Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-09-08
CLEVELAND AND ROOSEVELT.
Savannah Press.)

Tie Sage of Princeton passed ava,
without having once during his retire
ment used the mighty influence he
could have welded in the minds of the
people in resisting poicjes autago-
nistic to ais own views The great
mentality and vigor of personality
which made Cleveland great man re-
NAMED with him when he relinauishea
office and as was becoming he ASSUME
ed dignity in private life irreprJaca-
able and a faithful example to follow
AS long as the republic Of the United
States shall exist just so long wiz
Cleveland be great. There is hardly a
living American today wto will den
that Grover Cleveland was mighty in
the qualities which make presidents
The last Democrat to lead all Of the
people of the republic never broke his
resolve. Finally out of office. he re-
NAMED out, and the calm Of his life
was an enrolling beacon to the rest
of US.
What a change does a decade
bring? Cleveland had just as positive
views as Roosevelt ever had. He HAD
just as peculiar a personality, ais dit
ferent as that which the present ex-
president possesses, but never in his
most radical moments did he for one
instant possess the wonderful peronal
assurance and interference that Roose-
Welt exhibits. Were Roosevelt to die
today many would term him great.
Many would give Ltm personal credit
for events which shaped themselves
under his direction. Everything that
Roosevelt intended to do, said he
would do and failed to do would MOI
be considered. His habit of paradile
in foreign lands and in our own, Of
stirring up strife in his own party, Of
instigating in the minds of the people
passionate policies, and Of filing the
land from border to border with the
most sublime examples of egotism.
would all be remembered as achieve
ments of note and not as undignifed
exploits unbecoming an ex-president.
We note with pleasure the marked dis-
ference between Taft's visit to tns
West and Roosevelt's. The judicial
president has dignity which even th.,
quarrels of Roosevelt cannot destroy.
Roosevelt aas a swagger which even
the dignified Taft cannot prevent or
curb. Tie people take to Roosevelt
just like they take to any craze which
presents itself 1t is amusing though
dangerous, it is occupying though dis
tasteful Imagine for an instant
Cleveland roaming the country al
large attacking the judiciary AMI
everything in sight. Imagine him
forgetting blindly his utterances of a
few years previous and letting words
fall from Ills lips unqualitidely the OPP
posite of his former opinions. Cleve-
land remembered what he said and
wrote Roosevelt forgets conveniently
when the occasion seems to suggest it
self.
A century from now. when Cleve-
lands memory is as fresh as ever.
when his greatness is by-word with
Jeffersn and Jackson as the builders
of the republic, Roosevelt will be but a
spectacular figure whose erratic
course and erratic thoughts caused a
futter and a momentary excitement
A few years ago there was launched
new party in Pennsylvania. 1t was
called the Lincoln party. This year
there is launched a Roosevelt party
If the latter enjoys the life of the for
mer the country will be blessed Re-
publicanism. and Democracy are too
firmly established for the wedge of a
pc rsonal party to enter