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Show John Hay And Roosevelt .H THE death of John Hay was a great loss to iM this country and the world, but the man oE ! all others who should grieve most because M of his death, is Theodore Roosevelt. At heart jJ Col. Roosevelt is a sincere lover of his country; j he would cheerfully dio for it if the occasion re- M quired, especially if at the time he could bo wear- iH ing a plume in his hat and riding a superbly ca- M parisoned blooded horse. He would fain help M make his country the foremost of powers. M His nature is generous and joyous. He would H rather .attend a baseball game than a cabinet M meeting, and would be more interested in a cow- H boy story than a prosy sermon. He has a clear H brain, too and knows really more about all his H fellow citizens than any other president over did. H But, left to himself, he cannot help butting in H on every occasion, and if his impulse is. different H today from what It was yesterday, then today he H wants to butt in from a different direction from H that of yesterday, and if anyone intimates that he H is just the least inconsistent, he pauses long H enough to call the man a Har, and then goes ahead ' H again. H John Hay was the one man in tho world who H could steady him, and restrain his wayward im- H pulses and prevent his making outrageous mis- H takes. Had John Hay been alive and well, ho H would have been in New York the day Col. Roose- H velt landed from -his trip to Africa and his ova- lH tions in Europe, and would have gone to Oyster H Bay with him. H When the Colonel would have told Hay that H ho was going to jump into Now York politics, 1H write the platform and name the candidate for iH governor, Hay would have stopped him right ll there. Ho would have said: "Colonel, New York JH Republican politics are in a jumble. Hughes has H been an honest governor, but he is an impracti- H cal man, and has soroly divided tho party. Keep ifl out. Let them fight it out this year; put mar- SB tingales on Garfield and a curb bit on Pinchot, H and by next year there will como up a demand H for you from all sides." And Roosevelt would 1H nave heeded that advice. His grief over Hay's H death should be great. IH |