Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-09-01
RN A. A. IKEEMNN.

lie is fallen! We may now pause
cred amongst us like some modern
Don Quioxte. whose lnsolence terrified
the glance It's audacity attracted. AZ
gressive, intolerant and peculiar, he
strobe the halls of the White House
"A sceptred dictator, wrapped In the
glory of his own egotism. mind
bold in its comprehension of popular
ldeals--a will, despotic in its dictates
an energy that distanced expedition,
and conscience pliable TO every
touch of interest marked the outlines
of this extraordinary character; the
most extraordinary, perhaps, that IN
the annals OF the United States, ever
rose, reigned or fell.
Flung into life on the ebb OF a
revolution that taxed every device or
a people that acknowledged no su-
perior he commenced his course, an
aristocrat by birth and a scholar OF
no mean attainments.
with wealth and fortune for his
friend he rushed into the lists where
rank and wealth and the -four hun
dred" arrayed themselves and Depew
and Platt and the bosses fled from
him as from the glance Of destiny
lie knew no motive but interest
he acknowledged no criterion but sue
cess-he worshiped no god but am
bition; and with an eastern devotion,
he knelt at the altar OF his idolatry'
creed, nor opinionGo.,
Subsidiary TO this there was no
creed, nor opinion, that he did not
avow or repudiate, as selfinterest
seemed to dictate.
In the hope Of the presidency he
upheld the machine" and when that
deserted him, he appealed TO the mob.
The orphan of Mckinley he be-
came the adopted child Of the I'M
tcrests'-the denouncer OF bosses. he
became himself a boss the pretended
friend of law. he defed the law, the
courts and the government, and on
the ruins Of McKinleyism, the courts
the bosses, the interests, and the gov
ernmcnt. itself. he reared the throne
of his own political depotism!
\ profcssed Christian, he was the
idol Of the profane and dissolute; a
professed patriot, he made his coun-
try subservicnt to his own ambition,
and uuder the name Of Lincoln, he
graspod without shame, and wore
without rcmorse, the diadem of Burr!
But IN all he ala he was consist
cnt-wth himself.
lie was unique; sui Eeneris-hc was
the same defiant and aggressive ego
ust-hc WAS 4. r., he was the Nal
chcside Of the modern age, without
prototype and. we, trust without an
titypc. There was but one Of him
there could not be a second for ma
turc was without material for its
construction. and the world without
room for its exploitation.
In an this, his affeotation OF pon-
ties and other crseds, must not be
credited. A Republican. a Democrat
a snndputter a Progressive, pro-
tecuonist and free-trader, "A Socialist
an anarchist, he was all things TO all
men, and to himself alone was h,
truel
lie affected crusade against tht
bosses. that he himself might be
/ come the country $ only boss.
He made war on predatory wealth
and tainted combines and trusts
which did not support him.
lie divided the big corporations and
trusts into two classes-tho good
which supported him-and the bac
which did not
In the south he was the peoples
friend with democratic tendencies
IN the north progressive Republi'
can.
lie was an eastern puritan and
western pugillstl 8,
That he might secure negro sup
port In the north, he admitted then