Imperial Valley press., 1910-09-24
WHAT WILL HE OO7
RooseveIt's Problem # Saratoga Con Vention Proposes Endorsement
 of Taft.
(Collier's)

Among the worlds jokes not the least grotesque is the turgid vehe- mence with which politicians point with bride" to the achievements of their factions. Does anybody mark them? Just now we face a question of endorsement which strangely does have meaning If Theodore Roose- welt goes to Saratoga in September, he may we'll be placed in position where it will be necessary to vote for or against lurid tribute to the Ad- ministration. Such a vote by him, in the spot light. and in the conditions, can not be numbered among those acts which, ,Aalthough possibly causing the angels pain, have no bearing on the lives of men. His endorsement, if given. will be seriously marked and weighed His will be a profoundly difficult position To refuse the arti- ficial bouquet will look ungracious; to grant it will be ridiculous and false.
 MT. Roosevelt's opinions can not differ altogether from those which are practically unanimous among the men who have worked, under his leader ship, toward lessening the illegitimate powers of gold. He must know, as they know, that, whatever motions may be gone through on the eve of an election, the President has used his office toward the undoing of Sen ators like La Toilette, Cummins, Dol liver, and Beveridge, and similar men in the House-the men who forced meaning into the Wickersham railway bill, and gave to the President the only legislation that can make pre- tense to value; that the President en- deavored to bunco the country on the Aldrich tariff bill; that the most far reaching of Roosevelt's policies, con- servation, has amid fair words and suppressed documents, been treated by the President, not in the spirit of AhCAOL anu 0ul AClu OoI lOllONlhS the conceptions of Ballenger and Gug- genheim; that Wickersham' sympa- thies, whether it be in conservation, in Friar lands, or in the Boston and Maine merger, are the sympathies not of Roosevelt but of Croesus, and of the friends and followefs of Croesus; that the peanut politics of Knox, following the triumphs of Roosevelt himself and of Root, have been the amazement of the world; that Hitchcock has extend ed the spells system into regions hitherto exempt from it's polluting touch; that the disgrace of asking Oregon to lie was followed by the dis grace of offering to honor Fulton; that Kerens is in Austria; that Sena- tor Crane is gathering up the reins of power.
 We may hope; we may hope again, and still hope; but to point with pride" would be too much. The Pres ident not only accepted the Roose- welt policies; he had special and admirable policies of his own. He was to work toward the simplification of judicial procedure, a mighty work, and, if it is ever done, noble in it's ministering to cruel need. Has he taken a single step? He seemed fully to understand the saving of human power that lay in the unification of control over disease, but who has heard lately about the National Board of Health?
 Sorry for him, yes; willing to help, if permitted, in all good works, un- doubtedly; but convinced, and willing to endorse, that, frankly, we do not see how Theodore Roosevelt can be.