Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1912 — Can’t “Embarrass” Roosevelt. [ARTICLE]

Can’t “Embarrass” Roosevelt.

In one of his speeches Roosevelt, in answer to a question, “Where’s Perkins?” replied: “He’s for me. You can't put a question to me that will embarrass me for a moment.” No one will dispute the truth of that statement. There are some men—and Roosevelt is one of them, by his own admission—who can not be “embarrassed” by anything. So we are nbt surprised that< t „eje*h after Mr. Taft had told the whole truth about Lorimer, and proved that he was, as he always had been, against him, and showed that he had even consulted the third termer as to the most effective way to deal with the case in the senate, Roosevelt should say: "Mr. Taft came here to explain that he did not like Mr. Lorimer, having kept his dislike private and confidential until after he lost Illinois.” A man who could say such a thing as that, in the face of proof to the contrary, is beyond the possibility of being “embarrassed,” And this is the man who refused information as to the harvester trust to the senate committee, who stopped the suit against the harvester trust, and who carted away to the White House the papers in the Steel trust case lest congress should get hold of them. He is like “the African monarch, the splendid, unabashed, unashamed,” and, we hope, “unattended.” It is true that you can not put, a question to him that will "embarrass” him. It is also true that you can not put one to him —unless you corner him as fte* man in his audience did —that he will answer.