The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-01
A MAN woRsHfrpEn.


 As an indication iof how political partisanshfp of the Republican variety can blind a newspaper we copy the following deliverance from The York (Pa.) Dispatch:
 The conclusion jumped at by the enemies of the president, few as they may be. that he has been catering to the masses in the hope of securing a third term is about dispelled, accord ing to indications from Washington. Since the Presidents return those close Io him have learned that his mind is Proof of this is not wanting alone in his utterances but in the plans which he Is already making. looking to that time when he will have quit the White House. Part of the plans involve a thought upon the New York Senator ship. With the election of Taft he will whose term expires on the day he will quit the White House. The belief that he. Is anxious to secure the senator ship that he may aid in furthering those policies begun during his regime Is founded upon the fragments of facts that drop at the capitol. Any one else except Taft in the chair would not ap- pea tS to tSs people M1gSes ae of New R York, might fulfiil the hope of the people but with all his fearlessness and ability there is no telling what he might do when entrenched in power. The attitude of Taft is consistent. He is not cratic. His personality invites lconfidence The world knows his views or thinks it does. and believes they are Roosevelt. With Taft in the chair and Roosevelt in the Senate that confidence existing now could be continued With with Roosevelt absent from the af- fairs of the nation, divorced from the conditions which he promulgated and which he so we'll understands things
 Whether in the presidency or the Senate the people demand Roosevelt He has become such powerful part of the country's progressiveness tna! his counsel and guidance are desired in one capacity or the other.
 Isn't a great government running pretty low when it is seriously intimat- ed that it will be practically helpless without the active services of one man. and that man Theodore Roosevelt? We must believe that The Dispatch is of the opinion that the complete retire. ment of that one man would leave the country and the government helpless. It is really a ridiculous contention, to say the best of it. The removal or Roosevelt from all connection with public affairs would have no more ef- feet on the country or government than the removal of one drop would have on a glass of water.
 MT. Roosevelt lacks a great deal of being the government. though he and some of his blind admirers seem to think he is. We think that the very best think that can happen to this country would be his complete retire. ment It will be hard lines if another four years of him must be endured as President, but that calamity seems not at all improbable. The hero-worship of such as The Dispatch is fast bring ing him to the point of believing that the country cannot survive the loss of his service.
 The question of what shall be done with our ex-presidents should be easily disposed of in the case of Roosevelt, for he should be left severely alone. If he goes into the Senate he will be a continued source of irritation to Shat body. Better a nonentity like Piatt than an ebullient. Unbalanced and self-opinionated bull in the china shop like Roosevelt. If he should be sent as minister or ambassador to some foreign government he would soon embroil us in serious complications if not actual war. In short, his true friends and well-wishers. flew as they may be-" would do the country a ser vice by allowing him to go into privacy at as early a date as possible.