Williams news., 1912-10-12

AAS o"ho lio ilSiI uo DC l'dillully astonished when he finds himself in print.
 The country is the only thing when all is in. The Roosevelts, the the Tafts and the Wilson's are mer- est incidents. The population pur- pose isn't to elect any particular man president. Rather, it should be to elect best president for the country. What we should now do, assuming ourselves to be good citizens, is apply the above rule for president picking to the candidates before the people.
 In thus acting we should remem- Der certain matters of a north star importance. We should remember primarily that but two kinds of men seek presidency
 One aims at eminence. The other hungers for fame. With one the White House is the object; with the other method. The first, if made president, sits calmly down; he has his victory, the White House is his. With him of the fame hunger it is the other way about. It is not un- til he is given the White House that his great work begins. He does not think to write his name with the immortals by merely signing him. self President. He can only achieve the purpose which called him on the field by labors of first and last ing good to the whole people.
 The best president will always be heart and soul fame hunter. The nobility of ones action is determin- ed by the nobility of one's aspira- tions. Your best president will not rest content with being merely a president. He must go down the aisles of coming time a great presi- dent or to his own conscience he will have failed. To that end he sets before himself the examples of these mighty ones of times past. The Washingtons, the Jeffersons, the Jacksons, the Lincolns will be his examples. Of the big three, Mir. Roosevelt has the fame hunger, MT. Wilson the yearnings for mere en- thence, while Mir. Taft as has been ever his disappointing case-is sing ly and simply looking for a good place to sit down.
 Mr. Roosevelt made a good pres- ident and would make a better one now. All activity, he has shown that it is publicly safer to do the wrong thing than to do noting at all. In government the best thing is to do the right thing; the worst of all things is to stand perfectly still.
 In the last instance, as far as an adverse destiny is involved, you of fer practically a pot shot. What events may be seeking your destruc- tion have time to shoot from a rest. AS if by instinct MT. Roosevelt real ized this and, keeping ever in mo- ton, forced events to do their shoot ing offhand.
 More than his activity and indus try, however, an indomitable and unhagging honesty has served the Roosevelt term. It is that chilled steel honesty always and under all conditions evinced, which has been the throbbing, pulsating cause of every one of his victories. That fact of honesty has never failed to save him with the people. He has followed of the wrong trail as often as any other man. He has propos- ed the wrong thing, supported the wrong thing. He has helped the wrong man, hated the wrong man. But he was always honest, and while his head took sometimes the left hand turn, his heart never did.
 From his earliest steps into poli- tics the public has never doubted. That faith was his citadel, his tower of strength. Knowing him to be honest, the people would never be parted from him. Also, much as it may be doubted by the Talley- rands Of intriuue the Daonln 1rou11