Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-07-02

revolt Of Cuba, through the lnnuence
of his daughters husband, who was
SPANS attorney, he took sides with
Spain and against the revolt.
SO almost thirty years the Ameri-
can people had endured Alva cruelties
in Cuba.
Congress resolved to intervene after
our ship had been sunk.
Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Roosevelt was descended from the
Holland men who fought Spain for
their independence, not seven, but
seventy years.
Roosevelt is a man of literary in
centive, with warm brain, more like
Walter Raleigh than any Dutchman.
He had imbibed admiration for the
wild cowboys on the plains, where he
had a cattle range. He thought OF a
man, DR.. Wood, who possessed SUI
perior experience to his own in utiliz-
ing those cowboys.
With the true executive discrimina-
ton, he made this unknown Wood, not
himself, the colonel of the rough rid
ers, taking himself the lieutenant
colonelcy.
The organization highly distinguish
ed itself and Colonel Wood is the very
man who has shown up the postal
frauds is Cuba, committed by rougher
riders of the Ohio and Indiana school.
The land to which Roosevelt went to
fight, was visited by the Munice men to
loot.
This postal trouble in Cuba is the
most ranking thing in the side of the
administration and its sponsors, be-
cause their favorite young men were
found out by the Roosevelt men.
And now that lieutenant colonel I'M
der General Wood is nominated
for vice president, with less assistance
from the administration that he had
when he ran for governor of New
York.
Nobody came over from Washington
city on behalf of the president to help
him out.
The night we waited for the returns
everybody in the room where I sat
thought of Roosevelt first, except one
or two of Secretary Longs clerks, who
were disappointed that Roosevelt was
not beaten.
I think their antagonism was not SO
much from politics as from wounded
feelings, for Roosevelt had been taken
/ to task by Secretary Long on at least
| one occasion. He had been confronted
with his subordinates of the old navy
ring, who undertook to have issues
with him behind his back. He had no
hesitation in saying to these, ''You lie, .
before the secretary's face.
When he went into the Cuban war
think it probable that Roosevelt did
not like the roundabout way things
were done in the administration with
everything controlled by the second
term issue. And now we see how bold
men outWit discreet men.
Secretary Long dearly wished to be
nominated for vice president. 1t was
that kind of a transparent glass, or
namental and small, in which to grow
a Massachusetts hyacinth.
But his late assistant secretary, who
went to the war, and who has kicked
and stamped against this nomination
receives it at the hands of all the great
states.
Thus, at the conclusion Of four years
of velvet stepping, the administration
finds that boldenss is still at the high
est premium and that Roosevelt is the
spirit Of the young men at the Phila
delphia convention.
He has been particularly strong in
Chicago, where Mckinley and Hanna
made their stronghold and kept theil
national headquarters four years ago
Thus, the region which nominated
Lincoln in 1860 stands behind Roose
welt in 1900.
The Pennsylvania delegation has hat
a good deal to do with forcing Roose
welt upon this convention, but The
movement is too general to be ascribet
to any state.
1t was the demand for a physical ex
ponent of the young generation, mar
neither afraid to make war nor to ex
pose himself personally in the war.
There is something in Roosevelt!
appearance in Philadelphia at this time
Which suggests to me Captain Ellis
worth and his Zouaves immediately
before Lincoln passed through Phila
delphia to Washington.
I.well recollect the drilling Of those
Zouaves, somewhere on the ScAuylkill
before immense crowds Of people
Early in the war I saw the body O
that young captain lying dead at tht
navy yard in Washington and Presi
dent Lincoln's wife coming there K
look at his remains.
The Cuban war would have beer
enormously to the credit of the ad
ministration if there had been natura
treatment to all the participants in it
instead Of determinations which thu
public could not understand and die
not like to see.
Only few days before this conven
ton General Miles received his promo
ton accompanied by that of Corbin.
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