The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1905-03-02


More Isolated Than Any Great
President-Declares Politicians OF
His Party Are Against Him, but He
Can Triumph by Standing by the
People.
In speech delivered at the recent
Hungarian Republican club dinner in
New York after President Roosevelt,
the guest of honor, had left, District
Attorney William Travers Jerome said
II have few things to say with ref
erence to Theodore Roosevelt that
would rather say to his face l have
known him for twenty years, and in
all that time 1 have loved Theodore
Roosevelt the man, while have hated
Theodore Roosevelt the statesman and
politician. Every time he acted as
Theodore Roosevelt the man the whole
United States, with the exception of
those who always have their ear to the
ground, stood back Of him. Every
man, be he Democrat or Republican,
when Theodore Roosevelt spoke from
the fullness of his heart followed Theo-
dore Roosevelt, and today when the
great hour Of this man, the time Of his
great fight, is at hand, they will still
support him.
HE stands today face to face with
the greatest trial Of his career because
his work of destruction has gone by
and he must now show what he can do
In the way of construction. Those Of
us who know what construction work
means know how much herder it is to
construct than to fight and attack. He
stands today subject to the greatest
test that any human being in this coun
try ever will be subject to. Whatever
he, Roosevelt the man, does the people
will stand back of him because it was
the man that spoke.
"Now he approaches the hour Of his
trial, when he stands practically alone,
for / betray no secrets when 1 say that
the Republican politician cares as little
for Theodore Roosevelt today as the
Democratic politician. Theodore Roose-
welt stands today alone, more isolated
stood in the history of his people Tho
people love him. The politicians fear
him. Sometimes he has drifted away
from being Theodore Roosevelt the
man, but so far he has always come
back. He stands today on the thresh-
old of a usefulness that will be unsur-
passed If he meets the crucial test. |
believe he will meet it. He may meet
a setback from that rich mems club,
many Of whom are under Indictment
now and many more of whom would
be under indictment if they got their
deserts"
This reference to the United States
senate brought applause. Mr.. Jerome
continued:
'If he forgets entirely the politician
but turns again to the plain people of
the United States, party lines will dis
appear, and If he makes a confident APP
peal to the plain people to support him
he will find at the next congressional
election, so overwhelming will be the
support, that the senate of the United
States will take the place it deserves
to take, subservient to those who are
elected by the franchises of the people,
II fear that in the time Co come,
when the president will stand practi-
cally alone, with no one around him
who has his interests at heart he will
have moments of Encouragement.
wish he was here tonight to hear the
applause with which you greet these
sentiments. 1t will not be what Theo-
dore Roosevelt does, it will not be what
Theodore Roosevelt says, but it will be
what Theodore Roosevelt is in this
hour of peril and strain that will be an
inspiration to the American people,
But I believe he will ring true. / be-
lieve he will stand for your rights and
mine, and if he does ring true he will
go down in history for all time as an
inspiration to the young and the old."