the Senate
AS to Mr.. Tillman not being a fit person
to meet Prince Henry it smacks in the
light of German history as an absurdity.
Mr.. Roosevelts memory slumbers. Mr..
Tillman was called a liar He struck the
other man. The place was the Senate.
Now go with US to Germany, Mr. Roosevelt
In the Reichstag, scenes such as the Till
man-McIaurin one, are so frequent the
German press must have stories set up
ready to fill in the names as soon as secured.
In the German universities, Mr.. Roosevelt,
they have delightfully."- gentlemanly way
of settling difficulties. Two students, armed
with razor-like sword slash each other on
the head and face. The man who receives
the most number Of cuts (they bleed too) is
declared the loser.
have read that an Emperor IN Germany
once slapped an officers face The officer
being unable to retaliate owing to the sane
tity Of the EmperOr's person, quite foolshiy
think, committed suicide
One Of our Presidents used to point with
pride to the pistCl which he kept in the
White House. He valued il as the iustru-
lnent which enabled him to put the quietus
on a man who used slander against a woman
related TO him