The daily sentinel., 1904-11-12
ROOSeveIt'S Popularity.

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{ 1t is hard to realize the strength
; of the hold the president has Sc
; cured on the popular heart. The
; vote he received is but one evil
: dence of it. He is much strong
s er than his party in the country.
s Tens of thousands of votes were
cast for him, not because he was
; a Republican, but just because
; the voters liked him and wanted
; to get closer to him and keep
s him where they could stay in
5 touch with him and breathe the
s invigorating ozone of his strenu-
$ Gus manly character.
; Roosevelt, commencing with
; the Spanish war, has established
; a comradeship between himself
5 and the American people. While
s he strove for spectacular effect
; in the regiment of rough riders
s he organized, he managed to
s rush them and himself into the
s thickest of such fighting as was
{ done i'll Cuba, and bore himself
; i'll every other respect as became
3 popular military hero. Elected
5 vice president, he became presi-
dent under circumstances that
s were fatal to the ambition of ev-
s cry other vice president succeed
; ing to the presidency, but one.
; In the White House he made
himself master and proved him
self the most astute and daring
s of the great politicians who have
s occupied that mansion. His cab
( met was reorganized, those who
; remained had to be his friends;
; he stood for no half hearted sup
port from his official family. As
president he demonstrated his
s willingness to attack the trusts
and then awaited their submis-
sion. He became the sympathiz-
ing friend of the impoverished
Cubans TO wheedle and compel
tariff concessions on Cuban su-
gar that fastened the sugar trust
to him with hooks of steel. He
sailed over to Morocco and mott
fed the sultan that he must eth
er produce Raisuli, the Morocco
bandit, dead, or Perdicaris alive
and the frowning guns of the
American fleet gave emphasis to
the alternative. Perdicaris was
produced alive. He stood as the
angel of peace, guiding and di-
recting the permanency of The
Hague peace tribunal, the Amer
ican army participated in the
battles in China and the pictur-
esque march upon Pekin. He
practically closed the work of
subjugating the Filipinos and
was able to announce that peace,
such as it was, reigned in our
Asiatic possessions. These
achievements were diversified
with magazine homilies on race
suicide, - the evils of divorce and
letters to mothers congresses on
how to raise children. One
morning he started on a tour of
the country - kissed babies,
slapped their fathers on the back
and praised the mothers as para
gons of patriotism and for being
the maternal ancestors of future
presidents. Just as a morning
pastime, he left the train in Wy
oming and took a horseback gal
lop of forty miles; he got down
on his hunkers and ate chuck at
the tail end of a cowboys grub
wagon; he killed mountain lions,
freed bears, hunted the festive
coyote and rugged himself out in
more wonderful huntsman' gar
ments than the illustrators of
wild frontier tales ever conceived
of. He left the mountains and
the plains to bully congress and
he cowed that great national ag-
gregation of statesmen as COM
pletely as he would a bucking
bronco or the hunting hound
that trailed at his feet in his
raids through the forests.
Is it any wonder that the men
with sentiment couldn' get away
from him? Or that the women
with romance were bound to his