The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-06-11

Bing Before the scdate bureau chiefs
in the department knew the day OF the
month, he had issued orders that dis
patched shiploads of ammunition TO the
Asiatic squadron and prepared George
Dewey for the day that made him fam
Gus. and sent the Spanish hulks to the
floor OF Manila bay
lte was the something different politi-
clan. He told his political enemies. as
well as his political friends, the truth.
He wore bis heart on his sleeve. 1t was
unneard of. Before his day, TO be q
| politician was TO be liar. He became
the greatest politician Of the age by
telling the truth.
| He was the somethinq.doing soldier
as well as the something different politi-
eian. When he went to Cuba, ii there
wasn't any fighting to be done his men
found that there was work to do. They
dug kitchen sinks, they drilled, they got
ready, and they stayed ready; 50, when
the time for action came, the charge up
San Juan hill was d mere picnic to those
bronco busters and grizzly-eaters.
Roosevelt loves fight better than nine
Ifishmen out OF ten. and the strain of
Dutch in his blood makes him stick :
when once he mikes in Like the Irish,
be doesn't know when he il licked, and
many's the time he has won out after
be had apparently been beaten to d
finish.
He sticks to his friends as grimly as
he sticks to his foes, and the same
logged determination that makes him
| fight to the last ditch for what he be-
lieves is right, places him at the back
of the man he claims as friend, no mat
ter If there be stack OF alliadyits as
high ais the Washington monument to
prove the man unworthy just Cd show
his friendship and his faith In human
nature, Roosevelt has appointed more
than one man to Office whose record
reached hack to the door Of the peniten-
tiary. But it should be said in the same
breath that he has shown his uncompro.
missing fairness by turning upon men
found unworthy. Of his trust and has
overwhelmed them with his wrath.
Much as he loves a 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 in the world, so
that peace shall be universal lie wants
the gun pointers of our navy TO be dead
shots at five miles, If they are so
known, what nation would war with us
If they are so recognized what power
would 20 to battle with another il
Uncle Sam should say, let there be
peaee"g
Roosevelt loves work, and the harder
fq,r E.4ft Ia fisaa ~ 1Aa al
loves play after work. and he plays just
as hard as he works That Is where
the great big boy crops out in his dis
position. He'd rather take fifteenmile
walk in the rain. or seventy gal
lop over the pTairies than sit in box
at tho opera. He isn't partial to grand
opera, by the way, and viii tell you
that his favorite melodies are Garry
owen" and a Hot Time in the Old Town
Tonight" Walking horseback riding,
tennis, boxing. and single stick play are
his favorite physical recreati0ns. and
he'd rather meet and hobnob with an
old baek-woods guide than a politician
in a plug hat He hates plug hats Il
feel like a stuffed club in one Of them
be observed one day. and il / We're
not holding job where ! am supposed
to look like stuffed club on certain
occasions. Pm blessed ii I'd wear one
Roosevelt does not use tobacco in any
form. and although no teetotaller, he has
veft little use for a dfnnkard On one
of his recent trips when he refused 70
take either a drink OF a cigar at ban.
auet. one Of the ladies present asked him
if be had no vicesg
7 can swear Ike blue streak" ne