The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-09


the reason the Colonel Is so much
better and ADLER than the rest OF us
Is that he Is superhumaii. He is n
twentieth century Atlas, strong enough Ii
to carry the world on his shoulders,
or, In another figure, he is a worthy.
companion for dove and Phoebus
Apollo. III to rule in the majestic calm
OF sun kissed Olympus, above the
cares and travail of the petty souls
OF men, The Colonel has aroused his
deeper nature, says the Dean, and thus
has passed beyond the realm of man.
Those who do not reverence tho
from the Danish Dean. and Will vague
~ intimate that the Dean had imbibed
too freely of the Crown Princes punch
when he gave this interview to the
press We do not share such insinua-
tons. We believe every word the
Dean said, and 1t Is no more than we
had expected would be said about the
Colonel as soon as he got where there
were people Sensible enough and In
telectual enough to know hawk
from a handsaw, the Colonel from the
ordinary run OF men.
OF course, the Colonel is a twentieth
century Atlas. and. of course. he bears
the world on his shoulders. Has not
he my policies" to defend. and are
not my policies the whole wisdom
of the world? Who ever dreamed the
contrary Then. too. has not the Col
onel all the burdens of State to bear?
Has he not to write with Uncle Ly-
man Abbott for the outlook, and to
attend the National Conservation Con-
Sress, and to preside over the reunion
of the Rough Riders: and will he not
come down to Washington-if he be
invited-and tell Taft how to run the
Government? With all these duties to
perform, and all these burdens to bear
it is foolish not to admit that the
Colonel is the Atlas of Christendom.
AS for Jove and Apollo. the Dean
is dead right. as they say in Charlotte.
Jove ruled the ancient world. and
hurled his thunders carelessly from
the ramparts of Olympus. Did not the
Colonel do the same thing? Did he
not thunder against Tillman and Long
and Storer and my dear Maria" and
the rest? Did he not hurI his short and
ugly words? Jovc? Why, he did things
Jovc would have trembled to attempt,
and he stood bravely in the White
House. behind three rows of clerks.
boldly defying the world, where love
would have hidden himself in some
back lot on Olympus and yelled for
the police. He is Apollo too, because
Apollo was the patron of the arts. the
friend of all learning-and that is
exactly what the Colonel is. He at
tends the black meetings and the
white meetings and the black and tan
meetings He tells the women that
they ought to have more children and
the Governors that they ought to do
their work better He patronzes
everything that adverises him.
The Dean was still nearer the real
truth. however. when he said that the
Colonel was superhuman. OF course,
he is. How could he be otherwise when
he has said SO himself. in effect at
least? He must be superhuman, be-
cause he OVERRIDE the laws and told
Congress to go to the devil, as Henry
Watteraon would say and did other
things which no mortal man could do
unless he had derringer in his hip
pocket and bondsmen waiting for him
around the corner.
We feel proud of the Colonel after
what the Dean has said about him,
and we are glad we know him We
think he will be proud. too, because he
must feel that the Dean has told the
truth. and he knows that it took a
foreigner to do it, Nobody who ever
came near him on this side of the
Atlantic, and nobody who knew him,
would say it.