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Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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sthat are as a minor note compared toRoosevelts average utterance, and verynearly every other occupant of a throneis in the same position. But TheodoreRoosevelt has been a law unto himself,wielding more power and influence thanany titled ruler, besides thinking and say-ing and doing precisely what he pleased atany and all times, and, what is more won-derful still, getting away with it in greatshape. Exit—Roosevelt, the Dominant 7*5 THE ROOSEVELT THE NEWSPAPER MENKNOW It is difficult to write an appraisementof Roosevelt from Washington which shallat the same time be an appraisement ofthe Roosevelt that is known on the out-side, as the newspaper correspondents truth, that he knows not the name of jus-tice, that he distributes favors by fancyand not fairness, that he is as vain as apeacock, as confident as a god, as sensitiveof criticism as a woman, as tenacious asa bulldog and as vindictive as a Malay.He is a good liker and a good hater and hisblood is red and thick. And yet there are
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Roosevelt, the Dominant, a study in physiognomy. Photograph by Clinedinst. say. These correspondents, and there areabout a hundred and fifty of them whoserve their papers, big and little, through-out the country, as members of the Capitolpress galleries, have no illusions concern-ing Roosevelt. They think and say, manyof them, that he is the most successful four-flusher that ever drew the breath of life,that he is careless in his handling of the no same number of men in the UnitedStates who will admit more readily thatTheodore Roosevelt is entitled, in allrespects, to be called Roosevelt, the Domi-nant. Some of them have been laidacross his knee and slippered, and frommany of them he has withdrawn the lightof his countenance for varying periods,usually for the most trivial of reasons. 726 The Outing Magazine

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