The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-06-28
ESTIMATING THE EFFECTS
OF RooseveIrs Resurn-sIore sobsr-
ness All Around.

ness All Around.
From the New York Evening Post.
We should say, first OF al, that there
is something In this triumphant return
OF the ex-President TO give tho President
pause and thought When Admiral Dewey
touched our shores again after Manila.
and II seemed for time as IL madiy
acclaiming people might take 1t into their
heads to make him President, Mr. Nc
Klnley Is reported 70 have said In
washington: well, I gave him his
chance and enabled him to make Of him
self what ne is to-day. and If he chooses
to turn against me It viii be all right"
But to-day that situation is exactly re-
veFsed. as between Mr.. Taft and Mr..
Roosevelt. 1t is the returning hero who
made the President. not vice versa. MT.
Taft has never concealed his belief that,
but for Mr. Rooseveits insistence upon
his nomination for the Presidency. and
forcing il by means not always too scrup-
ulous. he would never have gone TO the
White House. Now. not yet half through
his term, he must be aware of the gem
ca al lBaif tNAAplA f4AcA tAAS AAtoAiAb Va
ing Of his administration is in Roose-
velts hands. And this cannot fail TO
set him upon much searching 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 dignity Of
his great Office and not appear to hold
it at the tolerance or the caprice of a
man In private life. There is immense
jubilation in New York to-day, but we
may be sure that there is a good deal
Of serious reflection going on in Wash
lngton.
Other men over whom the Joyous well
come to Mr.. Roosevelt must throw the
pale cast Of thought are the small-mind-
ed and scheming Republican politicians
in this State. They have been busy spin
ming their webs, but they know that a
man has now come who may cut them
all through at a stroke They profess 10
have built great hopes upon Mr.. Roose-
veit's return, but they are too well aware
that these hopes may be dashed to the
earth. Chairman Woodruff marshals his
discredited co-bosses to meet Roosevelt.
but they must all be Guaking inwardly.
Their tiny swords they have before
measured with his swinging blade. and
they understand perfectly what would
happen now if he should fling himself
against their plottings and their ambi-
tons. Anu-Hughes Republicans of New
York may wreathe their faces in smiles
and join the gay throngs in greeting
Mr.. Roosevelt, but 1t Is certain that they
mil all & l. \. -
OF sober thinking.
Another class of politicians, too, may
well feel themselves in the shadow 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 within
| their grasp But they VIII be conscious
/ now, II they have not been before, thai
| they must walk warily or their fin,
/ chances viii be thrown away. The com
/ ing back Of the man whose genius fol
/ politics has so often made their plans
go wrong, must be like a solemn warning
to them. His old skin. reinforced nov
| by his redoubled popularity, they haY,
| indeed reason to dread. If they plac,
/ their dependence upon chicanery or fai
/ TO put forward their best men, RoOse
velt's swoop upon them win be fatal, and
/ they know il, Thus IN our judgment ths
/ repatriation Of Roosevelt is bound L
have a SOLDERING effect upon politicians Of
/ both parties.
/ Nay Il not also have such an effect
/ upon Roosevelt himself We ask tbs
/ question IN good faith What We Tefel
10 is not Mr.. Roosevelts incurable boy
/ ishness OF manner, his obstreperou;
/ buoyancy Of animal spirits-those thingi
/ we suppose 10 be de rhomme meme, ant
/ not 10 be changed-but the whole spiri
/ In which he is going 10 receive his ex
| traordinary tribute and meet his extraor
/ binary opportunity. He cannot be bin,
/ 10 the immense power that IS now in hi
/ hands; must not the sense Of It RESTRAIN
! while it touches him. and lead him Z
| mediate deeply upon the vast response
| bility committed TO him2 He ought q
know how to take the demonstrations a
/ their true value; to pierce through wha
Is hollow and brush aside what is insin
/ cere; and In the residue 10 read a sum
mons TO grid himself anew for tn
service Of his country with a singlenes
Of purpose and purity OF motive create
| than he has ever shown before.