The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1902-01-11
ROUGH RIDING AT
WASHINGTON. /"
Henry watterson Sings His Pen in
Flinging Shafts at President
| Roosevelt.
From the Louisville courier.Journal, Dec. %.

From the Louisville Courier-Journal, Dec. %.
mckinley scarce cotd in his grave, and
10 the struggle-the unseemiy struggle-for
his mantle. Because, and more's the pity,
all this buzzing and byplay at Washington
means the succession, and nothing but the
succession. Mr.. Roosevelt is in the saddle,
and he proposes to continue in the saddle, or
ascertain the reason why.
ssAlready he has made monkey of Tom
Plat. What he is going to do to Mark Han.
ma is, at least in his own MUD, "a plenty,
and there are Others, with Fairbanks to lead
the procession. With these things Demo
Gratis have nothing to do. Decidedly, 1t is
not their funeral. They like to see the pass
ing show and to enjoy the fun. They do not
much care who whips.
"If it be true that the President personally
affronted the Lieutenant General ofthe Army;
if it be true that in verbally repeating de-
partmental censure, questionable at best, he
showed temper or elevated his voice so that
others present might hear; if it be true that,
even in the privacy of the council chamber,
he used his chance official rank to arraign a
veteran, a brilliant and brave officer, who
was fighting the battles of his countrys whilst
he himself was tackling the tin soldiers OF his
nursery, then, not merely Democrats, but all
coca citizens, all patriotic Americans, have
to do with it; and all such will with one voice
cry Shame :,
.sAgain, the people of all parties and all
classes dislike the whole Schley business from
start to finish. Nine out of every ten Amer
leans are with Dewey and against the court.
.sIn the end some account will have to be
rendered of these things to the people at large.
Meantime, Mr.. Roosevelt is in the saddle.
Already his admirers are likening him to the
Emperor of Germany.
.'Audacity, like Brag, is good dog; but
Holdfast yet remains the better, and there be
other dogs. Whilst there stands a public
opinion 20 be reckoned with, which is not
blind, nor deaf, nor dumb, which, though but
half awake, has two full years to recover its
senses, and which, in 1904, will speak with
most resounding, if not with most miraculous,
effect.
"The civil service reformer, having ridden
down the machine to his profit, may think to
set up machine of his own equally potent and
Objectionable. The soldier of a single cam
paign may lord it over the soldier of 40 cam
paigns, and fancy it glory and power. The
Chief Magistrate, sworn to do his duty, may
see gallant naval captain wronged, nor raise
a hand to right him The well-read student
of history may have reached the conclusion
that he can blend the man of affairs In the
man of letters, and vice versa, after fashion
SO picturesque and attractive as to carry all by
sheer stress of personality and good fortune :
to so cozen and lure the WITNESSES of the pop
ular sovereignty by alternate dash and cum
ming as to secure what was denied to other
accidents in the White House, from Tyler to
Arthur-and so he may; so he may; but, let
us repeat that the country will try fall out
of him before he does it.