Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-06-30
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Theodore Roosevelt.
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Philadelphia Press.
Theodore Roosevelt is a man of des.
tiny. His star does not follow the
alterations of the meteor; it has it's
sure pathway: but old rules and pre-
Vice. President who came to the Presi-
dency through the death of his chief
was ever before nominated for the first
place. The traditions were all against
it. But Theodore Roosevelt had not
been six months in the chair before it
was plain that he was predestined for
1904. His fate is Altogether exceptional.
That is the touchstone of his quality
and career.
He had task far harder than any
Vice President thus succeeding, ex-
cept Andrew Johnson, and the way
ward, besotted Johnson is out of all
comparison. Roosevelt followed the
best beloved of all Presidents save Lin
coin. Mckinley had won the un-
bounded confidence of the country.
He was gentle, gracious, wise, consum-
mate, sure in his instincts, masterful in
his methods. The people of all parties
implicitly trusted him. When they
were suddenly berefit of him by the
assassin's hand they shuddered and
trembled. Roosevelt was entirely,dif,
ferent in temperament and organiza-
ton and methods. He had been driven
by events upon untried seas. Would
the new hand be as firm on the helm2
Would the ship of state go forward
with so sure and calm and steady a
course?
Within week Roosevelt had allay-
ed fears; within month he had estab-
lished faith; within half year he had
won full confidence and made his flu.
ture and the country's secure. He
was great enough to grasp and carry
forward McKinley's policies without
break, and great enough to meet new
questions and new emergencies with
out CULVER AS wide apart in temp
erament as the poles, the dead chief
tain and the new President had the
same principles, the same virtues and
the same purposes. They could not
have been alike if they had tried, there
could be no imitation; but with the
same chart and the same compass the
lines already fixed were faithfully fol-
lowed and the new occasions were
unhesitatingly faced.
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 turn the country
gives its full confidence to him. I'm
pulsive2-yes, but with an unerring in.
stinct 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 exalted measure the
great fundamental virtues, truth,
purity, uprightness, patriotism, pro-
bity and courage. He is as brave as a
lion and as honest as the daylight.
He has lofty ideal of the public ser.
vice and is faithful to its 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 achieve
ment. Men compare him, not inaptly,
with Emperor William, and his vived
personality inspires the unstinted trib
ute, perhaps excessive, of such sober
historical students as James Bryce.
However observers differ in their esti
mates, none fail to recognize his
powerful individuality, his instant per-
ception and his vital, virile action.
If President Roosevelt's service were
10 end this year his administration
would always live as one of the great
historical administrations of the coun-
try. In strength of impress, in vigor
of leadership, in originality and
breadth of achievement it ranks among
the foremost. 1t points to a distinct
group of memorable results 1t has
confirmed, broadened and vivified the
Monroe Doctrine and secured a more
explicit recognition of it from the
world than has ever been given before.
1t has lifted and widened the principle
of arbitration 1t has reorganized the
American army on sound and endur-
ing foundation. 1t has brought the
practical and splendid fulfllment
through the dramatic creation of the
Panama Republic and the triu mphant
assurance of the Panama Canal. 1t
has grabbed with the great problem
of the control of trusts, and has given
new security to sound business and q
new protection to popular rights by
blazing the way to the lawfullregulation
of corporations and combinations
which may menace the public inter-
ests. 1t has by strong and masterful
diplomacy in Europe and in the East