Rocky Ford enterprise., 1904-09-16
Democratic Charge Against
President Roosevelt that Is
Without Foundation.
SAFEST MAN IN COUNTRY
Three Years 10 the White House and a
No Time Has Anything Been Done that
Did Not Teud Toward Peace
with All the World.

when tho bitter personal attacks on
Theodore Roosevelt arr analyzei. and
when a Democratic agitator Is asked TO
| define his opposition to the President.
tho Inevitable reply Is that "lioossve!t
u an unSaf. man"
Now. Is hef
What makes an unsafe mani when
II man safe and when II he danger
| ous7 How arc we to judge a man
by what he has done or by what soms
one says he may dot Are We justified
In calling n man unsafe who has all
his life been emIncntly safer Is not
man entItlci TO the reputation he makes
for himself?
20. three years Theotlors Roosevelt
has had absn,u,. power. as President OF
| tho United States. ani yet during that
three years. although called To the great
office sndicnly. as the. result of hor-
rible murder. he has never lost his head.
lie has never done dangerous thing.
ha has at no time Involved the country
Ia difficulties. either at home or abroad.
False Predictions.
lmmesliat.iy following the murder Of
William Mckinley predictions wcss
freely mad. In the Democratic press
| that President Roosevelt would involve
the COUNTRY In war. Has he done 80;
II was also freely predicted that he
| would break with tho Republican ma
| Iority In the House and the Senate, and
that he wciid Insist on hayln. his own
way. disr-sariIns the advice Of the
timc-honorc'i leaders OF the party. Has
he done sof
| Doe, no, every ono know. on the con.
| /ary. that the conditions OF peace DO.
Xwecn tho United States and the rest
.A.a Fssrs-'H -zH-- FfF-s- s-=-s--- sTs-ss-9is
ris., red than to-dayP This has not
u becauss the President has no, had
al opportunity 10 80 to war. There
have been half doE-n such oppoTtuni.
ties at tho very least since he became
President. when. II b, had been the un.
safe man he was alleged to be. he might
easily have involved us In war with QUO
or more OF the great powers OF Europe.
lie has mot every diplomatic emergency
with rough and ready diplomacy and CT.
iruorilnary tact. which have won for tho
unit~I States tho respect OF the civil.
lied world.
Record In Diplomacy.
Look oycr the r.cori OF the State De.
partmcnt under Theodore Roosevelt for
the las, three years. aud sec how much
has been accomplished Ia uphold the dig.
nifty and the honor OF the Unitc,i States.
withou, nt any time causing the slight
est apprehension OF foreign war. II was
| during tho present administration that .
| special commission was appointed to ad-
Just the disputed boundary brtwcen aIas.
| ka and the Dominion OF Canada. some
OF the Canadian people and papers talked
rather savngcly. There was every OPP
por,uni,y for n misstcp on tho part OF
tho United Stat~s. a little too much
bluStcr. a little too pronounced bras.
failure In tact at the proper moment. .
substitution OF timidity for bravery. or
| OF rashncss for conservatism by Thco-
dorc Roosevelt would have famed the
feeling In Canada into a dangerous
| flame. The Alaska boundary was an
inheritance from the Mckinley admin
is,ration. but II was safely settled un.
der Roosevelt, settled to tho credit Of
the United States. settled without the
loss OF an inch OF American territory.
and settled, too, without the destruction
Of the friendly feeling between Great
Britain and the United States.
When Germany and England were at
the throlts OF tho little republic OF
Venezuela, an unsafe President might
easily have involved us In war with
those two countries. and n timid Prcsi.
dent might easily have brought upon the
flag the shame of the rest of the world.
Russia and Japan have been at war.
The sentiment OF the people In this
country has been largely in favor Of
Japan. Yet John Hay. the wise and dis.
Greet Secretary OF State. appointed by
Mckinley and unhcsitatinIly retained
by Roosevelt, has 80 successfully direct
cd the course OF American diplomacy
that the United States to-day is as much
the friend of Russia as II Is OF the little
fghting-cock, Japan. The United States.
In fact, has dictated the diplomatic con-
duct of hostilitics between Russia and
Japan. This country has dominated thS
situation, and yet ut no time has there
been the slightest danger that we might
become cmbroiled with any foreign na.
ton.
Safe Every Day In the Year.
These are the actual results of three
years OF the foreign policy OF Theodore
Roosevelt, the man who. when he en-.
tered the White House as the result Of .
murdcrous bullet. was by his political nd.
rcrsaries pictured TO the other nations OF
the world as n braggart and a swnsh-
buckler. lie has been safe always safe,
every day and every hour, since he has
been President OF the United States. He
has never lowered the American flag to
anybody, he has never been forced to
apologize and he has conducted every
episode or our foreign polcy, WIN tns
advice OF John Hay, In such a way as
to preserve tho honor OF the American
Republic, and to gain the respect of tho
sovercigns of the world. There Is not
king. nor an emperor nor n president,
nor potentGte from Pckin to Tmbuctoo
who does not know to-day that Theo-
dorc Roosevelt Is OF the best American
type. honest, frank, courageous. sensi.
bic. and always safe for those who treat
him fairly.
Men OF the Roosevelt type are unsafe
only to the dishonest, to the disturbcrs
OF the peace OF nations, to the graftcrs
at home and ene grabbers abroad, to the
manipuIntors OF markets and tho wreck
ers OF nations. To the honest men, to
the people of the home and the freside.