Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-04-15
HENRY WATTERSON
LAUDS ROOSEVELT
EDITOR SAYS COLONEL MOST
STRIKING FIGURE WHO HAS
APPEARED SINCE NAPo-
LEON BoNAPARTE.
IS AN INCORRuPTIBLE MAN
Newspaper Man Claims that African
Hunter Will Come Back to Amer.
leans the European Nominee
for President of the
United States.

Louisville, Ky.-Under the head
WHITTIER" Henry Watterson says in
the Courier Journal: THE time has
come for the people of the United
States to consider Theodore Roosevelt
as they have never considered him be-
fore; to take him more seriously than
they have ever taken him; to realize
that he is altogether the most
startling figure who has appeared in
the world since Napoleon Bonaparte,
circumstance not without signifi-
canoe and portent.
He must be poor American whose
heart does not glow with pride at the
unwonted honors bestowed upon this
representative of his country. and
swell with exultant admiration at the
splendid way he is carrying himself.
1t is too late, If it were not personally
offensive, to talk about self-exploita-
ton. The incident in Cairo was Who'll
L. characteristic. The incident in
Rome was thrust upon him. In both
showed the Theodore Roosevelt whose
brilliant many-sidedness has capti-
waited the United States.
Fits Word to the Act.
He is pre-eminently man who fits
the word to the act, the act to the
word, and does the thing which, how
| ever provocative of controversy, re-
bounds to his advantage. All that has
happened in Rome and more will be
repeated in Berlin, in Paris and Lon
| don. No conquering hero was ever
made the subject of such demonstra-
tions, each of the foreign capitols,
each of the foreign potentates, vieing
with the other to pay him homage.
Something must be allowed for a
disposition in Europe to be civil to
America and Americans. The year in
Africa may not be lightly dismissed.
1t has appealed to worldwide interest
and wonder. 1t displays upon a suffi-
cient field manhood making good.
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 wher.
ever he goes. Thus he will come back
to us the European nominee for presi-
dent of the United States.
History has agreed that the best of
all government is wise and benevo.
lent despotism. If the government of
the United States, under our written
constitution of checks and balances be
failure-as many think it-and If
there be needed for its executive head
n strong man having the courage to
take all the bulls of corruption by the
horns, and, regardless of obsolete le
galities strain to shake the life out OF
them, then, indeed, Theodore Roose
welt would seem one fitted by tempera
ment, education and training for the
work. He is patriotic American
with humanitarian proclivities.
An lncorruptbIc Man.
He is an incorruptible man. He
has shown himself fearless of conse
quences. If the people are sick ant
tired of the slow processes of consti
tutional procedure; if they want il
the White House president, who, dis
regarding the letter of the law, vii
substitute his own Interpretation o
its spirit and intention; if they thinl
that the reign of hypocrisy and can
and graft which marks our profes
sional politics may be ended by the alb
solutism of ruler who, as Roosevelt
himself puts it. translates his words
into deeds and who, charged will
the cleansing of the Augean stable.
by an election putting the seal of th'
popular approval upon conceded ex
cesses in the use of POWER and biddin.
him to go forward and apply the sam,
remedies to a disease otherwise incur
able, then Theodore Roosevelt fills tn,
bill to perfection. for he comes di
rectly from the family of the kings o
men and is lineal descendant of Cae
sar and Cromwell.
Puts Question to Editors.
Before we get into the acrimonie
of party conflict. the Courier-Journa
asks it's contemporaries throughou
the country to reflect without passion
or levity and to answer to themselves
amid the blaze of light which cast
an aureole about our wanderin
Ulysses, whether representative gov
ernment in America is a failure an,
whether the only cure for the evil
which are admitted is the one MAJ
power; because they may be sure tba
the return of Theodore Roosevelt L
power will be so construed by Europe
and that on this account the demon
significance"