Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-11-14

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activities had afforded.
"In this campaign it has been evi
dent to all men that his energy fal
surpassed his sagacity. The Repub
licans of New York have a profound
dislike for his new Nationalism
With their quick intelligence, they
say 1t is but another name for 4
rapid and perilous augmentation oi
federal executive power, and he
made all too plain that his ambition
had reserved for his own hands the
exercise Of that power"
The Evening Post says:
I'VE have no wish to rub salt into
any mans wounds, but 1t is plain IN
the cold light OF the morning after
that Mr.. Roosevelt's course since hi;
return in June has been one lonF
series of blunders. On a suppositiou
which his closest friends have sedu-
lously fostered, that his heart was
fixed on the nomination for the pres.
idency in 1912, II can only be said
that he mlsread the situation utter.
ly, and acted like a man whose
famed political skill had entirely de
serted him.
"His initial error lay in COM
plete misapprehension of the temper
of his countrymen. He seemed to
be looking at It through an African
mist or London fog. 1t was amaz-
ing that man who had often shown
that he had almost intuitive know
ledge of what the people wanted,
should have gone so completely
astray.
Colonel Is Misled.
He was probably mlsled by over
jealous friends. They hoclSed to
him at oyster Bay. informing him
that the country was not only clam.
orous for his return to power, but
was ripe for radlcallsm. Touring Of
the country followed, car-end har-
angues, ostentatious ignoring OF the
president, and the mischievous Osa-
watomie speech.
This is no partisan Democratic
victory in the ordinary sense of that
term. While Il Is a defeat for the
Taft administration and for the Re
publican party. It is peculiarly the
defeat for Mr.. Roosevelt and his
1912 ambitions. II was brought
about also by hundreds of thousands
of patriotic Republicans who still be-
lleve in the constitution of the
United States, who still uphold the
supreme court and who will tolerate
no third-term ambitions in any man,
whatever party name masks his pre-
tensions. Il was brought about by
the help of Republicans who were
dissatisfied with the record OF the
Taft administration and the Aldrlch-
Cannon revision of the tariff.
The Times says: "To Theodors
Roosevelt, the disaster that has be-
fallen HIS party and the sweeping
character of the Democratic victory, |
are in n large measure due. AS to-
day he contemplates the fearful |
wreck of his lately vast political !
state, as he sits him down TO muse |
ike other oonquerors, on the fearful
ruin he has wrought, We hope he
will be duly and prpntably impressed |
by the great difference between his |
measure and his friends measure OF
himself and the country's measure
IF him taken IN this campaign and |
ndelibly recorded yesterday Hal |
Mr.. Roosevelt been a man of first
lass capacity ms he has always taxi
IN himself TO be, he could never In |
10 short a time have brought him
'elf from so high 10 80 low place
n the country's esteem.
Republican organizations and
Republican newspapers have made
% much OF him that the disposition
" voters TO make less than little OF
lin will deprive them of the educa-
ional power alike over him and
'ver themselves. He is q brilliant
nan without wisdom. versatile
nan without dlvlnation or judg-
nent, an ingenious and incisive man,
nut without the study OF causes. lie
3 victim OF his own sinctllating
'ut not sentiment qualities.
This must be said at the expense
II an ex-governor and an ex-pres!-
lent who received the homage not
'nly OF governments, but of peoples;
he greeting not only of Empires and
II Republics, but OF continents. and
Who deserved what he gladly re-
'eived from them and what thoy
we're glad In full measure and run
ling over, to tender to him."
The Evening Telegram says: "a
consideration OF the lessons taught
~ the elections are apt to be tire
ONE, but the silent vote OF yester'
lay countrywide for Democracy
; far too significant 10 be passed un-
otloed, II shows that when things
et very bad, people change them,
[ shows that the high price of pro-