The Washington herald., 1912-02-24
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From the Boston Iienid.
The big stick knows a brother in big
business,
Frum the Charleston News and Csurirr.
/ The colonel seems TO be preparing TO
bring out new edition OF THE Win
ming Of the West
Frcm The Buffalo Expses.
At any rate. the Roosevelt boom has
served the useful purpose OF killing La
Toilette quite dead.
Ffcm the Philadelphia North American.
Recalling certain judicial decisions may
be all right but II would be good sight
better to forget lot Of them.
From the New yest sun
The industrious citizens who read the
Columbus speech in the evening paper
were doubtless able TO recognize familiar
passages later when the cyclone arrived
FIum the Philadelphia Record
Sound doctrine Thus does 7. II. de-
scribe the contents of his Columbus
In the description, otherwise 1t would be
accurate.
From the Louisville courier-JoumAl.
T. r. having got his consent to run
over to Columbus and tell the world
what's what, the world may now find
Il possible to wag on until he again
breaks silence.
From the Mifwaukee Sentinel.
A New Jersey horse is accused Of hav-
ing kicked a railroad train of the track.
n Col Roosevelt were not sworn to
silence he would increase the membership
Of the Nature Fakers' Club.
From the Hartford Times.
For the Democratic party the Columbus
speech Of the ex-President is only ca
lamity. His nomination by the Chicago
convention Is now an impossibility.
From the Boston Pos.
How in the world can the friends of the
colonel expect him 10 become the can
didate OF the Republican party majority
with such q platform as this?
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
II is only upon the hypothesis of an
impending announcement Of his candi-
dacy that this painfully elaborated ex-
VI MS dlllAhut
courts, for example, can be accounted
for.
From the New Haven Register.
So the peaceful Theodore has "shied
his castor into the ring to adapt his
own chaste phrase Well, he can afford
to let It stay there. and meet its own
fate, but not TO follow il. His honor as
a gentleman ought TO be worth more than
his honor as a sport.
Prom the Cleveland Leader.
Ohio is for Theodore Roosevelt for a
second term as President of the United
States. or that there is not the shred
OF shadow of doubt. And Ohio will
make its faith and determination plain
from this day onward.
From the Philadelphia Press.
The policy laid down by Theodore
Roosevelt in his address before the Ohio
constitutional convention is familiar and
accepted where it is safe and perilous
where II is new. In most Of his proposals
every one of both parties agrees, more
or less. with minor differences.
From the New York Tribune
The Tribune wishes to see justice done
as ardentIy as Col Roosevelt does, but
II believes in sticking to tested institu-
tions rather than rashIy innovating for
no substantial advantage at the constant
risk Of gross abuses. Col. Roosevelt says
that those who do not think as he does
lack faith in the people and popular
government That depends upon how you
look at II.
From the Philadelphia Record.
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way before Theodore Roosevelt was
born. and they will be governing the
country long after the curious delusIon
that he is the prophet of a political mill
lennium shall have faded from the minds
of his fevered followers. There is more
time than Theodore Roosevelt thinks
there Is, and Abraham Lincoln. whom he
quotes, was never tumbling over himself
in his headlong haste.