Senator Hanna, like the members of the Cabinet, had found the new President, not the rash young man that most of them expected, but a statesman, sobered and steadied by experience, quick of thought, but slow to act, who was always open to advice, and never above taking it. As they saw him wield the great powers of his office with a firm and skilful hand, their confidence grew and was communicated to the country. No one ever called him "His Accidency," the taunt so often flung at the other Vice-Presidents whom fate had thrust into the White House, because at the outset he proved his right to leadership.

THE NEW PRESIDENT AND THE PEOPLE

The youngest of the chief magistrates. — Popular imagination stirred by his swift rise. The most thoroughly national man ever in the White House; the East and the West, the North and the South, all claim him. The first President since the Civil War too young to remember its sectional bitterness. — President Roosevelt's own story of how he became a complete American. The country delighted with his vim, his enjoyment of public honor, and freedom from pretence. — Refuses to shut the door of hope on any man because of race or color. — Dines labor leaders, but refuses to let either unions or trusts dictate to him. - A man who gets things done. — His trust in the people and their trust in him.

THE people liked the novelty of a new kind of President in the White House. In the first place, President Roosevelt was invested with the charm of youth. He was forty-two when called to the Presidency, and therefore several years the junior of the youngest of his predecessors, General Grant. He was still more youthful in spirit.

The popular imagination was stirred by the swiftness of his rise. Less than four years and a half before, he was as far removed from the usual line of presidential succession as the New York police com

missionership, and was saying to a friend, “You may consider me politically dead." It was only four years since he was a mere assistant secretary in a department at Washington. Within the space of three fortune had crowded into his life a seryears, vice in war, the governorship of New York, the VicePresidency, and now the Presidency of the United States.

He was the first President with a long lineage since Washington, and the wealth of his family was far older and greater than that of Washington. The Roosevelts had been able to keep their heads above water in the social swim of New York for at least half a dozen generations. The plain people welcomed the momentary change from the line of logcabin presidents to a President who was born in a brown-stone front. The children of poverty had been taught by the example of Abraham Lincoln that they, too, might make their lives sublime. Mr. Roosevelt's fellow-citizens welcomed the example which his rise set before the scions of the rich, who might learn thereby that the republic has work for all who are not above taking off their coats and doing it.