The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-15

had troubles Of your own with them
But be little easy with them and
leave them to me. / am making them
all good friends of yours, Senator,
am making them all good friends of
yours And it won be long before we
will have them safe within the ranks Of
the Republican party
Then Governor Roosevelt would 60
and dine with the Reformers and say:
s4Now lust wait, Mr. Reformer, just
wait You and I are practical men;
tAnd if there is anything in the world
That pleases Reformer it is TO he told
that he is practical man-somethlng
that he is not-9o9 times ont Of 1000,
but it is human nature to appreciate
being given attributes which one does
not possess.) Just wait, Just wait.
Rome WASH t built IN n day, you know.
But only wait for ] am getting the
pld man. (Senator PlattD inst where |
want him And you VIII find that as
soon as 1 get this piece of legislation
and that piece of legislation ] Will put
him out Of business
Where Teddy Fell Down
Now the true machine politician of
The Platt type never talks. Hence,
what Governor Roosevelt said to
S'Boss'' Platt never reached the Re
Formers But your Reformer who has
dined with the Governor of State
and who has been dining with another
Reformer likes nothing better than TO
say to another Reformer, '' | was din
ing with the Governor last night, and
he told me great secret that as soon
ms he gets this and that piece of leg
islation out of the 'old man. he will
put him out Of business
The upshot of all this was that
r'Boss' Platt went to the other minor
leaders in the State and said, For
Heaven Is sake. take this wild man of
Borneo away from me, -
It will be remembered that Governor
Roosevelt fought to the last against be-
Ing named on the ticket with President
Mckinley in 1900. but "Boss'' Platt
and the other machine politicians had
their way. Whether they regretted it
Or not Is not to the point. In any
event Platt would rather have had
Roosevelt in the White House than in
the Governor chair at Albany, since
n Governor can bother New York
''boss' more than can a president.
Wilful Misrepresentation.
In order to understand the real
Roosevelt as he is understood by his
friends it should be understood that he
does not think it sin TO romance (men
like Hartman and Penrose should not
use shorter and harsher word) in
tho public service as it would be wrong
70 lie for private gain or pclf or graft.
Is no serious IN connection
with some of the situations that lie
creates in this way than Dumas was
serious in creating situations in fc
tion-provided always and ever. of
course, that the falsehoods are told in
the public service by HIM and not to
him, and that they are told for the
good of the service. There is scarcely
a Washington correspondent of Span |
ish-American war Days who will not |
remem Der at the iimc that the present |
President was assistant Secretary OF
the Navy he would not tell the news
papermen that this torpedo boat had |
gone in this direc ton and that torpedo
boat destroyer in that direction. OF |
60 o99u5hse 4he this was or p,s.6e, to the outbreak
Rough Rider, When the boats that |
the assIstnnt Secretary of the Navy |
he'd reported as going TO New York |
would slow up later ar Jacksonville |
or vice versa, without even waiting for |
the newspapermen to protest against |
the deceit, with almost childish glee he |
would laugh at the clever manner in |
dents the other day. Sore OF the
newspapermsn seemed tn think that |
some of these 'stories' were thrown |
away since war had not vet been de- |
clared with Spain, and renl neccs-
sity did not exist, but Roosevelt ap.
peared to get so much amusement out |
Of that sort of thing that even the |
newspapermen themselves commenced |
to see the humorous side OF the mat
ter.
Caught IL Romance.
Perhaps this particular and peculiar |
trait in the character OF the President |
cannot be better illustrated than in |
connection with an incident that oc-
CURED when he was police commission
er- 1t happened that new racing |
park was opening up and the men in |
control wanted to make the opening |
day society event of the first magni,
tude, Naturally they did not want any
trouble with the police. A social friend |
of Mr.. Roosevelt S was asked by the |
racing powers-thatb be to see the police |
commissioner and explain TO him that |
cthey were anxious to cooperate with |
the police officials in every way, but |
the racing laws being new, they were
not quite sure where they were "at,'
from the legal aspect Of the case How
ever, inasmuch as many society ladies |
would be in attendance, if Mr. Roose-
welt, as police commissioner, would only |
say the word they would be pleased |
to see that no book making took place |
at the track.
'fThere will be no arrests made to- |
velt. -'''''
Deceived His Friend.
AS the social friend tells the story, |
be said: Something in the way he |
had said it made me know he was ".
ing. And / knew him well enough to
be able to give good guess as to when
he was lying, So / went on to ex-
plain to him that the men in control
Of the track were high-class men; that
they were willing TO obey the law if
they could only be sure about the law,
but that If there was any doubt about
the matter at all he had only to say
the word. At any cost, they wished to
prevent disturbances at the track on
this, the opening day. Once again he
chopped out the words, There will be
no arrests made today Finally |
gave up In despair for felt that some.
thing was wrong. I went back to my
racing friends and reported, THE com
missioner says, There will be no ar
rests made today His manner tells