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Thursday, March 21, 1912.
An Issue of Personalities
Nothing in the current hap
penings of the day can compare
with the public interest, favor
able and unfavorable which has
been created by the entry of
"The Man on Horseback intc
the political arena. When he
announced in his letter to the
now famous "seven governors'
that he would accept the presi
dential nomination if it should
be tendered him at the Chicago
convention, it was nothing more
than the signal for a fight, and
one which will be to the bitter
end. More bitter, possibly,
because of the fact that the per
sonality of Mr. Roosevelt is the
most conspicuous issue along
which the fight for the presiden
tial 'nomination will ultimately
be waged. True Mr. Roosevelt
has announced his belief in the
recall of judicial decisions bj
popular vote, and will reply upon
that and other kindred progres
sive measures, as he chooses to
call them, as his campaign plat
form. However, the voting
strength" of the country, skepti
cal ' of some of his announced
doctrines, will hold Mr. Roose
velt personally accountable for
his previous pledges toward the
present administration, and hip
subsequent conduct toward it,
and will vote for or against Mr.
Roosevelt solely on the grouno
of his personality. Nevei
since the famous Tilden-Hayes
contest has the presidential
nomination or election beef,
fought out so closely along, this
line of the personality of the
candidates. ..
Below is given some pertinent
comments ane'nt the Colonel's
candidacv, as made by a few oi
the large New York dailies, which
show th'at in the East, the fore
most '' isSue is
reorardinsr all
affiliations, principles or pre
cedents..
it
short of suici
Herald. (Ind.)
OUR CHOICE FOR PRESIDENT
ivuuacvciii , vwu-
forme'r political
purposes
has of late
those With
has beer,
classifica-
The policies and
which Mr. Roosevelt
avowed differ from
which . Mr. Bryan
identified chiefly in
tion and but very little in char
acter or aim; and the.v are
tossed bv an abler and more
resourseful man. Syracuse
Herald.
It is well enough to point to
his : mistakes, his impetuosity
and that sort of thing, but the'
fact remains that he is a natural
nrH skillful leader of men. His
announcement of his candidacy
means a fight. Nor is it the sort
of fierht where feather dusters
- - ,
will be wielded as weapons. -Uti
ca (N: Y. ) Press.
CnThrml Roosevelt's svstem of
government is not progressive.
Tt-. is rfi-ac.tionarv. It is not a
Republican system of govern
ment. It is not a Democratic
system,' as democracy as has
ever been practiced, on this
earth. It is government by
clamor and caprice. The Re
publican party will never nomi
nate the apostle of that sort of
thing for president, and the
people will not elect him. Syra
cuse Post Standard. (Rep.)
It is not so much .because Mr.
Roosevelt seeks a third term that
die people of the country will
have none of him, but because
he seeks it avowing policies,
principles and intentions that
would be destructive of the insti
tutions we have built up and
would in the end put the liber
ties, the weltare and the happi
ness of the people in far greater
danger than they are now or
have ever been.- The Times. ,
Social justice is as much Mr.
Taft's aim as it is Colonel Roose
velt's. The president is sanely
progressive; unless to be pro
rrossive one must be willing to
. i
,k., Vin 5:ifn tniarus oi a
aUclllUUli w.v. " " o
written constituion. as a
candidate for re-nomination he
has no reason to fear the issue
raispd bv Colonel Roosevelt s
scheme for the recall of judicial
decisions in the name of pro
gress. The Tribune.
All great men have their weak
diutja. mi. uuuov,n,n u re
ticular weakness, as those
familiar with his career have
long known, is his proneness to
listen to the voice of flattery.
He has owed it more to good
luck than to wisdom that this
has not hitherto led him far
istray. But those who have be-
seiged him persistently on the
question of a third term well
cnew where his armor was vul-
ierab!e dand they have pene
trated it. He has chosen his
nnsition. "Aut Caesar aut nul-
lus." Buffalo Express.
If human history
experience count
that this issue
government
and human
for so little
of personal
must aerain be
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PRESIDENT TAFT AT HIS DESK
IN THE WHITE HOUSE
announceing his candidacy, and
nothing else in connection with
so fateful an act. A period of
bitter and ugly turmoil has been
opened in our politics. Pas
sions will run high before this
new Uaesar gains control oi
the government again. Un
necessary is his performance,
if undertaken in the interest of
democracy, and tragic some
way the end the reckless adven
ture may prove to be. Spring
field Republican.
To elect a man of settled and
serious political purpose, of
definite and clearly understood
principles and of temperate, wise
judgment to a third term would
be a perilous act for this re
public. To elect this irresponsi
ble, changeable politician with
fnncrht out. it might better
be fought out now than later
rhe country will never be better
prepared for it. The American
people temporized with slavery
antil it forced them into a great
:ivil war. Then they temp
orized with . flat money until it
Pnrrerl a trreat crisis upon them
and became their Iliad of eco
apmic woe. To temporize with
personal government is to invite
another national disaster. The
World. l
We give Colonel Roosevelt cre
Jit for semiunconscio'usndss of
the despicable nature of his per
formance. He is probably able
to persuade himself for the mo
ment that he is sacrificing him
self' rather than sacrificing ano
ther. Such pallatives of con
science are easily procurable by
a man of his resources. Never -lses
we pity him sincerely all
the same; pity him for the weak
ness he has shown; pity him on
account-of the place he has delib
erately elected to hold in the
pages of histpry. The Sun.
The most unfortunate feature
of his candidacy therefore.fis the
inevitable inference which it car
ries that the Taft administration
has ' failed in the fulfillment of
the policies he inaugurated. This
inference, we believe, does the
president an injustice. He has
made mistakes, it is true, but
every president even Roose
velt himself has made mistakes
His views on all subjects have
not been an exact agreement with
those of his predecessor. That,
however, was to be expected
No two men ever thought pre
cisely alike on every public ques
tion. Where he has differed from
Roosevelt, it has undoubtedly
been an honest difference. He
would have been untrue to him
self if he had not obeyed the guid
ance of his own judgment.
Democrat & Chronicle.
Mr. Roosevelt is' peculiarly
dangerous because the ambition
and opinions of Mr. Roosevelt are
the court of final appeal. He
starts into this campaign with
the ec-otism that he is set for
the deliverance of the country,
that he is the savior of the
people, and he begins by de
claring himself against all con
stitutional guidance and res
traint. He will -be sufficient!
Emma Goldman could not
make a more violent assault up
on our institutions. The en
couraging feature of the case is
that the incident will reduce
Roosevelt to a harmless position
from the fact that his election
threatens so much to the coun
try. We shall hear the last of
Rooseveltism. All of the insur
gent isms and other disturbing
isms which he has created will
follow him in the decent. The
American people will not sub
stitute Mr. Roosevelt for their
constitution. Chancellor Day.
N. J. SINNOTT
OF THE DALLES, OREGON
If the majority of the voters of
the United States want Theodore
Roosevelt to be the next presi
dent, they can have him. He is
a dangerous man far more
dangerous than ever before in
his public life but let the ma
jority rule, Mr. Roosevelt should
not ,a single principle that he ;.be congratulated upon the corn
dare make his own, if he think mendable brevity of his letter
River Rights to be
Adjudicated Promptly
Work to obtain adjudication
of the water rights of the Des
chutes River has been begun by
State Engineer Lewis, accord
ing to George T. Cochran, super
intendent of vater district No.
2, who was in Bend last week,
making preliminary arrange
ments fdr the work, which is
acknowledged to be a task that
may require several years' labor.
R. C. Wycrant, an assistant
state engineer, has been in
Prineville collecting data from
the County records, preparatory
to commencing the work of map
making and surveying the river.
This surveying probably will
commence within a few weeks,
and it is to include a thorough
mapping of the entire Deschutes
River from Crane Prairie, at its
headwaters, to the Columbia, a
distance of over 200 miles.
Adjudication of the river
water rights is of great impor
tance to this section of the state,
as the Deschutes is virtually
the sole water source for the
western part of Crook County.
Mo you know that at all the mlu or tu
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It is not the cold lttelf that you need to cur
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J. L. Toole, tho English comedian,
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loved the excitement of the gaming ta
ble, though he luvartabiy lost. Dur
ing n holiday that, Rays an English
writer, ho and 1 passed together at
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his constant attendance nt the Cerclo
and the Villa den Fleurs. After n night
In which he had been more than usual
ly successful In exhausting tho rendy
cash ho carried about him wo made
our way on tho following morning to
the little bank In tho main street of
Alx-lea-Unltm In order that ho might
make a fresh draft upon his lettor of
credit
Hut he did not at onco reveal to the
clerk in chargo his serious business
intent. Tapping lightly at tho closed
window of tho gulchct, ho Inquired In
broken English, which ho appeared
strangely to bollovo would bo Home
how comprehensible to his foreign in
terlocutor, whether the bank would bo
prepared to make him a small advanco
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Toolo retired, apparently deeply do
Jected by tho refusal of his request,
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bank, where ho carefully arranged
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watch and chain, a threepenny bit and
a penknife.
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clerk, in view of his unfortunato posi
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