Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-02-11
TAFT MEN TO HANDLE TED.
DY'S HOME COMING.

The leaders of the Republican party
are preparing for a great reception to
ex-President Roosevelt on his arrival
in New York in the near future.
There was no question that ire
mendous popular demonstration
would be accorded Roosevelt on his
arrival home. Disagree with him, as
we may, there is no questioning the
wonderful hold the man has on the
popular imagination. His whole ca
reer appeals to the masses who dear
ly love a man with red corpusles in
his veins. His recent life in Africa
has, if anything, tended to strengthen
his hold on the public mind. Deep
down in every mans breast there is
an admiration for the man who IS
not afraid to meet wild beasts in their
jungles, for the hunter and the sports
man generally. And Teddy is one OF
that type, an all round man in a ply
steal way, with courage and brute
strength, as well as other qualities
that go to make up a wonderfully all
round character
/ Taft's friends seem to have taken
charge of the reception. In that they
show their political wisdom. Taft is
to be also a centre figure in the al
fair, He will divide honors, as it
were, with the returning hero. The
fact that there are no differences be-
tween Roosevelt and Taft is to be
accumulated They will ride side by
side, sit side by side, talk together,
shower loving glances upon each 9th
er, and the world is expected to be
thereby convinced that Roosevelt
policies are entirely safe in the hands
of the present administration and
that what has been done, even to the
beheading of Pinchot, has fle Roose-
veltian approval
It is all very charming and the
home coming will now be awaited
with even more than the interest that
would naturally centre in it. But af-
ter the hurrahs have died out, and the
brightngs and odor of the red lights
have passed away, and men have set
tied down once more to the ordinary
humdrum of daily existence, and Ted
dy has secured a better grasp of the
situation, is it not quite probable that
/ the speech that he makes on the
home coming may be followed by 9th
ers that will not be quite so pleasing
to the administration ears. Saw
what we will, Roosevelt is not afraid
to express himself, and it is not at all
unlikely that when the old tennis
cabinet gets to work upon him, and
the conditions in the country at large
as to exorbitant prices and corpora
tons demands, are impressed upon
him, that the irrepressible Roosevelt
will once more Teak loose and the
G. o. P. Will find that he is just about
as hard to control as the buckine
broncho is to the tenderfoot.
But the Taft leaders are PLAYING
good politics in taking the initiative
and assuming charge of the arrange
ments for the royal welcome that is
to be extended to the conquering he
TO from the African wilds. They
know their business and with an or.
binary man their tactics would be ef-
fectual in forever squeIching any ten
dency to tear loose from the harness
/ of party subserviency. But with
Roosevelt even the adulation that Will
be showered upon him on this com
| ing memorable occasion and the ac-
knowledged intention to do honor to
him by the men who now control may
not be successful in restraining be-
yond the occasion. For Teddy is a
law unto himself