Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-04-16
KING THEODORE I.

as they have never considered him before; to take him more seriously than they ever have taken him, to realize that he is altogether the most startling figure who has appeared in the world since Napoleon Bonaparte, circumstance not without significance and portent, says the Louisville Courier Journal.
 He must be poor American whose heart does not glow with pride at the unwonted honors be- slowed upon this representative of his country and swell with eXultant admiration at the splen- did way he is carrying himself. It is too late, if it were not personally offensive, to talk about self exploitation The incident in Cairo was wholly characteristic. The incident in Rome was thrust upon him. In both he showed the Theodore Roosevelt whose brilliant many y-sided- ness has captivated the universe.
 He is pre-eminently man who fits the word to the act the act to the word, and does the thing which, however provocative of cOntrover- sy, rebounds to his advantage.
 All that has happened in Rome, and more, will be repeated in Berlin, in Paris and in Lon don No conquering hero was ever made the subject of such demonstrations, each of the for eign capitals, each of the foreign potentates, wing with the other to pay him homage. Yet is he the winner of no victory on land, or sea; ; what is the meaning of it?
 Something must be allowed for disposition in Europe to be civil to America and the Amer
 cans The year in Africa may not be lightly dismissed. It has appealed to the worldwide interest and wonder. It displays upon sufi- cient field, manhood making good. 'The fight ing philosopher the mayor of Rome describes him. That fatters the vanity of human nature We rejoice in a man of battle who is a man of thought Third after Washington and Lincoln, said the mayor of Rome, Washington the "cre ator," Lincoln the "consolidator," Roosevelt the ''purifer'' of the republic. "We look again to see him at the head of the great republic" !" said the mayor of Rome. That is the keynote And it will continue to be the keynote wherever he goes Thus he will come back to us the Flu ropean nominee for the president of the United States
 Let no one fancy this an unmeaning or idle compliment. Taken in connection with what appears to be the hopeless breakdown of the Taft administration, it constitutes an event of the first consequence With the Waterloo which seems certain to overtake the republicans in the fall elections. the cry for Roosevelt in 1912 as the only man who can save the party will come up from every side, and 1t may prove lrresistl- ble. Hence the candidacy of Theodore Roose- welt for president in 1912 may be regarded from this time onward as so probable that the people should begin seriously to consider it. If we are to return Theodore Roosevelt to power let there be no mistake about the terms of the new commission which is to be issued to him.
 History has agreed that the best of all gov ernment is wise and benevolent despotsm. If the government of the United States under our written Constitution of checks and balances be a failure-as many think it-and if there be needed for its executive head strong man hav ing the courage to take all the bulls of corrup- ton by the horns, and regardless of obsolete legal restraints, to shake the life out of them, then, indeed, Theodore Roosevelt would seem one fitted by temperament, education and train ing for the work. He is patriotic American with humanitarian proclivities. He is an incor ruptible man. He has shown himself fearless of consequences If the people are sick and tired of the slow processes of Constitutional procedure; if they want in the White House a president who dsregarding the letter of the law, will substitute his own Interpretation of its spirit and intention, if they think that the reign of hypocrisy and cant and graft which marks our professional politics may be ended by the absolutism of ruler who as Roosevelt puts it, "translates his words into deeds" and who, charged with the cleansing of the Augean stables by an election putting the seal of theI popular approval upon conceded excesses in the