Bisbee daily review., 1904-11-27
MOST AFFECTING SADNESS

Now that the campaign is over. we are arriving at many truths which were impossible to come at during the term of heated politics. One of these truths just now coming to light IS the real inwardness of MT. Roosevelt's g feelings toward the south. Some months ago one Judge Roulhac, of Birmingham, Ala. wrote t9 one Colo nel Mosby. of the department of jus tice at Washington. D. C., comment. ing on the. attitude of the southern people toward MT. Roosevelt; where upon Colonel Mosby sent the letter to the president. and the president in due course wrote letter to the aforesaid Colonel Mosby, which the aforesaid Colonel Mosby, excellent. politician thst he is, did not publish during the campaign. conceiving the possibility that some persons might misconstrqe the presidents motives''in. writing the same.
 Now, however, there being no votes to be won or lost, Colonel Mosby makes
 
 public the letter. which is as fo,ows:
 Oyster Bay, N. Y.. Sept: io. 1904. -(Personal. )-My dear Colonel Mos by: That is a fine letter of Roulhac's. and appreciate it. I have always been ssddened rather than sngered at the attacks upon me in the :south. | am half a southerner myself, and I can say with all possible sincerity that the interests of the south are exactly as dear to me as the interests of the north. Sincerely yours. 7 ,''-'- z ''
 THEODORE ROOSEELT.
 Ninety millions of people, more or less. honor Mir. Roosevelt as president of the United States, and many of those millions respect him as Mir Theodore Roosevelt. All of the mil lions will be deeply touched by his spistolary exhibition of sadness, though 1t may be that some of. the whites south of Mason and Dixon's old line will find it difficult to be as thoroughly sympathetic as some of the: people farther north. Even these. neverthe. Less, will rejoice to learn, if somewhat tsrdily perhaps. that MT. Theodore Rousevelt's feeling toward them is not one of anger, but of sadness. They will be glad to know that, indeed. he has never been angry at them, but has always regarded them with that ten. der melancholy. that profound solici- tude wounded with disappointment. with which the parent regards the re. fractory infant; that he looks upon them with the painful regret of the fond father who contemplates the well spanked darling. :
 Spanking is always an unfortu nate business for both parties. Ordinarily 1t hurts the parent worse than it hurts the child, and Mr. Roosevelt's sadness is no exception to tte rule. And like all the other fathers be fesls it incum. bent to say so. And sinte hs has said so, the child may perhapssbe pafdoned for indnlging the inevitabie', ,ob obserra- ton that it didn't hurt him in the same place, though. That is the fact it may be 6 sad affair for Mir. Roose- velt. but the sadness Is far more poig- nant in the case of the southern whites who-have rebelled in spirit at what they cannot help but regard as threat eued nezro domination as a result of Mr. Roosevelt's forcing metbods-
 That Mir. Roosevelt feels sad. how evsr. i- some oonsOlationl1-if be, really dao< feel sad. and fhe sottbern whites may fod in the fact something to sos- tain the hope that Mir. Roosevelt will not DC -ea-e the pain he has caused. bst will not, for instance. indorse the