t on July 1st. On the 4th, the Mandan
_Pioneer_ published an editorial about him which expressed, in
exuberant Dakota fashion, ideas which may well have been stirring in
Roosevelt's own mind.

Our friends west of us, at Little Missouri, are now being
made happy by the presence among them of that rare bird, a
political reformer. By his enemies he is called a dude, an
aristocrat, a theorist, an upstart, and the rest, but it
would seem, after all, that Mr. Roosevelt has something in
him, or he would never have succeeded in stirring up the
politicians of the Empire State. Mr. Roosevelt finds,
doubtless, the work of a reformer to be a somewhat onerous
one, and it is necessary, for his mental and physical
health, that he should once and again leave the scene of his
political labors and refresh himself with a little ozone,
such as is to be found pure and unadulterated in the Bad
Lands. Mr. Roosevelt is not one of the fossilized kind of
politicians who believes in staying around the musty halls
of the Albany capitol all the time. He thinks, perhaps, that
the man who lives in those halls, alternating between them
and the Delavan House, is likely to be troubled with
physical dyspepsia and mental carbuncles. Who knows but that
John Kelly might to-day be an honored member of
society--might be known outside of New York as a noble
Democratic leader--if he had been accustomed to spend some
of his time in the great and glorious West? Tammany Hall,
instead of being to-day the synonym for all that is brutal
and vulgar in politics, might be to-day another name for all
that is fresh, and true, ozonic and inspiring in the
political arena. If the New York politicians only knew it,
they might find it a great advantage to come once or twice a
year to West Dakota, to blow the cobwebs from their eyes,
and get new ambitions, new aspirations, and new ideas. Mr.
Roosevelt, although young, can teach wisdom to the
sophisticated machine politicians, who know not the value to
an Easterner of a blow among the fresh, fair hills of this
fair territory.

One wonders whether the editor is not, in part, quoting Roosevelt's
own words. No doubt, Roosevelt was beginning already to realize what
he was gaining in the Bad Lands.

Roosevelt spent three weeks or more in the East; at New York where