The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-04
COL. HARVEY NOT AN ANANIAS.


COL. HARVEY NOT AN ANANIAs.
The dispatches yesterday morning
carried lively passage at arms be-
tween Mr.. Roosevelt and Colonel Har
vey, editor of the North American
Review. It seems that Roosevelt s
attention was called to an article in the
North American Review. els Roosevelt
an Asset or Liability" In that
article Colonel Harvey said; ~"But re-
Gently Roosevelt. the man, declared that
if an election were to be held next No
vember he undoubtedly would be the
Republican candidate, and would win. -
To which Roosevelt is quoted as reply
ing, THAT is simple falsehood; 1
have never said anything like that. -
Colonel Harvey rejoined. cit may be
unseemly for me TO engage with Mr..
Roosevelt in a controversy involving a
question of veracity That which /
wrote is true And there the matter
rests at present. The article referred
to, in the North American Review for
August, is Of the most pungent and
scathing character. 1t is full of good
things from first to last. and IL is rather
short, too, occupying but seven pages
in the magazine. One paragraph in 1t.
when treating of the elevation OF
(while Prcsident) Roosevelt, in the
public mind, reads as follows;
What follows Is known OF ALL Guided
nc n ~ rfNc-
and at times almost uncanny, stirred by
innate daring so audacious as To make
the highest tourage seem insipid. unham-
pered by scrUple as to method in fashion,
ing achievements to satisfy clamor. the
most venturous Of beings Of the present
day touched, as with the rod of Moses,
the rock from which there gushed q veri-
table geyser OF popularity, The effect
upon that ardent temperament was In
evltable and irresistible, Himself became
drunk from sense of power. 1ncalculahle
harm ensued from reckless acts and un-
constrained mouthings, Dominance of the
ego became absolute. He no longer in
terpreted the law. He was the law. He
no longer eHDounded righteousness, He
was righteousness incarnaie, All men
whose recollections differed from his were
liars. All who disagreed were scoundrels.
So it was then. and so, we regret to say,
after a full year OF changing perspectiveS.
relaxing concentrated mentality and rest
Ing jaded nerves, it is today. Such the
force embodied in this Son-or should we
say Child-of Destiny.
A delicious condensation of the real
Roosevelt attitude. Again, Colonel
Harvey says in that article:
Time has come for a new reckoning
Roosevelt liability or an asset? Who
can say He fetches popularity sorely
needed. He also brings confusion and
distraction. He offers amazing power Of
IN I'm lSf. la, a
subservicncy. He is willing, perforce,
that Tor the time his own nominee shall
continue to be President of the corpora
tion. but he must be Chairman OF the
Board. The President as an official shah
heed the bylaws, but he. the Chairman.
must remain unfettered The President
shall safeguard the organization. but he,
the Chairman: must be privileged osten-
aid and abet its enemies. He, the Chair
man. must be the great judge-the final
arblter between President and directors
on the one hand and recalcitrantS on the
other. He viii be just and fair. The
scales suspended from his strong right
hand will be balanced as by feather.
Appeal from any decision that he may
make. being unessentia) to considerations
of equity, must never be taken. All must
abide in faith in him und Gott.
And the paragraph in which the mat.
ter is that Mr.. Roosevelt denies specif
callY, READS as 1OlJOWS:
But what OF the immediate situation!
Is a struggle for mastery impending be-
tween the President and the self-ap-
pointed Chairman of the Board? Each 10
the other Is under definite and lasting
obligations, but that reckoning, too. may
upon his own pedestal. and must OF ne
cessity uphold his own theories and sus-
tain, in vital combat if need be, his own
purposes. Neither as an individual can
f,-Nt tc rtio put t1,,
Roosevelt. the man declared that If a ma
tional election were to be held next No
vember he undoubtedly would be the Re-
publican candidate and would win. His
personal desires would be negligible Cir
cumstances and conditions would domi-
nate the situation. and his would be the
role Of Son Of Destiny,
Of course nobody believes that
Colonel Harvey is a liar. Nobody be-
lieves that other men whom Mr., Roose-
welt has stigmatized as Ananiases are
liars. The truth is that Mr. Roose-
welt talks so much, so enthusiastically,
and with such unbridled tongue, thai a
good deal of the time he does not
realize what he is saying; and when
what he has said is brought to his at
tention it seems so alien aud strange
W him tHdl Hc I'M puISlVely uenleS III.
For ourselves, we do not doubt for a
moment that Colonel Harvey, in stat
ing the matter as he did, quoted Mr..
Roosevelt with strict exactness, and
that Mr. Roose vclt, in denying IL, simp-
~ docs not recollect what he himself
said, and impulsIvely spits out the de.
nial without being really any more re.
sponsibe for the denial than he would
want to be ia. his ealmer moments for
the statements quoted from him by
Colonel Harvey.
LAWBREAKERs' REFUGE.