Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-07-15
THE PRESIDENT.
How He Is Viewed by a Washington
Man.

Man.
"rhou has il now, King Candor, Glamis
all,
CAS- the cowed Senate promised; and l
fear
"That thou did'st hector for 1t.
1t seems to me that Mr.. Roosevelt,
in his long essay of the role of
Marcus Brutus, evinces Il most defec-
tive appreciation OF the role, or a
most callous disregard of criticism.
The great depicter of humanity
emphasizes the noble disinterested-
ness of Brutus. If the shade of that
other Marcus, the maguanimous
Hanna, should hover about the Presi-
dents couch, it might well evoke
Christening reflections in the memo.
ries of the ''instructions" forced upon
the Ohio conven ton, perhaps, for
gotten in the flush of larger
triumph.
The cold fact is that Roosevelt
began to hunt the trail of policy,
with his pack in full cry, before bis
seat in the White House was warm.
Go not believe our political history
has any parallel to his eager, insist
ent and defiant determination to be
his own successor.
l tell you it was a goodly treat to
hear Theodore with the accompani-
ment of the Marine Band, inculcat.
ing strenuous manhood upon the
Bishops of Protestant Christendom,
out yonder at the Peace Gross He
reminds one of Judge C.'s little boy,
IN Richmond, in the days gone by.
The little fellow had picked up pro-
fame words from passers-h hy upon the |
street; and was innocently using
them, to augment his working vocab-
ulary. His mother, overhearing him,
rebuked him sharply. When she was
through, the little fellow whimpered |
out: "But, hummer, what's the use
OF being feller, if you can't be
h of II feller !" That was the phil !
osophy the President discoursed to
the white haired prelates of Great
Britain, Canada and Australia.
No other President, not even Jack
son, ever succeeded in making all the
leaders of his party the mere plant
instruments of his will.
No. there's one refreshing excep-
ton, Cannon. When they began to
caJole, ''Uncle" Joe let them see the
mettle Of his pasture; and he is, to-
day, the most distinguished man in
the Republican party.
Roosevelt, with his crude and
caiamitous propaganda, is dire mis-
fortune. Gorman showed the un-
happiness of the whole scheme to the I
country, which needed of all things
to be let alone to pursue its quiet
avocations; and to eat it's bread in
peace. Gormau'a speech in the Senate
should ta scattered broadcast.
Roosevelt is the old man of the
sea to his party. They are weary of I
him al nauseum. But he has whip
ped them into the traces; and they
are literally afraid to kick over.
And this is the party of Ben Wade,
md rhad Stevens and Oliver Morton.
md Matt Carpenter and Boscoe
Conklin.
Roosevelt is tremendous person. :
llity $50 is a Bengal tiger. But he
8 an anachronism. He came three
hundred years too late. His fine
historic role was to thunder up and
lown the Rhine, with his rough
lders; and to chastss into subiec.
ION the two or three hundred prin- ,
'Ipalities. would have pulled the
'eared of Barbarossa, and put head
lpon the entire House of Hapsburgb,
With Rudolph as first conner.
In government of the essential
'haracter, and of its history and
traditions. unless he were so portent-
'nsiy solemn, he would seem Joker
# the kidney of Chauncey Depew.
logically, he is even IA greater joker.
"A. s. Warye, an Free Lance.