Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-12-17
APPRECIATION OF ROOSEVELT.
New York World Gives Utterance to
Remarkable Editorial.

In another column we reprint from
the New York Sun a most extraordi-
nary editorial, which describes Presi-
dent Roosevelt as a constituencies and
reckless demagogue and, not for the
first time, says that his mind is un-
hinged.
The presidents assailant in this case
is not an irresponsible yellow journal,
a gutter sheet written by men Of no
ability or learning. On the contrary,
the Suns editorial page is made by
most cultivated, experienced, able, in
tellectual writer's. Its constituents are
business men, lawyers, doctors, men -
letters, professional people of all class
community. The Sun itself said Of
Mr. Roosevelt the day after he became
president: He is the most sterling
embodiment of contemporary Ameri-
canism; is of spotless honor and un-
conquerable fidelity to the loftiest and
sternest ideals Of public duty"
In such circumstances it's studiously
shocking and offensive attack upon
Mr.. Roosevelt deserves serious consid-
Grafton. 1t is a sign of the times. For
what the Sun says openly and public
ly, thousands of the cultivated and
property owning classes are unques-
tionably saying privately. This we
know. In their opinion privately ex-
pressed, not only on the stock and 9TH
er exchanges, but heard in all the clubs
and at social meetings and dinners, Mr..
Roosevelt has been transformed into
a dangerous demagogue and the repub-
lie is at the mercy of his mental delu-
sions.
For instance, at the banquet of the
Chamber of Commerce, at the dinner
of the st. Nicholas society, at the
dinner of the Minnesota society night
before last, the usual toast to the pres
ident Of the United States was drunk
in studied and significant silence,
while any mention of Governor Hughes
evoked still more significant applause.
The World has criticised Mr. Roose-
welt freely, and will continue to crit
icise him whenever he deserves it. He
has in our conviction committed many
mistakes in his clamor for revolution
airy legislation, for a bigger navy, a
bigger army; in his constant talk Of
war-war; in his appeals to the jingo
spirit. to populistic passions and class
hatred. No president before him, not
even Andrew Johnson, has used such
Incorporate, intolerant, violent speech.
No president before him has appealed
so much to the passionate feeling rather
than the dispassionate reason Of the
masses. He has shown strange judg-
ment in carrying out his corporation
policies, using the pickaxe where the
delicate knife of the trained surgeon
was imperatively needed; but there
never was a president in the White
House who was shrewder politician,
whose mind was less unbiased or more
capable of withstanding any tension,
strain or burden to which it might be
subjected. His physical, mental, nerv-
Gus. temperamental strength is little
less than marvellous. If Mr.. Roose-
velt's mind is unhinged, Cromwell was
a chattering imbecile and Napoleon
died from the effects of paresis.
The presidents unreasoning admir-
ers and unreasoning opponents refuse
to see that there are actually two
Roosevelts. One of them is an amaz-
ingly resourceful, calculating politician,
not over-accurate or over-scrupulous
or over-truthful, seeing clearly what he
wishes to accomplish and not over-nice
in the means he employs to reach his
ends.
The other Roosevelt shares Lincoln s
mastering desire to serve the people
and leave a name that will shine for
ever in American history. This is the
Theodore Roosevelt who has grappled
with trusts and corporations. terrorized
cowardly Wall street, smashed the
money power and, but for Cortelyou,