Show THEODORE THE CHANGED From the White House whence While hile came clune the roar as or of a lion and sounds as of the Big Stick in daHy practice emanates a 8 gentle bleat of distress a 8 plea 1100 for the senate to be good a promise of meekness and docility and longsuffering if only the upper house will deal with the last ast of the presidents net rate regulation bill Xo No more is there loud conversation about what the administration will do if fails to follow the White WhiteHouse House le bed d no more Is there a threat of puniShment for those who dare to disobey the commands of the Whole Thing gone are the cowboy h hat t the traps the quirt and the latigo Rid gloves glove and padded with cotton batting have taken the place of the hard mitts eiderdown and tapestry h have ve supplanted the Nav ajo bl blankets and Sibley tent 0 tern tem tempora pora 0 moree moras or words to that effect which is to sa say Teddy the Terrible has passed for the time being and a plain ordinary human is once more occupying the presidents house It is s D not t far to discover why this Is thus When the president WS was elected ly by an almost unanimous vote he got the Impression lon that he could not possibly possibly bly go astray in his jUdgment on an any anything thing He would have told you as i much himself if you had asked him and he carne pretty ne near r saying It out nud Joud every time he pronounced his die diet t turn um Whether ether on football or the Pan Panama Panama ama canal engineering problems on the of forces or the value of the wild ild deuce in a friendlY poker tIne mey his word ord went tent and the man who vho differed with ith him know enough to pound und sand saud In a 8 rat hole That Thill attitude of mind may DUly be all r gut in an Emperor William who ho has a 2 ClUCk Job but the American people I are aro peculiar in that theY reserve some right of opinion for themselves This business wears on them until are mICe like the Athenian who ho got get tired of hearin hearing about Aristides they want wanta a rf rest t and plenty of It The of stood for forthe forThe the presidential mood but when the senate got to work on It things began 10 14 happen to the mood The San Do Dom m jolt came first just a little tap about the region of the theft ft h rib as II a warning tame Lame the Philippine tariff bill which was jj led t tO make the beet su sugar r business for a receiver The presidential got t a rl right ht hook book that put putto putto to sleeT sleep so long the referee got out of breath Finally the statehood 1 ill with as sponsor sot ot the rin ring and in tile the language If Ift f t the hr sporty sport there was wez nothing to It 1 With aJl thee horrIble examples be 00 before fore him the IMe president has changed his y tem and aDd hopes tile the will not be benu bemel nu mel 1 to thia of the chil chiI of hi his brain timidly he pra preys s for 10 and appealingly lie he hopes for forthe forthe the but best His own on PArty leaders tie de frt him and he turns with tears in 1115 hi eyes eres to t that pArty which he has fought most bitterly and unfairly glad to have Its the crisis of his d breathing as as oer a g dove doe voiced its mournful note SurelY Theodore is getting his need heed ings th these days And te se good d fo for what hat ails aila him |