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Show B TRYING DAYS. B The papers and orators who are picturing The- H odore Roosevelt as an Impulsive, Impatient, head- B strong fighter who would like to dictate to tiro B whole government and If possible pick up a war B here nnd til0r0 mu8t certainly give him credit B tor vast amount of self-restraint nowadays. B fee la not talking, though in every state In B tne "Unlon llG 8 IJQlne defamed and denounced ev- B ory dfiy- Tnat t00, y distinguished men who on B speolal matters, Mke the Panama transaction, will B state only a part of the facts, from them build up B a gfcatement and then from false premises proceed B to arraign the President. We have an idea that B the President would give a month's salary could B he but throw off hlu moIsl tltle and InfluQnce B and as a plain citizen meet Judge Parker for three B hours to discuss with him the real condition In the B Philippines and justify what has been done there, H not on any impossible theories but on the naked H facte, that he would close, too, as did old Dick M Oglesby of Illinois in a debate with a rival: "You HB talk about the Democratic party managing the H afWirs of this government; why great God man, JH its all the Republican party can do to manage B them successfully." B The President must be in about the state1 of B mind of a printer that the writer once knew in B the west. He was a Texan, the news editor was B a Missourian and both being Democrats there B was a bond of sympathy between them, especially as both were working on a Republican newspaper. It was, too, before the days when the Blue and the Gray had buried all their differences. Pay day was on Saturday. The compositor got his money, started out and "was seen no more until about 11 p. m. Then he came in, went to the news editor and said, "Jaok, I hit a game down town and lost every cent of my wages. I owe a month's room rent, a week's board, what oan I do? Now if it were in Texas I could go out and shoot a nigger or burn a school house and relieve re-lieve my mind, but what can I do in this Republican Repub-lican hole?" A solid south is pledged against the President for a beginning. Then every northern and western west-ern state is being hotly contested: Then the President is being shamefully vilified and because of his environments he cannot answer back. Who says he has not the most superb self-restraint in the world? |