Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1912-05-06
MUST BE "DIPPY. "

In considering the INSCRIPTIONS ferocity with
which Colonel Roosevelt has been conducting his
presidential campaign, especially in Massachusetts.
the Salt Lake Tribune Sunday last spoke OF
him in a headline as "The Political Maniac.
This was objected to by certain of Colonel Roose-
vet's friends in Utah, but it seemed to us to be
fair and fitting characterization Of him, judged
by the methods used by Colonel Roosevelt in his
attacks upon President Taft and upon republic
cans and the republican party generally.
The occasion from the heated canvass III
Massachusetts where the president plainly and
sorrowfully showed the mendacity of Col. Roose
velt's charges the shifty character of his utter
ances. and the falsity and ferocty of his charges
personally against the president The article was
written in view of Rooseyclts attempted reply
to President Taft. where at Worcester Roosevelt
addressed himself to the presidents showing, but
in place of meeting the issue presented, fairly
and manfully he evaded all the points at issue
and INDUCED in the widest vituperaton and as
pensions upon the president, his motives, and his
acts The Roosevelt outburst stated IN advance
of its utterances to be a complete answer to
President Taft but it answered him not at all.
On the contrary, it shirked everything and turned
upon personal vtuperation and rawlings as OF a
lunatic.
We find that the idea which we gathered from
the Roosevelt rantings that occasion was shared
by others in the east at the same time Thus, the
New York Journal of Commerce and Commercial
Bulletin quotes Latin adage Ira Juror brevis
est" to the effect that anger is brief mad
ness as describing Roosevelt's outburst of
wrath whenever he is opposed criticised. And
it suggests that Roosevelt is subject to inter
mttent madness which is in danger of becoming
chronic 1t refers to his attempted reply to Presi-
dent Taft as wild and whirling Words and as
an alarming symptom of the temporary madness
indicated
Henry Watterson, in the Louisville Courier
Journal speaks thus Of Roosevelt in his campaign
''The man is a maniac. He knows not clearly
what he does OF says Never utteranee of his
will bear discussion or dissection. Never an act
of his can be defended" The Kentucky editor
thinks Mr. Taft might better have "taken a
slorter cut to the truth, and merely said Il per-
sonally know that Theodore Roosevelt is of un-
r mind and | refuse to fight mailman"
thus we note that in the Judgment which
e. expressed upon Col. Roosevelt they were by
no means alone; in fact any noting carefully
he aood of vituperatiOn which Colonel Roosevelt
INDUCED in in that Worcester speech while he
pretended to answer President Taft, but, in fact
lid nothing but assa him with scurrlous abuse
must have come practically to the same conclu-
sion And when Colonel Roosevelt ended his
abusive TRADE by saying II nothing for Mr.
Taft's personal attitude toward me" one sees at
once that Colonel Roosevelt puts his whole cam
paign OF the personal basis, and does not in the
least make it a matter of principle or of public
concern.
We therefore adhere distinctly to the opn-
ion expressed that Colonel Roosevelt is of I'M
sound mind in the rantngs in which he INDUCES
That the disorder of his mind is temporary We
concede as altogether probable; but that man
in soundness If mind would indulge ia the sart
of talk that Colonel Roosevelt has frequently
indulgcd IN during the present campaign, il j,
impossible TO believe.