Sunday Washington globe., 1902-02-23

AWS uuoli uuA not long TOT IN a rev uloihSNNo
it few open as if ripped OIL its hinges, and
the Presidents manly earnest face ap-
Deared, as he shouted out, Mr. Dalzeu,
Mr.. Dalzell, this way, and grinued.
Il jumped up with the shock and obeyed
the command swiftly-more swiftly per-
haps, than a practiced courtier would have
performed that action. AS I entered his
Office he grasped my hand and shook it
warmly, and said some kind words so
rapidly that cannot recall them now In
his left haud he held a letter in my hand
writing and some newspaper clippings I
had sent him, with little expectation that
they would ever get beyond the clerk who
should receive aud dump them in the waste.
basket
but clerks aren't running the White
House now-nor Senators, nor Representa-
tives for
THEODORE ROOSEVELT IS PRESIDENT.
1T was a simple matter after all Two
or three days after the sad obseQuies of
President Mckinley, when President Roose-
welt had barely reached the White House
and assumed his new and trying duties,
Glanced to see in the morning dispatches
that c. A. R. Post, or rather some mem.
Der in New Hampshire, had criticised aud
censured Mr.. Roosevelt for some alleged
utterances of his before that time about the
veterans Of the Civil War It was short
and severe, aud, as 1 thought then, and
think yet, not only distinctly unjust, bat
outrageously premature and cruel, con-
sidering the solemn and tragic circum-
stances which had just made him President
Il wrote to that effect at once to the post
in question, and used pretty strong terms in
50 doing and at the same time put copy
of my letter and the clipping referred to in
an envelope and addressed it to the White
House, expecting Of course, that would be
the last Of it. And now there stood the
President thanking me in uumeasured kind
ness for this simple act Of justice which
had done on the spur Of the moment ex-
pressing as well as could. what was sure
was the sentiment of all who had read the
paragraph in the papers.
There, sit down there half showing me
into the chair he had just vacated, sit
down there Dalzell and read this, handing
me slip like a proofsheet Of one of his
speeehes-oue he had made [ saw by The
heading the very day before Mckinley was
shot He had delivered it at a soldiers
reunion in Vermont, / think Now was
sitting. the President standing before me
talking like a cavalry charge, strong and
earnest, and those searching eyes looking
and burning into mine, / never met such
a gaze. I had never met him before.
thought the accounts read of his strong,
strange magnetic individuality exaggerated
before, but then. since aud now, I am sure
that the earuestness, honesty kindness and
goodness that glow in his eyes have never
been overstated and are as hard to describe
as is the whole personality and career of
this wonderful man by far the most original
and impressive parsonage who ever stood
in that House. l looked up--he was gone.
and / could hear him not whispering, but
talking in loud resonant tones to Senator
Mitchell IN the room adjoining. I read
carefully the slip he had handed me and
was much pleased with its expressions of
patriotic admiration for the men who
saved the Union. never read a finer
tribute to the valor and patriotism of nv
comrades-and have read or heard nearly
all that has been said in their praise for
forty years. The door flashed and with
tiger-lke spring the President was before
the again.
How do you like that9' / started to
say that it pleased me, aud I was sure
would please all the comrades, when he
Numbered out: But can't 60 into the
newspapers to reply to these attacks
II can, thought 1. and I did. l was not
rushed out but treated kindly aud cour-
teously. I went straight to the press aud
told the comrades then what / repeat now
that the men Of Grant and Sherman never
had truer friend in the White House than
Theodore Roosevelt The boys may rely on
Roosevelt
PRIVATE DALzELI."
Dalzell, you will die as you have lived,
the emotional and unsel6shly patriotic
character you have been all your life.
Your case is hopeless. You are the victim
Of your own fervid imag inaton and not
withstanding the neglect with which yon
have been treated and the meuial position
with which your services have heeu re-
warded you are still like Ia Tour De
Auvergne the first greuadier of France,
prouder Of your title Of 'PRIvATE" Dalzell
than anxious for the advancement Of self
and your proper share Of the spoils Of war
and politics.