The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1909-03-25

THE EX-PREs;|DEN7, /
Terse Comments by the Press
on RooseveIt's Record.
"cAPTAIN OF HIS PEOPLE,"
mighty Prophet Of Better Day"
Says One Admirer-Raps From 9th
srs-"BulIy Copy Maker" Says .
eeribs-Quips on His Hunting Trip.
Roosevelt retires without single
blot on the fair escutcheon Of his sin
eerity.-Baltimore American.
A Hard Rap.
Roosevelt was the greatest muck
raker Of muck rakers that ever sliced
4 slanderer.- Constitution.
About to ee Discovered.
~ Marct: has gone one naturally
wonders If darkest Africa realizes thai
It 10 about to be discovered.-Kansas
City Star.
Jungle Folk Worried.
Reports from Africa are to the ef
feet that the nervousness in the Jun.
gles 10 becoming acute.-Chicago Rec
ord-Herald.
Notable Record.
Roosevelt's record as president is
notable one and gives him conspicu.
ous place among the worlds greai
men.-Baltimore American.
When He Is In Africa.
When Mr.. Roosevelt Is dining on hip
popotamus steak in Africa he will be
able to laugh to scorn the historic
possum dinner.-Kansas City Star.
Picked Up SIivers.
Ex-President Roosevelt has stubbed
hfs toe many times In his distinguish
a career and got many sltvers in It,
and not few also in the hand which
swings thesbig stick.-Boston Globe.
Gss
Roosevelt and Congress.
Al hands freely concede that MI.
Hoosevelts twenty rounds with the
Sixtisth congress have been somewhat
fasesr and more emphatic than la.
DIS sewing circle. Anaconda Stand,
asa.
Game Fighter.
Never having had the opportunity tl
Judge Of his performance as a butcher
congress is not prepared to dispute the
statement that Mr. Roosevelt Is not 9
game butcher, but it doubtless stands
ready to ad1rm that he is a game fight
q. at any rate.-New Orleans Times
Democrat.
3* Furious Zeal Needed.
Sesious faults In our national life
were waiting to be corrected when
Roosevelt came into power. Doubtless
IL nation needed man of furious
sal, tndomitable will and strenuous
nsals to correct these things. Such
nan was found. Roosevelt went fur
tlN-Syracise Post Standard.
"suIIy" Copy Maker.
The man who writes paragraphs ant
humofous stun viii regret the passing
OF Roosevelt His race suicide theo
risa. his nature fake crusade, his An
aaaas club, his country life commits
alna, his advice to mothers, his buttin,
inss everything In which there Is hu
man interest, have all made talk. T.
use his own phrase, he has been I
'pu1ly' copy maker.-st. Louis Post
D1pateh.
Traditions Ignored.
That even portion Of natural up
p0seat1en goes to ex-President Roose
vsls i high enough compliment, TO
his methods have not been In keepinl
VIII American traditions nor with th
splrit Of the American government
TAa feeling has gained strength that
hon IN q china shop Is not necessaril.
. bad conjunction and that some kind
of china ought to be smashed anywaJ
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Fortunate In Misfortune.
Mr.. Roosevelt is too impulsive, errat
r. and uncertain evidently to win Il
vor as a possible executive Of corpt
ration. Such an institution must hav
at tts head a tactful. clear headed an
able man of self control. That th
United States should have had as chic
executive a man whose idiosyncrasfe
would have imperiled an average col