Richmond, April

The Times-Dispatch on "Teddy." To the 13th of April, an admirer of "Teddy" Roosevelt takes you to task for certain criticisms indulged in by you respecting the inconsistency of many of the articulate sounds proceeding from the mouth of the redoubtable Colonel. In reply thereto, you consumed at least one-half column of valuable editorial space, which you had an indisputable right to consume in defense of your position, I maintain, however, that newspaper readers have some rights as well as newspaper editors, and in exercising that right for myself. I earnestly protest, in the name of suffering humanity against any further waste of valuable editorial space on such a political acrobat as "Teddy of the Oyster Bay." If the newspapers of the country would enter into a solemn compact not to publish any of "Teddy's" speeches, during the coming presidential campaign, or to refer to him in any manner whatsoever, he would rapidly descend to the level of a ward politician, a position admirably suited to him by reason of his oft-repeated habit of "barding the truth carelessly." He should be placed on the back of his favorite "Bull Moose" and consigned to the "River Doubt," there to remain penitent for an indefinite period, for the remarkable demonstration he has often given the American people of his inability to "stand pat" on any public question.  C. K. R. 