The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-11

all became salaried officials AT the same
tine Mr. Roosevelt urged a police inves- |
tication and it would have been secured !
had he remained longer in the Legisla- |
ture. During his entire service he fought |
every Matchmaking scheme of dishonest !
PC hticians with untiring earnestness, and
he insisted on civil service reform and
the endeavor to combine honesty and eff
CLERGY in the selection of all servants of
the State.
in a legislator to win such victories as
these, Mr. Roosevelt very we'll describes
some of his own characteristics:
ITO get through any such measures re-
lquires genuine hard work., certain
amount of parliamentary SKILL a good
la thorough knowledge of the men with
whom one has to deal and of the motives
which actuate them
Prophets of the ordinary political stamp
declared that Mr.. Roosevelt never could
be reelected after he had served his first
teIm-his politics were much too start
liIg: but he was reelected twice, serving
the three terms of 1882, 1883 and 1884. More
over, his party grew so fond of him that
! it sent him to the Republican National
Convention at Chicago in 1884, where he
was associated with such men as An
drew ID. White and George William Cur
| tbs. He went uninstructed, but in favor
of the nomination of Mr.. Edmunds for
the Presidency in opposition to Mr.
Blaine.
| AS A PRACTICAL POLITICIAN
| During the convention Mr.. Roosevelt
stood out prominently as militant Re-
publican. Indeed, he has always gloried
in the fact that he is party politician
and practical politician; at the same
time he once said, 81 do not number par
ty allegiance among the Ten Command
re Tn hn Of of
simple right and wrong Mr.. Roosevelt
recognizes no loyalty to party, and he
declares with vehemence that national
lpolitics never should be allowed 70 inter-
iferc with municipal or local government,
lnor with the disposition of offices in
which efficiency and honesty are the
prime requirements.
There are times he says, when it
may be the duty of man to break with
his party, and there are other times
when it may be his duty to stand by his
party, even though, on some points, he
thinks that party wrong. If we had not
party allegiance, our politics would be-
icome mere windy anarchy, and, under
present conditions, our government would
hardly continue at all. If we had no in
dependence, we should always be running
the risk of the most degraded kind of
despotism-the despotism of the party
boss and the party machine"
Mr.. Roosevelt is a practical politician
In the same broad-gauged, common
scrse way that he is party politician.
I'm the long rum" he writes, politics
OF fraud and treachery and foulness are
impractical politics, and the most practi
: cal of all politicians is the politician who
is clean and decent and upright There
' fore, the man who wishes to do good ir
his community must go into active polit
iical life. If he is Republican, let hin
jcir his local Republican association; Il
y he is Democrat, the Democratic asso
? ciation; if an Independent, then let hin
:. lput himself in touch with those wht
/, think as he does. Progress is accomplishei
! by the man who does the things, and no
by the man who talks about how the.
Ought or ought not to be DONE
d CANDIDATE FOR MAYOR.
Standing thus for the politics tina
Washington and Lincoln made illustrious
lit Is with thrill of reassuring confidence
:. lin the innate uprightness of the Ameri
:, lear voter that one watches Mr.. Roose
:, lvelts steady advance in political powe
" and responsibility. In 1885, he became tn
cendidate of the Republican party 70
: Mayor of New York, running agaIns
I, Abram s. Hewitt and Henry George. Hi
J. letter accepting the nomination is a mas
:. lterpiece, a model for every fearless youn
Z politician who is trying to do man
: work in the world. Mr.. Roosevelt wen
!. irto the campaign with his characteristic
. ENERGY, fighting fair, but fighting with
lout gloves; and while he was beaten, h
: had the honor of receiving the larges
, percentage of votes ever polled by Re
!, lprblcan candidate for Mayor until Mayo
: Strong came in.
e LIFE AS A COWBOY.
During all of these years of intense pc
3 l.tical activity, and long afterwards, MI
\
= a hundred expeditions into the wild hear
. Of the West, to turn cowboy ranchma
: and hunter of big game, and to becom
- more familiar, perhaps, with the ''rugge
!" af.G stalwart democracy of the pionee
frontiersman than any other Easter
ie man. He built a log ranch on the bank
of the Little Missouri. among the butte
= and Bad Lands of northwestern Dakots
:, working on it with his own hands. ]
~ was a low, rough building, with wild
: verarda, shaded by leafy cottonwood
ard so far from the bounds of civilizatio
le that Mr.. Roosevelt tells of shooting
deer FROM the front door. Here, in a far
y mel shirt, and overalis tucked into all
- gator boots, he worked side by side wit
q his cowboys during many an excitin
- roundup, coming home to sleep on beal
- skins and buffalo robes, trophies of h
&c skill as hunter.
= Here, too. he kept the favorite book
vi u tdhCiiiIidH, Tie WOThS Oh Il Sn1LnOt
- Cooper-who has touched the life of tt
~ pioneer more closely than any othe
writer, Mr.. Roosevelt thinks-many bool
on hunting, trapping and natural histt
ry, and the works of Irving Hawthorn
Lowell, Poe, and a few other America
writers. In speaking of Poe, Mr.. Roos
u welt says: when one is in the Ba
-, is Lands, he feels as if they somehow loo
!, Just exactly as Poe's tales and poem
n sound
- One of Mr.. Roosevelt's experiences
= the West gave the cowboys a very hie
". lor.nion of his determination, and forev
I" blctted out the implication that he w;
n tehderfoot- Cattle had been stolen fro
ny his ranch. He followed the thieves wi
81 unfaltering pertinacity for two week
=. and finally captured three of them al
VI had them sent to the penitentiary at Ma
dan for terms of three years.
ne He hunted and shot with all the Ike,
ne &c al of lover of the wilderness. He xii
~ led as sportsman, not to make reco
III for killing. and usually only when h
=, camp needed food. Many of his trips we
-. made alone or with a single cowboy cor