The Alaska citizen., 1910-12-19
The assing of Caesar COL HENRY PATTERSON IN THE LOUISVILLE COURIER JOURNAL RECORDS HIS IM-
 PRESSIONS OF MR. ROOSEVELT

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 Neither the temperam nt, the hab- itudes of mind, nor the methods of proceeding which single Theodore Roosevelt as the most extraordinary figure of his time invite sympathy. Even amid the gloom, and mayhap the humiliation. of defeat. his bent would be 10 resent compassion. Not ever given to laughter, he is of those who weep-if they weep al all alone.
 An opportunist without the sense of philosophy, or humor, a fighter without the sense of fear, or dan ger boundless in sefconfidence and fanatic as to the convictions of the moment he brought into the world of today the spirit Cf the Middle Ages. and won largely and has lost largely. his motto the lines of Mont"ose.
 He either fears his fate too much,
 Or his deserts are small:
 That durst not put it to the touch,
 And win. or lose it all.
 What evil genius was it that whis- pered into the ear of Napoleon the one word "Russia?" He might have foreseen the fires of Moscow. What evil genius was it whispered into the ear of Theodore Roosevelt The New Nationalism?' He might have foreseen reaction and disaster,
 As to this years balloting the Republican party in New York, and perhaps elsewhere. was doomed, Hughes, and Hughes alone had held it on its feet the preceding four years. With the exit of Hughes, the revelations of the last Session of the legislature at Albany, kept in mind by a committee investigation turning up fresh scandal in every direction and every day, made the defeat of any ticket the Republicans might nominate inevitable.
 The old Guard was discredited. But it could not be safely displaced. Theodore Roosevelt had only to pos sess his soul in patience for the verdict of condemnation that was coming - including in it's sweep the Taft administration - to stand at this moment the one pin in the al ley, instead of sprawlng, with the rest. to be turned upon as the au- thor of the undOing.
 If he had remained silent at Oy- ster Bay - there being neither cue, nor duty for him to butt into the party game the cry would now be going up from every section of the country for Roosevelt as the matchless leader to save the party and the day in 1912.
 H.
 The foreign writers, especially the English writers. on the whole well content with the Colonels discom- fiture," drop a sentence here and there which has some suggestion and salience.
 The London Standard thinks it an exaggeration to describe the cleo tions as "a crushing blow to Roose- welt CT an overwhelming disaster to the Republican party. Roosevelt, 1t says, may pop up again, while the party under Taft might pull itself together for a great effort in the Presidential election. Colonel Roose- velts fault" adds the Standard, lay in the belief that the party must in stantly be remodeled and that he was the only person to carry out the task. In duel between a man and a machine it is not generally the man that survives.
 The Daily News says: MT Roose- welt vainly took upon himself to re form politics without reference to any old person or influence kind of assumption from which the Amer ican form of Democracy fights shy" The Express says: Roosevelt en- compassed his own failure. lntoxi- cated by the passion of his conviction and overestimating the influence of his personal authority, he wrecked his party by the indiscriminate Vlo- lence of his campaign. The disaster was much magnified by the fOllies of the Payne tariff, for which President Taft was largely to blame" And final ly the Times says: Hard as is the blow for Roosevelt and Taft, we are far from believing that either the ex-president is down and out or that failure must be written of Tafts administration. MT. Roosevelt may learn moderation from his defeat; m any cause he is far too valuable an asset to be dispensed with by his country and too forceful a person ality to permit of such treat ment."
 Whether Mir Roosevelt may learn moderation by defeat" as the Lon don Times suggests, or otherwise, it is "an exaggeration," repeating the words of the London Standard, ito describe the elections as a crushing blow to Roosevelt, CT an irretriev able disaster to the Republican par ty" Whilst there's life there's hope, always, and, as one swallow does not make a summer, no more does one defeat make a funeral.
 The Democrats will have to tray el long way yet and through very dangerous tracts of political terri tory, before they arrive" the like lihood still being that in 1912, as in 1910, they will owe much to Re public dissension.
 It was, however, of Theodore Roosevelt, rather than of political conditions and prospects that we set out to speak.
 He overshot his bolt. He magni- fled his authority. He took too much for granted in the irresistible force of his onset and his tremendous pow CTS of intellectual and physical endurance; in his personality, in his luck, and in the popular credulity. Yet now, as ever, is the line be, tween success and failure exceeding