The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-07-18
The Man of the Hour.

Col. Theodore Roosevelt, COWBOY,
civil service commissioner, lieutenant
colonel of Rough Riders, governor,
vice-president, president, editor auth
or, philosopher, naturalist, hunter,
traveller, free trader, high protection
ist, regular Republican, radical insur-
gent, progressive Republican, and third
term candidate for president, is the
most versatile, adroit, masterful politi-
clan this country has ever produced.
He is great man, wonderful leader
and a marvellous manipulator.
He is the most engaging, charming,
irresistible of men We adore him
for his fearlessness, his aggressNeness,
for the things he says he will do and
never does, for the things he does and
denounces as abhorrent, for his bull
doing, his Inconsistencies and his by
pocrisy, Els virtues are the virtues of
the gods; his vices all, they are only
human This is why we can worship
him as Il demIgog, and at the same
time, love him Familiarity as a chum,
We believe in him thoroughly, implic-
lily, blindly. Nothing that he does or
may do can shake our confidence in
him. Nothing that he says, has said,
or may say, can destroy our faith.
When he says that under no circum-
stances would he be candidate for
president again, because the spirit and
not the form of the third term preced-
ent should be regarded, we believed
that he nobly meant every word of it;
cheered him for his patriotism.
When later he repeated that senti-
ment and said that he had not changed
his mind, and never would, we again
believed that he had not changed his
mind and never would, We again be-
lieyed that he meant just what he said
and renewed our cheering admiration.
When he said that we could not UNI
derstand perfectly plain English and
that any body with my sense knew that
what he had said about "under no cir
cumstances" and ''regard the spirit
and not the form" meant third con-
secutive term, we believed every word
and knew that we had been wrong all
the time in believing that he meant
what we thought he had meant when
he said that he meant every word that
he said which seemed to mean what
we thought they meant but really
meant something entirely different.
Then when he said that he wasn't a
candidate for the nomination, but mere
ly willing to accept the responsibility
if it were thrust upon him, and that he
would not be an active candidate, we
knew that was the absolute final truth:
and that he was just what he claimed;
that he hadn't changed his mind from
the beginning; that he had never been
mistaken but had always perfectly un-
derstood his position, and we admired
him more than ever for his truthful
ness, and his consistency,
And three days later, when he start
cd out on the stump to seek the nomin-
alton, opened national headquarters in
Washington, d, G., and other head
quarters in the various states, sent out
campaign literature, hurled defiance at
the president, called him names and
shouted that all who are not with us
are against MS, we knew that he was
true to every declaration he had ever
made; that he had not changed one jot;
that his conduct was in keeping with
the great unseliiSh purpose Of his
whole career; that he was doing just
what he said he would do all the time,
and led US to expect him to do from the
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When be yelled 'My hat is in the