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

Athens who voted that Aristides
should be banished because he was
tired of hearing him called Aristides
the Just. THE Colonel has been go
ing too fast" declares Life (New
York;, and adds:
He needs hobbies, and this is a
good time to put them on him, and
that In spite of the fact that he is in
so many respects so much better
than so many of the men that are
eager to throw him down, and in
spite of the reluctance with which
any man of sporting instincts must
set himself to contrive obstacles for
so dazzling a performer"
The Boston Transcript (Ind. Rep.)
finds that hostility of the business
classes toward Theodore Roosevelt to
an extent never before known, is one
of the most striking facts of the
times" In support OF this statement
it declares that men who serve on
many corporation directorates in New
York are wont to testify that they
know no person in all their acquaint-
ance who has not turned against
Roosevelt" The same paper goes on
to cite the various counts in the in
dictment brought by at least por-
ton of the business community
against the ex-president:
st is alleged that he has taken up
all the causes and isms OF William ].
Bryan. differing from the Nebraskan
only on free silver, which was but a
momentary expression of the popu-
listic impulse. The whole current of
anticorporation legislation state and
national. which seems to be running
everywhere with increasing force, is
attributed to the agitation which he
set up, and to the activ.:.as of the
crop Of ifnitators whom he has brought
into being. All this is said to be very
bad for business. The panic of 1907
is still recalled as proGcct of Roose-
veltism. His attacks on the judiciary
are Particularly resented Conser-
vative people see in the supreme
court the great bulwark of the estab.
lished order. People, believing this
think of Roosevelt as undermining a
final barrier against the mob.
Some of his critics say that even
If he were the best man in the world
and all his aims confessedly perfect
they should oppose the advance of any
man who had acquired such hold
over the American people, as subver-
sive of the essential spirit OF repub.
licanism''
While admitting that the colonel
does not aim to be king and found a
dynasty, the Springfield Republican
(Ind) nevertheless sees in ''the late
conduct of Mr.. Roosevelt. and GER
tain frenzy of response when comes
from the crowd behind him, danger
which has seldom threatened us, but
one which, where it does arise in a
republic, must transcend all other
public matters in importance" In
reassuring tone however, the same
paper goes on to say:
The people can be trusted in this
as much as in other matters. No man
however popular could aim at the
overthrow of the republic, either in
fact or in name, without counting per-
sonal destruction If it were his sim
lister ambition to achieve permanent
supremacy safeguarded by the mon
archical principle. he could not pos
sibly succeed unless he were able to
deceive the people as to his real in
tentions. And such a deceit must be
regarded as beyond the limits of pos
sibility, unless conditions now I'M
dreamed of should arise to promote
the establishment of preliminary
dictatorship like that of Caesar or
Cromwell or Napoleon