The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-10-25

The people Of Jacksonville have
seen the President of the United
States What they saw was a Wis r.
GUS man Of exuberant nature, who for.
gOt that he was President of the
1 United States and did just what his
warmer nature prompted him to do.
He was happy at the evidences OF
good will displayed on every side, as
happy as if applause we're new to
him. and he Gid not try to conceal It,.
The man we saw Saturday has time
and again proved that he has a mans
brain and will enough for several
men; but those who saw him can
not help knowing that he has a boys
heart.
And this the noblest possible com
binatiOn-;he iron viii. the mans
brain and the boys heart. provided
that 20 these is Joined an unfinching
courage and an incOrrupdble honesty.
All these elements go to make up
Theodore Roosevelt.
We doubt whether the people Of the
United States ever. in but one in
stance, before saw the man who was
President. They have time and again
seen a being so epcrusted in the dig
nifty Of the Presidential ONCE that
nothing but the shell could be seen.
And the she'll was not made for any
individual 1t was simply the Pres
dental she'll We doubt If ever but
enc President heretofore went before
the people whose every act, every
gesture, every word, every look was
not intended to be the act. the ges-
ture, the word the look of the Presi-
dent OF the United States instead of
the man. The exception in history
was President Lincoln. Again we
have a President whose nature is not
hidden in the Office, and we are glad
to have such President. The hearts
of the people can warm up to him,
and as he goes through the country
are warming up to him, as they could
not if the people only saw the shell
There may be some who viii accuse
President Roosevelt of a lack of dig
nifty. We do not blame any man for
being dignihed who cannot help =.
If what We call dignity is natural, it
is unObiectionable. If it is put on
as a cloak, intended. like the actors
costume. only to help a man play a
part to which the cloak is supposed
to be appropriate. it is only the lions
skin that is put on to disguise the ass. I
The ass that put on a Inns skin for
a time made some believe he was a
lion, but he was only an ass. The
lion needs no skin but his own.
President Roosevelt does not fail 1
to realize that he is President. We
have often criticised him for not real
izing that he is not Congress too. I
He IS certainly not lodging any re-
spOnsibilities of surrendering any Of 4
his prarogatives; but when ne goes
out on a holiday to meet the people
he meets them. He does not wall
himself in. When they see him theyl
may know him just as he is, for he
makes no plays to the grand stand
He may have been shamed by the
funny man out of a display of mis-
natural fOndness for risk and made to (
believe that a President of the United
States should take care Of himself.
but In his general conduct he shows
himself as he is. the big man with
mans brain and a boys heart, and
every man, woman and child in the
United States ought to see him. Il
is not necessary to be introduced or
to work him to death in the hand
shaking business. Those who see
him will like him and not bother
about the fact that he is not infalli-
bic