The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1904-10-17
ANOTHER PEN PICTURE.


ANOTHER PEN PICTURE.
The pen picture of Alton B. Parker
Is drawn by that master word paint
Henry Watterson, was reproduced
in The Record of Friday. Today we
reproduce below the pen picture of
Theodore Roosevelt as drawn by the
same artist:
"Now take the alternative.
It is the simple truth, it is only
the truth, to say thai we should very
much like to speak of the President
of the United States as we should
like the President of the United
States to be-though agreeing not
with his opinions and policies-as an
eminent, upright, broad minded a
We cannot so regard Theodore Roose-
Welt. AS we read his books and his
career. as we consider his public rec
ord, we can see nothing but a SIMS
ter. cynical egOtist like COnkling. II
not wicked at heart, yet SO vengaful
and i%ntolerant-so corroded by ambi-
ton and pride-as to be equal to any
act deemed essential to the gratiica-
ton of his prevailing desire whether
il be the sacrifice of the national hon
or in transactions such as the Pana-
ma and the postal scandals, or the
wreaking of personal spite against a
veteran soldier like Miles, Dr. some
p~urposeless, venomous and gratuitOus
affront to an old man like Jefferson
Davis. The story. from first to last,
is in the highest degree h~umiliatinS.
Beginning with his exit from col
lege, Theodore Roosevelt made the
public service the business of his
life, and to this good hour he has 'et
no grass grow beneath his feet, his
method having been to deliver civic
righteous speeches-to issue civil SER
vice manifestoes-to write books
making history over again in the
likeness of his own distorted con
ceits-and to bully the party mana
gers the while into cashing his de-
mands upon them for office.
'The moral difference between Ben
edict Arnold on the one hand and
| Aaron Burr or Jefferson Davis on the
other says he in his Life of Benton
a book teeming with intolerance and
insult. lis precisely the difference
that obtains between a politician
who sells his vote for money and one
who supports a bad measure in con-
s~ideration of being given ONE nigh
political position"
The writer of these proscriptive
words, grossly offensive, wantoniy,
needIessly offensive to millions of his
countrymen, ought to know. because
as President of the United States he
has himself ruthlessly, s~hamelessly
sacrificed the professions of a life
time to get only a nomination to a
high political position"
His abuse of the South, and of all
things Southern, is a part-and per-
haps the sincerest part-of the I'M
DERIVING duplicity of his character,
for it doubtless had it's or~igination
in the notion that as there was a Con-
federate side to his house, he must
be extra loyal to the other side in
order to efface it. Hence in his ear
lier writings he has nothing but
"arch conspirators," and rebels
and traitors to say of most Of the
Confederate leaders. His theory was
that they had but two rights, that
to be hanged and that to be damned
Denied by his tender years the hap
piness of advocating the hanging of
them, he proceeded to damn them,
as far as he could, in print. Yer,
were his blood curdling sentiments
thrift, thrift, Horatio, thrift" He
vas not old enough to know anything
If the passions of the war. His IA
Their though a patriotic Northern
man, was a moderate man. The ruff
fe to his shirt is Southern-the hot
blood is bullock, not Roosevelt blood