Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1910-06-09
COLONEL ROOSEVELT
WILL RETURN NEXT week FROM
|. GREATEST JAUN1 IN HISTORY.
What will He DOT How Will He Line
Up Politically? Are Questions
That Are Giving the Politicians
Some SIeepleSS Nights Just at
Present.

If his usual luck attends him, Col.
! Roosevelt will be home in few days
from a journey that has brought him
more triumphs than any private citi-
zen ever before received. Since he
emerged from the African jungle his
journey has been an ovation. There
was one little jolt in Egypt and an
other in Rome, but they hardly count
in recOunting his triumphs. His
mouth got away little with him in
Egypt and the incident. in Rome was
unfortunate, but. in France, in Hol-
land, in Norway, in Germany there
was not a hitch; he made a good
speech in France, another in Norway,
a superb one in Germany. The chan
ces are that his greeting in England
would have exceeded all others, save
for the death of King Edward; and he
returns to his native country flushed
with the knowledge that no other
American ever before returned to his
native land after long absence, with
so many plumes in his hat. OF course
New York will try to outdo all that
was done abroad in his honor. And
then what? He will be the same old
Roosevelt that he was when he went
away. He will not have gained a
friend during his absence, nor lost an
enemy. He will be just as apt to
call any one a liar who opposes him
or disputes one of his propositions as
he ever was. His enemies will cheer
fully concede his great abilities, and
his native right impulses, but just as
strenuously as ever they will insist
that his judgment is not always level
and that in office his impulses and
overbearing will would lead him into
mistakes just as often as they did be-
FORE
We predict that his first work will
be to try to help his friend the presi-
dent out of the quicksands in which
he seems to be struggling. Just now
the Republican party seems to be the
victim of too much success. 1t had
it's own way until the old party lead
ers apparently decided that the ma
chine was the only thing, and they
ran this until they converted that ma
chine into Juggernaut to crush all
who got in it's way. However, sue
cessful that may work in India, it
will not do in America, and signifi-
cant protests have been filed in Mass,
in New York, in Iowa-everywhere
that the voice of the people have
been heard. That will be the situa-
ton that will be presented to Col.
Roosevelt. His friend. the president,
has a sound judicial mind, but little
initiative. The colonel has plenty of
initiative and strong and quick in
tellect. but no one has ever accused
him OF possessing sound judicial
mind. And there you. are. What will
he do for Mr.. Taft?
From this distance it looks as
though about the very best thing that
could happen for the republican party
would be to have the control of the
House of Representatives go to the
opposition on the fourth of March
next. The republicans cannot agree
upon financial system; their last
tariff law suits no one except few
New England manufacturers; it is
making no effort to restore our eX-
port trade to the Orient; to date it
has accomplished nothing toward re-
storing the country's merchant ma
rine; it is torn with contentious in a
dozen states; it looks to us as though
if the Lord still loves the party it is
about time that he permits it to be
, chastened. One of Lord LyttOns
stories has for title, what Will We
Do With IT," The American people
are watching for Col. Roosevelt's re-
turn, and many are asking: What
will he do?"-Goodwin's Weekly.