Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1904-03-02
A MAN OF DESTINY.
Roosevelt One Whom Those Who
Feared Could Not Keep Down.

Theodore Roosevelt is a man of
destiny, If there is anything in the
word destiny" When Senator Han
ma died. the president must have felt
a tingling and deep shock. The sen
sation of being waited to power by
irresistible events that are beyond
human control, must be something like
dreaming we seem to possess power
to float in the air high above earth.
Made president of the United
States by the hand of death; and,
when time passed and the politicians
conspired together to drag from pow
er a man whose high commission was
signed by that CHASTITY hand, again
the interposition of the great shad-
ow. One can fan2v the president Of
the United States in the secrecy of
his chamber, in the agony of the
manly heart we know beats in his
bosom. trying to pierce the veil that
men call destiny.
Tremendous events have come so
fast and furiously in few weeks that
we are calloused to them. Calmly
we ask, What next?" But can Theo.
dore Roosevelt ask calmly, What
next?" Try to put youreslf in his
place. No man knows better than
he that the political parties do not
naturally select the Roosevelts as
presidents of the United States. They
want different type of man. They
want men who place wisdom above
the honest heart; strategy above the
question, "Is II right?" and who can
smile on their enemies and destroy
the opposition with words of poison
ed honey.
Roosevelt has been a terror to Re.
publican politicians since his youth.
They ground their teeth in rage when
the irrepresisble Teddy rushed up
San Juan hill to the governorship of
New York. With a mighty effort
they put him out of the way as vice
president. Roosevelt always had NOR.
al courage-offensive moral courage
And he knew what the game was and
he refused to be laid on the shelf.
NO. No. Mo-" said Roosevelt AT
Philadelphia when he was offered the
nomination for vice president. But
for the first time in his life, he yield
ed. His hitherto invincible backbone
weakened, and, so they say, in a
dream, as If led by some mysterious
force he could not resist. he gave
way at the Philadelphia convention
and accepted the deadly vice prcsi
dency. Perhaps when he stood in
the chamber of death at Buffalo IL
flashed over his mind that when he
yielded at Philadelphia, 1t was des.
tiny.
Who can say that the affairs of ma
tions and the history of the world
are not guided by unseen hands?
Mckinley assassinated-Roose
president. II was his right and right
manfully he has held the reins OF
power And then men interfered
What is destiny beside the plans OF
politicians? Theodore Roosevelt re
spected his great rival, Mark Hanna
the logical leader Of the Republican
party.
Then. Unexpectedly, suddenly. the
great shadow came, and Theodore
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ed eyes, stands alone.
Put yourself in his place. In your
room, with every other human sou
barred out, perhaps you would wres
tie with the awful mystery-alone.
You would exclaim: 20. God, Il
my career, If the things am to do
means more deaths. IL men must di,
that | shall perform a mission fol
my country, let this cup pass from
my lipsl
Destiny do not want the destin,
that Is darkened by the shadow.
would rather be the humblest either
than walk to power and glory will
death at my side.
Have mercy, Cod"
Perhaps You wouldn't-perhaps yo,
have heart of stone. But remembe
that the bravest hearts are the sof,
est and tenderest. and Theodor
Roosevelt is certainly a brave man.
Denver Post.