Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-06-23
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THE HOMECOMING OF RoOSE-
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THE HOMECOMING VI nOO0e-
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The New York Post, Independent,
cynical, Indifferent, blunt almost to
the cruel, but readable just the same,
has much to say about Roosevelt's
homecoming, and much Of interest.
Editorially. in part, it says:
Comments upon Mr.. Roosevelt s
Homecoming may be roughly CLASH
fed as either flippant, laudatory or
obiurgatory. Tie Jokes crowd hard
upon the sneers; the praise Is as full
some as the criticism is bitter. For
our part, we should be sorry to fall
into either fault in dealing with an
event so remarkable In any aspect.
Both in itself and in its implications
it is to be studied with impartiality
and sobriety. The hilarity and up
righteousness of the immediate occa-
sion cannot, of course, be avoided;
but they will soon pass: and then the
question what it all means will press
for an answer. In our opinion, the
true significance is a SOLDERING one
all round. f. ii
We should say, first of ALL that
there is something in this triumphant
return OF the ex-president to give the
president pause and thought. When
Admiral Dewey touched our shores
again after Manila, and it seemed for
a time as if a madly acclaiming peO'
pie might take it into their heads to
make him president, Mr.. Mckinley is
reported to have said in Washington:
well, gave him his chance and en-
abled him to make of himself what
he is today, and if he chooses to turn
against me it will be all right" But
today that situation is exactly re-
versed, as between Mr.. Taft and Mr..
Roosevelt. 1t is the returning hero
who made the president, not vice.
versa. Mr. Taft has never concealed
his belief that but for Mr.. Roosevelt's
insistence upon his nomination for
the presideny, and forcing it by means
not altogether too scrupulous, he
would never have gone to the White
House. Now, not yet half through
his term, he must be aware of the
general conviction that the making or
the breaking of his administration is
in Roosevets hands. And this can
not fail to set him upon much search
ing of his own mind, with earnest
questioning whether the presidency
ever should have been in the power
of one man to give to another; and
how, having so received it, he can
preserve the independence and the
dignity of his great Office, and not
appear to hold it at the tolerance or
the caprice of man in private life.
There is immense jubilation in New
York, but we may be sure that there
is good deal of serious reflection
going on in Washington.
Another class of politicians, too,
may well feel themselves in the shad-
oW of the ship bearing Mr.. Roosevelt
home. We mean those democratic
leaders and managers who have so
much to do with the shaping of the
course of their party in the near
future. A great opportunity has
seemed to be theirs. The general
opinion has been that success is with
in their grasp. But they will be con-
'scious now, if they have not been be-
fore, that they must walk warily or
their fine chances will be thrown
away. The coming back of the man
whose genius for politics has so often
made their plans go wrong, must be
like solemn warning to them. His
old skill, reinforced now by his re-
doubled popularity, they have indeed
reason to dread. If they place their
dependence upon chicanery, or fail to
put forward their best men, Roose-
velt's swoop upon them will be fatal,
and they know it. Thus in our judg-
ment the repatriation of Roosevelt is
bound to have SOLDERING effect upon
politicians of both parties.
May it not also have such an effect
upon Roosevelt himself We ask the
question in good faith. What we refer
to is not Mr.. Roosevelt's incurable
boyishness of manner, his obstreper-
Gus buoyancy of animal spirits-those
things We suppose to be de Phomme
meme," and not to be changed-but
the whole spirit in which he is going
to receive this extraordinary tribute
and meet his extraordinary opportun-
ity. He cannot be blind to the i'm
mense power that is now in his
hands; must not the sense 0f it re-
strain while it touches him, and
lead him to mediate deeply upon the
vast responsibility committed to him?
He ought to know how to take the
demonstrations at their true value;
to pierce through what is hollow and
brush aside what is insincere; and in
the residue to read a summons to