The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-03-26
Doesn't Recognize Himself.
low does 1t feel to be president
of the United States?
That question has inst hoan

Doesn't Recognize Himself.
Here is the speech:
II was just thinking of my sense of
confusion of identity sometimes when
l read articles about myself. | have
never read IN article about myself In
which l recognized myself, and l have
come to have the impression that /
must be some kind of a fraud, because
| think a great many of these articles
are written In absolute good faith.
II tremble to think Of the variety
and falseness of the impressions l
make-and ii is being borne In on me
so that it may change my very DISPOSE
tion-that i am q cold and removed
person who has a thinking machine In
side which he adjusts to the circum-
stances, which he does not allow to be
moved by any winds or affection or
emotion Of any kind, but turns like q
cold s~earchlight on anything that Is
presented to his attention and makes 1t
| work.
81 am not aware of having any de-
| tuS uDpuldtu6 ilbluc VI Tie vi
the contrary. IL I were to interpret my
self l would say that my constant en-.
barrassment is to restrain the emotions
that are inside of me.
You may not believe 1t, but l some
times feel like a fire from a far from
extinct volcano, and IL the lava does
not seem to spill W It is because you
are not high enough to see into the
basin and see the caldron boil.
Because, truly, gentlemen. In the
position which / now occupy there Is
a sort off, do not know how else to
express it than to say passionate n
of being connected with my fellow
men In a peculiar relationship Of re-
sponsibility. Not merely the RESPONSE
bility of office, but, God knows, there
are enough things In this world that
need to be corrected.
II have mixed, first and last, with all
sorts and conditions of men-there are
| mighty few kinds of men that have to
be described to me, and there are
mighty few kinds of experiences that
have to be described to me-and when
/ think of the number Of lei who are
looking to me as the representative of
a party of hope, with the hope OF all
varieties Of salvation from the things
they are struggling in the midst Of. 1t
makes me tremble.
Trying to Avoid Blunders.
1T makes me tremble o only with
a sense Of my own inadeQuacy and
weakness, but as II l were shaken by
the very things that are shaking them,
and IL l seem circumspect 1t Is because
I am so diligently trying not to make
any colossal blunders.
IF you just calculated the number
of blunders d fellow can make In TWEEN
ty-four hours IL he is not careful and II
he does not listen more than he talks
you would see something of the feeling
that | have.
II was amused the other day at a
remark that Senator Newlands made.
I had read him the trust message that
] was to deliver to congress some ter
days before l delivered it-and l never
stop 'doctoring' things Of that kind I'M
til the day ' have to deliver them.
when he heard 1t read to congress
he said. Il think 1t was better than 1t
was when you read 1t to me-
II said: Senator, there Is n thing
which | do not think you understand
l not only use what brains ] have. but
all / can borrow. and ! have borrowed
q lot since l read 1t to you first
THAT, l dare say, Is what gives the
impression of circumspectness and OF
the velvet slipper
~ am listening. l am diligently try
ing to collect all the brains that are
b0rrowable I'm order that ! may not
make more blunders than 1t Is inevtta-
BILE that a man should make who has
treat limitations Of knowledge ana @.