The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-13
ROOSEVELT DEAL GENIUS
 CALLED 4 JEkYLL-HYDE.
Critic of President Tells Rev. ". .. Long He Misunderstands the Real Charsc-

He Mlsunderstands the Real Chnrac-
 ter of the Nations Executive.
 New York. Special to Chicago Record Herald)--"President Roosevelt Is dual genius of the Dr. Jekyll and Mir. Hyde sort--a dream fakir. "-says Colonel Alexander s. Bacon of this city. in let ter of sympathy Rto Rev. William J. Long of Stamford. Conn. the naturalist whom Mir. Roosevelt denounced as mature faker'
 "You take the President too serious y." says Colonel Bacon. in his letter. He is not half as black he paints him self Nature faker,' 'moilycoddae,' and liar are merely tho phrases of a bark CT alluring the public into an Elusive would study wiiG animals in their na- tive woods less and study press agents more you would understand freaks better.
 Plea for the Dreamer.
 You misunde erstoOd our President. Words with him merely portray dreams not facts He belongs to the purely ideal istic, not to the realistic. schools of writ CTS. if you but knew the President fnti- CTS. sf you but knew the President inti- ately. Mir. Long. you would not condemnl him He Is not boodthirsty as he seems.
 Above all, the President does abhor faker. but his ahhorrences goes farth- CT than words. barking dog never bites The President barlfs at the wicked trusts, but you will notice that none of them dies of rabies. The big stick Is yielded
 
 are duly vouched for. then 1t rests peace- fully in the simple life.
 Likened to Napoleon.
 Roosevelt and Napoleon were both gen. fuses, both were the tgreatest men that ever lived: they admit it; each edited bull stins of his achievements. and Napoleon differed from his modern prototype only in the fact that he actually fought bat ties. killed people and entailed misery on the world. while MT. Roosevelt is a harm less soldier ls that he kills and wades in the gore of dFeam-soldiers only"
 Colonel Bacon quotes from his "woolly horse" to show that. as he claims. Colonel Roosevelt did not see. much less kill Spaniard at the battle bf San Jaun on July 1. 1898. and was never within bullet shot of the enemy.
 Bacon, ''is dual genius--a Dr. Jekyii and Mir. Hyde. Mir. Hyde Is a savage hunter, deiighting in the smell of blood. depopu- iating the great West: pr. Jekyll Is q tendsrfoot with a siIver-plated riflo and an outIandish outfit. who couldn't hit the ride of a barn. the laughing stock of everybody. pr. Jekyll Is religious; Mr. Hyde swears like trooper. Mir. Hyde boxing from q professional with large vocabulary; Dr. Jekyll goes to church. Mr Hyde writes histories of rare literary merit: pr. JekylI writes fiction that should fall into the waste basket.
 Finds More Contrasts. ."Dr JelSyll is Q reformer. Q free trader. civil service enthusiast. a trust-buster; Mr. Hyde is 'standpater.' violates his own civil service rules and collects giant campaign funds from the wicked trusts. Mr. Hyde is a swashbuckler. wading through blood. depopulating the earth; pr. JekyiI decries race suicide. prefers the simple and charges franticaliy up Kettle Hili, capturing two old kettles while the cables are hot transmitting the interpre- tation of dreams.
 s'Dr. Jekyl1 is a citizen of republic. avoiding foreign complications. nlinding his own business; Mir. Hyde enters Into diplo- uatlc relations with the Vatican abuses the Methodists and tries to influence the appointment of a cardinal through dear Maria
 Two Reporters Needed.
 'Dr Jekyll has high ideals and always tells the truth; Mir. Hyde-dreams, and the papers always send two reporters at least to get the dream. because. as the interpretation generally changes overnight, a single reporter would be denounced as an Ananias the next day.
 'syou may fill out the list of contrasts Be sure that everything that pr. Jekyll claims to be Mir Hyde Is not. But don't he too serious with genius, and when you attack a dual personality please differ entiate. Besides. genius has a right to slaughter any number of dream elks, imaginary spaniards, or even regulations of conscientious and devoted men. if only genius can step up one step hig!er Into the limelight on the corpse of the slausht- cred character"