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Show FROM UNWISDOM TO WISDOM. The people who were no afraid that Ttoosevelt would be dangerous arc now afraid that lie won't be. It Is hard to satisfy us all. The- principal charge directed agalnBt the President by his opponents wns that a radical, undisciplined, Quixotic nature na-ture made him particularly unsafe as a chief executive. His ablest Journalistic Journal-istic assailant was the New York Sun; and this newspaper, previous to the tlmo that It finally chose him in preference pref-erence to Parker, was making a dally showing of his native unwisdom and Inevitable disinclination to take advlco If he should be elected to the office of chief executive. This particular kind of opposition to him assumed that, having succeeded to power by the death of the lamented McIClnley, and having promised to carry out the purposes of that good man gone, he had permitted himself to feel a restraint which would be utterly wanting In Its applicability, or in his acceptance of it, if he should come to the dignity of the Presidential office by expression of the popular will. Some of the enemies who foresaw great dangers from the flre-eatlng Impetuosity Im-petuosity of Mr. Roosevelt, arc now worrying because he Is showing himself to be circumspect and entirely un.nl-venturous un.nl-venturous In his public career. Instead of assuming a madcap dictatorship, he consults the strongest men of his triumphant tri-umphant party, and apparently Intends to be guided by their wise estimate of public need. And thus Is made the woe of his political po-litical opponents, most of whom trald, and quite sincerely, too, that ho would bestride the Presidency as one would a warhorsc; that he would then go forth like a knight-errant to create and engage In fray with all comers. Apparently Ap-parently the American people will have, to become accustomed to a vigilant, discreet, dis-creet, politic, and sure-footed President Theodore Roosevelt. |