The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-02-15
The Presidents Critics.

l. he sanity or PRESIDENT Roosevelt is Drought lHlO
question by the New York Sun, Republican, in con-
necton with his special message of the 31st of jan
uary and in promugating its extreme view the New
York newspaper the risk of submitting itself to
public judgment on the proposition, which is the
of the two? The Sun is the most vio-
lent of all the presidential critics and it may be sug
gested that its long and bootess endeavor to fage
late the President into line with the interests has
turned its head.
Saying that the message is absolutely without
precedent or parallel in our documentary history"
and that it is the manner of the address that is most
disturbing The Sun gives voice to its suspicion:
Can any person skilled in the psychologist indica-
tons read this portentous datrbe without percev-
ing that its legitimate place is rather in the inwards
of carefully framed hypothetical question addressed
to experts than in any respectable collection of state
papers?
In defense of the President against the yelled
charges of the New York organ of the interests
the Portland Oregonian, Republican, which
says that many precedents have been made by plain
spoken statesman for the Republican party came in
to being "as party of protest against intolerable
wrong, of constructive hostility special privilege
Of the Presidents message manner" the Portland
paper says:
If he puts his protest in unusual form, the circum-
stances unusual which confront him. If his hos
tity is energetic, must not forget that the foes
of the country whom he attacks energetic, pow
erful and incredibly astute He might have spoken
of the trusts and the robber magnates in terms of
polite endearment; he might have obscured their
crimes in a cloud of fine language. But if he had
done he would not have accomplished the pur-
pose he had in mind
The Oregonian believes it not to be inevitable
that is crazy because he tells the TRUTH though
it may seem to the New York Sum-
The Philadelphia Press, Republican, testifes that
Mr.. Roosevelt has won more of his fellow country
men than any man in the nations history and ex-
cuses his mannerism, saying:
If his unceasng zeal sometimes irritates even
those who agree with him and admire him, this is
because of the very qualities which have made his
a great moral awakening of the deeper
and conscience of the American people.
A Democratic estimate of the style of expression
that is disturbing to Republican newspaper critics
comes from the New York Evening Post though
there is for suspicion that it may be dealing
somewhat in sarcasm when it remarks:
Other productions of his may possibly have been
open to the charge of being imprudent, tempeSuouS
md extreme, but at last we have from his pen a
perfect triumph of cool elaboration and wellstudied
expression.
Another Democratic representative, the Boston
Herald, looks upon the message bid for conven-
ion favors and expresses the opinion that he stout
st admirers of the President will regret that in his
mind there exists the necessity for this descent from
he high presidential office to the field of campign-
ng"
In the view of the Republican Chicago Tribune
the President voiced the general demand for better
thical standard" and he has performed a great
ubic service in arousing the conscience of the
ountry" In conclusion there is the familiar Repub
can apology in this expression: