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Show THE PRESIDENT. A The immense vitality of the President is shown by the way he holds up on his present "swing around the circle." His mental vitality shows out as clearly as his physical endurance. He talks every day, every speech is a new one and fits the place he talks in. Many politicians have made very strenuous campaigns. Mr. Bryan's Bry-an's first presidential campaign was a tremendous tremen-dous thing, but his speeches every day were along the same general lines. They were but eight notes, and the variations that could be made upon them. But President Roosevelt has a new octave oc-tave for each new occasion. The themes he selects se-lects he exhausts and the next day he takes on a new inspiration. Then his own personality shines out everywhere and -when revealed, it is American Ameri-can through and through. It is easy to see why, when the war came on, he could not be kept out and why with the first advance towards the front, he was in full evidence. Then he is at home everywhere ev-erywhere under the flag. Where the learned congregate, con-gregate, he can be as learned as the best of them; when the festive cowboy auc the broncho-buster are in the majority, he swells that majority by one. He knows all about ships, all the mathematics behind the organization, the marching and fighting fight-ing of armies. With him are no "unwelcome States." He takes them all to his heart every day, and continually worries his restless brain in seeking to put in force policies for the betterment better-ment of all the people. He works and talks all day; he rises the next morning fresh as a daisy BB and his morning salutations are as clear and joy- H ous, as the lark's songs. BB He has not a pleasant voice or graceful jes- H tures, but he gives off every moment an impres- BB sion of force that is tameless. He has less policy Bfl than any of his predecessors, save Mr. Lincoln, BB and his ways are not at all such as were Mr. Lin- Bfl coin's. He was one to picture the right and the H wrong way, and then to hold out his hand to lead BH his countrymen up to the right. Mr. Roosevelt is BH wont to declare his belief and what he holds to BH be the right and to stop there, trusting that his H countrymen will adopt that course in their own H good time. He loves the greetings of his fellow H men, but can got along without them, and be hap- Bfl py for days at a time with only a horse and a H gun for companions. He seems especially to de- pend upon two things and to believe they are Bfl enough capital for any healthy man. They aro Bfl pluck and hard work. We know no public man H like him, unless it be the Emperor of Germany. ' Bfl We fancy that were they off in the woods to Bfl gether, their only quarrel would be, which should Vfl chop the wood and bring the water, and which M should do the cooking and wash the dishes. M His counterpart has never been in high office Vfl before in our country; not one of his predeces - M sors would have been at home both at Harvard M and at Tucson; that is, not one could have ad- VJ justed himself in a moment to the manners and M customs of either place. Think of John Qulncy M Adams, or James Madison, or Grover Cleveland, vB riding a cowboy race; yet neither of them could VJ talk as sensibly to a graduating class at Yale or M Princeton, as can Theodore Roosevelt. "God blesa H him." May he have a good time, and return home M i refreshed and rejuvenated. And this, we believe, H he feels is the wish and liope of the whole nation, H and that is why he grows tat and jolly under the H lively exercise. - . . BJ |