The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-04-29
A. Priscilla Mullens Put II,

To-day, II all goes well, a. It usually
does for one Of the luckiest Of men,
Colonel ROOSEVELT energies from the
jungle and becomes visible, audible,
reachable, though still n thousands odd
miles up the Amazon. Eagerly awaited
on these shores. he must now begin to
be getting back. II he finds war here
he will take charge Of It. II ne finds
peace here he will disturb II. And
how about politics. the vocation OF
this omnivOre Of avocations? Will he
run for Governor? Relative Chair
man T. d. RoBINsoN thinks not; ''pos-
sibility seems remote" Possibly. but
Colonel RoosEvELT's friends don't al
ways know his mind or minds; and
subiminal resolutions as yet undis-
cerned by himself may be concealed
In the dark there.
Mr.. ROBINSON holds that so many
Progressives are going to try to be
elected Governor. Representative in
Congress or Senator this year that the
Colonel will feel bound to aid them as
he has promised. A promise is prom
ise. but how can this one best be per-
formed?
With the utmost respect for all the
beautiful and the good Progressive
office seekers from the Red Sunfower
VICTOR MURDOCH to the Hon. GIFTED
PINCHoT. that new Pennsylvanian. and
CHARLES SUMNER BIRD, 1.-The Brook" Of
Massachusetts, what IL the popular
interest in the liveliest, the ablest
Of them or In the lot Of them compared
with the increasing delight In the I'M
failing Colonel? Why. there are only
puppets and wooden men In Progress
slve campaigns wherein he doesn't
thunder and flame. without him the
Progressive party Is a pack of scare
crows. company of boys shooting
spitballs. The Colonel comes and the
scarecrows become real horned. Zero.
cious devils. and the sptballs are
dynamite and melinite.
In the Coloncl's regretted absence
the Progressive party whereof he Is
the blood. bowels and soul withers and
says. 1t droops and dwindles. Or
shall We say that It's the Sleeping
Beauty waiting for the Handsome
Prince? He will wake 1t up, revive
II, I'LL II with his dcmoniac energy and
fire. But how's he going to distribute
himself In fifty. in n hundred dis
fricfQ 70 cttffnr htp,SnIp 20 ha
and scattered through this land Of
Egypt like OSIRIS? Observe that only
where, when and I'm so far as he takes
part In Progressive fight. local. State,
national. is there Progressive fight. are
there any Progressives. When he
leaps into Pennsylvania. there is the
centre OF the worlds desire; when he
leaves FOR Maryland or West Virginia
or Ohio. Pennsylvania is expunged
from map Of memory. Him. fierce
Illuminating. far erupting, the millions
watch. But who gives a plugged PTS
tareen for the little spouting wells Of
Progressive speech. for the paling, in
effectual bonfires on the Progressive
mOnticles?
No. there Is hut one Progressive.
and his name is TEDDY. He carries the
party and It's fortunes. He has spun
1t and its principles from his own
bowels. after the manner Of the spider.
He IL its past present and future. II
II has any. He is Its hyphcn with
reality: perhaps its path back to Re
publicanism. He Is Its parents and
guardians; It's beginning. middle and
end; its head. heart. hand. feet. legs,
lungs and gall.
What pigskin treasures did the Colo
mel take with him on these voyages to
the baths Of all the southern stars?
Was one OF 'em "The CourtShip Of
Miles Standish"? What said Miss
MULLENs, PRISCILLA, the maiden of Pul-
die Dock. Plymouth? What was the
question she asked OF that bashful and
chumpllke JOHN ALDEN?
He remembers, the Colonel. whom
nobody ever Indicted on the charge OF
being "chump" or violet.