Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-03-29
Teddy"
New York Cilobe.l

So Col Theodore Roosevelt is not to
return from Africa, hey? oh. very
we'll. But you watch his smoke four
teen months hence, when he comes
tearing out of the jungle dragging
a bunch of lion pelts. train of ex-
llausted natives painting at his heels.
Then, Professor Starr, 1t would seem
the part of intelligent activity for you
to climb a. tree. He's been little
too busy to attend to YOU properly on
the even of leavetaliing. But when he
writes his story Of the African hunt
ing trip, if he desn't elect You to the
position of hereditary chief goat 1T
will he because no magazine will pay
his price for the story.
For the colonel has always been q.
ready writer, from the moment he first
learned that magazines pay with real
cash for hunting stories until his last
parting wallop at a covering congress.
His plan was a very simple one. First
go do something-or somebody-then
write about 1t. Write about 1T anyway.
No chance to go wrong there. For
seven clanorous< years ne has been
sandwiched between the eggs and the
DTedkldSl 1OOu III GSSlS wen ASoaiNeSo
family. During that period he has not
merely "hogged" the spotlight, but he
has invented and perfected a form of
international vaudeville that had other
monarcls looking like collar button
statesmen on side street. He has been
che of the principal reasons for the
continued existence of the morning
newspapers, and has corralled more
different forms of publicity than any
other white man since Nero, the Fid-
dler. 1t isn't any wonder there were
flowers and tears on the dock az Ho-
boken this morning. Flowers for the
colonel-tears for Africa.
And he'll get the lions, too He all
ways does He squints thru thick
glasses and rides more than two hun
dreweight; but he always brings the
meat to camp. He's little out of
practice Just now CT course. The orly
thing he's had :. hunt for some t:n.o
has been cons-ass-and congress mas
BEEN in rigor r1ocl!s for seven years,
UP to the momen. when its leader Sc
cured affdavits from the Ham 5urg-
Amer lean line that Colonel Re aseyst.
vas actually going tn SAIL Even now.
il he We're to change his mind ana
start toward Washington the new ST.
900 900 station would be choked with
statesmen going away from there. 1t
isn't that they fear him. Mercy, no.!
Only they don't like to be mixed up in
an Internationally dispute. And If
Roosevelt We're one of the parties it
would be ungentlemanly up to and in
Guiding the ultimate limit. He never
Thoroughly enjoys himself until he
let's down his back hair and scratches.
anyhow.
That's the way he started in politics.
He's hardly 81 years old now-for he
was born in october, 1865, in New York
City-but he's had a perfectly corkins
time His first chance came in his first
office. when he was a green member OF
the New York Legislature. The nickel
steel old politicians only laughed when
he made that first speech. But when
he repeated it seven times in seven
consecutive days. each time hollerinS
louder and calling uglier names: ana
when he began to give out interviews
and write letters and shrek, they caved
in. They investigated the judge that
he said was rotten. Anything to keep
the young man quiet. What really
happened was that they put him wise
to the way to get what he wanted in
politics. And he certainly has got II
he family has. He's been getting
it that way ever since.
Everyone knows the oonnybrook of
a time he had in the White House.
Whether he was leading few criminal
", oil afa ctorS of great wealth over the
jumps or starting South American
republic on its way with capital COM
posed of William Nelson Cromwell and
a fresh deck, or humping the heads of
Russia and Japan together until for
very WEAKNESS they quit fighting, or
making a silhouette picture Of Browns
vile out of the constitution, or detect
ing sweetbreads instead of brains in
senatorial skull, he always was busy