The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-06-12

stayed ready; 50, when the time for
action came, the charge up San Juan
Hill was a mere picnic to those
,bronco-busters and grizzly-eaters.
Roosevelt loves a fight better than
nine, Irishmen out of ten, and the
strain of Dutch in his blood makes
him "stick" when once he mixes in.
Like the Irish, he doesn't know when
he is licked, and many's the time
he has won out after he had appar-
emily been beaten to a finish.
He sticks to his friends as grlmly
as he sticks to his foes. and the
same dogged determine ion that
makes him fight to the last ditch for
lwhat he believes is right. places him
at the back of the man he claims as
friend. no matter II there be a stack
of affidavits as high as the Wesh-
ington Monument to prove the man
unworthy. Just 10 show his friend
ship and his faith in human nature.
Roosevelt has appointed more than
lone man to office, whose record
reached back to the door of the PEN
itentiary. But II should be said In
the same breath that he has shown
his uncompromising fairness by turn
ing upon nen found unworthy of
his trust and has overwhelmed them
with his wrath.
| There's nothing halfway about
Theodore Roosevelt. He likes a
man with all his heart and soul and
vigor. If he doesn't like him he
hates the ground he walks on, hates
his family. his relatives, his ancest-
,ors, and his birthplace. What Is more
he Is not at all slow to let the fact
be known.
| Much as he loves fight, he loves
peace better. But he makes no
bones Of saying that he's ready and
willing to fight for peace. He wants
the United States to build the biggest
navy I'm the world so that peace shall
be universal. lie wants the gun
pointers OF our navy to be dead shots
Il, at five miles. II they are so known
what nation would war with us? II
they are so recognized, what power
would war with us? II they are so
recognized, what power would go to
battle with another II Uncle Sam
should say. 'GLet there be 'peace?"
! Roosevelt loves work, and the
harder the work the better he likes
| 1t. He also loves play after work,
land he plays just as hard as he
works. That Is where the great big
boy crops out in his disposition. He'd
rather take a fifteen mile walk In the
rain or a seventy mile gallop over
the prairies, than sit In box at the
opera. He isn't partial TO grand
opera, by the way. and will tell you
that his favorite melodies are Garry
Owen" and "a Hot Time In the Old
Town Tonight" Walking, horse
back riding, tennis, boxing. and sin
gle-stick play are his favorite phys
deal recreatons. and he'd rather meet
and h0bnob with an old backwoods
guide than a politician In a plug
hat. He hates plug hats. Il
feel like stuffed club in one OF
them" he observed one day, "and If
Il We're not holding a job where /
am supposed to look like a stuffed
club on certain occasions I'm blessed
If I'd wear one"
Roosevelt does not use tobacco In,
any form, and although no teetotaller
he has very little use for a drunk
lard On one OF his recent trips.
when he refused TO take either a
drink or a cigar at banqnet, one OF
the ladies present asked him II he
had no vices?
TT can swear like blue streak"
replied the president, with grin,
would you hike to hear me?'
Roosevelt likes to preach little SER
mons on personal conduct, but as the
world knows that he practices In
private life what he breaches in pub
lie, II forgiyes him for this .rait.
HIS fellow citizens have come TO
know that he is very human. indeed.
and they like him all the better for
It. They know that he is impulsiye
that he often leaps before he looks,
and changes his mind with the ease
OF summer wind. But what mat
ters that, when they also know him
to be honest and sincere, that he de-
tests fraud. that he places the moth
er on a higher hero plane than the
soldier. and that he Is working with
all his might and main to right
wrongs that oppress the people?
The world knows. too, that Wall
Street has been scared stiff ever since
he has been In office; that he settled
the cool strike that he stopped the
wholesale slaughter of Russians and
Japanese. Ii knows also that he
tried to reform our spelling. that he
attempted to erase SIN God We
Trust" from the coins OF the realm,
and that ~ ha haA nj