Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-02-17
ROOSEVELT BUS|[R
THAN President
OFFICE IN NEW YORK TRANS.
FORMED INTO SCENE OF
ACTIVITY.
ALL KINDS OF VISITORS
DAILY SEEK INTERVIEWS
Former President Has Cut Out Much
Literary Work For Himself. in Al.
dition to PoIitics-etrenuous Day Do.
seribed by Newspaper caIisr-othsr
News.
pecial to rimes-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
New York, Feb. 17.-When a news
paper correspondent goes to Washing
ton for the first time and sees the rush,
crush and press of statesmen, poll
ticians department secretaries and
Tsub-secretaries during the morning
hour at the White House. lie straight
way wants to write q story about 1t.
The older correspondents have seen
the thing day in and day out for
years. and the thought that there Is
any news in it never strikes them. The
new correspondent writes his story
and gets away with It," 1t is all in
the viewpoint.
When a newspaper man not Of the
New York brotherhood pays visit to
The Outlook office and sees the rush
and the press about Theodore Roose-
welt, "inactively receptive candidate
for president Of the United States. he
straightway wants to write story
about it, hoping that he can get away
with it," as the thing has been done
inston by the man Just arrived.
Strenuous Life Story Not Closed.
The last volume Of the strenuous life
has not been written. 1t was sus-
gested to Mr.. Roosevelt in mis- oiTice
that he should write 1t. He said. You
can IL you want to-"
There was material enough. If the
men who stand at the door and wait,
later to be admitted to "the presence.
We're all politicians in attendance to
get advice. orders and instructions, no
one would deny that Theodore Roose-
welt is an active. pushing. planning
and contriving candidate for the presi-
dental nomination.
If the daily throng Is composed In
the main of politicians they are not OF
the accepted type. There never was q
politician with beard like that OF the
man first at the door. And. moreover.
politician with a face like his could
not pull" vote. Under his arm is
book of somebody's philosophy. The
word philosophy stands out. The name
of the philosopher is in modest print
However. the philosophy must have
appealed to Mr.. Roosevelt. for the
man who carried the book was not al
lowed to escape until half an hour af-
ter he had entered the inner place.
"champion" the Next in Lins.
The next man possibly might have
been politician, because he is built
like one who is early and late at the
polls and who sees that the boys get
what is coming, but he wasn't poll
tician He was six feet three inches
tall. weighed 225 pounds and was
structurally more like a hammer
thrower than a pugilist. The colonel
put his head out the door and well
coined the giant with: Hello, Cham
pion. come in. know what you want"
Either 1t took "the Champion" some
time to tell what he wanted, or else the
talk directed to hammer throwing,
which, like some other extraordinary
things, interests Mr. Roosevelt more
than politics, for the giant did not re-
appear for more than fifteen minutes.
Sport had been given just half the time
allowed to philosophy. but there are
those who know II is not always so.
A man Of mild face. but with a lot
OF strength In it, was there. His voice
was not mild, for the sound Of 1t came
thru two doors and let the thronging
walters eavesdropping because they
couldn't help II, know that means to
facilitate the emerging Of the sub
merged were under discussion.
Prsaehsrliks Soldier Has Turn.
The next gentleman in waiting
looked like a preacher, but he turned out
to be an old-time fire-facing officer of
regulars. now on the retired list, but
whose time Of fighting was no longer
ago than the Spanish war.
This preacher like man won fame not
only as fighter. but also as one. 30
1t Is said, who returned to certain
officer OF Rough Riders In a matter OF
controversy "as good as he sent"
II there ever was happening Of this
kind II seemingly furnished cement for
friendship, for what the colonel and
the 1eneral-the visitor was a general
said TO each other did not ring like
a counterfeit OF affection.
These are only samples. The stock
Is prodigious and it changes daily. II
Mr.. Roosevelt is planning, plotting and
intriguing with steel representatives
and with men Of lesser Industries to
compass the thing needful for his con-
tinued happiness, he is finding time to
give attention to a thousand and one
other things and to 10000 and 10 other
men who would not know steel trust
nor a lesser industry II they met them
on an unshadowed highway.
interviewer 10 . Lsisursly Last.
The newspaper visitor from . dis
lance went thru the narrow hall and
the two doorways last. He was glad
OF It, for no man with human instincts
could talk either straight or comfort
ably. knowing that he was holding back
"a score Of ,expectant ones.
The prime thing was to get some
political information, but. like the
mornings crowd. this was held back
at any rate, for the time being. The
faunal naturalist wanted to talk about
protective coloration.