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Show uu , THE COLONEL'S GLEE (Salt Lake Tribune.) From time to time wo delight to re turn to the most original of our roueh riders Colonel Theodore Roosevelt of Kettle hill and Oyster Bay. Just now, wo suspect, tho colonel can see the whole nation returning to him In 1920. Rough 'riders in all parts of the country coun-try are writing and wiring him to prepare pre-pare for the great contest. Down in that county of New Mexico which was named after him they are not sending many of these messages, because the county went for Wilson. The colonel speedily recovered from the campaign. For Mr. Hughes it has j been something of a strain and he has I gone to a secluded resort for resL But the strenuous colonel needs no rest from the shock. If the colonel were asked confidentially by a close friend about the shock of defeat he would wink an eye and naively Inquire: "What shock?" We wonder, however, where the colonel col-onel gets the courage to look forward with such glee to 1920? He has not yet double-crossed everybody who has been in political life with him, but very nearly everybody. But perhaps tho colonel expects to be shrived of his sins and taken back into the good graces of Republicans and Progressives, Progres-sives, in spite of his offondlng. The colonel is looking forward to the breakdown of the Wilson administration adminis-tration after the war. Then will come the bitter times in business and the Democratic party will be discredited discred-ited along about 1918 and the discredit discred-it will endure for many depressing months. The colonel probably argues that he will still bo the most conspicuous conspic-uous of undefeated politicians on his side of tho fence and that the Republicans Repub-licans and Progressives will turn to him. And he effervesces with gaiety M-lirtn hn IhinlrQ Ihnt fVin ftoKt : inon will be merely a skirmish as compared com-pared with the great fight Hughes has made in 1916. t |