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Show DEMOCRATS SHOULD READ This Article About Mr. Roosevelt. It won't Hurt You and may do good. , The following is from Societal of State John Hay and you'll have to ad-mlt ad-mlt that it Is a beautiful thing even though you can't agiee. Mr. Ilaj Is talking of the Democratic disposition to make Tlieodotc Itoosevelt the issue and says Lven on this nai iow Issue they will dodge most of thedetalls. Ask them. Has the Piesldcut been a goodcltien, a good soldlei, agood man In all personal per-sonal lelationsV Is he a man of Intelligence, Intel-ligence, of education? Does he know this couutiy well? Does he know the vvoild outside? Has he studied law, hlstoiy and politics? Has he had great chances to leain. and has he improved im-proved tlictn? Is he sound and sttong in mind, body and soul? Is he accessible acces-sible and fiiciidly to all soits and conditions con-ditions of men? Has he the courage and the candor, and the God-given ability to speak to the people and tell them what he thinks? To all these questions they will answer, Yes. Then what Isyoui objection to him? They will cither stand speechless or they will answci with the parrot ciy which we have heaul so often: He Is unsafe' In a ceitaln sense we shall have to admit this to be tine. Toovci grade of lawbreaker, high ot low; to a man who would lob a till or ballot-box; to the sneak or bully; to the hypociit and the humbug, Theodoic Itoosevelt lsinoiethau unsafe; he is positively dttUgClOUS. Hut let us be seilous with these good people. What ate the coelll-dents coelll-dents of safel In a Chief of Stato? He should have courage; the wisest cowaid that evct lived is not lit to ltile. And intelligence; we want no blunder-headed heio in the Whit,c House. And honesty; a clever thief would do Inlluitc mischief. These tlnee aie the Indlspenslbles. With them a man is all the moie safe if lie lias a sense of piopoition, a sense of humor, a wide knowledge of men and atlalts; if he seeks good council: and finally, if lie Is ;i patriot, if he loves his country, believes in it, and seeks hi all things its inteiest and Its gloiy. All men may make mistakes, but such a man as this will make few, and no grave ones. Such a man is our President and our candidate. He is piompt and energetic, but he takes Inlluitc pains to get at the facts befote ho acts. In all the cilses In which he has been accused of undue haste, his action has been the lcsultof long meditation and wcll-icasoued conviction. If he thinks rapidly, that is no fault; he thinks thoioughly, and that Is the essential. es-sential. AVhen he made peace between be-tween the miner and the operators, it was no sudden capi Ice, but the ftult of serious lellectlon, and this act of mingled philaiitliiopy and common sense was Justified by a gieat practical practi-cal icsiilt. When he pioclahnedaiiew the Monioe Doctilne In tho Yeneula case lilsactlon was followed by the most explicit acceptance of that saving sav-ing policy which hasovoi come to us fiom ovei-seas Heacted very swiftly swift-ly , it is tine, in Mississippi, when the best citiensof a town tlneatencd the life of a postmlstiess for no fault but foi her color Ho simply said: "Veiy well, gentlemen; von may get your letteis soincw heie else for a while." And as to the meiger suits, now that people have come to their senses they see that his action In that case was as legular as tho equinox. Ho was Informed tlitough legal channels that a statute had been violated, lie r id not make the statute, hut he was bound by his oath to executo It. lie biought the pioccedlng which It was his duty to bring. Tliocoutts, fiom tlic lowest to tlio highest, sustained Ids action. Ho did what it would have been a high mlsdcmeanoi not to have done. Tho laws in this country are made to be obeyed, whothor It Is safe or not. It Is always unsafo to disobey them. Hut thero has been more noise made over ids suddenness on tlio Isthmus Isth-mus of Panama than elsewhere. It is dllllcult to treat this chaigo with seriousness. ser-iousness. The Piesldcut had mado n ticaty ",ith Colombia at her own so licitation, which was Itillnitely to her advantage, to Inaugurate an entei-prise entei-prise which was to be for the benefit of the world. He waited with endless patience while Bogota delayed and trilled with the matter, and finally rejected re-jected It, and suggested new negotiations negotia-tions for a larget sum. Panama, outraged out-raged by this climax of the wrongs she had alteady suffeied, declared and established hei Independence. The Piesldcut. following an unbroken line of ptetedents, enleied Into relations with the new Republic, and, obeying hlsdtilv to ptotect the transit of the Isthmus, as all olhei Piesldents had done befote him, gave otdets that theie should be no bloodshed on the line of the railway. lie said, like ('rant, "Let us have peace," and we had It. It will seem Inctedible to postetlty that any American could have objected to this. He acted wisely wise-ly and beneficently, and all some people peo-ple can tlnd to cilticlse in his action is that he was too brisk about It. If a thing Is light and ptopei to do, II does not make It criminal to do It ptomptlj. No, gentlemen! That was a time when the hour and the man :u lived togethei. lie stiuck while the lion was white hot on the anvil of oppoitunlty, and forged as peifcct a bit of honest statecraft as this generation has seen We could desire no better fortune, In the campaign upon which we aic entering, than that the other side should peisist In thelt announced Intention In-tention to make the issue upon President Presi-dent Itoosevelt. What a godsend to out oiatois' It takes some study, some lescaich, to talk about tho tariff, or the currency, or foielgn policy. pol-icy. Hut to talk about Itoosevelt' It Is as easy as to sing "the gloiy of the Graeme." Of gentle hltth and bleeding, bleed-ing, yet a man of the people hi the best sense: with the training of a scholar ami the bieey accessibility of a ranchman; a man of the library and a manor the vvoild; an athlete and a thlnkci; a soldlei and a statesman; a teadei, a writer, and a makei of hlstoiy; hls-toiy; with the sensibility of a poet and the steel ncive of a lough rider; one who novel did, and never could, turn his back on a friend oi enemy. A man whose merits arc so gicat that he could win on Ills ineilts alone; whose peison.illtj Is so engaging that you lose sight of his merits. Make their tight on a man like that' What ineveient caricaturist was it that called them the Stupid patty? Inoui candidate foi tho Vice-Presidency, we have followed the old and commendable custom of the Republic and have nominated a man in every way lit for the highest place In the nation, who will bi lug to the Picsi-dency Picsi-dency ol the Senate an ability and expel ex-pel Icncc itncly equaled hi Its hlstoiy. |