The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1910-06-24

CORNELIUS VANDERBILT, CHAIRMAN OF
ROOSEVELT RECEPTION COMMITTEE.
has been smothered so long in the At
rican jungles will bring back feeling
of mother and home.
Already there Is dental CLEAN
across the Atlantic, and a fresh snap
and vivacity are in the air. Teddy is
coming home! Get the old bass drum
down from the attic, pull the bunting
from the closet under the stairway
and take out your vocal apparatus and
dust it off. The Teddy bear is once
more in fashion, the big stick is wav-
ing in the breeze, and the spear that
knows no brother is glistening in the
sun. The trust busters march need
no longer be played with the soft
pedal. Throw back the lid, stand on
the loud one and come down on all
the keys at once. Bang! There-that's
better! What relief it is to do 1t in
the good old way!
Wall Street Not Celebrating.
What about the pessimists who pre-.
dicted that the colonel was certain to
get African fever or the sleeping sick
ness and those other Wall street proph-
cts who hoped that every lion would
do its duty? They are all talking
small now. Did they imagine that any
thing in Africa could Withstand the
Roosevelt luck? What good are Wall
street prophets anyway Most of
them cannot even predict the future
movements of stocks and so have to
depend on sure thing game of work
ing the lambs for commissions. "a
prophet is not without honor save in
his own country" was not spoken OF
the Wall street brand of soothsayeT.
He is without honor anywhere under
the sun.
Wall street is not celebrating the re.
turn of the colonel That is one rea
son why the rest of the country Is
celebrating. Possibly the bulls and
bears fear that Roosevelt is coming
back TO start another hunt in the finan
cial jungle. On the way to Khartum
he dropped one significant remark to
the effect that he had harder work
ahead than that done in Africa Just
what is that harder work to be? Not
writing evidently, for he finished his
African book before his return to civ
ilization. Possibly the big trust game
has reason for being apprehensive.
High financiers are timid about every
thing except taking other peoples
money, and the mere shine of the
Roosevelt eyeglasses and teeth gives
them the shivers.
What will be do after his return?
That is a question the answer of which
is fraught with some moment to this
country. Certain gentlemen of the
press and of the conservation move
ment, popularity known as the return
be a candidate for president in 1912.
Certain other gentlemen of the press
and of official station. Known of all
men as friends of the administration,
are just as certain that he will get be-
hind Taft A man of the name Of
d. Herron-expatriat-
ed as | recall because of certain mat
rimOnial complications, thinks Roose-
welt will become not only president, but
virtual emperor, that he will end the
republic and that he viii be the begin
ming of 1.-THE new dark ages" Thus
the thing is seen to be not without |.
an element Of the fantastic, especially /.
when dealt with by a fantastic mind.
1t is perhaps as well to keep ourselves |
within the bounds of sanity when deal
Ing with Roosevelt or with other things .
Will Go to Cheyenne.
AS to whether he will or will not be
come a presidential candidate he alone I
can answer. OF only two things are