Arizona republican., 1907-10-26
THE PRESIDENT AS A BEAR
HUNTER

Ways the Evening Outcast, stands
with upturned eye and expectant tail
waiting for the crumbs from the ad
ministration table. Crumbs are better
than hunger and in the meantime
Ways" tail Quivers joyously. vigor-
ously, for may there not be n more
substantial bone after while? Happy
"Wags," Great is the pleasure OF an
ticipation.
So intense is the alteration of
Ways" that it turns with a snap and
a snarl at those who slap President
Roosevelt on the back in friendly IA
miliarity and hurl good humored per-
siflage at him. So deep is the rever-
ence of Ways" that it regards as sa-
cred that pilgrimage into the cane
brake. 1t was after all only a bear
hunt of which nobody would have de-
prived the president, unless possibly
the Hearst papers. which spitefully
and spleenishly kept saying that he
might better be attending to the pub
lie business than frittering away his
time in a fruitless chase after bears
But God knows and the corporations
too. while the rest of the country had
begun to suspect, that he had attend
ed to the public and the private bus
mess too much already. So the coun-
try rather welcomed the bear hunt as
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as for the president. 1t babe him
godspeed on his outing and made no
imperious demand for the early return
of its illustrious public servant. 1t
consented to let his salary run on even
for the remaining sixteen and a half
months of his term If he cared to hunt
bear 50 long.
Every body in the country, that is
everybody but Ways" entered into
the joyous spirit Of the holidays. a pc
riod OF feast days. But Ways" re-
weeks season of solemn, religious GER
emony with the president as high
priest and the bears as sacrificial VIC
tins.
Everybody but Ways" laughed and
jollied the president. tainted him good
naturally on his i'll luck, which it was
intimated. was the product of his un-
skillfulness. some perhaps. hoping by |
these taunts to arouse his combative- I
ness and keep him hunting bears But 1
Ways" barked in a solemn whisper, |
regarding these "jollies" as profanity |
sacrilege, even lese majestic. and was !
inclined to denounce the bears as no |
better than Hartman and all others !
who seek to thwart the imperial will
altogether undesirable citizens of |
the canebrake. In the opinion of /
"Wags' the bears We're the enc
mics OF the administration. If \
Ways" had been in their places. /
it would not have concealed itself in ]
the recesses Of ting canebrake. but |
with joyous yelp il would have burst 1
to lick the presidents hands.
Now that it is all over. ways in
fierce indignation denounces as enc
mics Of the Republic all who in mer-
ry mood said the president was not
mighty bear hunter.
The Republican will apologize to
Ways" for its misunderstood levity. Il
The president is a mighty bear hunter,
the most illustrious, we have no doubt,
that ever pushed aside the cane
brakes We knew all along that he
was mighty hunter for we have read
his book descriptive OF big game in
the Rockies. one who can write
book like that, has a more valid title
to the position OF premier hunter. than
if he had learned the noble are of
venery at correspondence school and
held diploma guaranteeing his pro-
ficiency as e bear killer.