AMERICA’S GREATEST |
PATRIOT IS DEAD
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other volumes of kindred character.
Returning to New York, he became
he Republic.in candidate for mayor in
lss*i. |{e was defeated. President
Harrison in l.vsii appointed him a mem
her of the t nited States civil service
commission, and President Cleveland
continued him in his office, which he
resigned in lsttf> to become New York
city's police commissioner.
As a Reformer in New York
• A thing that attracted me to this
office." Roii evclt said at »he time he
accepted this appointment, "was that
ii was to he done in the hurly-burly,
for 1 don't like cloister life." Honesty
was the watchword of this adminis
nation, and the two years of his occu
pancy became memorable through the
reform- he inaugurated, attracting
the nation's attention while holding a
position which was obscure in com
parison with the events to come. Il
licit liquor traffic, gambling, vice in
general of these evils he purged the
city in the face of a corrupt political
opposition, and the reputation lie os
taldisbed as a reformer won him the
personal selection by President Mc
Kinley as assistant secretary of the
navy in 1 s 1*7 A year later the Span
ish American war broke out.
Assists in Organizing Rough Riders
The Roosevelt temperament did not
allow the man to retain a deputy cab
inet position with war offering some
thing more exciting. Leonard Wood,
now a major general, was then Presi
dent McKinley’s physician, and one of
Roosevelt's staunchest friends.
The famous Rough Riders were or
ganized by Wood and Roosevelt * a
band of fighting men the mention of I
whose* name today suggests • immodi !
ately tin* word "Roosevelt." They
<nme out of tin* West plainsmen,
miners, rough and ready fighters who
were natural marksmen, and Wood
became their colonel and "Teddy," as
In- had become familiarly called by
| the public, their lieutenant colonel. In
i company with the regulars of tin*
army they took transports to Cuba.
Landed at Santiago, they were soon
engaged in the thick of battle. Among
the promotions which this hardy regi
, ment's gallantry brought about were
those of Wood to be brigadier general
jalld Roosevelt to colonel and this
t it b- Theodore Roosevelt cherished
until tb** end. Some of the Rough
Riders formed the military escort
when he was elected President a few
j years later.
%As New York's Governor
When Cuba had been liberated
Roosevelt returned to New York. A
i gubernatorial campaign was in sw ing.
with the Republican party in need of
j a candidate. Roosevelt was nomi
; mited. Van Wyck, his Democratic
j opponent, was defeated. The reforms
j Roosevelt had favored as assembly
j man he now had the opportunity to
consummate, together with others of
I more importance, and it was during
this administration that he is said first
! to have earned tin1 hostility of cor
porations. When the Republican na
tional convention was held in Phila
: dolphin In P.tOO his party in New York
i demanded and attained bis uomina
tion for vice president on the ticket
: with ^'illiam McKinley In November
j of that year this ticket was elected.
He Becomes President
The policies of McKinley. Roosevelt
endeavored to carry out after he suc
ceeded the former upon tie* Presi
dent's tragic death at the hands of
an assassin Roosevelt retained his
predecessor's cabinet as his own and
he kept in office the ambassadors and
ministers whom McKfnley had ap
pointed. As much as two years be
fore* the presidential campaign of Foil
Republican organizations in various
states began indorsing him as their
next candidate.
Man of Destiny
It was thus that "the man of des
tiny” idea became associated with his
life Ostensibly Roosevelt, b aving the
governorship of New York to become
vice president, was moving forward
from state politics into national poli
tic’s, so his political opponents pro
lessee! public ly to believe, but it was
their secret desire to "shelve" the
man and eliminate him from promi
nence in their own community, it was
said, that prompted these political
foes to obtain for him the* vice* presi
dential nomination, whh h h* person
ally did not desire*.
At the* height e>f his public and po
litical career, during the* four years of
tin- term for which he* hud been oleed
ed, Rooseve lt accomplished achieve
ments which historians will rank high
in tin* international and industrial pro
gross of the* country. They included
his i 11 fin**nti:i 1 negotiations which, con
ducted at Portsmouth. N\ IF. effected
peace between Russia and Japan;
maintenance of the Monroe* «1 e»e*tri 11 ♦ *
at a perioel when European powers
were interested in the*affairs of Y**n
♦ *zue*la; the* recognition of Panama as
a republic* and his treaty with Fan
ama. by which the* inter-oceanic canal
through that eemntry was put under
wav; and the* settlement, through his
moral influence in the* fare* iif a situ
ation in which there was no adeepiaf
federal le gislation, of the IVnnsylvania
coal mine* strike*. For his part in tor
initiating the Ruhho Japanese conflict :
In* WttH awarded the Nobel Peace prize
in 1 HOG. Four years later, once more
a private* citizen, he was special am
bassador from tin* Fnited State's at
tin* funeral of King Kdward VII of
Kngland.
The Famous Quarrel with Taft
A rift in tin- friendship between
Roosevelt and bis successor as Presi
dent. William Howard Taft, led to
tin* former's announcement of hi$ op
position to Taft’s renomination. Tin*
ex President's influence had been larg*
in placing Mr Taft in tin- White
House Now his intlu« ne-e was equally
strong in preventing Mr Taft from
remaining there- Men who had
elasheel with tin- Taft polh n- epihkly
rallied to Koose \ * -11 s support Rons*
velt assembled what in- termed as
e-oii'truetive ideas as opposed to fin
conservative one*. of tin- so-e-alh*d lie
publican "Old duard." characterized
them with the- dese*ription "Progres
sive*." and organized the* Progressive
party by withdrawing with his follow
ers from tin* Chicago eon volition id'
I'.HLV lb- hecann- tin* new party's can
didate* for President This split in tin*
Republican ranks resulted in Woodrow
Wilson's election
Attacked by Assassin
Oin* of tin* most dramatic incidents
in Roosevelt's life occurred during this
campaign. As In* was le aving a hotel
in Milwauke*e to go to a meeting hall
to make a political address, a man
standing among tin* spectators in tin*
street tired a sheet which struck tin*
colonel and smashed a rib Roosevelt
insisted that In* was not seriously hurt
and his automobile* conveyed him to
the hall. Tln-re In* spoke* t<» an audi
e*n<e which had knowledge* of what
had happe*m*d sobbing w<enn*n and
grave* faced nn*n shaken with emotion
ley his appe arance* under such circum
stance's Kxamination eef flu* wound
slice wed that if was serious, and flu
'candidate* was hurried ley special train
to Chicago for treatment. Though In
Speedily recovered. the bullet was
never removed. The .1 ' -a in wa seilt
to .in asylum for the insane
Takes Up Literary Work
Koos«v*|t after having tie White
Hons*- devoted hi lit** larg**l> to lit
erary work, hunting and exploration
He became contributing editor to the
Outlook in 1 !»".*. c*.utinuiing this for
live \ears. and later held editorial po
sitions with tie Metropolitan and tie
Kansas City Star From ISS2 to 1 !* 17
In* published about fifty volumes of
work, covering tie wide rang** of na
val history, hunting, biography, tie*
Rough Kid* rs. Annoi* auism. National
i in. conservation of womanhood and
childhood, animals, exploration, tie*
world war and America’s participation
in it. and his autobiography His
hunts for big game and his zest for
exploration took him Into the Ameri
can West, tie* heart of Africa and the
wilderness of Brazil.
Fateful South American Trip
Upon his return from his African
journey a return during which he
made triumphal entries into Kuropean
capitals and was received by nations’
rulers, including tie* emperor of (Ro
many le* arrived in New York to ex
perience what was generally conceded
to bo the greatest ovation an Ameri
can private citizen was ever accorded
hy the people of his country This
was in 1 !• 1 •». At tie* head of an ex
ploring party in South America in 1914
he discovered and followed for OOP
miles a Madeira river tributary, which
the Brazilian government subsequently
named in his honor Rio Theodore.
This was tie- famous River of Doubt"
so-called because in many quarters
considered authoritativ it was ques
tioned whether Roosevelt was the first
man to explore the stream. During
this journey the ex-President contract
ed a jungle fever, which was held in
directly responsible for tin* abscesses
which developed malignantly and re
quired several operations at tin* Roose
velt hospital in New York city in
1918.
Vigorous Advocate of War
When the Kuropenn wa r begun
Roosevelt vigorously advocated a pel
icy of national preparedness, urging
universal military training for the na
tion's youth. In speeches throughout
the country and in his magazine and
newspaper writings he criticized the
policies of Woodrow Wilson during
Mr Wilson's iirst term as President
Colonel Roosevelt, it has been said,
was keenly disappointed when he did
not receive the Republican nomina
tion for Presidnt in 1916. At the same
time, however, he refused to follow
the advice of some of his staunchest
followers that he again head the Pro
gressive party ticket. Instead he pre
vailed upon the Progressive party to
make Charles Evans Hughes, the Re
publican candidate, its own choice. He
campaigned for Mr. Hughes. With the
re-election of Mr. Wilson and Amer
ica's entry into the world war soon
after. Roosevelt immedlateelv support
ed the President and bitterly assailed
the pro-Germans, pacifists and other
types of men who attempted to delay
the speeding up of the war.
With the United States a belliger
ent, Roosevelt endeavored to obtain
the consent of the war department to
establish an army division which he
was anxious to take to France. This
division was to have included many of
the Rough Riders who were his asso
ciates in the campaign in Cuba, and
ymi»K«*r lm n of tii" - ?! "tiuuu -
habit . Tii*- m < • .»i > |i , ion for
fli" formation of mb .• t.»t. w.r not
tort In --mum. • ilmni-li I;. n»-. vlt
• • xj»r* '••«! w iliinr.' - - njianv it
, as a siihonlina?" oflio-i
1 -a t *•!> In u ririnr h.tv. < 1 • a!r with
tin- « unmir jm•;*« . . ntncivur.-, ami h»*
'has ilit; "p'd a i f I • • I with tin- polii-i»*.s
j of I’t' -a I* in Wil "ti. ami sovn-h
:1 rlf n i/."<l th* IT* i«i**nfs pr« **uf % i - j t
. to Kuiop*
PERSONAL AND LOCAL
NOTES OF INTEREST
A regular meeting of the ci:v nun
eil will he he|i| tonight, at whirh
many important matters will In eon
shiereil.
\V. .1 .McDonald of the forest serv
ice, who has heeii laid up with u
severe attack ot iuflu--n/a was able
to lie about town lestcrdax for the
first time.
Dean Officer, formerly of .McCarthy,
a member of the Twenty seventh m
gineers. American expeditiotiar> force,
is now In a hospital in Franco, having
been wounded by a piece of shrapnel
before the armistice was declared
The special train which took two
hospital nurses to Copper Diver rail
way camps for the purpose of inocu
lating its employes returned to town
today. Another special will leave
tomorrow morning to give the men
their third and hist "shot in the arm "
The Admiral Watson is due at Sew
ard on Wednesday, and should reach
here Friday On her south-hound trip
she will call at Sitka to accommodate
those who ifcish to visit the Hot
Springs A boat from the latter place
will meet the Watson and take her
passengers ashore
As there are about twenty men here
who desire to go to Kennecotf to work
in tin- mines, the railway company
has fitted up a car and will take them
out the line a short distance and place
them under a voluntary quarantine of
tie days, in order that they may pro
coed to the Interior /
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new address to the office
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SPARTACUS GROUP IN
.CHARGE OF NEWS BUREAU
AMSTERDAM. Jan. 6 (by Associat
ed Press). Liebknecht's Spartaeus
group on Sunday attempted to seize
the power of government in Berlin,
and occupied the office of the Wolff
bureau, the semi-official news agency,
and also the offices of a dozen big
newspapers here
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