nominate Roosevelt for the Presidency to succeed himself, an
editorial writer expressed the fact thus: "The people at large
are not oblivious of the fact that, while others are talking and
carping, Mr. Roosevelt is carrying on in the White House a
persistent and never-ending moral struggle with every powerful
selfish and exploiting interest in the country."

Oblivious of it? They were acutely conscious of it. They approved
of it with heartiness. They liked it so well that, when the time
came to nominate and elect another President, they swept aside
with a mighty rush not only the scruples and antagonisms of the
Republican politicians and the "special interests" but party
lines as well, and chose Roosevelt with a unanimous voice in the
convention and a majority of two and a half million votes at the
polls.

As President, Theodore Roosevelt achieved many concrete results.
But his greatest contribution to the forward movement of the
times was in the rousing of the public conscience, the
strengthening of the nation's moral purpose, and the erecting of
a new standard of public service in the management of the
nation's affairs. It was no little thing that when Roosevelt was
ready to hand over to another the responsibilities of his high
office, James Bryce, America's best friend and keenest student
from across the seas, was able to say that in a long life, during
which he had studied intimately the government of many different
countries, he had never in any country seen a more eager,
high-minded, and efficient set of public servants, men more
useful and more creditable to their country, than the men then
doing the work of the American Government in Washington and in