Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1910-08-29

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long distance rider, but 1t IL hoised
around today that when the colonel
starts on that ride Sunday large and
commodious automobile will quietly
bring up the rear of his cavalcade
Not that Cheyenne thinks the colonel
will need any automobiles but Chey
enne does not propose to be taken
unawares so benzine wagon has been
arranged for SO that the distinguished
contributing editor can loll back and
rest up a bit II he SO desires.
ON BOARD THE ROOSEVELT
SPECIAL TRAIN, Aug. 26,-With Col
onel Theodore Roosevelt speeding
across Iowa prairies. greeting the in
habitants of Iowa towns today. middle
west politicians reached the conclu'
sion that the political future of the
contributing editor is bound to be
either president or president maker.
Experienced politicians say the enor-
nous popularity of Roosevelt has not
waned in the slightest. They point
TO the thousands who crowd every
station through which the Roosevelt
special passes and who cheer them
selves hoarse at every word that Roos-
evelt utters as ample proof. and at
every town the Roosevelt grin has
been greeted with shouts of:
TEDDY in 1912"
Back to the White house, Teddy"
go after EN-, Teddy, we're with
you"
Roosevelt has made no reply to the
shouts SO far, but the smile widens
a little when an enthusiastic crowd
suggests another term as president
The colonel today is In the heart of
"insurgent Iowa." and he is being Civ
en- a greeting along the route that
compared favorably with his trium.
plant progress through the east.
The colonel today confined himself
largely to discussing local topics be.
fore his rear platform audiences. He
keeps off the big national topics, evi.
IDENTIFY fearing to encroach on the set
speeches he has prepared for later
stops on the trip.
ROME, Aug. 26.-The rupture be-
tween the Vatican and the Spanish
government has served to bring Car
dinal Merry del Val, the papal sec.
rotary of state, once more into the
limelight. Americans will recall the
fact that it was Merry de Val who
conducted the negotiations for Colonel
Roosevelt's proposed audience with the
pope, and who was afterward blamed,
the Vatican's faux pas. And now 1t
Is the same Merry del Val who is
charged with maneuvering to over
throw the existing government in
Spain because of the latter's alleged
hostility to the Church OF Rome.
Ever since he became papal secre-
tary of state seven years ago, the
cardinals course has been tempestu-
Gus. Over and over again it has been
reported that he was about to resign.
and once indeed his resignation was
at least offered. His position is nat
urally very difficult and laborious
one. 1t demands the greatest amount
of tact, common sense and executive
ability. The secretary of state has
nothing whatever to do with spiritual
matters, but stands between the pope
and the rest of the world to see that
his will is carried out, and all the de-
partments and subordinate organiza-
tons of which the church is composed
are directly responsible to him.
Merry del Val is the son of a Span.
lard, who for many years filed the
post of Spanish ambassador to the
Vatican. He was born in England
and educated there, which has led
many to suppose that his mother was
ly English in his sympathies. This
is a mistake, as both his parents were
Spanish, and he was educated in Eng
land because his father was at that
time an iron merchant in that country.
Both the cardinal and his father
played an important part in the late
war between Spain and the United
States AS is well known, the sym
pathies at the Vatican were entirely
pro-Spanish at the outset of the war,
which was only natural In view of the
close relations then existing between
Spain and the Vatican. Merry del
Val and his father. the Spanish am
bassador, made every effort to have
the influences of the Vatican exer
cised in favor of Spain. But as the
war proceeded it was realized in Rome
that the American Catholics would re-
sent any interference SO strongly as
TO make il dangerous to the welfare
OF the Catholic church in the United
States and the Vatican remained neu-
trail. outwardly, at least Several years
later Merry del Val was selected to
succeed Cardinal Martinelli as papal
delegate to the United States. but the
appointment was never made, probably
because of an intimation from Wash.
ingtop that IL would not he accents a.