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 A POEM. 
 
 BY THOMAS W. BROWNE. 
 
 Copyright, J 903, 
 
 BY THOMAS W. BROWNE, 
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 WHEN "TEDDY" LEADS THE WAY. 
 
 Now let our hands and hearts unite 
 
 To celebrate the day 
 When up the hill at San Juan 
 
 "Our Teddy" led the way. 
 
 While Wood and Shafter and the rest 
 Were brave and strong and true, 
 
 And Wheeler, the Confederate chief, 
 Won fame and glory, too. 
 
 While both the boys in blue and gray, 
 Who served within the ranks, 
 
 For what they did in Cuba's cause 
 Have earned the nation's thanks. 
 
 While all beneath the stars and stripes 
 
 On that eventful day 
 Were heroes of the bravest type 
 
 In that fierce and bloody fray. 
 
 Yet somehow, 'mid the battle's din 
 One form looms o'er the rest, 
 
 Beloved by all his followers, 
 The idol of the West. 
 
 Amid the storm of shot and shell 
 His men stood firm that day, 
 
 They heeded not the Spanish guns 
 When "Teddy" led the way. 
 
 But not alone as warrior 
 
 Should we his praises sing, 
 He's a statesman and a patriot, 
 
 Among men he is a king. 
 
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 A king in all that's good and true 
 
 In all a king should be, 
 
 A genuine American 
 
 In his love of liberty. 
 
 He battles now on peaceful fields 
 
 The people's rights to win, 
 To place the curb of law upon 
 
 The power of greed and sin. 
 
 He has fought for civil service 
 For observance of the law; — 
 
 For honesty in public place 
 He waged a righteous war. 
 
 As Governor and President 
 His record's clean and pure; — 
 
 The politicians like him not 
 His ways they can't endure. 
 
 All those who seek with selfish hand 
 
 The people to despoil; 
 Who want the laws so made and framed 
 
 To keep down honest toil. 
 
 All those who claim the earth is theirs 
 
 By heritage divine. 
 Who believe the sun in heaven 
 
 On them alone should shine. 
 
 All these have shown their hatred 
 Of the man who fills the place 
 
 Once occupied by Washington, 
 The noblest of his race. 
 
 The place where once great Lincoln sat, 
 
 Whose memory we revere, 
 Whose friends were not the favored few 
 
 But the people, ever near. 
 
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 As Washington in 'seventy-six, 
 The seed of freedom planted, 
 
 And Lincoln at a later day 
 To slaves their freedom granted. 
 
 So Roosevelt in these days of ours 
 From oppression's heavy hand 
 
 Will wrest t-he sceptre of domain. 
 And liberate our land. 
 
 So Roosevelt will emancipate 
 From misrule and from wrong 
 
 The people who have suffered 
 So patiently and long. 
 
 They look to him to free them 
 From the politician's sway, 
 
 Who surely will be beaten 
 When "Teddy" leads the way. 
 
 Beloved by all the people, 
 
 Who are bound to have their way, 
 There's nothing can defeat him 
 
 When "Teddy" leads the way. 
 
 Another term for Roosevelt 
 Is the burden of my lay, 
 
 For no one can defeat him 
 When "Teddy" leads the way. 
 
 Note.— The above poem was read at the Lincoln 
 Club banquet held in Kalamazoo, Michigan, on 
 February 12, 1903, and was afterward published in 
 the Kalamazoo Daily Telegraph. 
 
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