The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-07-24
ROOSEVELT rs G.4ME.
That is His Reputation with Wild Beasts
as Well ms Men.
IFrom the Washington start

lFrom the Washington Start
The papers are having a good deal
of fun with Theodore Roosevelt" re-
marked far northwestern senator to q
Star writer. "They make mistake,
however. Roosevelt should be taken
seriously. When one knows the new
president of the New York police board,
there is very little chance for mirth.
He is a. man of most tremendous ener-
gy, added to great brain power. He is
what some Englishman once called q
steam engine in breeches.'
For myself, without having any in
innate acquaintance with him, I admire
Theodore Roosevelt immensely. His
force, his vigor, intelligence, and withal
his honesty, have led me to like him.
| Besides that, he is a man of dauntless
courage. We know a good deal of
Roosevelt out west. You will hear of
him all through the cattle ranges west
| of the Dakotas. He has fame there for
absolute fearlessness. He has faced
| and killed more grizzly bears. for one
thing, than any wo men who ever
l lANSdy StIA0 o. lleIA WHO GlluGIS ulO d per-
sonal controversy with a grizzly bear,
| however well organized for the inter
view he may be, must have his nerve
with him.
| Then the ranches out where Roose-
welt circulates have never been able to
produce a bronco which he dared not
ride. The wilder and more furious the
| animal, the more smilingly and ingenu-
ously ready was Roosevelt to mount
him. And ON these bronco as well as
on the bear occasions, it was noticed
| that he showed those white teeth of his
just as he does on police occasions, and
| about which the New York papers feel
such a wondrous glee.
| aside from comhats with bears and
contests with broncos, Roosevelt has
unhesitatingly made valorous battle
with three or four hard characters
whose trails he crossed In his western
rambles. One character, who was re-
garded as desperate, and who did bust
ness under the nom de guerre of Long
Ike, once helped himself to a. glass OF
whiskey which Roosevelt had poured
out. Ike evidently relied on his length
his six-shooter and his evil fame to
make good his insolence He expected
Roosevelt would submit tamely or pass
1t off as a Joke.
"He was mistaken. Roosevelt in an
instant had hold of him like a tiger, and
before Ike had gotten the whiskey, or
anything else that he m light boast Of
he was thrown into the middle of the
street. Even then he didn't have peace
| for Roosevelt was after him like a. land
slide, and had thrashed him lame and
black and blue before he was five min
utes older. Our police board president
| then returned to the saloon perfectly
calm, his white teeth making their usu-
al exhibition.
| Nor was Long Ike's scalp his only
trophy The annals Of the northwest
show others. To-day he Is famous
| through the whole upper Missouri and
| Yellowstone country as a. man utterly
game, and you would not be able to find
a character so reckless Of his own safe
| ty in that region who would for slight
/ cause pull on trouble with Theodore
Roosevelt In the words Of one who
came in collision with him: He's as
| clean strain game as a grizzly, and II
| there is amy live thing ON earth he's
afraid Of I'd like to see its brand and
learn its range. I'd want to keep away
4 from it,