The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-17
Often Criticised the Colonel,
but Now for Him.
New York Times Picks L. r.
Man of the Hour.
SUPPRESS POLITICAL HYPHEN
Eliminate Politicians Who Put
Votes Above Americanism.
Suggests "Big Stick" ApprOpri-
ate for Both Parties.


New York, May 1.-THE New York
Times, Democratic paper often
frank ir its criticism of Theodore
Roosevelt has published u remarkable
editorial acknowledgment of T. r.
vital relation to the new and overpow-
ering issues of the nation. 1t sees
new and greater opportunity and de-
mand than ever before was presented
for the exercise of Colonel Roose-
velt's power to arouse the people to
sense of national danger
The political sensation that was Gre
ated recently when the New YORK III
bune, a stand-pat Republican news
paper. came out recently with It's edl-
torial pronouncement that the Repub-
lican national convention should come
to the nations rescue with Colonel
Roosevelt for the presidency was
rather mild compared with the one
that was set in motion by editorial
that has just appeared in the New
York Times Its words of praise for
the man OF Oyster Bay almost passeth
the understanding of those active and
on the side lines of the great political
game. For years, the Times has been
one of Colonel Roosevelt's severest
critics. Most folk would have thought
before it could speak of Mr.. Roose-
velts brilliant and marvellous ca
reer," or confess that he is the man of
the hour, and the only American that
can arouse his fellow citizens to the
needs of their nation. But the New
York Times actually says these very
things and most gracefully and hand
somely in the editorial in question,
which it presents as follows under the
caption Mr. Roosevelt's Opportu-
nifty"
Mr.. Roosevelt's hat is always in
the ring. and his latest notice of his
readiness for the shindy is super
fluouS for public comprehension of
his political intentions. 1t is timely,
however, as d reminder to the officers
of the Old Guard that they must not
presume too much upon his yielding
to harmony Just at the moment when
the reactionaries, conservatives, and
straitest sect of Republican partisans
were trying to persuade themselves
that he was going to be reaSona bly, DO
Gle, and that they had him beaten to
q traZZle, he stands up and proclaims
again the conditions precedent # Re
publican union. The prospects or the
fortunes of his own candidacy need
NOT bother us, and are doubtless esti-
mated at pretty near their exac- value
b. tie shrewdest of politicians The
work that he can do for himself in
Americanism is incidental to the
great. the invaluable, service Of max
ing the Republican party, especially
in the middle west, thoroughly Arncri-
can, of rOuSing it from the Slothful
dream of pacifiSm.
THE national Republican party, by
the foolish and unpatriotic course of
its representatives in congress. has
given to the Democrats the merit of
being better Americans, stronger as
serters of American rights. The
country will hear a good deal next
fall of the vote in the house of rep
resentatiVes on the McLeTnore resolu-
ton. 1t will be told again and again
that of the 142 votes against tabling
that resolution 102 were cast by Re
publicans and five by Progressives:
that of the fourteen senators who
voted against tabling the Gore reso-
luton only two are Democrats
Plenty of Work for T. K.
''On the list of favorite sons of the
primaries are Republicans who so
voted, embargoists. hypenophilists-
Roosevelt to do in the Republican
party for the suppression of the sin
lister revival of the politico-racial
hyphen in our politics. and in refus-
ing any compromise with the poliu-
clans who put votes above the pr1n-
cip1eS of AmericanisIn, he does more
than a partisan, .le does national pa
triotic service.
II is as a SldlSSIldIl, anu
not as a Progressive who seeks Re
publican honors, that his opportunity
comes. An American. he will be
preaching the gospel of undivided 10y
atty and allegiance to the United
States: an American arousing popula-
tions ignorantly secure to the defense
lessness of the United States and the
inescapable patriotic American duty
of preparedness. To Theodore RCoSe-
welt in all his brilliant and marvellous
career no greater or more fruitful oc-
casion to stir the inert. to lambast the
trimmers and the crawlers. to utter
with all the fiery energy of his tenn
perament and his Americanism the
need of a united America. yielding to
no alien influences, and no longer the
butt of universal derision or an object
of pity for the military impotence by
which she invites attack
Antidote for WhiffIess Weakness
THE Democrats. too, need the LASH
ing of that pitiless tongue. The Times
has advised the Americans in the Hon.
James Hays district to apply at Oys-
ter Bay for an antidote to the Whit
fling weakness of that Little American n
and Little Army man. 1t would be
glad to have Mr.. Roosevelt go into
every congress district whose rep
resentative believes in millions for
pork and as little as possible for ma
tiopaI self-defense. Democrat or Re-
publican. the representative who op-
poses an adequate army should hear
from Mr. Roosevelt. The Times hopes
that these men misrepresent their con-
stituents. If it be true, as the Evening
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