Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-12-10

ROOSEVELT. The youngest pres
ident the United States has ever hat
and as good president as the United
States wants and needs.
He is a young Republican. He il
one of those kind of young Republicans
who can't be "ridden to DEATH" as
one Republican editor seems to fear
will fall to the lot of the idea of young
Republication. He rides big ele
phant with a brand: G. o. p. on the
hind leg, >as readily and as easily as
he does his equine mount. Roosevelt
is not alone in his seemingly charac-
teristic roughness, or better, rugged
ness, since the country is full of sim
liar constitutions. By reason of this
we may consistently compare him at
all times with the future of our own
pet, Young Republicanism, and not
miss the mark very far.
It is said that what man has done,
man can do; hence what young Re
publican named Roosevelt has done,
some other young Republican can do.
Still, some of the older horses spew out
of their mouth this encroachment up
on the heretofore sacred domain of
hungry and unsatiated retired polite
ians who must be housed and cared for
and express impatience with any prom
inence given the younger element, un-
less they be tramping through the
muddy mud, yelling the voters into
electing the old "wornouts. " If the
young man does this he is all right.
Let him dare to aspire, let him dare
to hold up his honest, clear-brained
head, and the old jealous-hearted po-
litical microbes, will fiji it full of ar
rows, and then hire a fellow with a
hammer to pound them in.
Oregon, being so far away from the
seat of operations, we get but little of
the really awakening affairs in which
President Roosevelt figures. We hear
of him in the Hague conference. We
hear of him in the Panama Canal.
We hear the addresses these and those,
this and that. We read of him writ
ing as able message as was ever
written, with one hand, while he pulls
the cork out Of grizzly bear with
the other. 1t is seldom we ever really
see what forcible hand he plays when
he sits in the game. When Roosevelt
plays, he generally deals. While he
would not "cold deck" man, as the
saying is, yet he has been known to
deal card, occasionally, off the bot
tom, as witnesseth the land cases in
Portland.
In order to show just how President
Roosevelt played his hand in this Or
gon-political-land.grabbing game, it is
necessary to take step backwards. |
Roosevelt was first advised of the ru-
mors of violation through Secretary
Hitchcock. He instructed a govern
ment inspector TO look into the matter.
This inspector, it has appeared, made
A faulty or unsatisfactory report.
Roosevelt then ordered fresh man to
the scene to inspect the land, and the
Inspector too This man g report set |
tied the question in the President s
mind affirmatively, as to there being |
IN organized effort to secure these tim
Der tracts without the legal process re-
luired by law. This point being set
led with him, it remained for the rep
-esentative of the government in Port
and, the land being within his juris-
liction, to prosecute the guilty par
les upon the evidence furnished
hrogh the Inspector sent out by the
President.
The matter coming to Prosecutor
Halls notice, he at once fled infor-
nation, and secured indictments. While
he eases were waiting the opening of
ourt the reappointment Of govern
nent prosecutor fell due. For some
eason, which rumor has more or less
lirectly connected with these eases
hen waiting trial, the Oregon delega-
ion failed TO agree upon Mr.. Hall,
therefore, no recommendation was forth
oming to the President. This may
ave seemed strange 10 the President
or all we know. Seeing there was no
disposition to reappoint Mr.. Hall, and
lso pereeiving the Oregon delegation
gas divided as to any successor, the
President may again have thought this
TRANCE, so he quietly deals reappoint-
neut card off the "bottom" of the
oiltieal pack, and fips it across the
ointment and when it lit in Oregon,
/ struck Mr.. John Hall in the back
nd the roar il raised and the eommo-
ion il made caused the delegation TO