MR. ROOSEVELT.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 810, 6 May 1910, Page 5

MR. ROOSEVELT.

AT HAMLET'S GRAVE. By Teieeraph—Press Association—DouyricM Copenhagen, May 4. Mr. Roosevelt, N duti|®;his visit , to Don' mark, visited Hamlet's grave at Elsinore, Ho has proceeded to Christiania, Norway. ROYAL RECEPTION IN NORWAY. • (Rec. May 6, 0.40 a.tn.) Christiania, May 5. The King and Queen of Norway welcomed Mr. Roosevelt at Christiania. The streets were decorated. ■Air. Roosevelt is staying at the Palace, A Stato dinner was held in his honour, at which there werd 200 guests, PRESIDENTIAL PROSPECTS. Writing under data March 33, a New York correspondent says;—A jocular remark which President Taft addressed to Earl Grey—"You are the most enviable of officials, since you represent the King, who can do no wrong, whereas I am a President who is apparently always doing wrong"—has provoked a highly significant. discussion, which is raging to-day from the Pacific to the Atlantic. Starting his Presidency just ov6r .ft year ago under brighter . auspices than any of his predecessors, Mr. Taft, through his inability to secure fulfilment of his campaign pledges, is now regarded as the most disappointing ■ figure in American politics. His support of the reactionary elements of - the Republican party, typffied in the persons of the Speaker, Mr, Cannon, and of Senator Aldrich—representatives of the monied powers in the United States—and his general hostility to the so-called insurgents of his party are declared to bo directly responsible for the smashing victory yesterday of the Democrat, Mr. Foss, at a by-election in the fourteenth Congressional 'district of Massachusetts. That district has ton consistently Republican. Never bofdre has it elected a Democrat. Now Mr. Foss has converted a Republican majority at the general election of 14,980 into a Democratic -majority of 6640. Mr. Fossa election cry was based on the urgent need for a moderate tariff and on reciprocity with Canada. . , A specch by Mr. Taft last, evening .has precipitated a fresh avalanche of cntio. ism Referring to the Monroe doctrine and the dangers of war it provoked, the President said: "It seems to me that war. is onlv avoided because the Lord looks after 'fools, drunkards, and the United This remark is condemned as "most undignified." . Republicans are praying for the return of Air. Roosevelt, in the hope that no will restore the shattered fortunes of tu« party. .