Bisbee daily review., 1910-04-13

eNAsoeCS, Nsihe WIN Nne otncf W pay
him homage. Yes is he the winner
of no victory on land. or sea. What is
the meaning of it?
Something must be allowed for a
disposition in Europe to be civil to
America and the Americans. The year
in Africa may not be lightly dismissed.
It has appealed to the worldwide In
terest and wonder. l. displays upon a
sufficient field. manhood making good.
The fighting philosopher" the Mayor
Of Rome describes him. That flat
tiers the vanity of human nature. We
rejoice in a man of battle who is a
man of thought. Third after Wash
ington and Lincoln. said the Mayor
OF Rome. Washington the "erea.or. 4"
Lincoln the "conso'idator." Roosevelt
the purifier of the Republic. we
look again to see him at the head of
the great Republic" said the Mayor of
Rome. That is the keynote. And it
viii continue to be the keynote
wherever he goes. Thus he viii come
back TO US the European nominee for
President of the United States.
Let no one fancy this an unmeaning
or idle compliment Taken in con
nection with what appears to be the
hopeless breakdown Of the Tai. Ad-
ministration, it constitutes an event
OF the first consequence. With the
Waterloo which seems certain to over
take the Republicans in the fall cleo
tons. The cry for Roosevelt in 1912 as
the only man who can save the party
will come up from every side, and it
may prove irresistible Hence for
candidacy of Theodore Roosevelt for
President in 1912 may be regarded
from this time onward as so probable
that the people should begin seriously
to consider it If we are TO return
Theodore Roosevelt 70 power let there
be no mistake about the terms of the
new commission which is TO be issued
10 him.
History has agreed ha the best Of
al government IS q wise and beneve-
lent despotism. If the Government
Of he United States under our written
Constitution of checks and balances be
a failure-as many think it-and if
there be needed fer its executive head a
strong man having the courage to take
all the bulls Of corruption by the
horns. and. regardless of obsolete legar
restraints, % shake the life cut of
them. then. indeed. Theodore Roose-
welt would seem one fitted by temper
ament. education and training for the
work He is a patriotic American with
humanitarian procliviies. He is an In
.carruptible man. He has shown him
self fearless of consequences. II the
people are SEX and tired of the slow
processes of Constitutional procedure;
liz they want in the White House
president who, disregarding the let
ter OF the law. will substitute his own
Interpretation Of its spirit and inten-
ton II they think that the reign Of
hyprocricy and cant and graft which
marks our professional politics may be
ended by the absolutlsm Of a ruler
who. as Roosevelt himself puts It,
translates his words into deeds
and who, charged with the cleansing
Of the Augean stables by an election
putting the seal of tn popular approx
al upon conceded excuses in the use
of power and bidding him to 90 for
ward and apply the same remedies to
disease otherwise ineurabie, then
Theodore Roosevelt fills the bill TO per
fee-ion for he comes directly from the
family of the Kings Of Men and is a
lineaI descendant Of Caesar and Crom.
well.
! Before we get into the acrimonies
of party conflict, the Courier-Journal
asks its contemporaries throughout the
country TO reflect without passion OIL
levi.y, and TO answer to themselves
amid the blaze of light which casts ar
aureole about our wandering Ulysses
whether Representative Government
n America is a failure. and whethei
the only cue for the evils which ar'
admitted is the one-man power; be
/ cause they may be sure that the re
urn CT Theodore Roosevelt to powe
viii be on this account the demonstrs