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EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER PHILADELPHIA", MONDAY, JANUARY
WLONEL ROOSEVELT'S CAREER SIGNALIZED BY STIRRING EVENTS AND GREAT ACHIEVEMENTS
6, 1919
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I V twentj rtxlli President of the United
States, who died at Ills home In Ojste
&HY, S. Y toda, came of one rf the
Oldest Dutch-Amrrlrnli famltlis For six
Aerations' Ills forbears hae been prom
lnent In the councils of New York city
The founder of the family, Claes. Marfan
toon van Ilosevelt, as the name then
Was spelled, came to this country In
itft.J Ills son, Nicholas, was a New
Terk Alderman of the l.elslerlan pnrt ,
Jofcn Itoosevelt, Cornelius C rtoosevelt
Audi James Ttoorevelt also served as Al
dermen, and James J, Roosevelt was In
turn Alderman, Assembljman. Congress
man and Supremo Court Justice,
' -But although his name Is Dutch, In his
JWW were mingled Irish, Scotch and
Hucuenot blood, and his mother was a
Southerner. She was Martha Hulloch,
daughter of James Steens Itullnch, a
major In Chatham's battalion and a
granddaughter of .leneral Daniel Stew
art, of Ilciolutlonar fame Ills father,
Theodore Itoosevelt Sr organised a
""'Tiber of New York renlmenls In the
Civil jvar, nrd was one of the leaders In
organizing the Sanitary Commission and
other unt-tr r th. ..xi.u.,... ti ,. .... .
, ... -. -,... .... iilt f,,.i,,i-,- ur ,un i
' Tiractlcal Illlllnntlirnr,lt nml Ihd ..rt.h.
, he accomplished for the poor were le
.J) Klon. When he died. In 187(1, flags flew
J at half-mast nil over the tlt and rich
3i "r D00r follow ei! him to the Brave
J Ilorn In New tnrk In m
a.. The late President was horn In Vew
B) Tork cltv October IT, 1858 lie was
, graduated from Hnrard In 1880, and
Rafter a year spent In travel and siud In
m JSurope he plunged at once Into that field
" of-actlvlty which he never afterward for
JJ soon politics He was nn otllccholder
J.IIIIUKI cuimnuousij rrom iss. until hi
retired from the preldencv In luni TJi
only Intermission came .lut-irnr t,i. nr
rancner arter he letlred from ihe
JL Legislature
Aa n la cue 1. . ....
Sbut lth that KdnrnT,:',." f.!1.1:'
til which characterlied him In ever net of
flx.nrf.eU,"nV
Efi!;.Lwff."'... Into onn.?f tt
h. " "Huiiscki, now WOII NX KllaD.lA.I Ald...
rSl50d? .knoJ. T,lls HOIoat feebleness
J trust, and In the same Indomitable w.i
he set himself to clnn(je his character
M, as he chinaed his bod and to mnl.e
, Jrmself a man of self-confident e and
. coUraBe. JIc has told the storj himself
I sn i
V?iri'Ji.f,J0Ti.1 a I''-iRP In one
I Alarryatf, books uiiiHi alum. j.
pressed me In he passage the tap
tain of some smill Iirltlsh man-of-war
Is explaining to the hero how to no
quire the qunlltj of fearlessness He
sa tntt nt the outsit almost tverv
man Is frightened when he goes Into
fCtJon'.ubut ,hat "' oiirse to follow
himir fh71,i1 to Kpe" PuU' a Krl" on
himself thu he van net Just as If he
n Vni f'K'""' After this In kept
tip long enough It changes from pre-
JtC r?fe,!,"t "mi tl1, nn" oes In
very fact become ftarless b, sheer
dint of practicing fearlessness vvhe he
does not fel It. (I am using im oi"n
language, not SI irrvats This was
he theorv upon ilk "T
?ee,.?,,.a"..Unn,l!: of ,hln'" "l" ' I w"
kIIU. ct.. atHl .r,nnK'K from grirzly
K"r,tT,Tiwn"nhj
" r?Ce lf i1"5 SIlone 'Miej will first
laffa.sSup --!
and ,,;" lii'hl.lnve'''en"n0;,u(LlI':,';
X' "d unexpetted e , urgencies u .
-'" i,uii limn uniwares
, """" eiuier hi tf
f ! oiWZ bruatd r" ! :h.!' - dy
, Assemlil
- it. . ..." nini u if iniifr
fa reform
blmv.ir 1. . . .
, ,,.; .v" ne luuKiii
time wns cenerail
-Kisinuon vvlieb jt 11, , 1
regarded as a siu
L "T''"" '"'' 111s t)igE(.,t n,.hi.,
j uieni was ron ng an lnvetl-atlor, nf
Z y,cr?,.cu,.mnt'!1!'' Bov.nimerTt J? "s,"f
.v. vii. m unicn ne netid as if., r
man of the iivesiK,itn(r ,,', i" ' "''r:
mak'ng a recalcitrant 1.12 LVn .'"'' .nd
is reforming sonu ,?f ' , ,"e ' , Sre
fc" nr?.Uk" . uncovered b, ', com'-
M- Jltt
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ft 5; twenty-three was elected to tlie. r eVi.
lature Wlth'n a v.ar 'he waaJllenubi'"
1 IMC U.1IHJ 1IL mn La .Im , . . .
iJinltOe Ne
nuuiuion uc
tliP (flllilpmlne. . l,r
1 x,d h-y ln" I?""r" "f Aide me over The
1. Mavrr's niiolnlinenls "le
ne served tnree terms
n, i .. .
-......,., .... ,1, ,,,, ,,1,,-u )ear Ltn .. ,,Kin(P The s,,, mlanls were scattered I "2." ..,, ,.,., ...... line sue i cane was inai o. jukici unv
"7 . . . Ii i but llimsevelt III lattr vears gave iiiulIi "" """.,r" nii-i '"'""""" v endei Moines, ol tin Llilteu .sta'
. party over the noinlnailon of m,i,' ,l ""'.n, r?e ,L t,,rv t , , " voiced .luting u spee.b In Phil pel sjurcmt, ,-ourt
SJ f.!?,!9?,t ... lo-"It fought Blaine ir, ...,.ler..l the Rough I!"!erbv the.i.l. Phi i I'l lor to the st.te .i mi u v ile.tlon Roosevelt vvas nominated for PresW
- me iast unci, llml ,oulir , - - ",,, ,,t , reiuh Calvirv ''" Rluiilinn presuieiiuai ueieg.ues in unanhnoul bv the Republican i'oi.v
. 2J T.B." plect"1 " "f 'he four deles . i lis neVson .1 . ..In ... ss ,n it, r r. a, "" "Hrlng of 191J , m 191,1 l.e remained silent u
, r c "', '"! nitlonr.1 i .mv rntloti .i, Juan ioiitrlbut.il . norniouslv tn since the il ij of Ralbo . In h ltd In toward thi close of the campaign, v.l
' Hvn.er".,n" f""?t't with his usua Im- tin .m of p. puliri v w II " gre. t ' Mil.stanv.. th.n th.r. have b. . n .lieanis he dellvereil his f villous bl.st agali
I. Si V.'1"". .r1,le '' de. wl'l' 'ii.rm ' Wil- hi i. ., sui,.ei,uei,t pnlltl. U i.tmp.lins 1 till. ,.f n vva.rwhv sp inning the lis opponent ltou 11 Parkei Jud
tTii .1 Jlii" lm sihurz ror the When the i.ir was ov. r the viidl.rs sthinus or I'annni i and Joining tin 1'ari.u iuu cnargcu inai ..moi
J noVnlnatlim of rjeorger I dmund, .. W. n rub. eeauso ..f ibe i ln watus of th. Ulantk ami the Pa. 111. chairman c r f Ivou v Itl. tlie Pre
"1 .,Ji i !, , ,., w,n.", '"'n "uiteil 1 urtls aiiaiiceuients of the War Dep.rtment Tl" " was tall, of It in tha-lj .1 iv s dent know ledg. wis oiiinliilng c
m, anel most or the lklinunds men l.nlVJrt !, 'r:n,,;,i h,,. Vi, .1 . ! L.i of ih. Renubllc He l-assens Miirlcil to trlbiitions fiom corporations bv rcat
e""!poUtlcA Bfac,".!r5-eNe"!n"V 'm" ' '"'"' "f of p-UlIiue among the una. cum f build .. but h's enterprise vanM,,.! in "J AJXr.V ."' tiJ. pV"i!it
. bu T Roosefvl, , 'L"',"1 , '."r. ' "' famous ro.iiul robin demanding that the ' -ui ..s-ive pr.Hlden.ini ...linn Isti itl.m ,e J, ' ', ' "''', "'','' ,;' ,,'J
r ... .... ....1 . .' '
- ssr- i'iii mm wcill oil lo Ot.oinn i r.,iwl,. .
fin't-T 1MlW. '"'"Uri wl.,e he " ivtcl
till his nnmlnntloii for M.,r In s"
. i.jl".1. V,10 !S"cI'C"'" wer. illsnoHed t.
augh at the "foui-eved limle i,u, ,,,'
.hanged their oplnl, ,, hen thej fou ,.1
.that .10 work was to,, hard f. hlin 1"
-S-fSardshlp too severe mi peril im, great
" Viwm thn. .lit .. .1.1.. .,.. . S..'ai
, J. and ranchmen linn sworn bj Theodora
1 jl4 RrAisevelt and it lias ilm. x' 1 ,7,,
1 u be was able to get such a fine u iss nf
I w frontiersmen In his leglment of hough
.","". ,'' ",,r in .uwpunche
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M, -..v, .
mi In ISM! the labor imthre.l fu .vi
mt Yi)rk had frlgli.ned the ,,1.1 parties
rai thorpughls Henij Oe. ige had beii
m, nom'n.iteil for Mavoi mil ., runnln
Ml -like a r.ii-i horse The danger forced
1 the two- Democrat 11 fatttons to ifiinhlne
'and nomlniitnl bi 1111 s, H.witt Tin
"c Republicans mimed Itoosev.lt The
" feiir of fleoige's ele.ti.m dr..vo iranv
J; Reiiubllcana Int. the Democritl. i.iinii
2, and the vote stood Hiwitt 3i)S5
JJ; Cleorge, C8.Hu R. ustv.lt, fifl 4:5
jj lliinleil llie l.iune
a. "Mr Rooeevelt 1 .-xt ntti icted notice .as
a hunter of b'g g 1 in 1 ham terlsilLal
ly enough m all gin h hud nn ntira lion
for him nnd It Is if mbtfiil whether lie
ever bhot 11 rabbit nlj when ihe btasi
had ome ihanii igil , 1 the hunter dirt
snort appeal to him and, niturallj
".rough the game lh t seemed most to
his taste was the gii7rl biar of the
uochicH in it ineanntioi or strnglb
2" fur and (Uiinlng When Mr Roo.evi
"j, arrived In the Rorl vivuntnln eoimti
T nH nntiml,.. u.l It i . I .,...,.... . .. ..... ,. .
evell
lntr
21 uiiu iiimouii.fu ins ii.ieniioii ill trill Ii ng
w,, tile grizzlj beai Ihe tough" of the legion
declared tliur Intention of doing him
m, up" He was 11 tend rfo ) 11 of them
w. went si far ns 1 1 Heml a message to
4, Roosevelt to the etfe. t that If In- pi ,.
M ceeded to trach the grlzilles there wouhl
til be shooting t'l.on icelpt of llie men
sage Itoosevelt ti.quiri .1 where this per
"li,sc)P with the pmpeiiKiv r .r shifting
ElinnsM,''"1 r"de "' """" """ 1"1' C.lllll
"""I"' fCsfin, however, hail foigotten why
kind Wanted to shoot Th.T im Id-nt put
end to nil ln.liiiati.jn to treat llroi.
coatt as u tenderfoot umj before the
.ntlng campaign was ended lie had
on the reypei t of all ihose ruugh mm
c,.f the plains and when tie tin. anu
train' of those who bid been r uly to
0y"do him U ' as a tendufoot were the
at tH". Cfc
?! of, Cuba
inusi eager iu iiniuvv ami into the Jungles
, In 18S9 President Harrison appointed
,,, hhn Civil faervlce 1 oinmisslone' 1'or six
jears 111s constain inrfHr. with tho
yf, snollsiiiui kept up 111 unending coinmo
U4, tlon among the pi!lt.ian Ilt'thnugM
"ass nothing of antagonizing even the great
Mi est leaders III the s nine
mm When he became p-esldvnt of the mm.
is; mission 11.000 Government ofllces were
hi under civil servlc. rub whn he left. In
Mi 18B5. to run tlie eiv York police, 40 000
M ofllces were under civil service rules and
( the Increase was due chiefly to Roose
k' volt's energv ami persistence
i The election of Ma or btiong was
' raused bv the I.exow exposures of tinllco
v orrupiiou in New vorie anu
IrtXlajirt1 rrnlizei! tliat the p-oblei
sillce inaiiagemriit would he tin
' cine nf hlj iidinlnlstrailon He u
I'orruptlou lu New York and the new-
em of po-
ie crucial
urzeil Mr
Sl Itnnsecell tn t.lf.f, ,h..rii, it II jo.l Ihn
," I'll II Seivlce Coiumis'ioner resigned to
J! liecome president of the N'ew on. Ilillce
2J Board
"T A ktonn limiicdtalelv hiii'st about his
) V SJ head almost as great as that which he
IV l-i encounter. u in niornung ire civ 11 sen
'Vv(..sB ll' He entercl vigorously upon the re
. .c .H awimlfnllnii nl .1,. nnllr. fnrnm url 1..
.......v.. ........ uvttv.' . v. ...... , -
nueu tlie rigiu enforcement ol all laws
apcia.' lie wiV i ned by cau."
bMfe that other wmmleiloneri
W1 l 7 c001"""'01"
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tliat the force was ho hone) combed with
petti Jealousies and favoritism and
iiiacxmaii tliat the board could never
ascertain the truth about what the men
were dolnir Hoosevelt smiled and sild
'Well we will see about that." and see
bout It he did llterall), for ho person
ally soucht the patrolmen un their -eats
at unexpected hours of thj night. Inter
viewed them as to their duties and
whenever one was found df.ellLt he was
promptly reprimanded or dismissed The
plan had a sudden and wholeson.o ef
fect for no roundsman, no sergeant or
polke captain knew at what hour ro
Commissioner might turn up and en tell
him napping
When he went Into the , ollce Itoird
and Insisted on enforcing .,ie exilse laws.
Ilterallv Chief H)rness Id "It will break
him He will have to jlcld In time. He'
Is onl human
trotting nrrnine Hirers
At the height nf his un,'pu!ai lt a
monster parade vvns organized to show
New York's disgust with his potlc V It
paraded with such signs as .send tin
Poliie Czir to Ilussla " iierfunctoi)
Invitation or perhaps a sarcastic one,
hsd hien stilt to him and to evirbod s
nstonlshment he arrived earlv and lock
Ills seat on tre reviewing stand
Anuniff the foremost of he paraders
was a Herman who looked bacu wltn
pride on the great host behind him
Waving his hind, he shouted In u sten
torian voice
'Nun wo 1st der Uioscvetf" ('Where
Is Unosevelt now"")
beaming face with n bulldog grin
looked down from the stand
flier bin Ich Was wlllst du Kame
rad" (' Here I am What do vou want,
comrade' 1 , , , .
Tt ilerman stopped paralvred with
astonlsluneiit then in answerlnc grin
overspread his own face ,,,,i
Hurrah for llonse elt he shouted
lln tolloweis took UP tin crv anil those
i ho came to --corf remained to the. r.
I'erfeited Navj Marksmen
In nril lSi: through in' imiuencc
f is I friend -Vnator I odKe he was
appointed Assistant S-crctari or tne
inna!n wPMpg
!'r.d'! 'r,'i',,;C V .;""n"tr e'ertuft
'"" . rtl. nf
..A,i,ii.a r. riiishlng an omtcr m
the respectable, tomnioiipl.icc tvpe.
Unosevell determined to git the appoint,
flit for Commodore Ieej w ho was
this otlker s junior and who had no
political baiklng. but whose '"'"
Itoost,.t had hem w.itthlng ''''"
listed the servi-.es nf ellator 1 edfle d
roc or whom he km to be close 'to
tie IMrsldent vlieckm ited the pol Itl
ans and se.und the appolntin; nt jvhkb
iesult.il In so much glor for the Amer-
'""irltoosevelt also set about at once
to secure J hettei e.Ulpnient for In
tmvj. and to him belongs credit for the
drill f ollkers and men In targol prac
tke the results of which were soon after
in uie manifest .Soon aft. r he beianie
Vsslstant S.cretorj he aked for the sum
of J800 nno for practkal targ.t shoot
ing That vvas considered a large sum
mil onlv .1 few months liter he asked
for Knfl.i.on more lie was asked whit
had beio.ne of tin tlrt appropriation
and repll.il that It had all been shot
awav adding that er llkel the same
thing would happen to the new appropri
ation If It was granted And the same
thing did happen ....
a result we proved to be better
naiksm-n than the spanlards but Mr
P.oosivelt wus not satlsflnl He wiote
liter In his autoblographj
I grew uneasv vhen I studied the
-mall portion of lilts to shots made
In our vessels In battle When T was
I'nsldent I took up the nntter and
speedllv betamo convinced that we
needed to levolutlonlze our whole
triln ug In iinil.sinanlilp
He did revolution Ire It and made the
Meet gun for gun, at least three times as
effectfe in point nf fighting Utkkncj In
1908 as it was In ISu.'
Orgimlffd llousli Itlilrrs
nien Ihe pvtilsli Wai broke out Mr !
Itoosevelt resigned from the .Navv De
partment to oigmlzi- the fnmous Rough
Rldus VUhough h had been a TCa
tlnnal ',Janl captiiin lie did not feel
justified 111 taking command of men so
he bei.imc lleutm.int colonel and I.eon
ird Wood colonel nf the ngiment He
fore the campaign was over he felt war
ranted in taking the colonelcj, Wood
being promoted to a brigadier genual
ship Cnder a galling file from the Span
iards on Julv .'. 1 Ros the Rough Riders
charged on foot up tlie low Jungle-covered
slopes of isan luan Hill, near I, is
llu isim is led bv Roosevelt, vviio had
grown tired or walling Im orders to
soldiers should be t .Ken home at once
It was derided as unsoldlerlv and
the work of an an.itiur warrior but the
fut is that It wis ilriwn m in, n -ouesi
of th- ollkers of the regular iirmi
Ihev sftw the peril of remaining th-re
but thev representui to Hnosirit that
thev muld not afford to incur the hos
tl Itv of the .Xilmtmstrat'on whereas he
being . vnliinteir in.l about to leavfl the
servlie, had nothing to loon Rooi-
xo" '" sordlnglv wrote tlie letter, In.
UI,,11"B to sign it alm.e ut th.. other
otllieis chaiiit'd their n mils and signet
It with hlui Its itTe.t was Int tnta
neous Roo-evell VI HH Je, rei at .mil
atlrl7id, but the troops ucre takui
home
When the v.rli.d a Mui-lml, point
some on, nsk.d the loloml ah. m the
stale, of his health I m feeling ,iN Ut as
1 bull moose he replied Tlie simile.
niirai led no espeeiai mention then but
when Colonel Roosivelt repeated It on
utlier nua-ions it furnished u name to a
gre it poli'li il pirtv
He returned to the Knit. I States to
find himself k no.iuler Idol Ith a uni
versal ih in 11, ii going up rm lis nomliia.
t 11 for Iim rn ,r or vri( He wa
luni'iiat. 1 ind .l.itei over Judge. Au
?.'odV U'clv h a """"f" "'
s i.oietnor In, .onsulte.l v ith Hoes
I latt but It wan soon observer! that the
r. suits of these lonsult itlon wer. what
Itoosevelt w.Med aril not uhat Piatt
w lined Mu. h sc.11d.1l ins caused
nuiiing the e!e.-t bv his habit nf br. ik
r.istln' with Piatt but these brakfasts
usuallv resulted In Piatt s 1 onsentlng to
-.iiiieioiiis ne .no not pic i ur,er
tO
""' "is lire as Mali ,cler
le. e.
Of his Ulisavnr, s...,l,l. .;;.,."...'
....... . . iiiui-i 11 1111 ii cam
eiie.i me oiij n.uor'H ,ter )e,ra. a
letter from him .o one of his w imen
friends round its via into print In
which lie said that Roosevelt liarj Invited
htm to luncheon and added !- r
shall have to sit nml , ndur. that hulldog
grin ror an hour'
Piatt led an unhappy lire walls Roose
velt was ciovrnor. .and determined not
to stand for another two vears of it.
though Roo.eveli derra mix! renomln.i
tion He did not din- to turn the popular
' vi rnor dow 11 o he resorted to the ex
leiiimt of lilckliu- him upstairs Into the
Vice Presidenc llttli dreaming that
therebv lie was oavliur lh mi 10 on
filiation to tht) Preside ni tliat would
""Ice Roosevelt even more of a thorn In
I'latt s flesh than he had been before
Preslilent Inllril stulrs
He wusele.ted Vlie President In I'iOO,
but had mi opportunltv to tireside over
tin faerute exiept during th" week h
. xtra, session following the inaugura
tion during whli h his unionventlonal
methods ri tmlitllze.1 the Old liuard He.
f re the regular session could n.et Jle.
Klnlcy had been shot and Roosevelt
was President He was Inaugurated at
liuffiilo September 14. 1901,
The new President at once pledged
himself to carrv nut Prrstilent l, k"ln.
le.i's policies, and began b Inviting thn
McKlnley Cabinet to remain Tie first
thing to arise that eira'nl anv crltl
.ism was three weeks after his naugura
tion when he invited Hooker r Wash
ington who was vlsliing the White
Home tn remain to luncheor The
south was up in arms In a moment,
the speifr of tocial euualit began to
stalk, uud It vvas long before Mr Roose
velt could live down the Impression that
he vvas unfriendly to the .south
hands' concert ed reXrocltv "ulVcuSi"
III ,. i. f tifri.rti5 H.-
All the powers or the IWtectf Inter-
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In liU la.t twciiiv.foiir.lioiir llvinp trip to Phil ulelpliia ( olonel Koo'cvelt aili!re-e.l tlie Peine Sliool roiiimeni e
inent, mmIciI the liiporkcr ut llie Mm plant in (,hetcr anil aUo ilroppcil in to ec Senator (now Governor
eleitl .Sprotil. pliolopraplicr "-nappeil" liini a lie w u. about to enter the home of Thomas Itohlii-, his hot,
at 1719 l.ouM street. t the right of llie pholoprapli i- (,ovenior-elect ?proul. To the left i Mr. Kohins
ests were exerted to deriat him but ho
never swerved from his pin pose, and
although defeated In his ill si attempt in
19J lie nccompll lied the teenilngly
Impossible
In 110J Piesfdent Itoosevelt nude in
enemv of Senitor I lllniau lu a ilnrat
terlstlc wnv Prince Hemv of Prussia
was the nation's guest and when lie wis
In Washington an oflkial dinner was
given In Ills honor at the White llnusi
s the Prince was an admiial the mem
bers of the Naval Affairs Committee
were Invited
.lust then "enalor Mcl-aurln called
Tillman a liar pi the Senile nml Tillman
responded with a full-inn swing on Me
I.aurln s liw President Itoosevelt e
lirissed his opinion of the proceedings
bv publlciv ts?s(lndlng hi" Invitation to
Tillman Tillman never foigave him, and
nameii
tlie Senate anil made mi issue or It
Rooevelt retaliated liter bv making
elurges against Tillman s personal
pieibltj but thej were not sustained
Vrttlrd t.reiit tout slrlKe
Rconoinl uuestlons at once engaged
the Presldiiits attentlnn In 1'J". h"
s, ttlnl the great anthiauti oal strUe
bv tin uupi.ud. nteil slip of suminnn
Ing lie .oitTillig 1 idirs to Washing
tin and t.ilng the m ai ixiwer of Ills
personalllj and h e'lke to InfliKiicc
them to a siiHiuieit nnd then bv ap
polntirg lh. C( il .ti'ki Commission It
was thn flirt of m iii nits outside Inv.
but im' against the law whhli hiought
upon him so murh criticism but bv
means of which n sc-tt'ed man.v nues.
tions
In his message to congress in 1902
he urged leglil.ilui lor the contiol nf
tall.lng ins stopped Mid tin ian.il Is
being built
II went further thvn vvoids He
jipinnd tlii.itigh Cuiigr. ss the ns illerl
I. II Ins bill vvhirh realh was a Roose. I
velt bill It was not on! designed 10
ind the sv stem of giving rebates to fa
vored corporations which had to ship
ovu this or that rai road but in aildl
tl n Ronsi eclt forci 1 the ireition of
the ltti.au of Corporations and invistid
it with rhrarv authorltv to investigate
all the c. rporate cuncerns in tlie conn
tiv senatoi Rlkins, Hie titular ailthrr
o th" bill was siniplv 11 tool In R00-1-vrlts
hands The hill did not go fu
but it was the entiling wnlge, and it
.'d up t. th more radtc 1! Iiglslutiru
that cane about three wars liter whin
the President roiced such conservallvi s
as William Piters Ii.pbuni to statu!
sjionsor for his railroad ra'o ihjIIi v .ml
drjvc even tho oinnlpat'nt .ldrhh to liu
Unes when h undirtonl to ussert his
authontj tn bringing out a new leuUr
Dolllver
en Serumher :, "11., tlie President
ban a ne row es ap from ileith hi a
trollev mcldtiit nil- I'lti liliurg. Mass
S.cret i-prilie man nuninpanving him
vk killed .11 ' Mr Roosevelt reieivel
a nid. wound In th lir vv I ifh , nusd
him .' h imloi tte i urg .iroiinl the
cln e ( had eoniuipated II. toolc
" lnt however bigli nlng on Ajirll t,
lnu ,tnd In two moiiiln icivered a dnpen
States and n rrltorles, besides a hunt
inh tr 'n ellcstoio Park
it was In the cou-st of tills tup that
he ijuilrhtd a moieiicnl tovertlv st in.
u 10 curat nis i.nunatlon
I llhlll a CAM nl th. I., t' ..9 I, n.1 .....
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an r si;nig mat he ivpeiUd Ohio to
inilnrs hhn If tjiiin was mr him, thi
plan having been to imtind that Ohio
vi as tor him but to withhold nn Indorse
in. ut Manila at incog iw up his plan
and rothlng more was htard of anv
inoviiiii nt against Rootcv.lt nomlna
tlou Mini" I'aniiniu ( iinul Piissiblr
It was In m first idmlnlstratioii that
the Panama i an il was made possible
ind (hough the manner In win. Ii he
mide it possible brought an avalanche
of criticism upon lis head, he nevtr
carid n Jot ror it
We louldnt get tin .alia am other
wnj said secretary of stale John Hay
once in u lahlnit meeting
The ,poomr aim iidment adipled III
lsi).' crenel a lominislson of sovui
numbers with power to s,elui tl route
and the i iinnilsrloii decidi.l In favor of
Panama Nigotlatlons wr. begun for
tin p.rchase of the prnpertj of thn
I rench canal conipui A tieaty wus
n gotlated with Colombli but tin- Co
lomblin Congress refusi cl to ratlf It
lie Impiesslon In Panama and this
country was that Colombia was simply
holding back so as to rorce from the
I'nlted States a hlghir prln- The re
sult was that Pannma revolted There
i) nu uuuuv viiav lit American iiovetn
n-ent was kept udvisid of Colombia 3
Intentions and it can mil ii .nitiir.e.
and navnl nsslstanie to Panama that It
was hopeless for i olombm to attempt
to conquer her rebellious state
A new tient was tn.,, negotiate!
wlih the new Republic or Panama and
in Ma, 1301, six months arti r the rii
olutlon, the Canal Commission snored
full control of the Panama Canal Zone,
under a perpetual leaso and began
operations
rue 1'resicteni s enemies called atten-
in ,0.,& ftcl a"8,' A10 ''d warships ,
ih5 neighborhood of Panama before any.
body knew that a rebellion was to Lm
ii, i r,,r ii.ri uiM for. ililv removed ,,si'lt of this suit, llie Pi.slilent brourht
,,, lw, ellnuc "l si," ve.s himself the bitter opposition or mm.v
J to rI '.n interview v ill, the1'! of wealth who were Inclined to
5i;. -i.i.,,. -Fnimnn i,mk in, lae ease n,csld.r his attitude to vard large com-
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HIS LAST VISIT HERE,
att'inptid theie and that fie used the
whole liulllarj tune of the t lilted Mates
to Intimidate i oloinhl i 'omt time af
terward tlie New 01 It World and tie
liidUn.ipolls .Niws iirint.d an article
charging lllu;lttniati mollves Itoose
velt s lump was not Involvid but thoe
nf a numlici of hlgh-pl iced mn w.ie ,
III rniuiiil iimi!e-u ciiu nuit ii,.k-
hlnerj of goveiiiinent to punish Jos
eph Pulltrei and Helavan Smith the
prul' h tors of the two papers
Tin- (list Important ooipor.ulon litiga
tion during his Vilinlnlstr.itloii wns the
piosei utloii of the Nnithein ciurltles
' Nue'ianv oiganl7eil ind sponsored Ijv
nines 1 Hill the Ihnplie lluilder of
(hi Northwest' The conifiinj was h
holding ..orporitlnii for lallioid and
ti inisliip lines The Mipn me Court
upheld the iiovernu ent s ewiilentlons,
incl ine innifMiiv was uissoivni as a
blues as a menace to
tuests of the countrv.
lutoerntle Suit fulled
He met one of the first real defeats
of his life wlen the Federal courts re
fused to accede to the new and extraor
dliiirj doe trine he attempted to set up I
that mi editor anv win re In the cnuntrj
might be crlmluallv proceed. d against i
In tlie Dlstuct of Columbia for a libel
against the I lilted states Unv eminent
pro led thnt It could le shown that
copli of his niss-hpiper were circulated
In tlut District It vvas leallv one of the
most audacious and autouatlc attempts
thnt Roosevelt ever made.
He never did get along well with the ,
courts and In private conversation he
often complained humorous!) tint when
ev.r he appointed a Judge to the bench
that Judge Immediate l.i began rendir-
Ing decisions adverse to his polities i
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All I ask is a.snuaie deal CJIve
even man a fair chain.", don't let
am one hirm lilm and don t 1st him
do harm to anv one I
In tin .bitlon that vear he leceived
the largest popular nnd electoral ' oto i
ev.r given to a 1'rtsiuent up to that I
time, leceivtng a p ip il ir in ijoritv over
nil opposing .andldites of 1,TJ9,809
uites and In tin l.le.toral Collect Sob
i.u.e to 1 lu for pirker .
He now intend upon what ho consld.
i r.d his first re il term, the other having !
he. n tlie iiiiexpln il portion of McKln
lei s In his tlrst jeir he li ul tlie op
portunltv lu pirforui one of the greatest
public acts of his . ueer the situ,.
mint of the Rusmj lapanee Wai He
hi might the c.nnt ruling nations together, I
mil at n timu when It mi mwl that the
IV ice .'omnilssloners it Portsmouth had '
re iclnd a hopeless deadlocK he everted c
his ersonal tnfluiine upon th.m vvlthl
tho resuH tint the bloo.lv strugglo was
ended I
I urge-l I'.ipiilnr Mujnrilv
I'ur tills the President l.-i.iveil the
Nohel l'tfue I'rlze, given inniialh to the
pe son who sft ill ban done nn st during I
tin leal to protin te. tlie pi a ,. of the i
wiill Hut he himself h ih aluajs said
that Ills greatest i ontrlbutl in to thej
ause of peine was not tin negotiation I
of the Portsmouth 'Ireatv but his a. t
in s.i il ng tho American fleet to the Pa. j
III. in 1107 He believed all his life
that tint art averted war betw.cn Japm '
and the I nlted .states and Vdmlral
Hvans the comm inder of the fleet nasi
one f those who agreed with hip
In the same .ar l'0" ho lug in light
ing for the regulation of riilnad rites i
The Rscli-T.ivvnsend bill Ins tlrst ssy
in that litis, was beaten as he hid ex
pected It to 1 e , but In 1 'Oil he fi reed tho
lb pi urn bill through c ongiess n tlie
fat. of such liltt' r opposition rrom his
own partv that he was obliged to ronn
at one timi nu alllinie Willi the Peino
irits The litter i barged hliterli tint
he threw them aside like , sijeezeii
lemon ivn.Mi ihe) lad seived his purpose
anil the ,.ir was full of eliminations nnd ,
r. i rimli itlciis I
Hut whatever he ms have done with
the In inocrats, he had no hesitation In
hr vklng wlih the leaders of his own
pirtv sin Ii as Aldrlch, and putting In
the loi"finnt one of tne joung. r and less I
conspl.uous senators, Dolllver of lown
ami had the sitlsfuitton of putting his
bill through
April II I'lflii no publlcl) expressed
his ndvneacv nf a nation il Inheritance
tax si lug We shall ulthuatelv iuie
to t onslil r the adoption of si me such
si heme oh that of a progressive tax on
all fortunes and subsequently he de
clared himself In favor of all Income
tax
Ills iiopnlariti now wns at its greatest
litlght and b merel saving thu word
he enuld have had u third term In
fuct It toi k his utmost efforts to lire,
vent the part) from run lug one upon
him Hut nn tin night of his election
in 1901 he hud announced that he would
und. r no . IriumHiatiifS aicept another
nomination Afterward he explained
that this referred to a 'third consecutive
ti rm
llml Taft Nominated
He undritook to see lire the nomination
of his friend Willi im H Taft the sfc.
ntarv of War Ho c flen said that he
would go from the White House to the
Capitol on his hands und knees to get i
Taft ihe nJIninatloiV' Th? part "vves
' cold to Tafti It wanted ltocsevelt. The
resident was obliged to use the patron-
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ige club nnd evoij other weapon to forco
his fileiul upon the fimvllllnir paitv.
Kven when tho convention met the
President had his own peisonat tele
graph operator on tho platform, and the
iioinent a stampede wimed Imminent ho
Intended to Hash n positive declination
0,u. tlio wire.
Taft vvas nominated and the Presi
dent virtually took clntge of his i im
palim writing letters and Issuing state
ments that operated powerfullv In his
belnlf He planned as soon as Taft was
inaugurated to leive the countrv nnd
hurv himself In Africa so that his suc
cessor might have n fico hind and not
be einbariassed bv his presence Hut
between the election and the iniugura
tlon a coolness alread had spruin; up
between them.
It had Its origin In little things, but it
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was not long before Ttooaevelt perceived
that Taft Intended to change the Hoose
velt policies nnd remove Iloosevelts
friends from office Tho accounts that
reached him as ho emerged from the i
African Jungle put tho matter bejond a i
doubt, and when ho reached tho Lnlted
States, In June, 1010, he vvas already an
enemy of Taft a. I
It was not until they :."; hands with
each other nt a Union League dinner In
New York In 191C that the breach vvas
publicly healed
Ills Triumph In l.urope
Ills progress through Europe on his
return from the Junsie was a trlumpa
such as nevir beforo ha2 been nciordeil
to an Amcil.tn . l"reii. Ho was cr-
where treated as If he were tho ruler nf
nation maklrg n toir. liven u
Qrant's Journey around tho world did
not compare vrltl. It
In Home occ urred one Ji!' . i Trance, Itoosevelt followed his usual
satlonal Incidents of Mr. notevel s en.- f .rjpmiy attacking what he
Ttr,r, n,',d 'hei-o hive been few h'ch fo Relieved to be local evils in their home
well lllus rnte his character. An J"'1; I it was not In London nor In Derlln that
ence had been n: ranged for him with the ne ,)r(,ntrled his anti-race suicide doc
Popa. Some thru, before the Pope had trne. t was In Paris It was from the
refused to see o-Vlce President fair- same motive that Impelled him when
batiks because mat gen..-inan nu ni
an nniuess to tne .iieinoiiiHis m nii.
This mesago was convejed to Colonel
rtoosevelt through the American embas
sador: The Holy Father will be delighted
to grant audience to Ur Roosevelt
on April 5 nnd hopes nothing will
arise to prevent, such as the much
regretted Incident which made the
reception of Mr. Fairbanks impos
sible. The Colonel Immediately sent the fol
lowing to Ambassador Lelshman
It would be a real pleasure to me
i to be presented to the Holy Father,
for whom I entertain a high re
spect, both personallv and as tho
head of n great Church 1 fully rec
ognize his entire right to receive or
not to receive whomsoever he chooes,
' for anv reason that seems good to
him. and If he does not receive me I
shall not for one moment question the
propriety of his action
On the other hand I. In mv turn,
must decline to make any conditions
which In anv wav 'linlt mv freedom
I trust on April o he will find it con
venient to receive inn
The answer was convtjwl through the
ambassador that "tho aud ence could
not take place excepting on the under
standing expressed In the former mes
sage." Colonel Itoosevelt Instnntlv re
plied: "Proposed presentation is of
course, now Impossible "
Tho Methodists of Home undertook to
make capital out ol the Incident and Is
sued a statement nttacklng the Pope
Colonel Itoosevelt Immediately lebuked
Hum bj canceling an appointment he1
I had made to meet them at a reception ,
it Mr. LeMunan's home He wanted It
made clear that he had no sectarian
1 prejudices and had stood simply on his
rights as an American citizen.
Hobnobbed With Kalsrr
His subsequent tour through Kurope
probablj Is fresh In evcr mind He
hobnobbed with the Herman Kaiser, lec
tured nt the Sorhonnc and at Oxford
t'nlvcrsltv nnd was received with high
honors in Sweden nnd Holland, and
roused a stoini In London by his speech
at the (lUlldlmll It was In this speech
thnt ho lectured Knglnnd em her dtitv In
l-gpt. He dlspliveel an extraordinary
famlllarltv with Kgjptlan affairs, but
brought down upon himself a tempest of
crltclm b saving.
Now. either jou have the right to
be In ngPt or you have not Hither
It lu or is not jour duty to establish
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and keep order. If you feci vou have
not the right to be In Kgypt, If ou
do not w Ish to establish and keep or
der there, why, then, by all means get
out,
As I hope jou feel that ur duty
to civilized mankind nnd jour fealty
to our own great traditions alike bid
jou to stay, then make the fact nnd
ndnie agree! and show that jou are
ready to meet In very deed the respon
sibility which In jours
The criticism which this speech
brought down on llooscvelt, to do thr
Ki.gllsh Justice, did not come from them !
it came chlefl from scandalized Amer
icans, who were horrified at the Idea of
a fellow -American undertaking to lec
ture a friendly Power on Its nrohleme
-ritra S?nrrlla!i InnU It if,'
English took It very well and
seemed to like It. Franco criticized It
anu uermany was Bitter
fnnght on Knemj'a (.round
during his campaign ror tlie pres dency
1I1K lliri . ... .n in iiiiDUVIIL)
Democratic: partv, ana delivered his blast
against It If there had been anything
thnnrous about him he. WOUld have marl.
his attack In Minnesota, where It would,
have been safe. Instead, ha picked out
Atlanta, where It Is almost treason to
say a word against Democracj', and
whero his audience was made up en
tirely of Democrats
Ills defiant challenge was met by a
roar from tho audience. Their Intention
of howling him down nnd keeping him
from having a hearing vvas manifest
from the moment he began his assault.
Tor Ave minutes the tumult went on. It
seemed as If his speaking were at an
end Roosevelt suddenly adopted one of
the most unusual weapons ever em
ployed bv a stump speaker. There was
a table near him. and he leaped upon
It The riotous mob was startled Into
stillness: the" hod no Idea of his pur
pose and thej walled to seo what he
would do Iieforo thev could recover
from their surprlFo he had rhot half a'
time thev hid come under the spell and
iC7en leniences at mem. ana n- tnai
In 1912 he refrained from attacking the i ?""?. among leaning progressive -ena-Democratic
party until he got Into the tors it vvas decided to put forward Robert
South, the home and hlrthplaco of the ".?" ,,L,I,,e n" the candidate. A I.
were wiiihib ii kh mm a nraiinu. i contldent until me nrst direct primary
This storv had nothing to do with (was held, that In Illinois, which went
Roosevelt's Kuropean tour and Is told 1 for Roosevelt bj an overwhelming ma
out of Its regular order, but It Is a good I Jorltj'. When Penn jlvanla followed
Illustration of "the way In which the' suit a eek later California and New
Coionel alvvajs showed his courage bj' Jersey Joined, and It became evident that
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pleltlnr out the places whera ho kneir
any particular doctrine of his would bi
particularly unpalatable
Fought New York Machine
Upon his return he endeavored to keep
out of politics, but to such a man ths
thing was absolutely Impossible. It
vvns drawn Immediately Into the fight
over direct primaries. In which Governor
Huehes. had enlisted, nnd he Instantly
became tho leader of the faction opposed
to the Darnes machine. He went to ths
Saratoga convention, rode over the ma
chine by sheer, force of personality, and
dragooned the nomination of Henry I.
Mlmson for Governor through the con
vcntler. Throughout the campaign that fol
lowed the personality of the nominal
candidate, Stimson, was obscured by the
towering one of his sponsor, and the as
saults of the opposition nil were aimed
at Itoosevelt. It was a Democratic jear.
a j car In vvhldi the Democrats carried
even such rock-ribbed Republican States
as Massachusetts, and Stimson vvas de
feated. The Insurgent or progressiva element
In the Republican party planned early
In 19H to defeat the renomlnatlon of
President Taft. and after several confer-
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on all through that j'ear But a large,
element among tne progressives was dis
satisfied and wanted tho nomination ot
Roosevelt.
The Roosevelt talk would not down
The Colonel himself was noncommittal,
hilt It Waa nvlrlent thAf he wan Mrt aia.
pleased with the situation The Roosevelt
taiK steaauy waxed and the La Folletto
boom as steadily waned At last, earlv
in 1912, seven Progressive Oovernors
the number vvas later Increased to eight
united In a demand on Roosevelt that
ho become a candidate,
"My Hat Is In the lllng"
His answer was, "Mv hat Is In the
ring," and, more formally, a speech at
Columbus O, outlining his Progressive;
creed This vvas called "a charter of
democracy," and Instantly put all the
conscivatlves In a state of wild alarm,
for It was radical In the extreme
At first, however, nobody Delleved
j to'speak of. The conservatives remained
that Roosevelt would receive anv votes
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