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Show sonal qualities make him a man still powerfully to be reckoned with. 'In some respect the enemies "no has made arc an index of his strength. "Mr. Roosevelt will leave the White Houso scarcely less nationally strong than while Its ocoupant Ho will be anything but a back number. He will continue to bo a revised edition up to date a live wire prolific with electric sparks." r i WHAT THE SOUTH THINKS. The Atlanta Constitution presents a Southern view of Theodore Roosevelt which is complimentary. The Constitution Consti-tution is one of the great papers of the South. It says: "The election of Mr. Taft and the absorbing interest in his prospective national policies has somewhat minimized mini-mized In the public eye the present occupant of tho White House, whoe retirement therefrom is but two months off. "The critics of Mr. Roosevelt, and they, are numerous and persistent, have seized eagerly upon this fact, which, as history shows. Is but a natural na-tural and logical condition, and are delighting in the opportunity which It affords them to label the retiring president pres-ident already a "back number." "But the truth s, if one stops to consider It, Mr. Roosevelt will probably prob-ably be much less of a back number than any president who has ever left the White House to return to private life. "The nation is naturally interested in what is going to happen to it and, therefore, quite logically, In the man who is going to make things happen. Mr. Roosevelt is not at present viewed as a factor in those important future events. "But to presume that he will not be an Important part and parcel of the future fu-ture of the United States argues ignorance ig-norance of conditions and denies the force of human will and energy. "Mr. Roosevelt leaves the Whit House comparatively a young man he is yet in his early fifties. "Thoro has never been a president with a stronger personal and national following than that which Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt poesessod and still possesses. "There has, perhaps, never been a president with more native vigor of mind and body, whether or not others may be classed higher in executive ability. "Despite the enemies he has made, and they are as numerous as they aro, in many Instances, bitter and unrelenting, unre-lenting, this condition and these per- |