Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1908-04-17

NJ NAAAA AS 0DNrf 1850
in q way to make them look good.
He sometimes thinks without acting,
and oftentimes acts without thinking.
Heis sometimes.right and sometimes
wrong. but always picturesque.
He is patriotic enough occasionally to
seize upon some of the policies Of his po.
litical opponents and use them to his
country's good, and sometimes partisan
enough 10 cling to the policies of his own
to his country's harm.
He is the apostle of simplicity. He
believes in the simple life and simplified
spelling.
big stick" in one hand and Il fountain
pen i'll the other and creates equal havOt
with each.
When he gets into action his enemies
are in danger and his friends i'll peril,
He is tickle in his affections. In 1901
the name of Hartman in the code book
of the White House was Donation
In 1908 it is Domination"
Tie IL II DIOLCuO DuStti anu d tiuSl
buster, the difference being that when
he breaks u broncho he blindfolds the
horse, and when he attempts to bust" Il
trust he blindfolds himself.
He is II nature student. He has count
ed all the stripes around the body of Il
mountain lion, but he has never seen Il
stripe upon one of the trust magnates.
He is u great hunter. He can draw
the finest bead upon II bobcat, but he
can not get sight III the Constitution
He is progressive. For years he
chased the bears, and now he is chasing
both the bulls" and the bears"
He is trusting. He took I'm God we
trust" from the coins and then trusted
200, 600. 900 of them to the banks in New
York.
He is a contradiction. He dcclaims
against race suicide, but he insists on
keeping the tariff on safety pins and
baby buggies.
He cultivates the artistic. He white
washed Paul Morton and is now fresco-
ing the ~reactionaries with a tint of blue.
He is perverse. He was given the
Vice-Presidency in the hope that he
would bury himself, but has constantly
refused to deport himself rs a well-diS-
posed corpse should.
He can see a war cloud in the heavens
before breakfast, but gets color-blnd
about lunch time.
In the South he has more admirers
than supporters, and in the North he
has more Supporters than admirers.
He al make 4 noise like 4 politician
He discharged the colored troop of
soldiers in an off year, when they com
mitted murder. and now recommends
their restoration in an election.
He is generous. Given the power,
with the advice and consent of the
Senate to make treaties, he is willing to
this body of its onerous duty and
do it all himself.
He is n magician. He can transform
our Uncle Joe, who is n roaring lion in
the House, into y purring kitten in
the White House.
He is sympathetic. When he sees the
Senate suffering form ennui he gives it
by permitting it to eat out of
hand.
He is considerable. He permits the
Supreme Court to construe a part of the
a part of the time, instead of him
self constituting all the laws all of the
time.
He is thoughtful. Instead of in
Producing into this House legislation
prepared by himself, he permits the
"Carnation Club of the House to look
over the finished product.
He is the Sandow Of the century. He
House in the other and keep both of
them in the air most Of the time.
He is a patriot. Realizing from past
observations that his party oftentimcs
makes mistakes in nominating its candi-
date for the Presidency, he is seeking to
relieve it Of that responsibility and is
making the nomination himself.
He is the strangest combination Of
wisdom and folly, III honesty and
obstinacy. of patriot and politician, of
courage and rashness, and of the specta-
cular and the grOtosque that this Re.
public ever saw, and just what niche he
is to occupy in the temple of his coun,
try's history God and the future alone
can tell.