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     Criticism of President Roosevelt for being in the Adirondacks when President McKinley died failed to take account of his peculiar position. A Vice-President was once described by Roscoe Conkling as a man waiting for a funeral and the gibe has a sting of truth. Mr. Roosevelt probably felt that if he stayed within reach of the yellow reporters they would be sure to misrepresent him; and that he was in danger, with them as his interpreters, of either under-doing or over-doing his natural grief. So he buried himself in the woods until the consequences of Czolgosz’s murderous deed should shape themselves.