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Show L ' I i -. Hlfhj THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Hlr I These are days in which Theodore Roosevelt HI ili' 1 is insensibly but steadily growing in the estima- Hi i tion of his countryman. Hnj; i As the glamor recedes from around Judge Par- H'f i ker; as the mirage which the refracted beams of 3 light from his New York advocates clothed and H j ! I magnified him in, passes away, and he is revealed Iff. 'as just a sharp New York lawyer, plotting, of Hif I choice, with Hill and Sheehan and O'Brien and H 1 1 1 I the others of the same sinister company, there H fl comes a mighty revulsion in the souls of the Hy'jjj i strong men of bis own party, which, by contrast, Hif j f Theodore Roosevelt takes on loftier proportions. Hf M I No one can imagine him as stooping to such llf1 j methods, and as they look beyond they know that Hp while he is at home with the highest, meeting H ! them on equal terms wllh voice or pen, he would H, v. likewise be at home on the frontier with its savage Hb 1 forces, and that had he been either a Russian or Hjfi f a Japanese he would have been in the van among Hm i the fighting men at Liao Yang or amid the dead Hj ' J j and dying around Port Arthur. HJ That is, whenever a quick but steady brain, Hlj col judgment and courage that never falters, Hh'i '' backed by a lofty patriotism, is needed, Theodore Hi ' i, Roosevelt can be counted upon with absolute cer- H taihty that he will never falter nor fail. And B those are the qualities which is countrymen look H for in a chief magistrate It is claimed that Tam- H many wlh vote solidly for Judge Parker. We do B not believe it Certain we are that should some W real orator appear in Tammany Hall on the eve of the election and contrast the candidates, paint- Hj ing them vividly, as they paint them in a way to B reveal the souls of the two men, there would not H i ' be a solid Tammany vote for Judge Parker, for if H, ! there Ib anything that wild tribe likes it is out- I spoken frankness and courage that never falters. Wo think the president is growing, and will continue to grow up to election day, In the estimation esti-mation of his countrymen. At first the Democracy wanted to make a campaign on the personalities of the two leading candidates. We hear very little of that any more. The contrast is too marked, the effect too sorrowful When the scheming, negative neg-ative platform was adopted they said: "After all the candidate is the platform," but when the candidate can-didate is revealed in his true light the illusion disappears dis-appears and the honest ones say, in whispers: "We have been buncoed all around." And that Is their real situation Their old war cries are all stilled. Their own platform killed them. When they try to portray the President as "a nigger lover," the thought comes to disturb them that the President's mother was of the bluest of southern blood. When they claim that his thirst for military mili-tary glory is so great that he is dangerous, they seek in vain to find a spot in his Presidential record rec-ord to justify their claim. When they denounce Imperialism, the histories of Florida and Louisiana and California come back to plague them, so through the list, every count In their indictment is quashed long before it reaches the great jury of his countrymen. In the meantime, more reverence attaches to the President's name, for in the critical place in which he has oeen since the death of President McKinley, he has so borne himself that not one reproach comes from any outside nation; rather the world's concensus of opinion is that among the men who possess either delegated or hereditary heredi-tary power the President of the United States is in the very foremost rank. Above all, whatever may be said, the men who do the world's physical work, the men on the farms, the men at the looms and forges, the men in the mines, all know by the wireless telergaphy of Instinct that he is their friend. The men who hate him are they who would use great capital in restraint of trade, in a way to draw more than their share from the unearned increment of capital and from the toll of the poor. lie is growing and will continue to grow until the crystallized judgment and patriotism of the peopiO proclaim him President by choice. |