Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1910 — WATTERSON SEES AMERICAN RULER [ARTICLE]

WATTERSON SEES AMERICAN RULER

Editor Courier-Journal Prints a Sensational Editorial. PRAISES THEO DORE ROOSEVELT Calls Upon People to Reflect Whether Representative Government Is a Failure and One-Man Power Cure For Evil. Louisville, Ky., April 8. —In an editorial in the Courier-Journal this morning headed “Whither,” Henry Watterson will say: “The time has come for the people of the United States to consider Theodore Roosevelt as they have never considered him before, to take hitfi more seriously than they have ever taken him; to realize that he is altogether the most startling figure who has appeared in the world sirfce Napoleon Bona.parte, a circumstance not without significance and portend. He must be a poor American whose heart does not glow with pride at the unwonted honors bestowed upon this representative of his country and feel with exultant admiration at the splendid way he is carrying himself. “It is too late, if it were not per/ sonally offensive, to talk about selfexploitation. Taken in connection with what appears to be the hopeless breakdown of the Taft administration it constitutes an event of the .first consequence. “Before we get into acrimonies of party conflict, the Courier-Journal asks its contemporaries throughout the country to reffect without passion or levity, and to answer to themselves, amid the blaze of light which casts an aureole about our wandering Ulysses, whether representative government in America is a failure and whether the only cure for the evils, where admitted, is the one-man power, because they may be sure that the return of ThetF dore Roosevelt to power will be so construed by Europe and on this account the demonstration of monarch ism has its chief significance.”