The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-29
s,e RE RoosEvELr BLUNDERs.

Roosevelt's penchant for putting in is apparently without limit or reason. He never loses an opportunity to get himself before the public. If tthere Is no cause ready. or that can be made ready. for him to promulgate an off, cial manifesto, he does it unofhcially. His letter to Congressman Watson of Indiana, was wholly without excuse or defence. except from a strictly par tisan standpoint. No other President of these United States, we are peg- suaded would so far forget the digni- ty of his office, and his duty towards all the people; no other man would ig- nore the fact that he is President of the whole country. and send out all over the Union strictly political par tisan ukase to be used in the interest solely of the Republican party. If he had wanted to write a private let ter to Watson. expressing his feelings towards a friend. there could be no harm in it, but this letter was not in- tended to be private It was intended for the public and was intended to af- feet the elections It was a discredlt- able performance and all the spacious reasoning of his adherents cannot bet ter It was a distinctly Rooseveltian bit of work and ones we hope, Of which no other President would be guilty. Instead of showing himself the President of all the people he has proclaimed himself the President of the f CT ublican party
 And the later pronunciamento on the subject of spelling is in worse taste than the other. though 1t has no DO. litical training. And on this subject an editorial from The Hartford Times is so gcod that we copy it entire:
 President Roosevelt's zeal as a re- former has found a new outlet.
 The beef trust and the Standard Oil Company having been duly .'curbed" and compelled to m 4nd their ways, and many other monopolies fthe nsmes of which do not occur to us at che rrcment) having been suppressed or fcr-ed ito behave tn srnselves," Ibe president was in dan7"r of getting out or rFPetiee and be esom'=% somewhat fit bly, as reformer during th4 sum- meg vacation period.
 Fortunately. there gre tial Is Of effort stiil open to him of Tht~a the war:d A0A 6S NAA llOS 0EpH+ MT lApFD las not yet laid in the winters stock os stationery for the white 1T HJase ana t2are Is an oppoT lu1itS for in,it- dEC;ns some new Wri1kles in note la- pers which will greatly interest the people who get letters from the exec utive mansion. Furthermore, and this fact has escaped general notice, there Is the question of what sort of language shall be used in the official documents that emanate from the Presidents offices. Shall the official messages. which are sent to Congress say through" or "throo" or thru? How about "altho" and tho" and the other Improvements recommended by the so-called Carnegie or Brander Matthews committee? Here was a question that was presented to all word mongers. and should not the President, of the United, States meet it bravely and squarelV and prove himself as bold in the cause Of spell ing reform as in eXpellinR the Span iards from Cuba. or bad" corpora tions from the face of the earth?
 We are gratified to he able to pint the news that, having given tne Re publican Congressional campaign lr admirable send-off and having at tended to nearly everything else that could possibly be attended to, MT. Roosevelt mas met this issue of speH- ing reform like. a man lie has made up his mind and given !Is or ders. He does not undertake to