Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-01
WHAT WILL TEDDY DO?
Washington County Press.l

Now, there has been a great deal
said in and out of the press of late as
to what our Teddy Roosevelt will do
when he comes back from hunting big
game in Africa. There is a pile of peo-
pie staying awake o. nights laying out
work for Teddy when he returns, and if
he does one-tenth part of the jobs laid
out for him he will be sewed up for
further orders. He was such a worker
and got so many things under way
when he was in the white house, that
large percentage of people can't get it
out of their noodles that he is not con-
nected in some mysterious manner
with capitol hill yet
But he is not, he is just a, plain
American citizen, and will be the same
when he comes back after bagging a
big bunch of big game. Some political
prognosticators have it that he will
size up the situation and give it out
cold that everything has Went to the
bowWoWs since he was out of the coun-
try and that he will go after the presi-
dency again. Some want him to run
the next campaign. Then there are
Others who want him in the senate
from New York. Still others would
have him boss of the Panama canal.
Those people. who have fixed it up that
Teddys presidential works will be run
ming again for from four to eight years
will have another think coming, when
he gets back. In other words he signed
up for him. There is no likelihood shat
he will start proceedings to Gust him
from the white house. Some say he
would make a good campaign manager
You take it from US he will manage no
barrassing He could do it all right
but we have no notion that he wants
to get that close to the buzzsaw.
| However, be this as it may. it Is
going to be difficult for him to keep
out of the fray. If he is not cooking a
cannon, we bet he will be on the firing
line somewhere, and it will not be
lambasting the administration, either.
The senator from New York shaft that
was flung out, before he retired from
the white house is one that appeals to
many. Teddy, we believe, would be
suited with a seat in our "house OF
lords" and if he was in the senate ears
! would be cooked at every angle to hear
the noise, for there is noise wherever
), Teddy is. This clamor and dim would
not be unlike the breaking up of the
ice in the springtime, or of a man
inside beating carpet. Aside from the
good he would accomplish there, Roose-
welt in the senate is about as inter
esting proposition as Roosevelt
shootin' heads off lions in darkest AZ
RIGA. There would be things dom
Then the other contingency, that of be-
ing boss Of the Panama canal. T'hi.
should be to his liking, for he could
grab a spade and try and beat out thu
steam shovel, if he desired to let of
surplus energy. There is lots of worl
!, down there and the more energy put i,
the work the quicker the old ditch will
be finished. Teddy would sure mak'
: the dirt fly in that region, and we be
the big ditch would be completed abou
: as quickly under his supervision al
under any others under the blisterin
sun. But whatever Teddy does, whel
). he comes back to this country of our
!, YOU can bank on it that he will no
take a job as private advisor of cor
porate interests. He will remain a
4 a public man, alive to the responsible
ties of a citizen of the greatest countr
@ the sun ever shown upon.