The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-28
PRESIDENT PUTS
CURB ON HIMSELF
Roosevelt Has Become q Changed
Man Since Death of
Mckinley.
Strength and Poise Gathered by
Careful Study of Idiosyn-
cracies.
New York Sum Special Service.

NEW 4ork sun special SERVICE
Chicago, March 28.-Walter Well
man, in Washington special to the
Record-Herald, says: i
HE has settled down to his Job
and Is moving as steadily and as safely
as an old horse in the plowing."
This was the comment which a
member Of the cabinet made to me;
speaking of Mr.. Roosevelt.
The fact is. Theodore Roosevelt,
who is to be nominated for president
by the national republican conven-
ton which will meet at Chicago less
than three months hence, Is quite a
different man from Theodore Roose-
welt who became president of the
United States at Buffalo one day two
and a half years ago.
1t is a new Roosevelt we have now
man who, by self-discipline, has al
most made himself over and into an
other being. I grant that Mr.. Roose-
velt's character Ia much too positive
and demonstrattve and emphatic to
be wholly metamorphosed. That sort
Of leopard never gets rid of all his
spots.
Essentially, therefore, we must re-
gard the Roosevelt Of to-day as the
Roosevelt of three years ago, and the
Roosevelt of all the time that breath
remains in his body. At the same time,
1t Is true that the man has changed.
He has grown. He has gathered
strength and poise. He has gained
self-control and balance. If we may
paraphrase the scriptural maxim, he
has shown that he is worthy of being
made master of many things, because
he has demonstrated that he is mas
ter Of himself.
Subdued and Disciplined.
Compared with the Roosevelt who
came into the White House by virtue
of a decree of fate, the Roosevelt Of
to-day Is man calm, subdued, dis
cipl1ned. He has not been chastened
no misfortunes. To the contrary, all
sorts Of luck, except bad luck, have
attended him.
He has been fortunate In almost
everything he has done.
Not thru necessity, not thru a
chastened spirit, not thru humility
born of disaster, was he induced to
thing was going we'll, while the way
was strewn with roses of success and
flooded with the sunshine Of the smiles
of the gods and goddesses of fortune,
he did take himself In hand.
He disciplined himself, he studied
himself. He took stock of his eak-
ness, his tdiosyncracies. his fofbles.
A'S - AAS "oatos " CssoCu DIS llS was ny
thousand activities, which seemed
always to demand that the day be
heightened to at least forty-eight
hours, he sought to mold his man
| ner to the dignity of his place, to
adapt himself to his work and his re-
sponsibility, to rise to the full level
| of his station. In the commercial
vernacular Of our beloved country, he
| "got onto his job"
s.. Forms Opinions Carefully. "
The member Of the cabinet who was
quoted in the first paragraph of this
dispatch added: .-..
"Mr. Roosevelt Is popularity sup.
posed to be a sort of bull in the presi-
Dental china shop, tanning aheac
and down things in his own way, hit
or miss, without asking any ones ad.
vice. Nothing could be farther from
! the truth. s... -...
IT have never: known a man as care.
full as Mr.. Roosevelt is to seek light or
all sides of any important question