The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-06-17

In Chicago, at o'clock Saturday,
1t was a 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
san individual. He is the only one
sno Ludwig of Bavaria The man
Of the kind and God knows, one isc
enough. He is "a sixteenth century
strong man, come back to earth.
His appetite Is good. he sleeps we'll
He has an fnvincible and most I'M
pardonable belief in his own ON
niscence He plays the words honesty
and thievery against each other In
definitely.
without Wit
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 assaHa etiep which
only q man with a sense of humor
will pardon. His sincerity is both
his weakness and his strength.
Theodore Roosevelt In religoaus
man. He Is exactly the type of man
who madethe cutters Of Granada run
ankle deep in human blood
But we must remember that re are
now living In the twentieth century.
Intelligence is widespread. and pow
err is dlfrused.
The instruments OF death and vio-
fence are not In the hands OF any one
individual
We realize. that today nations are,
great through their ability to confer
~.
their power to render an injury.
1t is exactly the same with indi-
Yiduais 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, hap
piness harmony and these men are
not talking eternally about the mis-
fortunes OF the people Neither do
they come with any Messianic mes
sage or meteoric spectac ocular flight
across continent in the interest of
abstract justice--which no woman
understands.
II Roosevelt had rough rider reg
fn1ent at his back. as Oliver Crorn-
well had his "O'd Ironsides.' we
might well trembie
Happily. the widow guiIiotine is
not established on the lake front.
working time and third
Spend Quiet Sunday.
Sunday finds the fighting colonel
practically alone in his hotel. sur
rounded by his loyal governor. The
mob OF yesterday Ia 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
Sunday papers. and smiling in half
If,,,, a
ton failed TO materialize.
Taft is in the lead. hut II he is
nominated. the November election is
still ahead.
The voice OF the people has not yet
been heard.
Roosevelt,s shrii' threaty 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 expressed any political
prefere nces--save the three Repub-
lican tailors from Tooley street At
the primaries less than one-thrd Of
the voting contingent was repre-
sented
The Republicans WHO are dissat-
isfied with both Taft and Roosevelt
and the whole Democratic party. are
not considered nv the colonel in his
formula. even as chemical trace
Yes II is quite probable the people
wilt rule. Also. they will not choose
rs servants the men who be1itt1e the
American people by the bad mad
claim. that we need a dictator.
That county is governed best that
is governed, least, said Thomas JET
ferson