The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1910-08-30
ROOSEVELT.
Charleston Gazette.)

nat mas lOfced us, many tunes, to
call attention to the vast dam age
done to this country through the
lack of constructive craftsmanship
in Mr.. Roosevelt. Admitting al
ways his great ability, his superb
intellectual equipment and his pop
ularty, born of his courage and
seeming outspoken manner. this pa
per, even while he was President.
and when very few dared to raise
the warning finger, scented the
pauic of 1907 as the inevitable eli
max of pretending to run this gov
eminent with no tools bat a meat
ak and big stick; and our then
predictions are now history. But
time and experience have ripened
and matured the 300 pounds of
energy, steam power and BRAINS
yclept Roosevelt He landed upon
his native soil recently with the de-
sire to keep quiet and the wisdom
to know ard think before acting.
He began his literary gold mining
at the Outlook office, aud simply
asked to be let alone. He advised
nothing, asked nothing. He was
appearantly making mode ex-
President But the effort and he
termination to "keep out of politics"
is harder than steel-trapping lions
or seiDing Important.
Roosevelt found, as everyone else
who ever tried it has found, that
there is but one formula for keep
ing out of politics, to-wit: dlscord,
eschew, insult and fire every friend
Anyone who even dipped into loli-
tics will never get out entirely so
long as he has friend left on earth
Ore's friends force him into politics.
Neither the daring courage, the
brutal frankness, nor the political
acumen of the eX-PresideLt was po-
tent enough to save him from his
friends. The Garfelds, the Pin.
chots, the LaFolletts, the Beveridges
and the cowboys visited him. The
guessed. A few of his
friends gave out interviews. Soon
the eX-President was forced to de-
ny and explain. Later he was ca
joled in recommending" and fin
ally into asking that certain things
be done. Now he finds that he
has been brutally defeated by a
committee in his home state; turn
ed down by the legislature; ignored
by the Republican voters of his
home district and sat upon by tie
Republican convention of Ohio.
These things came, not of his own
making, to get into fight, but be-
cause his friends "worked him" But
che ex-President, the only one liv-
ing, has been "done up" Foraker
never got it more in the neck than
Col. Roosevelt now has a right to
complain of. We are of the opinion
that some Irregular" gentleman will
soon find that they've done struck
somebody when they landed on the
Sycamore Hill neck and we con-
strue the last words from Oyster
Bay to portend new club organ
izatlon on this continent. The rum
blings of Vesuvlous never gave
promise of greater fatalities than
these words: my speeches will rep
resent myself SO saith the sage
of Sycamore
Frankly, we Think that he has been
badly treated. He gave no evidence
of criticising the regulars He was
not bound morally nor politically to
endorse n tariff bill that prolonged
the dominion of the trusts nor kiss
the foot that booted Pinchot out Of
his office. Ho had nominated and
elected Mr. Taft The latter had
signed a miserable tariff bill and had
fred the head of the conservation
idea. It was enough to expect of
the returning President that he
keep still He tried his level best
TO do so. He could not make Gar.
field, Pinchot, La Toilette, BIistow
Deliver, Cummins, or Beveredge
stop talking The administration
had no right to demand impossible
tiles. It looks a. if the admins.
tratiou. firing Of the scourging thai
| the insurgents were inAicting, pro
ceeded to humiiate their silent chic
and the President was put ul
to be knocked down IF 50, he ID
justified i'm saving. INV speeche