Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1910-11-15

carry out the tIsk. In duel between
man and the machine il is not gen.
orally the man that survives"
The Daily News says: 'Mr. Roose-
Welt vainly took upon himself to re-
form politics without reference to any
old person or infiuence-a kind of
assumption from which the American
form of Democracy fights shy The
Express says: Roosevelt encompass
ed his own failure. Intoxicated by the
passion OF his conviction and overas-
timating the influence of his personal
authority, he wrecked his party by the
indiscriminate violence of his cam
paign. The disaster was much mag
nifed by the follies OF the Payne ia
rim, for which President Taft was
largely to blame" And finally 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 OF that
failure must be written of Tafts AID.
ministration. Mr.. Roosevelt may
learn moderation from his defeat; in
any cause he is far too valuable an
asset to be dispensed with by his
country and too forceful personality
TO permit OF such treatment"
Whether mir. Roosevelt may learn
moderation by defeat" as the London
Times suggests, or otherwise, II is IAN
exaggeration." repeating the words of
the London Standard, ito describe the
elections as a crushing blow TO Roose-
welt, or an irretrievable disaster TO the
Republican party Whilst there's life
there's hope, always, and, as one swal-
low does not make a summer no more
does one defeat make a funeral
The Democrats will have to travel
long way yet, and through very dan
gerous tracts of political territory, be-
fore they arrive" the likelihood still
being that in 1912, as in 1910, they
will owe much to Republican dissen-
sion.
1t was, however. of Theodore Roose-
welt, rather than of political conditions
and prospects, that we set out TO
speak
He overshot his bolt. He magni-
fed his authority. He took too much
for granted in the irresistible force
of his onset and his tremendous pow
ers OF intellectual and physical endn.
ance; in his personality. in his luck.
and in the popular credulity. Yet
now, as ever, is the line between sue
cess and failure exceeding thin.
The New Nationalism startled the
country, as we'll II might. Supple
mented by visible Apostle Caesar
ready to spring-it brought home 10
the people all that the Courier-Jour.
nal has been saying OF absolutism and
arbitrary power embodied by the per.
sonality and the preachments of Theo
dore Roosevelt
Even the leading College Presidents
were up in arms. Next TO Woodrow
Wilson, President Jacob G.. Schurman,
of Cornell, the most eminent OF tho,n.
a Republican and not a Democrat, dc.
| livered notable speech. In this he
used the following incisive and in.
pressive language:
The politicians apparently believe
we have had too much freedom, that
the sphere of personal rights has been
too large, the domain of home rule aid
{ State government too comprehensive.
IThny IN 81 ~,
us thes egreat and precious pc rsonal
rights, to destroy our State govern
ment, in which both the judicial and
the legislative branches shall be sub
ordinate to the executive, and in which
the President shall be the omnipotent
dictator, the universal boss and the
irresistible meddler with the affairs.
properties and persons OF the people
| of the United States OF America
| The marvellous business prosperity Of
! the country has been built up on the
basis of freedom. The highly central
| lied government proposed by our re-
/ Evolutionary doctrinaries in despotism
OF the purest water. And such a des
Dotism would be the destruction at
once OF the business prosperity OF our
country and of the free democratic
institutions which have made our re-
public the hope Of mankind.
lie had reference. directly t9 Theo-I
dore Roosevelt In his words Ne have
a condensation Of the philosophy un.
DERIVING the effort Of the Courier
Journal to bring the people to "A real
izing sense as II were. Mark the
sequel After President Schurman's
speech straw.vote was taken a. Cor
nell, which gave Roosevelt coo agains
Taft's 400 for President in 1912 This
illustrates the numeric strengih of tho