The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-02-27
CALLS ROOSEVELT A JEKYLL
HYDE.

of the DR.. Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde sort--a
dream faker' says Colonel Alexander
S. Bacon of New York City, in letter.
of sympathy to Rev. William j. Long of
Stamford Conn, the naturalist whom
MIR. Roosevelt denounced as a mature
faker.'
"You take the President too seri-
ously," says Colonel Bacon, in his letter
"He is not half as black as he paints
himself Nature faker, 'mollycoddle'
and liar are merely the phrases OF a
barker alluring the public into an
Elusive side show. They are not seri-
Gus. If you would study wild animals
in their native woods less and study
press agents more you would under
stand freaks better.
"You misunderstood our President.
Words with him merely portray dreams
not facts. He belongs to the purely
| idealistic, not to the realistic, school OF
writer's. Only dreamers. If you but
knew the President intimately, Mr..
Long, you would not condemn him. He
is not so bloodthirsty as he seems.
"Above all, the President does abhor
faker, but his adherence goes no
farther than words. A barking dog
never bites. The President barks at
the wicked trusts, but you will notice
that none of them dies of rabies. The
big stick is welded fiercely until the
/. campaign contributions are duly
vouched for, then it rests peacefully in
the simple life.
"Roosevelt and Napoleon were both
geniuses, both were the greatest men
that ever lived; they admit it; each
edited bulletins of his achievements,
and Napoleon differed from his modern
prototype only in the fact that he
actully fought battles, killed people and
entailed misery on the world. while Mr..
Roosevelt is harmless soldier in that
he kills and wades in the gore of dream
soldiers only
Colonel Bacon quotes from his "woolfy
horse" to show that, as he claims,
Colonel Roosevelt did not see, much
less KILL a Spaniard at the battle OF
San Juan OF July /, 1898, and was never
within bullet shot of the enemy.
sour great President writes Colonel
Bacon, sis dual genius-a DR.. Jekyll
and Mr.. Hyde. Mr.. Hyde is a savage
hunter, delighting in the smell of blood
depopulating the great West; DIR. Jekyll
is tenderfoot with silver-plated rifle
and an outlandish outfit, who couldn't
hit the side of barn. the laughing
stock OF everybody. DR.. Jekyl rs re-
ligious; Mr.. Hyde swears like trooper
Mr.. Hyde is tough going to prize
fights, learns boxing from professional
with large vocabulary; DR.. Jekyf
goes to church. Mr.. Hyde writes
: histories of rare literary merit: DIR
Jekyll writes fiction that should fall I'M
to the waste basket.
'eDr Jekyll is reformer, a free trader
, civil service enthusiast, trust
buster. Mr.. Hyde is a -patter
+ violates his own civil service rules ant
= collects giant campaign funds from TIN
: wicked trusts. Mr.. Hyde is a swash
+ bucklcr, wading through blood, depopu
f lating the earth; DR.. Jekyll decries rae
4 suicide, prefers the simple and charge
i franticalEy up Kettle Hill, capturin
a two old kettles while the cables ar
= hot transmitting the Interpretation
n dreams.
, CDR. Jekyll is citizen Of a republic
"a avoiding foreign complications, mlndln
# his own business: Mr.. Hyde enters int
49, diplomatic relations with the Vatical
"a abuses the Methodists, and ries
% influence the appointment OF cardln;
II through dear Maria"
III Dr. Jekyll mas nigh iueais anu d. wa!
~ tells the truth; MIR. Hyde-dreams, an
t. the papers always send two reporter
10 at least to get the dream, because, ;
20, % the Interpretation generally chang
IvS overnight, single reporter would
n, denounced as an Ananias the next ola
" "You may fill out the list of contrast
o. Be sure that everything that DR.. Jeky
. claims to be Mr.. Hyde is not. B
don't be to serions with genius, al
when you attack dual PERSONAL
please diferentfate. Besides, gem
has a right to slaughter any number
q dream elks, imaginary Spaniards,
at even regulations of conscientious a.
j. devoted men, if only genius can step
one step higher into the limelight
an the corpse of the slaughtered cha
he acter."