The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-17

and absurd things that Roosevelt says
he Is, then Roosevelt is certainly to
blame for putting him into the posi-
ton that he now occupies.
No man knew Taft as well as did
Roosevelt Practically Taft has not
changed. He is not the kind of man
who changes. He is the same individ-
uaI who was the right-hand man of
theodore Roosevelt when Theodore
Roosevelt was president of the United
States.
Granting, for arguments sake. that
correct, then Roosevelt is the man 10
blame. for he it was who lifted the
man into this high position.
Back From Elba.
When Theodore Roosevelt arrived in
Chicago at o'clock. it was most
spectacular event.
What the man would say and what
he was going to do were matters of
doubt.
There has been more or less silly
talk about Roosevelt being victim of
paranoia, otherwise, being balmy in
the bean.
Let these things be forgotten. He
is no Ludwig of Bavaria. The man is
the kind, and God knows, one is
enough. He is a Sixteenth century
strong man come back to earth.
His appetite is good: He sleeps
objectionable belief in his own ON
niscience. He plays the words hon
esty and thievery against each other
indefinitely.
He is without the wit to see that
his vociferous claim that he is honest
and all men who disagree with him
are thieves, is an assumption which
only man with a sense of humor
will pardon. His sincerity is both his
weakness and his strength.
odnra Roosevelt is religious
man.
He is exactly the type of man who
made the cutters of Granada run an
kle deep in human blood.
But we must remember that we are
now living in the Twentieth century
Intelligence is widespread and pow
er is diffused.
The instruments of death and vio-
individual.
We realize that today nations are
great through their ability to confer
an economic service and not through
their power to render an injury
1t is exactly the same with 1ndi-
viduals. The men who will receive the
greatest honors in our own time are
those who can serve the forces OF
peace, who stand for health, happiness,
harmony. And these men are not
talking eternally about the misfor-
tunes of the people. Neither do they
come with any messfan1c message OF
continent in the interests of abstract
Justice no woman understands.
The Rule of the People.
If Theodore Roosevelt had rough
rider regiment at his back, as Oliver
Cromwell had his "OId 1ronsloesD we
Happily, the widow guillotine is not
established on the lake front, working
time and a third. i
Sunday finds the fighting colonel
hi r.
rounded by his loyal governors. The
mob of Yesterday Is distributed in the |
quiet of their homes, looking up rail-
road routes to mountains and woods, |
or fishing quietly along the break |
water or in the parks reading the Sun !
day papers and smiling in half disap- |
continent over the grim sensation that |
failed to material1ze.
Taft is in the lead, but If he is |
nominated the November election is |
still ahead.
The voice of the people has not yet
been heard.
Roosevelt's shrill, throaty claim that
The people must rule isn't so wholly |
bromidial as it seems when uttered |
from the Romeo and juliet balcony OF |
the Congress hotel.
The people will rule.
But they have not recently express
al any political preferenc es-SaVe the |
three Republican tailors from Tooley
street.
At the primaries, less TRAN one-th1ro
Of the voting contingent was repre-
sented.
The Republicans who are dissatls- |
fed with both Taft and Roosevelt ana
the whole Democratic party are not |
considered by the colonel in his form |
lla even as a chemical trace.
Yes, it is quite probable the people |
will rule. Also, they will choose their |
servants and they will not choose as
servants the men who belittle the |
American people by the sad, bad, mad |
claim that we need a dictator.
That country is governed best that |
is governed least, said Thomas JEFF
ferson.