. Outing. ribbed spine, the steam-siren tones and the pugilistic statesman-ship which they have worshiped as virtuesin their idol, and they will refuse to becomforted by the calm of repressed strengthand the dignity of judicial demeanor. Butthis is arguing from cause to effect, where-as, logically, it should be the other wayabout. WHEN ROOSEVELT WAS SIDETRACKED When Theodore Roosevelt, through themachinations of that then most skilful ofpolitical switchmen, Thomas C. Piatt, theerstwhile Easy Boss, was sidetracked intothe Vice Presidency, the East—for at thattime the West had not yet begun to d
. Outing. ribbed spine, the steam-siren tones and the pugilistic statesman-ship which they have worshiped as virtuesin their idol, and they will refuse to becomforted by the calm of repressed strengthand the dignity of judicial demeanor. Butthis is arguing from cause to effect, where-as, logically, it should be the other wayabout. WHEN ROOSEVELT WAS SIDETRACKED When Theodore Roosevelt, through themachinations of that then most skilful ofpolitical switchmen, Thomas C. Piatt, theerstwhile Easy Boss, was sidetracked intothe Vice Presidency, the East—for at thattime the West had not yet begun to danceto the thumping of the Theodorian tom-tom—bound iced towels around its browand took bromides to induce sleep. Forin the East Mr. Roosevelt already was aloud outcry. As Civil Service Commis-sioner in Washington he had pawed theshrinking earth and kicked up clouds ofdust. He had clutched the classified serv-ice to his bosom and pinched it until ithowled. And he had written the first letter «4&£. At Washington the politicians just grin and drink, Health to the lions,and let it go at that. Exit—Roosevelt, the Dominant 721 in the series of assault and battery cor-respondence which, in these later, oppor-tunity-crowded years, has added so muchto his fame. Then he went to New York as PoliceCommissioner, and besides shaking up theforce as it never has been shaken, eitherbefore or since, he did so much privateinspection prowlingon his own accountthat in time it be-came a saying thatthe sight of a set offalse teeth wasenough and to spareto scare a New Yorkpatrolman into a fit. As Assistant Sec-retary of the Navyand most comprehensively at oddswith his chief—aconservative elderof unexceptionableNew England accentand refrigeration —he welcomed warwith open armsand placed bent pinsin the chair of na-tional pride. Whilehis chief remained in lonesome desolation, holding, with effort,to his standards of the way a navy depart-ment of a great government should be ad-ministered, t
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