Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-05-05
ATT[RSON FEARS
| ONE MAN RULE
VETERAN EDITORS POSITION
TAKEN IN RECENT EoITo-
RIAL EXPRESSION.
RoosEvELT's RETURN TO POW.
Err IN 1912 MENACE TO REPRE-
SENTATIVE GOVERNMENT.

Louisville, La. May -Undel
the caption, WHITTIER Henry Wat
ter1on says in the Courier Journal:
The Roosevelt apotheosis proceeds
apace. Theodore Roosevelt himself
carries all before him as he literally
rides down the courts and people of
Europe. The Courier Journal was
well within the mark when it de-
clared that no fioure quite so startling
has appeared in the world since Ma
poleon Bonaparte. Says the st. Paul
Dispatch, edited by George Thomp-
son one of the most independent
journalists and clearest-headed think
ers of the contemporary press:
Henry Waiter. on seems to have
had a second thought. Mr.. Waiter
son lauds Theodore Roosevelt as few
men have ever been praised: stimu-
lates the popular preference for this
remarkable man and contributes ma
terially to the demand that he be-
come president again at the explra-
ton of Mr.. Tatt's present term;
and then, as if frightened by the en-
thu iasm which he has invoked, he
tries to counterfeit it by an an appeal
to Roosevelt to be big enough not to
yield to popular clamor and to refuse
the honors which Mr.. Watterson has
suggested are almost certain to be
offered him. 1t is difficult to escape
the suspicion that Colonel Henry has
repented himself OF having written
so g.owing a tribute to the man OF
the hour
Thought Distinction Was Clear.
The Courier Journal thought it
marked a just and proper distinction
between Theodore Roosevelt, the
man, the representative American in
Europe, and Theodore Roosevelt, the
candidate for Office, the ambitious
self-seeker proposing to play upon
and to profit by the idolatrous credu-
lily of his countrymen.
ut was our purpose to show that
his return to power in 1912 could
only mean the end of our representa-
tive government of constitutional
checks and balances; and in that con.
nection, in the character of a.
purely academic inquiry in advance
of acrimonious partisan controversy
we submitted whether the people are
tired of the legal restraint and of the
old order and whether they wish to
take a short cut to the remedy for ex-
listing and admitted evils through
benevolent despotism
I'm this latter event Theodore
Roosevelt seemed ready made for the
job. We ought to strip the inquiry
of perjudice either political or per-
sonal. Nor did we conceive that the
writer who has passed his life fight
ing the one-party power as next in
adherence to the one-man power,
needed to make any additional confess
sion of faith. 1t went without saying,
or, it ought to have went, as the OBJ
server says in 'Hell-for-Sartin,' that
the Courier Journal regards even the
thought OF the abrogation of the third
term tradition as treason to our free
institutions
After further discussion the article
concludes: 'The Courier-Journal hum.
bly, represents that, instead Of taking
us to task for what at its worst was
contemporary should range itself side
by side with us in the promotion OF
the purpose of those American farr,
ers not only at Lexington, but also &
Yorktown and in shouting with T.
newed acclaim the spirit of The Oh
Continentals, in their ragged regimen
tails, yielding not