Show FLATTERING THE PRESIDENT 1 THE THE HONORABLE SAMUEL M 1 Jones better known as Golden Rule Jones mayor of Toledo Ohio has been ben laying a verbal verb l bouquet at atthe atthe atthe the feet of ot President Roosevelt In his tribute Mr Jones makes the mis nils mistake mistake take that so many writers and speak speakers ers make In their reference to the in Individuality of ot the president The Herald is more than glad to confess an fl admiration for many of the president presidents dent dents s traits of ot character but we v e can cannot not go Mayor Jones entire route He HeBa Ba says s Theodore Roosevelt as a man Is greater re ter than t the government g he rep resets reseats res eats While the government of the th i United States Slates was unable to restore peace in the anthracite region Roose RooseVelt veIl Velt not as president but as a I ut i iI suggested I a rational way nay to settle the the trouble The man mans triumphed and the problem was solved Could anything in the line Une of ot fulsome flattery be more absurd Mr Roose Roosevelt Roosevelt velt elt as a man not as president se secured secured secured cured tIle the settlement of o the coal strike did he Honestly now if It President Roosevelt had only been Police Commissioner Com Corn CornS S missioner Roosevelt or Assistant Sec See Secretary Secretary oC ot the Navy Roosevelt or Rough RoughRider RoughRider RoughRider Rider Roosevelt R io evelt or Governor Roosevelt or even Vice President Roosevelt how much weight would any of ot his sug suggestions suggestions I have had with the anthracite coal trust None absolutely none And yet unthinking people i talk taik i ithe the president not as president buttas butas a man settling this great gre t dispute be between between between tween labor and capital It is 19 Idle to talk t Ik of disassociating any president from his office In iii con connection with anything he may do The two the office and the man are indis indissolubly Indis Indissolubly Indissolubly welded together and they can cannot cannot cannot not be considered separately J One might as well talk of J Pierpont Mor Morgan Morgan lor lorgan gan as a man trying to bring about an adjustment of differences between en waring war ing ng Wall street factions Morgan as a man could accomplish no more in such auch a contingency than Roosevelt as asa asa asa a man could have settled the anthracite anthracite anthraCite cite strike But Morgan and his mil roU millions lions lIn can work wonders just as Roose Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt velt and his presidency ency can work won wonders i ders dare The Herald has no desire to abstract one leaf leat from the he laurel laural wreath that the presidents admirers have placed upon his brow We Vo caR call upon them thorn to i remember however that the wreath is placed upon the brow of the tie dent not the brow of oC Theodore Theodor Roose noose Roosevelt A velt VeIt citizen Any ny other interpretation IK 1 sycophancy of pf the most unattractive order |