The failure to realize this
ambition might account in some measure for his later reticence and
his suspicion of politicians in general. He has shown a pronounced
distrust of them. The only exception has been the audacious
Ambassador to the Court of Saint James who in his REVIEW and in his
WEEKLY flattered the Senator from Idaho with an absence of
restraint that might have made a more trusting person skeptical.
The Senator from Idaho has too many years before him to justify
predictions concerning his career. Whatever faults he might have
they do not entirely obscure his virtues. It is possible that the
occasion might arise for him to serve as the spokesman of a popular
cause, which he would do with undoubted earnestness and eloquence,
in which event he might still become a dominating figure in
American politics.
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