The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-01-22
WASHINGTON LETTER
MATTERS OF GENERAL INTER-
EST FROM THE CAPITAL

men, who have been engaged in
the fight that has been going on
between the body and the Presi-
dent are feeling the effect of the
strain. But Mr.. Roosevelt is in
fine fighting trim and by the way
OF diversion Wednesday he rose
at four o'clock a.. m. on one of the
coolest, wettest mornings and
started on a ninety-eight mile
horse back ride, dined at a country
hotel, delivered a speech to a
crowd that had gotten wind of the
Paul Revere business, returned to
the White House and was able to
to Ike his dinner at the table as
usual. Lately, he, the President,
has been prescribing riding tests
for the officers of the Army and
Navy and he allowed three days
for the performance of the ride,
which he made today in even
teen hours. He did it probably
by way of example, just to show
that as Commander in Chief of
the Army, he was able to do more
than he demanded of those un-
der him and also as a Diversion
and recreation from the hum drum
of his daily battle with Congress
and his participation in a par
ticularly exacting social season.
Mr. Roosevelt has always a keen
eye o~utsfor the least sign of ner-
vous break down and his cares are
never SO numerous or so pressing
that he will not put them aside
when he feels that he needs rest
aud recreation.
Il the absurd story that is 60
ing the rounds to the effect that
he is drinking heavily needed de-
nial, one would only have to re-
feet on the unusual value he
places on his health and that is
one OF his best known character
istics. Whatever vices he may
have, certainly weak indulgence
is not one of them and the intense
care with which he guards his
physical well being would be
sufficient guard against his use of
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well known to everyone with
whom he is associated he is alb
stemious not only on principal
but because he is too ~sagacious
to impair his health by using
stimulants to excess He has
often been heard to declare that he
has not time to smoke and that he
believes tobacco in any form to be
injurious. AS he is in public
about eighteen hours out of every
twenty-four and as he plays
tennis and rides horse back every
day and is,.in his Office by nine
O'Clock every morning the oppor-
tunities he might have for dissi.
patton are so limited as to make
such a charge absurd on it's face.
Senators Foraker and Tillman
are holding the center of the stage
in Congress and both are engaged
in the effort to proclaim their own
integrity while they impugn that
OF the President. Mr.. Tillman,
whose speech Monday was the
absortive sensation of the week,
has succeeded in getting in q
squable with the Attorney General
Mr.. Bonaparte, to whom, he
claims, he has fully confded his
relations to the Oregon Timber
Company previous to his denun.
citation of that Company in Con.
gress last March. Mr.. Bonaparte
says that he knew nothing of Mr.
Tillman's personal connection
with the bying of timber lands
and the sensational lovers are
eagerly looking forward to the
free circulation of the lie between
them before long. The South
Carolina Senator for the paltry
ten sections of Government lane
has enmeshed himself in an ugly
tangle and though it appears tina
he has not violated any law Oh
profted by any illegality, he has
not yet made it clear that he was
not misusing his privileges as 6
United States Senator. Mr.. For
aker still clings to the Brownsville
episode as a peg on which to dis