MR. ROOSEVELT REAPPEARS

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1001, 16 December 1910, Page 7

MR. ROOSEVELT REAPPEARS

$ NO EEFERENCE TO ELECTIONS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. New York, December 14. Ex-Prosident Roosevelt has just delivered his first speech—at New Haven, Connecticut—since the elections. Mr. Eoosevelt declared that commercial circles had been taught to regard him as a modified anarchist. They would find that he was nothing of the sort. Ho was a Badical, but he. tried to preach only tliose doctrines forming the foundation of the Republic. In demanding exact justice for. the trusts, tho speaker said: "If you pay a bill without examining it, you don't show that you have a soft heart—you show that you have a soft head." Mr. Eoosevelt 'avoided reference to the elections.

AN AMERICAN JONAH.

It seems to-day from the incomplete returns, wrote the New York "Evening Post" of November 10 on the result of the Congressional elections, that everywhere Col. Roosevelt went, every candidate he spoke for except in New Hampshire was defeated. Mr. Roosevelt went out to lowa at tho very.closo of the campaign to speak for Charles Grilk, a progressive candidate for Congress in the Davenport district. It now seems thai Grilk was the only progressive Republican in any Congress district who was defeated. The Colonel made two trips through. Indiana to'speak for Beveridge, and now it looks as if Beveridge has lost. He spoke in Ohio, and Harmon carried tho State and tho Democrats gained Congress seats. That is a fair measure of tho present eclipse of Mr. Roosevelt's prestige and influence with voters, who, for a good many years uow, have been, "eating out of his hand." Washington is unanimously of tho opinion that, although his virtual repudiation in Indiana, Ohio, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and almost every other spot he touched docs not eliminate Theodore Roosevelt as atl important political factor, it does make his candidacy for a third term . impossible. Roosevelt is too skilled and adroit to be more than checked by the events of yesterday. He is too shrewd not to learn political lessons quickly, and people here expect of him. a change of tactics, but not a lessening of activity.