Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-04-18

! : Washington, April II President
Roosevelt is in excellent health. des-s
pite the recent alarming reports con-
corning his physical condition. A
week or so ago Mr.. Roosevelt's ape.
petite began to fail and his stomach
went back on him. When these facts.
became known rumors were put in
circulation that the presidents health
was failing, and that in all probability
he would have to leave Washington:
and take a long rest.
Judging from Appearances Mr..
Roosevelt was never in better shape
in his life, although he finds it more
and more difficult to keep down his
weight. Were it not for the strenuous
exercises in which he INDUCES. the
president would doubtless soon assume
the proportions of Grover Cleveland.
Mr.. Roosevelt has horror of fat, and
he wants little of it.
The work of the president does day
after day throughout the year would
kill an ordinary man What with
transacting the public business that
goes to his desk. preparing speeches.
writing letters, and receiving callers.
he is busy from morning to night, but
withal he finds time for recreation in
the form of long walks, horseback
riding on occasion. and in playing
tennis on the White House court
| People marvel at the presidents
eapacitys in literary way. He is
writing all the time, and apparently
can turn out speech at a moments
notice. But it should not be under
stood that the president is at all care
less in the preparation of his literary
productions. For all the CELEBRITY Of
his movements, ofacitl and personal,
the president dictates his correspond
ence or his speeches very slowly and
deliberately. The public has an en-
Itirely different idea about the presi-
dent in this respect, but it is fact
nevertheless that when he is talking
4 to a stenographe he is the personifica-
1 ton of studious deliberation. He
selects his words with care, often us
ing two or three synonym before de-
Gliding upon the one he wants. An
incident is recalled where the presi-
dent consumed at least twelve min
Iutes in debating public statement Of
4 little more than three hundred words.
i This was when the railroad rate
i fight was in its most critical stage,
4 and the president desired to send to
4 the country through the newspapers
4 an tsinterpreta alton of his attitude.
4 This means that it was one of those
utterances in which the president is
i not quoted directly but the reader is
4 left to infer that it correctly sets
4 forth the presidents attitude. The
q White House, story about the SIS 900, 600
conspiracy was inspired by the presi
dent. although he did not appear to
s. the public as its author Secretary
Loeb acted as the administrative
d spokesman in this utterance.
Although in fine physical form, the
president, it is understood, will lei
], mp on his work when he goes to his
4 summer home at Oyster Bay in June
. Last winter congress kept him busy
!. for three months, and since adjourn
ment the volume of business submitted
Ito him for consid eration has not falleI
off in the slightest.
While the president will not openly
play politics between now and thu
holding of the Republican Nationa
) Convention, he will undoubtedly prove
a factor in the determination by tina
body of the party g standard bearer Ii
the battle Of 1903. The approachin,
. pre-convention campaign interests TIL,
!, president, and he is watching th,
. moves Of the various candidates witt
/ the preatest care. When he gets dow
Z ITO Oyster Bay this summer it lis Ell
! pected that there will be good dea
: doing in politics. and that the littl
4 Long Island city will be the scene o
numerous conferences having a bear
ing on the presidential nomination
next year. ss
George Washington s vision of
great university at the capital Of TIL
Ination will at no distant day b
realized BY the institution Of learnin
located IN this city that bears BIZ
! name. The plan OF establishing
great university at the seat govern
ment IS older than the republic itsel
IIt was vigorously pressed by Jane
4 Madison and Charles Pinckney in tf
IA constitutions convention Of IT'S,
4 Washington urged it upon the after
!. tion Of the country in 1875 and agai
4 in 1896. His private letters durin
t the closing years of his life and hi
i last will and testament abound Il
= proofs Of Shis absorbing interests i