Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-06-11
"BEATING BACK"

IuckleSL OeneIlclary Oh publicity th0
world has ever known, or else he
times his comings and goings with
consummate skill with view to dra-
matte effect
He went into the African wilder
ness Immediately after Taft became
president in his stead. Taft was to
be left to stand upon his own feet.
He did so stand, or wobbled, accord
ing to the individual bias of the OBJ
server. He committed the blunder of
approving the Payne-Aldrich tariff
law. He quarreled with Pinchot and
supported Ballinger. Things were in
higgledy-piggledy condition before
the colonel emerged from the interior
of Afica. When he at last stood
upon the banks of the Nile and began
talking for publication, the world
was waiting to know what he would
say. He was bit cautious, but the
people were not long left to guess
whether he approved or disapproved
the Taft administration.
The colonel had nothing to say dur
ing the earlier stages of the Wilson
administration. He made so little
stir and remained so quiescent that
multitudes of people began to believe
he had lost his grip, that he had be-
come an extinct volcano.
In all the time elapsing between
the Inauguration of President Wilson
and the departure for South America,
Roosevelt said nothing notable, save
once. Just before he went away an
article written by him appeared in
the Saturday Evening Post. In it he
adjured the progressives to stand
firm, vehemently said there could be
no coalition with the reactionary re-
publican party and declared war to
the knife with privilege and standpat-
ism.
The earlier stages of his visit to
South America were not productive OF
a whirlwind of publicity. He made
formal speeches on topics with which
the people of the United Etates were
familiar. Such of them as were re.
ported in this country made hardly g
ripple. Then, suddenly he went into
| the jungle. Nobody thought mucf
5 about it, Then there began to be in
quiries as to his whereabouts.
t The longer he stayed out of sigh
2 and hearing, the more people begal
= to wonder. Then came the story o
= the accident of the rapids, the peril
: Gus adventure in which he was en-
= gagged There were other well-time'
e intimations of an early return.
Meantime things had been seethin
e in the states. "Watchful waiting
s was nearing an end. A climax to tn
: Mexican situation approached. Pres
d ident Wilson had stirred up fever c
d excitement with his demand for tn
repeal of the tolls exemption ac
IS Most audacious of all, this new pres
,e dent had the effrontery to negotia'
& treaty with Colombia, providing fS
m the payment of 100000 by wa
tx of indemnity for the activity of tn
Ig government in the secession of Pal
Of ANA. This was a direct slap at II
r colonel. What will Roosevelt say
became the question of the hour.
o. He has come out of the jungl
covered with boils, lean in flesh, pr
sumably irascible in temper. 1t d
not take him long to express his raj
over the Columbia treaty. 1T wou
n be an act of infamy," he is report'
lg as saying. Inasmuch as the first u
ig terance came through the medium
=? the Hearst newspapers the words 10
IN none of their heat in transmissio
be He says he does not know wheth
We Wilson negotiated the treaty out
timidity or through a mean desire
Ill discredit his predecessor, but it wou
to be just as dishonorable as for
of ture president to pay the heirs
Huerta $25 100000 as solace to the
III feelings because we occupied We
tie Cruz.
lr- This Is about what would ha
at been expected. His stand on the to
re controversy is in opposition to
IN administrations policy, though
a thinks the question should be ar
". trated. He is peevish about Brya
ng arbitration teraties and speaks d
a paragingly of the secretary of sta
ut, In short, his utterances afford
I'm light to the enemies of the wills
en- administration. The republici
ID, throw their hats into the air and
mt claim him as a conqueror again "bi
en- from Elba"-a second coming VIII
they hope will usher in milleni
EAR of peace and reunion Of G. o. p.
ed, bull moose.
mt,
for THE DAWNING OF A BETTEF
ire DAY.