Valdez daily prospector., 1912-03-01
HOW TO BEAT ROOSEVELT.
There is just one way to beat Theodore Roosevelt, and that is 10 BEAT HIM TO IT!

Theodore Roosevelt, and that is 10 BEAT HIM TO IT!
 Not in all the history of Amer ican politics has there been man with such unerring instinct for the POPULAR thing. More Shrewdly and exactly than any other man is he able to gauge the exact state of the public mind.
 Bryan has always been, and ev- rr will be, far ill advance--a sort of aXman tO clear ways; La Fol lctlc works without regard tO pub lie sentiment and popular sup port; Wilson has not yet Sufri- cienlly divcSlcd himself of his Sch0lasliciSm to be an idol. and as for Taft, he will always be far in the rear, panting and protest ing.
 But the coloncl--ah, there is one wh" will never Dc an inch too far in front or an inch too much hchind. He has the gift of sim ullancousnrss without the slight est touch of prcviOusnrSS. Mas ger of the psychological moment, aliL amazingly blessed with the dramatic instinct, he never fails io do the popular .Emg at pre- ciscly tn" popular time.
 Take, for instance, his recent attack on the judiciary and his nnI be sure, Bryan and La Toilette hay: been advocating the recall for many months, and MT. ROosc- welt has been steadily wagging his head against it in a sort of owlisn doubt and depreciation. In this he expressed the mental attitude of the mass, for belief in the sacrO- Sanctity of the Judiciary was something that the American Deo- pie found it hard to abandon.
 But To, in the last few weeks "utragcs and injusticcs, pcrpe- tratrd in the interests of the privileged classes, have aroused Inc country to a burning sense of inc necessity for popular control or the Judiciary. Not since the civil war has a more intense con NIrtinn possessed inc people.
 Like a flash, Mr.. Roosevelt fakes his ear from the ground, his fingers from inc public pulse, and leaps forward. To hear him. one would imagine that the recall of judges had never been broach- cd before. and that in making his demand, the colonel stood lonely and alone.
 La Palette and Bryan are push cd to one side. for they were too Tar ahrad--Taft and Wilson arc lost sight of, for they are far in the rear, and il is the colonel who stands as the sole expression of the popular desire and demand.
 The man is a marvel. One may dislike him and disbelicve him, hut 1t is not possible to keep from applauding him. He is the most perfect expression of the normal mind that the country has ever known. and the most skillful fol- low"r of the "crowd," and yet. such is his drastic instinct, that he gives the impression of lead ing. commanding. directing.
 In the last analysis, he isn't great man or even a very able one; he stands convicted of in reracitics. gross favoritisnI sur prising littlrncSscs and huge sell fshncsscS, but ihc things that ruin other men become forgotten irlvialitieS in the cOlonel's case. Like q kaleidoscope. his inces- sant play of color forces for Ecifulncss of form. He has the gift "f cOlOr--he blazcs like in"'"Or. He dclcs reason and pre- vents scrutiny, so powerfully docs fr appeal fo imagination and "nofIonalism. Even while we may believe that his nomination and election would be national menace, owing lo his known in- ronrlusivcncss, we may not with hold our applause and admiration f"r Inc greatest actor that ever walked tho political stage. - Rocky Mountain News.