Valdez daily prospector., 1913-08-25

that change and brought into the executive office a man far more bent on leadership than any of his predecessors, and on leader ship of a different sort. from that of the patient and unselfish Nc- kinley -.
 MT. Roosevelt abandoned with out hesitation the aim of con- mercial emancipation which MT. Mckinley cherished, and turned his energies toward a leadership which depended for it's success mainly on it's appeal to popular feeling. 'He did not neglect far from it--the use of influence up on congress, but he found that method tedious and not as pleas ing to his temperament as the arOusing of popular excitement centered on his own personality. The net result was the disorgan- ization of his party in congress and it's utter demOraliZatiOn in the country at large. The order ly advance which Mr. Mckinley had undertaken to guide was turned into a wild scramble, a free fight ranging around his per sonaI banner. It is idle to spec ulate what may be the ultimate outcome, for MT. Roosevelt is a man of large, though not varied, resource and of tireless energy; but for the present, not yet a year from the close of his whirl- ing campaign, his following seems in the process of progress sive dwindling. Certainly his experiment in executive leader ship has not left the situation in congress improved, has coal- tributed nothing to the orderly evolution of popular representa- tive government. Quite the con- trary.
 Mr. Wilson, We think, sees the problem and has his own ideas as to how it shall be solved. Ap- parently his mind is fixed, though not narrowly, on the British sys- tenn, so clearly described by Pro- lessor, now President, Lowell, in which the initiation of all mater ial legislation, as we'll as it's guidance through the legislature, is. in the hands of the executive. That system has very great ad- vantagcS, as it has been worked out through centuries of eXper- fence. But it's advantages de- pend largely on permanent ma chimrry for the preparation of bills and upon the direct pres ence and activity of the members of the ministry in the two houses of Parliament. The latter we have not, and cannot hardly get without a radical change in the Constitution. The former we could adopt. but the task would be exceedingly difficult. Mr.. Will son, it seems, is inclined not to wait for il, but to do what he can to guide and influence congress through consultation with com- milter leaders and, when occasion requires, with leaders, OF wouId- be leaders, in the party caucus. This he supplements in >igni- ticant fashion by his policy of personal appearance in the hall of congress to lay before it's mem bers, not so much his specific recommendations but the gener- al considerations on which they are based.
 It is an important and intense ly interesting experiment.. It is t o soon, of course, to predict it's outcome. So far it has worked better than could have been cX- pected. For one thing, it has made the president in some re- spects more conservative than strictly logical interpretation of some of his earlier utterances led the country to expect, though by no means so conservative as still earlier utterances indicated that he then was. It is to be remem- bered, also, that in this big game he is, in sense, playing lone hand. He has no single strong man i'm his cabinet to aid him, and the strongest is there main- ly to keep him from opposition. --EX.