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us, TO keep him with our country in all
the trials before 1t, and SO pay to him
the honor that he coveted most, the
highest accomplishment of his noble and
patriotic. purpose
A Blessing to Orators.
Mr.. Root was followed by Job Hedges
who said in part:
"I think everything has been said
about Roosevelt that could be said-ex-
oept one or two things. 1t has been a
great thing for the average orator that
Roosevelt has lived. He has been the
cause of more speeches which men who
delivered them did not understand than
any man who ever was created. Many
man who did not have an idea that
was worth a cheer could mention Roose-
velts name and think he was an orator
while he spoke.
at does not add to Roosevelt, in my
Judgment, comparing him with Lincoln
or Washington. do not think he was
like either one of them, and 1 do not
think that the Almighty intended that
any two of them should resemble any
other one. They lived at different times
and had different problems. Washing
ton created Lincoln preserved. and
Roosevelt vitalized. And none of them
could have done what the other did.
He had good preparation when he
came here. From the solitude of the
civil service room in Washington he
gathered intimates which enabled him
Immediately to plunge into partisan
politics through the channel of non
partisan Administration, OF which was
one He is the only partisan I ever
knew that could argue his partisanshlp
through a general proposition of condnct
"I do not know of any group of people
in the United States in which he did not
have an intimate. From prize fighter to
preacher he had a real intimate friend,
and there was no organization with
which he could not connect through a
| friend.
"'The remarkable thing about Roose-
velt's speeches, to my mind. is that
there was not human being, young or
old, rich or poor. who did not think that
Roosevelt was talking to him personally
and confdentially. He was one of the
| few men prominent In life whom you
look up to uncomSortably. When men
| demand a bow from other people with
whom they associate they never get OF
intimate terms
| Roosevelt is the only man I ever read
of who could destroy a convention, ex.
plain the advantages of II, and go on
| about his business. daughter and ap
plause.) He was the only man whom
ever knew who could conduct dialogue
alone with entire acquiescence on the
part of the man with whom he wa:
| talking.
Must Think in Terms OF Owe"
1T is dangerous to take the republic
! for granted. 1t Is very illogical to as
! sumo that a republic can continue with
out the individual effort of everybody in
| it. The people of the United States have
not learned yet to think in terms OF
| We The reason many men do not dis
| cuss things openly is because they would
be bound by their own logic. When q
| man lays down a proposition for him
self and does not follow II he is not
potential with other people. There are
too many people waiting to be called
| who will never be chosen.
We have great confidence in oui
present and in our future, and we be'
on our future usually, but usually with
ourselves, and therefore there is no loss
venture the proposition that the yer!
intensity of the political embroglios Il
which Theodore Roosevelt was engaged
this very partisanship which men praised
and from which they differed the yer.
activities that tore this country apart II
| a great big tremendous political revolu
ton, will somewhere. somehow be quit
| as much of a mental stimulus to tn,
average man as will anything Theodore
| Roosevelt said as to what a man SHOULD
do as to any particular degree of ac
tivity,
Il am not certain, as I stand here