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This page contains political commentary on President Theodore Roosevelt's administration and the 1908 presidential succession. The main article, "Presidential Specification," discusses Roosevelt's travels and his preferred successor—Secretary of War William Howard Taft. The two cartoons below, titled "Clever Bear," feature a bear (representing Roosevelt) and a hunter. The satire depicts Roosevelt as dominating and controlling, with the hunter appearing subordinate. The caption "Mr. President don't shoot! I've come thirty miles to hear you speak" suggests Roosevelt's outsized influence and the public's eagerness to listen to him, even as questions arise about who will actually lead next. The overall message critiques Roosevelt's continued political dominance despite his pledge not to seek another term.

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Inclusure of Stamps to the full amusant of pstage ts alse reguiteds bt insure safe and prompt return uf material nut accepted. PRESIDENTIAL SPEECHIFICATION. the president.” We prefer to believe the shooting and shouting of the hunt- HETE PRESIL 1 ROOSEVELT works or hunts, © Unrew fright into the bears, but there may be an alternative supposi travels or rests, he talks. Tu date all previous adminis- need tration records are hopelessly smashed, and a straight. ON THE NIB OF THE PEN. away Course of almost four years still stretches on before. OMAN in Washington found Secretary Loeb’s watch, She returned For sheer bulk and variety of executive utterance our the lost article and asked fora position, She was appointed a few Teddy is a wonder. Aspirants for his plice in tgo8 are days later. That iy one of the amenities of the civil service in Washington, awe-struck, and if they are wise they are already slips Judge Hooker has just had a terrible raking over the coals because he used ping away to some quiet, pebbly strand, Demosthenes+ sk Beavers to give jobs to certain friends who had served him and the like, to train up to the vocal standard now irrevocably — party out Chautauqua way. Evidently civil service is more frigid, less established, Naturally, the people like to hear a presi: cordial and appreciative in Albany than in Washington. dent talk, and fortunately the president is a mighty good talker. The western vacation-hunt just ended has been full of vocalization, The twice-defeated candidate from Nebraska has turned upon the once- The journey from Washington was punctuated with specchification all the defeated candidate from Esopus. Mr. Parker, he says, having been de- : ss the country, down to the farthest confines of Texas, into the — feated, should keep silent. What logic! If Parker's one defeat calls for and back. No audience so small but he silence, after two defeats a candidate ought to be doubly silentyeven bound And what a many subjects the versatile Roose and gaged, according to his own argument. Let the Nebraskan’s logic be bout! Babies, citizenship, the civil war, farming, hunting, — applied. For our part, we rather like to have Mr. Parker talk, He is a nd ancestral history, trusts, tariff, relations of republics to em- fairly Sensible talker, and we sometimes feel like suggesting that if he Pires, war anecdotes, persons of local renown, duties of husbands and ald break that oppressive habit of silence, or somehow trade off with the wives, and back to babies. No wonder the people crowd up to the tail Nebraskan, it might be a good thing for his party. end of the president's train, to the door of the church where the president is worshiping, of to the camp where he idles in his hunting-togs. No other The honorable William E. Chandler likes a joke. Recently he wrote attraction in the same class tours so far afield, reaches to such rejoicing — to Vice-president Fairbanks, saying, You ought to be the next president.” multitudes. Money could not purchase admission to an entertainment so He sent the same letter to Secretary Shaw and Senator Foraker, but te the fruitful of present enjoyment and perennial anecdote and reminiscence — Fairbanks letter he added a postscript, notifying him that he had sent iden= thereafter. Some there are who have been unkind enough to say this tical letters to the other promising candidates. The v. p. missed the joke steady flow of Rooseveltian eloquence is undignified and out of character, — took it that the Shaw and Foraker letters were likewise indorsements of him They would have a more quiet, sedate president—one who would pose — self,and wrote a grateful reply. A similar joke was once played on Ex-sen- sphinx-like in solemn, silent grandeur, while the eloquence of others bab: — ator Morton, Because of Mr. Morton’s pile,” Platt had worked up :t cou- bled at his comings and goings. But that is nonsense. Dignity is terribly siderable Morton boom, That pile would do * good," especially in the south, old-fashioned and out of date. A twore reasonable alarm springs from ans where the negro vole needed sound-money inducements. The New York other source. Suppose the president should give out, or that the people — Tribune, taking its Cue from these exigencies of the situation, printed an should—that is, in other words, imagine what a catastrophe it would be if editorial indors of the Morton boom, declared Mr. Morton's * sound- cither gave out? In this connection a newspaper dispatch from Colorado — money” position would make him acceptable to the south, the negroes de- toward the end of the hunting-trip has a peculiar significance. manding a sound-money candidate, etc. Mr. Morton was much pleased The bears have disappeared from the west-divide country—scared away by with the Tribune's indorsement and never“ tumbled " to the sarcasm, A thousand pardon: lighted to speak a few words her talk than shoot."" comicbooks.com