The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1905-03-04
TIE NEW ADMINISTRATION.

Today Theodore Roosevelt becomes
president through the choice of the
people. Until today he was president
by accident and took up the honors
and responsibilities of the office from
the shoulders of another. From now
OH till the 4th Of March, 1909, If he
lives until that time, he will be the
president of the United States because
he is the choice of the people. He
will no longer be bound by the prom
Uses which he made ut Buffalo, that he
would carry out the policies of his
lamented predecessor. He will be no
longer under obligation to those
powerful leaders who elected William
Mckinley president, He will no longer
be bound by any sense of duty to keep
in the public service the friends of his
predecessor. Although the man elected
today is the same man who was presi-
dent yesterday the administration that
starts today will in every sense be
new one. President Roosevelt upon
taking up the responsibilities of the
Office when President Mckinley died
made certain promises which he has
been more or less bound by. He took
up the Office with the Cabinet of his
predecessor intact. Most of these
have remained with him throughout
his term so that in no sense could the
three and half years of President
Roosevelt be considered his own ad-
ministration. But from today On he
will be president of the United States
in the full sense of that term. The
powers of that office have been be-
slowed upon him by the direct and
overwhelming vote of the people.
They have said to him 1--WE approve
of your course and policy" but they
said more than that. They said, "We
shall expect great deal more of you
after you shall have taken the office
on your own account" He starts,
therefore, upon this new administra-
ton with peculiar advantages and
with great responsibilities. There is
no gainsaying the fact that he is the
president of the people and that they
believe in him thoroughly. They will
ever be ready to grant him unstinted
praise for his good acts and prone to
excuse his mistakes. In these respects
he is more peculiarly the president of
the people than any president since
James Monroe In another way he is
ut disadvantage. He was elected
president because of his own per-
sonal traits and popularity. He was
not the choice of powerful leaders of
his own party. He is not popular with
them today. They will not aid him in
carrying out the promises which he
has made to the people. Will he be
able against those men and their in
tluences to accomplish anything? 1t
is doubtful If he fails he will be Inc
greater disappointment because great
things have been expected of him, and
because the people have placed such
confidence in him. Theodore Roose-
welt was not our choice for president.
He is not the kind of man that we
thought would make the best presi-
dent We respected him as high
type of an American citizen whose
motives are of the best and whose
scholarship and varied attainments
stamp him as a man beyond the ordi-
nary, but we have thought and still
think that his methods SAVIOR more Of
the army camp than of the Executive
chamber. We have considered him a
man moved by the very best Of i'm
pulses, but one whose judgment was
more liable to be swayed by the spec
tacular and sympathetic features of Il
case rather than by the practical and
just. Our opinions. however, We're
not the opinions of the majority. He is
the president of the whole people, and
as such it will be our duty as we'll as
our pleasure to support him in all his
efforts looking toward the betterment
Of the common people and the settle
ment of these questions between COM
bined capital and the masses which
are of such grave Importance at the
present time.
We are ready to do all the root
ing of which we are capable for Theo-
always, that he fights against the vic
ious and corrupt. We hope that his
| term now so auspiciously commencing
will be the most efficient and the most
statesman-like in the history of the
Republic.
THE SWAYNE CASE.
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