The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-16
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 The newspapers continue to com ment on the jar between Roosevelt and Dr. Elliot. Of Harvard College. regard ing the two men suspended by the latter for good and sufficient cause. The suspended men belonged to the boat crew which was soon afterward to contest with Yale for the champion ship. and as Roosevelt is Harvard graduate he thought it would never do. for Harvard to lose the race, 50 he wrote to pr. Elliot to reinstate the two men--and was promptly. but cour- teously invited to mind his own busi- ness The two men were not rein stated. but Harvard won the race with out them. and gave Yale no ground to object to any of the team.
 The Butte Inter Mountain, which In the main Is a supporter of Roosevelt, remarks that 'in this, as in a thousand other instances, the President would have done well to keep quiet" It also thinks that if Taft is elected he swiH afford refreshing relief by mind ing his own business" We cannot say as to what Mir. Taft will do In the way of keeping his spoon out of other peoples soup. but 1t Is plain that noth- ing can be expected from the present incumbent. The numerous rebuffs he has received for butNing in where he has no business has had no appreciable effect on him
 His admirers defend his numerous blunders by saying they are all due to his impulsive temperament. but that is not correct. They are due to his overmasterins conception of his own greatness; a conception not shared by unprejudIeed and unbiased observers of his many breaks. This last slap is not likely to have any more effect than the others have done. Our hope is that the next President. whoever he may be, will be of the kind of man who knows how and when to mind his own business.
 But this is not the only point on which the President is being plainly criticized by those who would rather defend him against the critics. The Kansas City Journal is a thorough Re- publican newspaper, but it lacks much of swallowing all that is handed out to it. Among other things which are ex- citing it's plain disgust we may mem tion the report that seems well found ed about the bidding of publishers for his detailed accounts of the proposed hunting trip in Africa next year. The Journal understands that it is now settled that he is to receive at the rate of S1.5o a word for his narratives. besides book royalties, and says:
 In spite of the fulsome praise of l press agents of the Riis and Burroughs | stamp. there are a good many people | in this country who look upon the narratives of Mir. Roosevelt's hunting ] exploits as so much tommyrot. What ness men and wielder of the Dig | stick" 1t cannot be said seriously that Mir Roosevelt is any more expert as a hunter of big game than he was as a ranehman or as. a military com | mander Those who have read the Roosevelt stories of hunting in the West have been vastly amused, If they knew anything about hunting. at the absurdity of many of his tales of ad- l venture.
 Now, laying aside for the moment all question of Rooseveit's ability as a writer he has made it plain in some of his writings that he can draw the long bow with the best of them and some of his printed Munehausenisms have become more than amusing, if we felt disposed to speak of them as they deserve. But The Journal goes fur ther. saying:
 If 1t were not for the fact that Mr. 1 Roosevelt has been a spectacular and | popular president there would be no | more interest In his forthcoming visit | to Africa than in the pilgrimage of | the most casual traveller. The prest-