Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-02-24
UNFAIR TO PRESIDENT.

Golfers for February "a, 1906,
says:
The president has excited a feeling
of somewhat churlish resentment and
irritation among the host of special
correspondents" at Washington who
represent western, southern and east
ern papers, as is evident from a mere
reading of dispatches. The CORE
%spondents magnify anything that
shows the president in Il bad light.
They made columns and columns out
of the Mrs. Miner Morris incident,
and they have been somewhat over
pleased at Mr.. Roosevelt's auUhOriZa-
ton of the sketch of him in "Fads
and Fancies." This feeling Of irrita-
ton among newspaper men, as well
as among many congressman and
private individuals, is due mainly to.
The presidents lack of tact, a fault,
but not one so serious as to blind us
~ the fact that American citizens
should rejoice in the existence of
President Roosevelt. Where is there
another man whose inspiration car
ries to such large numbers of those
who are fighting graft from Maine to
California? How many can furnish
sympathy and strength. as the presi-
dent does, 10 men who have never
seen him, but are trying to effect
better things in their own commune
ties? There are hundreds of men in
public life, of the kind from Naom
presidents are chosen, who are I'M
able to comprehend many of the
things which the people need and
want, and for which Mr.. Roosevelt
is a living dynamo of encouragement.
We are not forgetting his faults,
even along the lines for which our
praise is now being given. We re-
gret, for example, the part the ma
tional government is playing in Ill
inoiS politics and the senatorial con-
test in that state, and time and again
there has been cause TO grieve over
his interference on the wrong side of
local fights. Admitting his short
cOmings, We rcilerate that the pre-
JUDGE against him among Washing
ton correspondents is something
against which people should be on
heir guard, and that, standing as he
does on the whole for good, his wide
popularity and power of reaching
the millions, and making them be-
lieve in him and in the doctrines
which he is continually eXpounding,
is one Of the most valuable assets OF
present politics.
Whatever hostility to Mr.. Roose-
welt can be worked up will be used to
the uttermost now by the forces of
corrupt money privilege that are
ranged against him. Whatever our
criticisms, let us not forget the des-
Derate contest which special privilege
everywhere is prepared to wage at
Washington contest in which,
whoever may be right in this detail
or that, on the whole the president is
the most powerful champion of the
vague but strong feeling Q: the peO-
Dle, that financial burdens are I'M
equally distributed and need to be
readtusted. In this contest, which
will be a long and hard one, it will
be the policy of the shrewd mauipu-
lators who are guarding their present
Snaps" to take advantage Of every
one of Mr.. Ro%Osevelt's slips. Let
those of us who wish Justice every
where, whatever interests fall, crit
icise him as freely as We should
criticise a holder of the humblest
office, but let us not lost sight of the
fact that the presidents fercest enc
mics are likewise enemies of us all.
1t is not a question OF who is right on
the HeDburn bip Of on almost any
other measure tlft may be before