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Show HALF GENIUS, HALF CHILD. Somebody has been telling to John Sharp Williams 'of Mississippi, Democratic Demo-cratic lender of tui House of Representatives, Repre-sentatives, that President Theodore Roosevelt is half genius and half child. And Mr. Williams jojously quotes this as an apt description of the xman who wields tho big stick from tho White House. Well, what if he is! What happier combination of qualities could there be than those which arc thus cpigrammati-callr cpigrammati-callr described ? Suppose ono were creating cre-ating an ideal, the highest tj-pe of being be-ing for chief executive of a Nation such ns ours, would he not desire a strong ruling gonitis coupled with the resiliency resil-iency and the happy spirits of a child? Too often genius is gloom-, misanthropic, misanthro-pic, pessimistic. Not ho with the Roosevelt Roose-velt brand, for it is rolicved by his boj'ishness. Often grtjat genius is sensitive sen-sitive about mistakes; but Roosevelt is onough of a child to laugh at his own blunders nnd lo, the world laughs with him. Tho ordinary genius who writes a letter to a woman and calls her ''My dear Mariaer" and the next time he writes has to speak of her as "Mj' dear M3'liar, " would want to go into retreat for a month or two until the episode had been forgotten: but not so with Mr, Roosevelt, for his jocund spirit, of childhood rises within hi in like bubbles and he sparkles forth with throo new messages to Congress one bursting after the other like a shower of fireworks. fire-works. The ordinary President of the United States, who has been half genius and the other half just common man, would have felt that, his moral status before the United States was pretty woll shaken if the polygamous apostles of tho Mormon church had boasted in their pulpits thnt he was their friend and the protector of- their practices, -but President Roosevelt has ns little anxiety on this score as the bo3 who has been caught with lu3 fingers in the jam pot and who knows that an indulgent mother will forgive him if ho cries with tho stomach ache for Roosevelt, goes dowu in a submarine .boat, or practices prac-tices jiu-jitsu, or scoots to Panama, or calls Tillman a linr and Chandler a be traj-er, or does some other startling thing which overwhelms tho moral sensibilities sen-sibilities of the public Avith a new sensation sen-sation concerning tho sensational President. Presi-dent. Hurrah for Roosevelt, half genius and half child I Unless John Sharp Wil |
