Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1907 — The Secret of Roosevelt’s Power. [ARTICLE]

The Secret of Roosevelt’s Power.

William Allen White has an article entitled, “Roosevelt: A Force lor Righteousness,” in the February McClure’s, in which he finds the secret of the President’s power is tns perennial youth. He says: Theodore Roosevelt is no braver than many another man, who has fallen in struggle against Mammon, but he has the moral vision. It is often more difficult to know the right than to do it. A broader education than any man has brought to the White House since Jefferson’s day, a life unstained by vice of any kind, a clean mind and a boyish heart, simple, confiding and just, have combined to keep Theodore Roosevelts faith in otl and his belief in the common honesty of the common man uuseared. And when a man has" these two convictions welded into his soul, he plays no tricks, lays no ambushes, relies on no strategy, but seeing his duty, goes to it joyously, bravely and with wise direction and simplicity. Roosevelt is not leading a double life, as Id-, euemies secretly believe. He will not be found Gift; became there is nothing to find out 1 . Ho is merely “primitive. He has the gaiety hnd optimism that belong to youth. it not a mere physical, adolescence: |it is that state of soul which men keep so long they have not smudged their ideals aud trifled ! with'their consciences. One may be a boy at eighty, or a man at fifteen.. JBat. whoever has .youth [Tiis Rnrn, ill i«l given wisdom with faith, strength and cour j age are but the other side of the j shield. Perhaps that is the mean j ing of the prophecy: “At.d a little : child shall lead them!”