The Detroit times., 1912-10-10
Looks as Aristocratic as Steam
Dredge and as Refined as
Road-Roller
BUT TREMENDOUS POWER
SHOWS IN EVERY WORD
Annesley Burrowes Paints Clev-
err Picture of Big Bull
Moose in Action
sy ANNEsLEY suRRowes.

Tuesday In tho armory, ne loOheu GA
actly what a peoples candidate
should look like. He looked like
man of the people.
His coat hung awkwardly upon him
His trousers were bagged at the knees
and wrinkled across the hips. He
looked as though he belonged to the
plain people-the common" people.
II he had been driving a dray or
swinging a hammer In a blacksmith's
shop you would have thought him
tine-looking blacksmith, a splendid
looking drayman, a man who should
be doing something bigger than
either.
But II would never occur to you
that he was out of place.
Col. Roosevelt does not look intel
lectual, or graceful, or aristocratic or
refined. He looks about as intellec-
tual as a printing press, about as
graceful as a locomotive. about as
aristocratic as steam-dredge, about
as refined as q road-roller.
But like all these things, he gives
the impression OF being vastly strong,
tremendously useful, colossally EN-
cient. He looks as II he knew just
what ought to be done. and as though
he would see to II that those things
were done!
You would guess Col. Roosevelt to
be about 1--WE feet ten inches In height,
and to be about go pounds In weight.
His waist-line bulges largely. IL ne
were many shades darker you might
guess that he had twenty-five pound
| turkey tucked away under his vest.
Jaw Big and Square.
The colonel's Jaw Is 50 big and
square that 1t makes his head look
small His nose and mouth are large
and coarse. His face ridged and fur
rowed with here and there fiat places.
Occasionally It tries to look good
hmored. but Ii cant look anything
but powerful His neck Is very thick.
One would imagine that such
physique would produce vast roll
| ing voice, but II doesn't The colonel
talks in the top OF his head. and from
that through his nose. He accents his
consonants In q curious way, produc-
ing many queer little explosions like
those of a paper cap on toy pistol.
I What he does 10 the novels Ia a
shame. Sometimes he ignores them.
He pronounces people" almost as
though il were spelled "ppl'" and win
| ter as though spelled ''wnite;" and
very, very little of that final "e" gets
past the colonel's famous teeth.
When actually compelled to enun-
ciate a vowel, Mr.. Roosevelt gives II
the sound OF another vowel. He talks
of the Progressive ''porty' with a
sharp explosion on the ''p'' and an
other defamation on the last conson-
ant. Do you know what "detonation"
means? Johnson gives II as some
thing more forcible than the ordinary
cracking Of salts in calcination, az
the going off--the pulvis, or aurum
fulminans." II you can understand
that, you will know just the kind OF
a noise the colonel makes when he
tries to say party"
Col. Roosevelt's voice may be des-
cribed as harsh and rasping. When
he vents some jest at the expense OF
his opponents this voice OF his rises
uueerly above the normal register, and
breaks into a funny Growing noise.
expressive OF mirth. In a weaker man
this might seem ridiculous. II does
not I'm this case for the very simple
reason that nothing can make the
colonel seem ridiculous.
You can laugh at Roosevelt In a
cartoon You can laugh at him In
newspaper paragraph. You can laugh
at him easily enough when he's
long way of, and not headed towards
you. But you can't look him In the
face and laugh at him.
Nobody laughed at him In the arm
DRY, Tuesday. All the people who
laughed. were laughing with him.
coIonei's Grim Humor.
And there was lots Of laughter. The
colonel has a grim, sardonic humor |
that never fails. IL Is something like
shot out OF a thirteen-inch gun. IL |
not only hits the bullseye, but when |
the smoke has cleared away, the tar
get has disappeared
Then there are the coloners hands
They are wide and thick and knotty |
like hod-carrier's. In his rare /
moments OF calmness the colonel car
pocket, with three inches OF red.
upon the reading desk
But at other times, How those |
hands can chatter. The colonel talks |
WIN MS udnus Do MUCH as VIII us Il
mouth. When he sticks out his big jaw
doubles his right into something re-
sembling a ham, and shakes IL, furiosc,
at an imaginary enemy, you. feel an
impulse to duck, as though II were
coming at you across the footlights.
But it's impossible to describe The
colonel's hand work. It's too rapid
for anything but motion picture
camera.
On the whole the colonei Is no
orator. He can turn team OF oxen
about as gracefully as he can turn
period. He doesn't know anything
about climaxes or perorations. lie
just sails in rough-and.tumble.
Every word strikes you like pistol
shot. Somebody. or something. drops
at every sentence. Slam! Bang,
One down. the othey>come on.
And when it's all over you have
that satisfied feeling like sitting at
the ringside and Watching the late
champion take the count.
Like Cave Man.
Col~>RoosePcfts popularity lies in
hia ri II Ia a a 0Tn Nv