Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-04-08
ROOSEVELT PICKED
lO AGAIN RULE
HENRY WATrERsoN SAYS EU
ROPE HAS NOMINATED HIM
70 HEAD NATION.
BRILLIANT DEMOCRAT PAYS
HIGH TRIBUTE TO STATESMAN
Asks II Iron Hand i. Necessary to
Control Nation, Curb Trust. and
Throttle the Grafteu-Greatest Fis-
urs Since Napoleon, in Opinion Of
Wattsrson.

Ueo Sinc0 NaPoteons III OPlHiou OF
Wattsrson.
Louisville, April S-Under the head
WHITTIER r.. Henry Watterson. the fore
most democratic editor Of the nation.
says today in the Courier-Journal:
THE time has come for the people of
the United States to consider Theodore
Roosevelt as they have never consider
ed him before; to take him more seri-
ously than they have ever taken him;
to realize that he is altogether the most
startling figure who has appeared in
the word since Napoleon Bonaparte. a
circumstance not without significance
and portent.
He must be poor American whose
heart does not glow with pride at the
unwonted honors bestowed upon this
representative of his country and swell
with exultant admiration at the splen-
did way he is carrying himself. It is
too late, if it were not personally Of
fensive, to talk about tself-exploitation.
The incident in Cairo was wholly char
acteristic. The incident in Rome was
upon LII bOlA LIE SuSWSu
the Theodore Roosevelt whose brilliant
many -sidedness has captivated the
universe.
Fits Act to the Word.
"He is re-eminently a man who fits
the word to the act. the act to the
word, and does the thing. which, how
bounds to his advantage.
fhis hoS ho in P0poa orH
more, will be repeated In Berlin, in
Paris and In London. No conquering
hero was ever made the subject of such
demonstrations, each of the foreign
capitals, each of the foreign potentates
vyinS with the other to pay him hom:
age. Yet Is he the winner OF no victory
ON land and 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 worldwise interest
and wonder. It displays, upon suf-
ficient field, manhood making good
The Fighting Philosopher the mayor
of Rome describes him. That flatters
the vanity Of human nature. We re-
joice in man Of battle who is a man
Of thought. Third. after Washington
and Lincoln, said the mayor of Rome
the consolidator'; Roosevelt, the puri-
fer of the republic.
Again to Rule Nation.
I'VE look again to see him at the
head Of the great republic said the
mayor Of Rome. That is the keynote
and 1t will continue to be the keynote
wherever he goes. Thus he will come
back to us the European nominee for
president Of the United States.
Let no enc fancy this,an unmeaning
or an idle compliment. Taken in con-
nection with what appears to be the
hopeless breakdown of the Taft adj
ministration, it constitutes an event Of
the first consequence. With the Wa
ferloo which seems certain to overtake
the republicans in the fall elections.
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 the candi-
dacy Of Theodore Roosevelt for presi-
dent in 1872 may be regarded from
this time onward as so probable that
the people should begin seriously to
consider it. II we are to return Theo-
dore Roosevelt to power, let there be
no mistake about the terms Of the new
commission which is to be issued 10
him.
u Despotism Necessary?
. "History has agreed that the best of
oil government is wise and benevo-
lent despotism. II the government Of
the United States under our written
constitution OF checks and balances. be
. failure-as many think it-and il
there be needed for its executive head
Z strong man having the courage to
take all the bulls Of corruption by the
horns, and, regardless of obsolete legal
restraints to shake the life out Of them,
then, indeed. Theodore Roosevelt would
seem one fitted by temperament, edu-
cation and training for the work
He Is a patriotic American with hui
manttafian proclivities. He is an in
coFruptible man; he has shown himself
fearless OF consequences. If the people
are sick and tired Of the slow processes
OF constitutional procedure; if they
want in the White House a president
who, disregarding the letter of the law,
will substitute his own Interpretation
OF its spirit and intention; If they
think that the reign of hypocrisy and
cant and graft which marks our pro-
1ession4l politics may be ended by the
absolutfsm OF a ruler who. as Roose-
welt himself puts it, translates his
words into deeds and who, charged
with the cleaning Of Augean stables by
an. election putting the seal of popular
approval upon conceded excesses in the
use Of power and bidding him to go
forward and apply the same remedies
to disease otherwise incurable, then
Theodore Roosevelt fills the bill to per-
lection. for he comes directly from the
family Of the kings Of men and is a.
linea1 descendant of Caesar and Crom-
well.
Watterson Asks Verdict.
Before We get into the acrimonies Of
party conflict, the Courier-Journal asks
Its contemporaries thruout the country
10 reflect without passion or levity and
to anewer to themselves. amid the
0lase 6 light which casts an aureols