The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-10


onel Roosevelt as he has revealed
himself in his speeches in the cam
paign just closed. 1t is recalled tina
when Mr.. Roosevelt opened one o
his New York campaign speeches IL
support of Henry l.. Stimson with the
declaration that he was going to ge
one issue out of the way to begir
with and that is myself" Instant.
from somewhere in the audience came
the retort: You'll have tough
job" There are many indications tina
this impromptu prediction was no
very wide Of the mark Describing
New York as the bloody angle" II
! the general battle whose outcome
was decided on November s, thc
Springfield Republican 0nd) de
c'ares that IF Mr.. Roosevelt car
save New York while neighborins
states are captured by the opposition
his own national leadership and in
fiuence will take on a finality unap
preached even in his own career" In
the opinion of the Milwaukee Free
Press Qnd Rep) the test of Mr.
Roosevelt's strength is to be looked
for in the Indiana as we'll as in the
New York election. since in both
states he has made the election OF
certain candidates a personal mat
ter" The outcome in New York,
adds the same paper, will be regard
ed as a criterion of the rough riders
standing in the east, that in Indiana
criterion of his standing in the mid
die west" And many alarmed OBJ
servers in both ranks are crying out
that the event is fraught with POSSIBLE
tiles far more momentous than is
the above dispassionate statements
would suggest
If he should be victorious, declares
the Charleston News and Courier
(Dem.) with his big stick he would
thrust aside all barriers and ride
roushshod over all law, substituting
for constitutional guarantees his per
sonal dictatorship" While only few
months ago the American people
We're laughing at the talk about
Roosevelt's assumption of dictatorial
power, remarks the New Orleans
Picayune (Dem.). today thoughtful
citizens are no longer ridiculing such
prospect, because they have come
to realize that it is at least within
the bounds of possibility" Mr. John
A. Dix. in his speech accepting the
Democratic nomination for governor
of New York, and in a later address
at Buffalo, declared that Mr.. Roose-
welt himself, his record, his ambitions,
his character, his methods, are the
most vital issue ever presented to
the people of this state. If he should
succeed in imposing his New Ma
tionalism' upon the country, says Mr..
Dix, then all the sacrifices made
by the founders of the republic, all
the blood shed for its preservation,
will have been in vain, and we shall
see in a time of profound peace a
dangerous disturber bringing about
the destruction of a free people
against whom all the forces Of the
world In arms might have been hurl-
ed in vain And the New York
Journal of Commerce Conn quotes
an unnamed intimate and confidant of
the Colonel as saving. Mr. Roose-
Welt has ambitions far transcending
that of becoming merely President Of
the United States. He aspires to ac-
curing unlimited power" Mr..
Roosevelt has come to regard him
self a natural depository of govern
mental power" asserts Harper's
Weekly (Dem.) while Wiltshire S
Magazine (Socialist) suggests that
he has been cast for a spectacular
and possibly important part in the
process that is inexorably carrying
the present economic system toward
ultimate Socialism"
Turning to Republican testimony,
We find President NJ Woolsey Stryk-
er, of Hamilton College, close
friend of Vice President Sherman,
describing the Colonels self-imposed
leadership of the Republican party
as the issue to which all other
issues are secondary" characterizing
Mr.. Roosevelt as the idol of medioc-
rity," and remarking that there
may be one who thinks he would
make a good Diaz, but few of us
would make good Mexicans." Ex-
Senator Joseph B. Foraker makes his
contribution to the cause of Repub-
lican harmony in Ohio by declaring
Mr.. Roosevelt a menace to the re-
public and characterizing his New
Nationalism" as treason OF the po-
litical principles constituting the
New Nationalism he says:
1T is well to note that they violate
our dual form of government by AFRO
eating unto the national government
the control of matters SO purely To-
cal that they clearly belong to the
jurisdiction Of the States; they also
authorize the courts to construe the
Constitution, not as the presidents
require, but in such manner as may
be necessary to make 1t keep abreast
with the spirit of the times.
Such preachment is not nation
alism, either new or old. but imperial
ism pure and simple. 1t is, in spirit
at least, as reasonable as secession