The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-03-29
ROOSEVELT IS
GIVEN OVATION
Thousands of People in San Fran
cisco Cheer His Every Ut
terance There
FOREMOST AMERICAN
SAYS THE GOVERNOR
Former President Talks About the
judiciary and the Right of the
People to Solve Their Own
Affairs as They Please

SAN FRANCISCO, March 2S.-Sur-
rounded by a majority of the states
legislators, it's chief executive and
many San Franciscans identified with
the insurgent cause and in the pres
ence of $4,000 cheering citizens Col
onel Roosevelt congratulated Califor-
mia tonight on the progress she has
made in here good fight" for clean
government. In his 80 years Of public
life, Colonel Roosevelt declared, he
never had seen performed by any leg
islature so great an amount of good
e.islation as that secured by the
present legislature of California.
Enthusiasm Is Wild
Enthusiasm is mild word to char
acterize the ovation extended by San
Francisco to the former president.
His very telling utterances tonight
are greeted by storms of applause
and when Governor Johnson intro
duced him as the foremost Ameri-
cam and expressed the wish that he
might be hailed again as the pub
lies leader the cheering was deafen-
ing.
In felicitating the state upon the
work accomplished by the legislature,
Roosevelt especially commended the
legislature for not having pushed its
program too far, the rock he said that
reformers generally split upon in
overplaying their hand.
Mr.. Roosevelt said in part:
Have Good RefOrmers
Il most heartily congratulate Cali
fornia on it's vigorous new birth, in
the Acid of political and social life.
Moreover l wish also heartily to con-
graduate the governor and legislature
on the immense service they have rem
dereG by what they have rsfrained
from doing. In any movement for
advance, It Is a. important and at
least as difficult to refrain from doing
the things that ought not to be done
as to dc the things that ought to be
done
II particularly congratulate you
upon the fact that SO far your reform
ers have been able to work reasonably
we'll together and to keep in such
shape that they do not lose touch with
the moderates.
Many RefOrmers Unfit
Unfortunately there are plenty of
reformers with high ideals and lofty
aspirations who are SO unfit for the
field Of practical endeavor that they
spend their time fighting one another.
like microbes in bottle; and I need
hardly say that this type of reform
er is foreordained through the ages
to be the victim of the machine poll
tician.
"In Los Angeles spoke on the
question of the judiciary. I wish to
amplify q little what I then said.
First and most important let me insist
on what ought to be the obvious fact
that no public servant should ever be
Judged by Jumping him in with other
public servants who occupy similar
positions. Judge each public SER
wants by other public servants who
occupy similar positions. Judge each
public servant by his individual con-
duct in his position. not by his po-
sition. In return let the high minded
public servant be most carefully on
his guard never to combine with the
less highminded public servants oc-
cupying the same type Of position.
Senate Is Instance
II have no patience with the people
who attack all executive officers as
such, or all legislative officers &c
such. Take, for instance, the senate
of the United States. Don't attack
the senators as body, Discriminate,
for instance. sharplv between thu
senator who acted in the interest OF
Of
against Lorimer, and the senator who
voted for Lorimer This is important
as regards all our officials, but it j.
perhaps especially important as re.
CARDS the judges. fine judiciary,
upright, honest, fearless, with SYM
pathetic intelligence, is essential, to
the success of free community. We
can get such a judiciary only If, on
the one hand, the people demand
those qualities in the judges, and if
on the other hand. the good judges
resolutely decline to make comm on
cause with bad judges.
Criticism of Judiciary
II champion and practice the right
Of criticism of the federal judiciary
for the very reason that it is the only
alternative to adopting some othe,
method of bringing the federal Judi.
ciary whenever necessary in closer
touch with the people.
PERSONALLY I think that to elect q
Judge for very short term without g
recall Is more destructive of the
Judges independence and usefulness!
on the bench than to elect him fol
long term with a recall; and il PEG.
pie would only pay attention to fact.
and not names, this would be uni
versally recognized.
Where Judges Failed
"A few years ago for instance. ir
Missouri, the after time governor o,
the state. then Attorney GeneralFoll
conducted a series of prosecution,