The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-30
ROOSEVELT RETIRING
NEW PHASE OF THE PRIEST 5N DENTS CHARACTER.
Given Out That He is Declining Invitations to Deliver Addresses.
 Summer Plans Have Not ., ~; Been Announced. ,''.
Advertiser Bureau.
 Colorado Building, .r .,n

'A'''' 't: '. Colorado Building, ., :, .. Washington. March @. | President Roosevelt has been unusually | oiiiet of late Tor so self-assertive an in- dlviduai : Rarely week passed little while ago that he did not mark with a characteristic bit, of spectacularism as an
 evidence aof the good faith Of Roosevelt ism But for some days he has been as eecf-conducted as the most ordinary gov eYninent ;officer. Observers are beginning to, speculate as to what has come over the spirit ,of. one accustomed to do rather 1 than to dream Another notable thing St,out his pending behavior Is that 1t has | been given out from the White House | that he is declining all invitations to deliver addresses and 1t Is added that he will stay in Washington for some time to come. '.s.'- ..-. ~, ''~-. 70 -- - No indication is given that he has any plans for the summer. It will be re- | called that last year he went on the road I early in the spring and from near the l first of April until nearly autumn he was | in Washington but few days He was I busy making himself acquainted with the peGple clear across the, continent and af- ] fo.dlng them every possible advantage of seeking him-beholding Roosevelt, the mani ... ,.' .i t.'- His present policy of retirement, or l rather Of ostensibly attending to business at executive headquarters is wholly un- like him. It is presidential year. too, and yet Mfr. Roosevelt, his friends say, Is not going to make any speeches It might as well be noted that while he has
 salG that he Is declining all invitations nobody knows on the outside just what
 invitations he has had for the coming season. Indeed, 1t Is doubted If he has so many as to make 1t worth while to
 take trouble about making plans accord irgiy.
 Partisans opposed to him infer that 1t
 being presidential year.. the Republican
 leaders realize that their prospective
 standard bearer, Is bound to be very
 careful of his conduct. and they have
 thought the best thing for MT. Roosevelt
 is for him not to. talk where a crowd
 can see and hear him. It is also sug-
 gested that the ordeal of silence and still
 ness must be extremely trying upon q
 man Of so nervous and audaci1us a tenn
 perament
 It does not come from the White House
 that the President is at all concerned
 about what the Democrats are up to just
 now, but that he is keenly alert to all
 that Is going on and that he is watching
 and listening for every sign of life in
 the camp of the enemy is so likely In
 such a man, that it is certainty that
 he is far from indifferent to the situa-
 tton as presented by the Democrats.
 There Is. nothing in his own ranks that
 need give him any concern. His nomi-
 natien Is fixed as surely as any event
 can be planned for the future. He has
 had nothing to say about the Democrats
 for some time! 1t Is well known that he
 has his hopes and. fears. for they are
 unerringly reflected by his partisan news paper organs. '+
 His chiefeFt' hope according to these mediums Is that the Democrats will nomi-
 nate William R. Hearst. His gravest
 fear is-rthat they will nominate Judge
 Parker of New York. Mir. Roosevelt and his friends feel that with Parker as the Democratic nominee thy must seckon upon enough eiectaral votes to win with out New York. He has never thought that Mir. Cleveland would be the nominee ! since the former Presidents last letter eliminating himself. Naturally he, has -heen extremely in | terested In what the Democrats of his own State will do. Now that he sees ! the drift forging toward the highest 1 juFist of the State who carried 1t by l 50 600 votes just a year after Mckinley had swept the State by something like 1 a,quarter of million votes, MT. Roose- I welt has much cause. to ponder long and | seriously. . .
 He who runs may read as his hearts | desire is reflected In his most faithful organs that he Is yearning for the sue | cess of the Hearst boom. His newspaper friends are doing as much almost for the
 exploitation of every Hearst achievement as the Hearst Journals themselves.
 Meanwhile MT. Roosevelt is bearing himself with most amazing auietude, a silence indeed that Is more strenuously
 eloquent. than. his most agile and vigor-
 our hours. Last year he was. the, live
 Hest President the country had ever seen,
 This year lie Is at least just now as meek as mush. R., H.. Watkins.