Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-02-01
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DIAMOND ~ UOOOV'
The lovely Pecos valley y 80 for.
tuuAte ~ to possess among Its cii'
gems one A. A. Freeman, sometime ~
so>( ats justice " TIE supreme court bf
New Mexico. tho Chesterfield Of
America, the Ward McAllister. Beau
Drunmell. whst.Not Of New Mexico.
M. Freeman has given various and
sundry evidences, lately. OF his gu
periority TO the ordinary mortal. but
his chiefest and most recent claim TO
must be founded upon his
recent article upon the president OF
The. United states.
Toddy ~ e pretty 0ood U0Vt q -
chap, mind you, according TO the
learned and polished Chesterfield
not brilliant, exceedingly sullabls. fond
oe flattsry, egotlstical--but with his
honesty. his force. his impulsivsness.
JSdge Freeman nj Ike the president
even better for his faults. because.
II you please. he 10 . diamond in the
rough.
Shades Of the departed Rooseveits.
the Barnhills. the Stuyvesants and
Nshesi Theodore Roosevelt, the
scion Of the proudest Dutch families.
heir to the bluest blood of Beacon
street and tho rare and sweet court
esy Of the southland. Theodore Roose-
welt. I diamond In the rough to this
elegant gentleman from the Pecos val.
ley. The president, doesn't mean to
b rude and brusque. and even Zero
cious, according to Judge Freeman. 1t
II simply In his blood and must come
out.
Judge Freeman's article II really
0ns Of tho most humorous that has
appeared In the public prints for :
long time, and II ID 70 because the
writer meant I'll he said In dead ear.
nest
II there II any man Ia this nation
who u smooth ana Discerning and pol.
tito, that man ID Theodore Roosevelt.
II there 10 any man who In his social
contact with the people can be looked
upon ~ : model Of fine courtesy
and good manners, still that mans
name ID Theodore Roosevelt The
laws Of atavism have had their way
with Theodore Roosevelt. and the In
ate good.bre1ding. high polish ana
~Gentlemahly bearing cannot be sue
ce1sfully disguised even when the
president In his official capacity Is
dealing with hordes Of hungry office
seekers and scheming politicians.
II II these finer qualities that are
In the blood and must come out.
Judge FSeeman's eyes have been dull
Indeed that they have not seen that
the br~usQueness, the incisiveness, the
hurried manner have all been assum.
ed TO allow the president to meet the
hundreds Of people In I day. accom-
plish : vast deal OF work and have
time for his family, his social duties,
his literary pursuits and the athletic
sports OF which he ID 90 fond.
Judge Freeman, ~ far - we know,
has always appeared at the White
House IN the role Of I detract0r OF
somebody. = fact which. In itself,
would not recommend him very cor.
daily to the president. But It has
been not Judge Freeman alone, but
Thousands OF others who have gone to
the president In his official capacity
to find him with throngs In waiting,
willing to give but scant time to their
plants. The moment he has caught
their meaning through the verbiage
and platitudes with which they have
thought Il well to adorn their speech
for the purpose OF talking to 1 presi-
dent. he has snatched the words from
their mouths. forced them to their
conclusions. denied. favored or prom.
ised their requests and turned abrupt.
" 70 the next. And Judge Freeman
thinks that this makes Roosevelt a|
dlaoead n the rough. There has
never been . better illustration Of
Roosevelt's msny.sidedness, his abil.
~ TO rise to any emergency, than
this deliberate assunoti0n OF an|
abrpptness foreign tes6s nature, for
The 'pake Of accomplishing the great.
ct b0ssible amount Il personal work
with his people. and not cutting him.
sslf of from every other duty and
pleasure.
Judge Freeman refers To the love
OF the president for athletics. He
aays that his hours In office are time
spent In prison. He notes that Roose.
welt never sits down while talki~- -
the hordes who beset MIN. nut wa,xs
up and down like a Gagged lion. And
yet the president In the solitude Of
his own rooms spends many hours
peacefully engaged in exacting liter.
sry work. IN thinking out the solution
Of problems Of world importance end.
during the quiet hours In the family
and surrounded by his intimate
Sriends. he IL the very a~ntithesis Of
the neutrality-suspicious.. quick speak.