The literary digest . orsof Oyster Bay, and therulers of every civilizedland, showed that ifpublic opinion were towrite his epitaph itwould be TheodoreRoosevelt, intense American-ism, the Utica Observer(ieelares, was the greatguiding, moving, pul-sating, overwhelmingprinciple of his Kansas City Star,whose ContributingEditor he was at thetime of his death, calledhim the embodimentof our nation. At the height of his career, says the Boston Olobe, he personifiedAmerica. He was more typically American than any otherman who ever lived in America, according to the IndianapolisT
The literary digest . orsof Oyster Bay, and therulers of every civilizedland, showed that ifpublic opinion were towrite his epitaph itwould be TheodoreRoosevelt, intense American-ism, the Utica Observer(ieelares, was the greatguiding, moving, pul-sating, overwhelmingprinciple of his Kansas City Star,whose ContributingEditor he was at thetime of his death, calledhim the embodimentof our nation. At the height of his career, says the Boston Olobe, he personifiedAmerica. He was more typically American than any otherman who ever lived in America, according to the IndianapolisTimes. In every corner of the earth, declared the New YorkEvening World, the name of Roosevelt was known and admiredas standing for all that is most forceful, compelling, and at thesame time fascinating in the American c^harat^ter. Tiiat hewas the greatest American of his day was asserted by scoresof editors and public intii as soon as the news of his death waslearned, and not oiil\ the greatest, but the most ty])ical,. the most representative American. The New Ha\en Journal-Co arier calls him the great composite American of his dayand generation. Then in his mental qualities he was essentialljAmerican, it seems to the Philadelphia Public Ledger; hisrestless energj-, his keen zest of living, his courage, his audacity, his democratic habits,his ready sympathy forevery class, the mixturein him of the practicaland the ideal—all thesethings were character-istic of the soil fromwhich he sprang. En-gland and Francelooked upon ColonelRoosevelt as summingup in his own person-ality the best charac-t eristics of the American])eople. It seems tothe Manchester Guar-dian that in TheodoreRoosevelt was exprestwhat the Americans re-gard as, the Westernspirit and the epochin which the West cameinto its own. . Hebrought into the worldof i)olitics air of the greatl)rau-ies. It seems significantto the New YorkJiiiies, in view of theeMii)hasis upon ColoinlRoosevelts American-ism, t
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