Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-07-02

his temperament, his modes OF thought
and action are known as have been
those of few American public men:
and with this fuller and closer knowl-
edge have come truer measure of
his capacity and profounder appre-
citation Of his aims and character. He
has carried into politics the ideals
which most appeal to the great body
of Americans. He stands, In season
and out of season, for courage, open
ness high mindedness. fair dealing. a
love of justice and hatred of mean
ness and corruption. Respect for the
law, equality before the law, the up
roofing of fraud and greed-these are
the moving forces behind his states
manship-forces which have made him
a tremendously sane and wholesome
power in politics and have won him
the respect and admiration Of peo-
pie, responsive now, as ever, to ideals
of courage and manliness. On the
qualities he has exhibited and the rec
ord he has made no American presi-
dent has ever had clearer claim to a
new lease Of title than Theodore
Roosevelt.
Philadelphia Press President
Roosevelt's character is an open book.
Above all things he Is frank, open and
unequivocal. From the first he has
taken the country into his confidence,
and in return the country gives it's
full confidence in him. Impulsive-
yes but with an unerring instinct for
the right. Self reliant-yes, but with
the anchor of supreme loyalty to duty.
Original and unique Yes, but with
the safety of fixed and sure ideals. He
has in an exalted measure the great fun
damental virtues, truth, purity, up
Righteousness, patriotism, probity and
courage. He Is as brave as a lion and
as honest as the daylight. He has a
lofty ideal Of the public service and is
faithful to it's standard. He measures
up to the mark of duty himself, and is
rigid in his exactions on those around
him. He belongs to the rare type of
men endowed with the genius of great
and arduous achievement. Men COM
pare him, not inaptly, with Emperor
William and his vivid personality in
spires the unstinted tribute, perhaps
excessive, of such sober historical stu
dents as James Bryce. However OBJ
servers differ in their estimates none
fail to recognize his powerful indi-
viduality, his instant perception and
his vital, virile action.
| Washington Post.-Mr Roosevelt is
a remarkable man. His career reads
like chapter out of romance. BY an
unbroken succession Of leaps and
bounds he has risen from private life
to the presidency-always despite the
opposition Of the leaders and in con-
tempt of the Judgment Of the party
oracles. The future historian will, no
doubt, accept the estimate Of the con-
| temporary commentator, calling THIS
an accident and that a mystery, and
the other a phenomenon; but the leap
| ing process has been steadily main
tanned. No matter what one may say
about "inscrutable providence and all
the rest Of it, Theodore Roosevelt has
been president of the United States
for three years, with nearly nine
months more to serve, and now he is
nominated, practically by acclamation
and apparently in good faith, for the
/ full term beginning on the 4th of next
| March. If the party bosses" have de-
plored and endeavored to prevent this
contamination, he has been too strong
for them. If their loyalty be a coun-
| terfeit. as so many assert and seem tc
believe, he has made courtiers anC
machines have been averse to him hi
has trodden them under foot ant
stands today triumphant and erect up
| on their pitiable ruins. He has takel
| The republican organizations through
! out the country and converted them tt
his uses. Against the hostile and re-
luctant local chiefs he has arrayed 6
harmonious enthusiastic rank and file
He leads the republican army, and
the captains and lieutenants are his
| humble servitors. The masses Of the
party have been taught to see in him
a force, eager, bold, indomitable-a
commander fearless, swift and potent
And they, at least, will rejoice in his
4 nomination, and will fight for him with
| high courage and unflagging zeal.