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Show TEDDY IS GLOOMY OVER THE FUTURE ! ' i Anxious to Get Away From the! Cares and Responsibilities j of Office. j NOW DISGUSTED AT INSURANCE METHODS Business and Politics Mixed Up j in Clever Review of Existing Ex-isting Conditions. Speclnl lo The Tribune. NEW YORK, June HO. It sounds like a joke, but some- of the daity newspapers news-papers are taking seriously and to heart tho election of Darwin P. Kingsley to the post of president of the Xcw York Life Insurance company.' One weekly newspaper which has little hopes of being be-ing allowed to print the statement of j the New Y"ork Life Insurance company j at $1 per line this year even declares : that when the history of the "Decline , and Fall of the American Empire' ' is written a la Gibbon that it can be dated from tho period of the ascension of Kingsley to tlie throne or presidency of Isow York Life that the people arc beaten to a standstill that they are putting every little petty gTaftcrriht back where ,hc was when tiic great life insurance upheaval started: that it is as the restoration after the days of Cromwell or the return of tho kings, ..princes and lords to their thrones in 1S15. after the Trench revolution and Napoleon. On the other band, jp-eat Re- ;iublican newspapers like the New York 'ribiinc, supposed to still represent the D. 0. Mills interests, and the New York Evening Mail, supposed to represent the Vanderbilt interests, print long editorials edito-rials declaring that tlie selection is au ideal one and that the New York Life policyholders in particular as well as the public in general ought to be happy over -Ihe improved outlook. Indeed, men of the type of Jacob Schiff of Kuhn, Locb & Co.. who has made millions mil-lions out of the sale of stocks and' bonds for the life insurance companies, but whose heart 'is as tiig as his purse, and whose purse has always been wide open to the Republicans and the reformers reform-ers who has not been afraid to draw his check for tens and lens, if not hundreds, of thousands, for the purpose of financing any movement looking to tho defeat of the Tammany Tiger, and who is in thnt respect oue of New York's, most useful citizens, declares that the financial situatiornisTrmproT--' ing and that things are coming- out all' right provided iiiily the powers that bo will keep "' hands off-" the situation. Roosevelt Discouraged. ' Under these circumstances and conditions. con-ditions. perJiaps, there is, something in the statement of a, member of 'Che Roosevelt family who has just paid a visit to the President of the United Stales at Oyster Bay. This particular Roosevelt declares that he has known "Theodore" all of his life -and that he" has never seen him so downhearted and discouraged. Tie Fays that not only docs the President declare that he is not a candidate, but that he is as sincere sin-cere as can be when he says it. The reason is found in tho fact thnt when the President looks at what, he "has tried to do" and what he has really accomplished, ho is really at heart sick and tired of it all, and he wants to get away from the cares nnd tho responsibilities responsi-bilities of the Presidential office just as quick as possible. If he could be convinced con-vinced that the things that he has attempted at-tempted have any real oconomie'uso it miglil; be different, but now,- in spite of the revelations in connection with the life insurance investigation, even the Republican party has not taken any action ac-tion that will really amount to anything any-thing in connection with campaign funds in the future, and in a year or two a worse condition of affairs is likelv to spring up than marked-the last two or three years well, the President Pres-ident feels, it is paid. that, after nil his strenuous efforts nothing has been accomplished that will stand the test of time. The bitterness of the situation was perhaps reflected in the New York World, which said that it was logically inevitable that Mr. Kingsley should have been indicted or else that he should have been promoted to the post mad vacant for a time by the resignation resigna-tion and death of his father-in-law, tho late John A. McCall. The World, in this editorial. 'declared that Kingsley was one of the men thnt "Andy" Hamilton Ham-ilton pointed tho fingor of scorn at when' no made his sensational legislative legisla-tive confession at Albany. Perhaps tho sting of the editorial, however, lies in tho assertion of the World, that, after aft-er all of this agitation after all of the life insurance n-velalion if the policvholdors are willing to do this sort of n" thing, it is not the business of the State of New York to act as the guardian of male adult citizens. Property Is Robbery. The New York Press, Republican, but one of the most independent, of the daily newspapers of New York, prints i three line editorinl at the head of its columns. Without culling any names, but with a reference so clear-cut and incisive that "ho who nins iiiay road, the New York Press in this particular editorial unys that if the time ever comes in this country when the .people beconu- convinced that property is rob-berv rob-berv the great captains of industry will have nobodv to blame except thcrn-Helveu. thcrn-Helveu. Ilowovcr, perhaps the most clear-sighted vision ol what has really hannencd come Irom Philadelphia, where one of the daily papers in another an-other three-line editorial declares that after all the tumult and the. shouting in connection wh the life insurance revelations and the sessions ot the Armstrong Arm-strong committee, about, all that. ..p-nears ..p-nears to have been accomplished is the elect ion of one Charles E. Hughes as Continued ou Page Three. t ; TEDDY IS GLOOMY j OYER THE FUTURE ; I Continued from Page One. j Governor of the Stale of Now York. I with somo chances to tho elevation fo : j the post of President of the. United ' States. 1 Most significant of all, however, is the fact that the Jlcarst publications. i lie Morning American and tho Mw , York Evening Journal, appear to have bad nothing to say. This may be due to the fact that the eyes of thb Uearsl- ites are fixed upon The recount proposi 1 , tion, and that Hoarst himself in iiiih , I particular has made up his mind that 1 I one duty that lies tho nearest is to 1 j light for the Mayoralty seal and not : w'orry about other matters just at prcs-!enf. prcs-!enf. ! The joke in connection with the present pres-ent situation is that Hearst has only to rest on his oars aud the people will j naturally wako up to the fact that "Wall street, the life insurance companies, compa-nies, the banking and the railroad in forests are once again in the political saddle. But. nobody here believes that they will wako up in time Even Soua tor McC'arriMi. tne loader of King3 ! i-ounlv, and the representative at AI- i 1 bany of the sugar trust and the Stan ' ! ilard Oil trust, does not see much hopes , i for a future for Democracy. When J j asked tho other day what he thought about Bryan's chances for boing elected , President he replied that, he did not, believe be-lieve that, tho Democratic party would ever b able to elect a radical l'resi i dent, of the Fnitnd Elates. Tim infer enc.e was t hat Bryan is a radical, , I hough many there are who believe : that he is more, conservative than Kooscvell. Why Hearst Is Quiot. ' Manv of Mr. Hearst's admirers in other .Stales are" wondering why Hearst j is so quiet. One of his followers con- ' uccted with the so-called Gilsey house I crowd, which is supposed lo have more , inlluenco with Mr. Hears! than other , section1! of his followings. declared. ' that, Mr. Hearst was too wise a man to i i;iust anlly and continually chase tho i Presidency. The idoa convened was' that (he radical editor is a great, deal ' of a fatalist and rlfat he believes that j what is to be will be. The statement was made that Jlenrst has studied history his-tory enough to know thai James G I Blaine. Henry Clay, Daniel "Webster and j other men who were for years chasing the Presidency never attained it and ; that, Hearst is disposed to have the fun of seeing the wheels go round no matter mat-ter whether he is ever nominated or elected President. The reason why ho is so quiet, however, is said to be found in the fad that he has come to tho conclusion that the American people think that he is insanely ambitious to become President, when, as a mattor of fact, whal he likes most is the fun i of the fighting. |