Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1906-08-18


Roosevelt Wonder Of AGE.
About this time another character
lnomcd up. a man 81 Intense person
alliy and, like Jackson. he succeeded
BIN making devoted friends snd implac.
able enemies Prophet or devil. De- ho9
Cor he Is nothing between the two.
Either be is the greatest statesman OF
his epoch or the rankeai chnrlaian.
lliH friends believe be- is The one. his
enemies donounco him az the other.
Never in our political history has
there been q career 90 brilliant and SO
successful DE has done things with
public applause thar would have con.
viciod Andrew johnson of high crimes
nnd mladomnnOFa. he has cracked
hts whip over congress as none Of his
/ predcccasora ever dared do before,
and congress he mcekly covered 80
I his lash. Daily the republican cloah
rooms Of the two houses have listened
% the boasts of the leaders that they
would "bcil the cat" and then wit-
lmisslyely they voted for his policies
I from their seats ON the floor. CONF
petition ahrinks before him. lie is
greater than the pyrones and the
Alps Has be reached hls zenithg
VINO can aayg
And that Is what the political world
I wants 40 know, and intends 90 know
has Theodore ROOget elt gone as Ear
as be can go? VIII his popularity
whhorl Can he dance the tight f1pe
furevor2 There ls no political Issue.
I There "a nothing antl- Roosevelt On
/ the republican party. and nothing
Ianu-Hryan IN the democratic party.
When Mr. Bryou lcft .Cr foreign
parts he commended Mr Roosevelt 90
/ hiH democratic following in congress
and the democrats took Nv Bryan at
BIS word. and helped 10 make R0oso-
vclt's chase Of the octopus fortunate
and triumphant
when the rate BIN came ont of the
senate committed on Interstate Conn
merce the east was no farther from
the west than Aldrchs idea was from
I Delivers un that question. yet theep
two sol together as did Knox and
/ Clnpp. Lodge and CulOm, ap8onor
and Long everybody bat FORAKER and
I the two yoncrabia and democratic
senators from Alabama No Caesar
ever had more capilyes ~ his train
than has Theodore Roosevelt. one of
the ahlest and altogether. The most
fortunate OF American politicians.
Co.
Third Term Growing In Demand
Everybody 10 thinking about third
term tor this man. The republican
party has search warrant out for
q republican 10 beat william Jennings
Bryan ASK the Arst dozen ropub.
iicans you meet IN the street how TO
beat Bryan la 1905. and az least five
or siy Of hem will answer "Roose-
Welt" That is the situation iu 1906,
and Il will BE even more pronouncedly
SO In 1905. II the unexpected should
happen ana the slxtieth congress
should have democratic majority
Not even did Jackson and Clay so
lovershndow the men 81 their times
10 the extent that Roosevelt and
Bryan oyershadOw the men ol ours.
1.-THE only third man Ia tho calcutta
ltlnn d William u. Hearst. and that Is
only because he o. e little red- hottor
THAN either Bryan or Roosevelt. and
the s0ciniisilc dogma more aggressive
than the principles of either at the
old parties Mr.. Bryan asserts that
hlg mission ls 90 promote radlCallsm:
Mr. Roosevelt says his endeavurH have
been 20 curb socialism. Mr. Bryan Is
where no is because he thinks the
Tendency ia toward conservatism, "
the spur b not applied Mr. RnuEo-
welt "a where be ls because he thinks
the country vs. rushing into socialism,
n the curb be not applied Mr. Bryan
spurs conservatism. Mr. Roosevelt
lcurba socialism. and thus the two are
leKncily Oh accord touching octopus
chasing aud trust busting. and all the
Iveltlsh. or Roosevelt more hryanlc.
D..
IL these two men, Bryan and Nooae.
welt, shall be- piifed against each other
in 1905, we viii see some lively poll.
tics. making tame even the campalgn
Iof 1895 And stranger things ihan