The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1912-05-03
Issued Every Friday. $3.50 ayear
Entered at the postofice at Orovills. washing
ton, a. second class matter.
THE MAN OF THE HOUR.

THE MAN OF THE HOUR.
Col. Theodore Roosevelt, cowboy,
civil service commissioner, lieutenant
colonel of Rough Riders. governor,
president, editor, au-
thor. philosopher, naturalist, hunter
traveller. free trader, high protection
list. regular republican, radical insur-
gent progressive republican, and
candidate for president, is
the most versatile, adroit. masterful
politician this country has ever pro-
duced He is great man. wonder
ful reader. marvellous manipulation
and 4 transcendent liar.
He is the most engaging, charming,
irresistible of men. We adore him
for his tearlessness. his aggressive
ness. for the things he says he will do
and never does. for the things he does
and denounces as abhorrent. for his
bulidozing his Inconsistencies and
his Dypocracy. His virtues are the
virtues of the gods; his vices, ah, they
are only human. This is why We can
worship him as a demigod, and at the
same time love him Familiarity as a
churl We believe in him, thoroughly.
implicitly. blindly Nothing that he
does or may do can shake our conf
dence in him. Nothing that he says,
has said or may say can destroy our
faith.
When he said that under no cir
cunstances would he be candidate
for president again because the spirit
and not the form of the third term
precedent should be regarded. we be-
lieved that he nObly meant every word
of il; cheered him for his patriotism.
When later he repeated that sent
ment and said that he had not changed
his mind and never would, we again
believed that he had not changed his
mini and never would, we again be-
liev'd that he meant just what he said
and renewed our cheering admiration.
When he said that we could not un-
derotSnd perfectly plain English and
that anybody with any sense knew
that what he had said about under
no circumstances" and regard the
spirit and not the form" meant a
thirl consecutive 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
merely willing to accept the respon-
sibiiity If it were thrust upon him, and
that he would not be an active candi-
date, we knew that was the absolute
final truth; and that he was just what
he claimed; that he hadn't changed
his IN nd from the beginning that we
had never been mistaken but had al
ways perfectly understood his posi-
ton and we admired him more than
ever for his truthfullness and his con-
sisrency.
And three days later, when he start
ed out on the stump to seek the nOmi-
nation. opened national headquarters
in Washington, ID. c. and other head
quarters in the various states, sent
out campaign literature. hurled def
ancc at the president, called him
names and shouted that all who are
not With us are against us, we knew
that he was true to every declaration
he mad ever made; that he had not
changed one lOt; that his conduct was
in keeping with the great unselfish
purpose of his whole career; that he
was doing just what he said he would
do all of the time and lead us to ex-
pect him to do from the first
When he yelled my hat is in the
ring, we praised the chastity of his
diction, the purity of his English and
the exaltation of his thought. We
knew that he had coigned phrase
that would ring down the ages be-
cause of its poetic imagery and scin-
tillating wit
When, on the following day, he ex-
coriated President Tafts campaign
manager for referring to the contest
as game, we instinctively felt how
low, vulgar and abhOrrent that ex-
preston was when used in such a
connection, and rejOiced in the thought
that our own high minded Teddy would
beat 'em to a FRAGILE"
So it has been throughout and ever
will be. T. r. is always right. Like
the King. he can do no wrong. He has
complete monopoly on truth and
righteousness, so perfOrce all of his
opponents must be dishonest, unscrup-
ulous, corrupt. II this were not the
logical deduction We would know
that IL is the fact. because T. r. tells
us 80 every day, and we believe every
word that he utters.
Is he not a marvel? Who else could
change his position so rapidly and
could revile so many
good people, could boast with such
egOism, could buster and
blum and fOurfush so constantly
could display such Inconsistency, in
consistency and intemperance, could
jugSle the truth, bubble. equivOcate
and prevericate with such shameless
efirontery and yet get away with it all?
Who else could do this but Roosevelt?
Echo answereth none This does moi
explain why he is great, it merely evil
dences his greatness. He towers alone.
a tremendous force. consumate
schemer. an appallingly ambitious pol
itician. Another Caeser, or NapOleOn.
ready to catch the nearest way that
may lead to the goal he seeks. jr.