The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-10-16
PRESIDENT WILL
HAVE TO EXPLAIN.
Some Magazine Denunciations OF
Southern Men Are
Embarrassing.
TO WRITE LIFE OF JACKSON
Strenuous Executives Changed
Ideas Contrasted With
Early Writings.
Times-Dlspatch Bureau.
MunsnX Building.

Munsey Building.
Washington. d. c.. Oct. 10. .
The interesting rumor that Presi-
dent Roosevelt contemplates writing.
life OF Andrew Jackson. which Is
one reason for his visit to Nashville
in a few days. is In circulation here.
In recent years President Roosevelt
has manifested the most e1travagant
admiration for Old Hickory, and has
told one or two friends that he was
himself the kind OF Democrat that
! Jackson was.
Mr.. Roosevelt has undergone a
change of heart and mind towards
General jackson. Some years ago the
President said:
"Jacksons administration derives
most unenviable notoriety as being the
| one under which the spoils system be-
carno for the first time grated on
the civil service of the nation.
The two great reasons for Jack
sons success through his political
career were to be found In the
strength of the feeling. In his favor
among the poorer and least educated
| classes of voters, and In the ardent
support given him by the low politi-
| clans. who. by playing upon his pre-
| JUDGES and passions, nodded him to
| their wishes. and who organized and
perfected In their own and his In
| terests a great political machine,
founded on the spoils system.
Jackson liked Van Buren, because the
and politically-indeed, jackson was
incapable of distinguishing between a
personal and political service"
Roosevelt like Tatt because the lat
ter had served him both personally and
politicauy-indeed. Roosevelt was In
capable OF distinguishing between a
personal and political service.
Thus the historian in years to come
may describe the motives behind Presi-
dent Koosevelt's efforts to bring about
the nomination of Secretary Taft to
the presidency. President Jackson
nominated Van Buren,. and the intiu-
ence OF the Chief Executive was chiefly
instrumental In electing him. The re-
latlons between the two were much
those which subsist between President
Roosevelt and his War Secretary.
His Incorporate Uttcrnnces.
President Roosevelt Is about to break
camp and leave the Louisiana cane
brakes to start on q tour through
Mississippi and Tennessee. He will
make a number of speeches before he
leaves the two States. and 1t Is fore
gone conclusion that he will "jolly'
the audiences who hear him as he has
"jollied'' Southern people fer some
years now.
or course, the President has probably
changed his views regarding the South
and Southern people since he used to
be frequent contributor to magazines,
, before he was even State figure. The
way in which he jumped on and
stamped Jefferson Davis and Richard
Thompson and L. =. G. Lamar, all Mis-
| sissippians, In an article In the North
American Review. some years ago, was
l"somet thing awful" He said:
.'NVe feel sure that history will call
the War of the Rebellion to be both
iof all modern wars the most import
| apt and the one In which the divid-
Ing lines between right and wrong
We're sharpest drawn. "A Tory OF 1876
had far more right on his side than
had q Confederate nt1S60. Doubtless
trnost Tories believed firmly their cause
was right, and after the Revolution
they should have been treated as soon
as possible like their loyal fellow
citizens. But had this been done ,ex-
Iceptions would. OF course, have been
made in some cases-as In that Of Ben
edict Arnold and those of the men
who. under Johnson and Butler, took
part in the Cherry Valley and Wyom-
ling massacre.
[ When Lamar. Of Mississippi, secre-
tary of. the Interior under Cleveland.
Lhalf-masts the flag out Of, respect to
, the unsavory memory Of ex-Secretary
THOMPSON Orchard Thompson, Of Mis-
sisslppl, Secretary of the Interior un-
der Buchanan) we feel quite as indig-
.nant as our forefa,thers would have
been at a similar tribute to follower
t.of Butler or Johnson. So with Jefter-
E.son Davis. who enjoys the unique dis
tinction of being tho only American
With whose publ Ic charact Ter that OF
Benodict. Arnold. need not fear COM
parlson." n N ,..s Il.
Naturally..t the remarks Of President
Roosevelt. when he stands at the tomb
/ OF Jackson at the Hermitage, and when
| he addresses the. people OF Vicksburg
land other Miss ippi towns, are being
anticipated with asconsiderable degree
Of Interest. OF course,she has changed
WORTHLESS, some Of Mississippi and Ten
nessee, OF whom the people ofgthose
1 States are so proud, butit lis going to
he interesting to 6hearf5him explain
IHowever, he will hardly undertake en-
plantations. He went to Virginia two
years ago and received such a welcome
as had neyerr-heen accorded any man,
yet he pronounced Thomas ] etterson 9
sEater to Franse aGd had
stronger than many Southern people
would usesin denunciationl ot Presiden
Lincoln while the War Between the
I States was raglnsa