The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-12-27
Seeming Contradictions That
Are misunderstood.
LIKES TO TAKE SHORT CUT
And for His Impulsiveness He Is Some
times Unjustly Called Insincere-
A Few Illuminating
Anecdotes.

correspondent OF the New York Times
writes as follows:
1t would not be possible in q single
sketch 10 SUM up the character Of Rresi-
dent Roosevelt, Francis Il. Lenpp and
Jacob Al Rlis each tried to do it in a
book. Neither Of them trod on the
Others heels, and both Of them left
material for several more books beyond
their own boundaries.
Therefore this sketch IS no exhaustive
analysis OF Mr.. Roosevelt. All it aims
to do Is to dear up few matters con.
neetcd with many-sided personality
that IS always full OF new and sur,
prising features to those who think they
know il best.
III the universal chorus of gush abort
the president, no account has been taken
a those who feel chat they have real
grievances against him. When some
senator Or representative rebels the gen
eral disposition is 70 say: Aha! An
other politician sore because Teddy has
spoiled his graft
There are many senators and repre-.
sentatives who are highminded and hon
orable men, and who do not like the
president Tor what they consider good
reasoHs Yet the reasons are not always
"a good as thsy appear to those who
eatsrtain them. II may be a matter OF
snprise, for instance, to many readers
Of the general avalanehes OF gush to
know that there are men who quite hon.
estly believe the president to be insin.
cere. They are wrong about it, but
their opposition to him is quite honest,
There are drawbacks AS we'll as joys
about the incunbeney Of the presidency
OF man who is violently impulsiye al
we'll as roaringly honest The trouble Il
that as a rule these drawbacks have been
described in aiirighted tones BY solemn
men who saw ghosts. A sense 81 humor
is badly needed By the men who see
the defects Of Roosevelt.
The Constitution Safe for the Present.
For example, they see the possibility
of an ifamient wreck Of the constitution
in some spasmodic moment. The con.
cAAhNAAGA may AaAig ID 9htE41 tIN.AAtH u
tions have, bat il vii! hot be swept
overheard by the sud tseh OF an
irritated president who Aaas Il molnen.
tarily in his way.
On the other hand It is impossible
to write q truthful article about Reose.
welt without saying on the other hand
every other paragraph, his nature il 50
full Of contradictions it is indisputably
true that when Roosevelt finds the laws
whether OF the constitution OF otherwise
in his way, he is not appalled, thereby;
no IL only ilnpelled to the use Of 4
short cut somewhere AS the pElEenoleg.
lists say, reverence is not well developed
alldacity is well developed. He loFes
the constitution, but it is impossible tt
conceive him in an awe-atricken att
tude, on his knees, toward q coHstita-
tion Or anything else.
A few higAly commonplace iIlustra.
tions may illustrate both the safety and
the danger OF Roosevelt. For he IS an
ark of safety TO this government in some
ways and a danger ia others. There has
never been president since 1889 who
could 50 surely be relied upon in case
where the forms Of law were being
used By the criminal rich or the Grim.
inal poor; for he would break through
Che forms % save the substance. On the
other hand, there are persons who think
there has never been 4 president "
dangerous ia any emergency which might
arise where he happened TO be wrong;
for, they agree, he would break through
the forms Of law then as in the Other
ease, because al his belief in his own
divine rightness.
Whether the good outweighs the evil
or not is question to be decided accord
ing b partisan preiudices. According
to the opnoin Of one who has watched
him long at close range, with every
desire to be perfectly impartial III iudg,
ment, il does.
How Kansans Were Surprised.
But here are the illustrations. The
FIRST ii the case Of Judge John q. Pol,
lock of Topeka. The Kansas delegation
was split lib over tic appointment. Sen.
ator Long was backing Pollock. and
Senator Burton, THE same who las since
become undesirablv notorious, was back
ing Charles Blood Smith The represen.
tatiYes had several candidates.
When the fight grew hot the friends
+ Of other candidates made charges against
Pollock The Kansas delegation besieg.
ed the president daily and poured into
his impatient ear tales Of the worth
of this candidate and the yioiollsness
Of that. One day the president seemed
to lean one way, another day he lent
a mere attentive ear to some other can
diaate
AT last he told the Kansas delega.
ton that lie would be bothered no mofe
that they must 80 to the Capitol, swoor
On some unoccuped committee room. and
there ballot until they came to a de,
oision; and tho man they elected he
would appoint
lhc Kansans went their way with
nNch misgiying for they foresaw only
the dimmest possibility that they could
agree. They were quite right about
chat. They cast eight ballots without
result, and were just cutting up sims
Of paper for the ninth when a senator
lounqed ID.
what are you doing7H he inquired.
we are balloting for a federal Judge.
ship they explained 'alhe president
has told us that he would appoint the
man we selected
Web, you needn't ballot any more
said The senator The president has
just this minute sent IN the name oil
Judge Pollock
At FIRST the Kansans could not believe
II, and when they found It WAS correct
they were vastly wroths at least all 81
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