The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-09-27

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of votes ever polled for a republi-
can candidate:for mayor until May
ar Strong came in. During all
these years of political activity,
and long afterwards Mr.. Roosevelt
found opportunity to make half a
hundred expeditions into the wild
heart of the west, to turn cowboy,
ranchman and hunter forbig game,
and to become more familiar, per-
haPs, with the rugged and stall
wart democracy" of the pioneer
frontierman than any other East
ern man. He built log ranch on
the banks of the Little Mississippi
river, among the butts and bad
lands of northwestern Dakota, work
ing on 1t with his own hands. In
the intervals of hunting, ranching
politicts, Mr.. Roosevelt found op-
portunity to write voluminously on
many different subjects. He is the
author of many worthy and inter-
esting publications. After his ex-
perience on the Western plains Mr..
Roosevelt returned with vigor to
his public life. For six years, be-
ginning in 1889-four years under
President Harrison and two years
under President Cleveland was
president of the United States civil
service commission. In 1895. when
Maj. Strong was casting about for
men who were brave enough to
give virility to the principles of re-
form,Ihis eyes turned at once to Mr..
Roosevelt as the man best fitted to
fight vigorous battle against cor
ruption. He was appointed to the
board of public commissioners, of
which he at once became president.
Within a month Mr.. Roosevelt was
the most hated as we'll as the most
beloved man in New York. He was
appointed to enfore the laws as
they appeared on the statute books.
He enforced them. Dynamite
bomb were left at his Office, sensa-
tional papers attacked him with
bitter malice, part of his own
board was against him, but he
neither wavered or paused. In 1897
Mr.. Roosevelt began his work as
assistant Sc cretary of the navy. He
resigned on May 6, 1893, to become
lieutenant colonel of dis own regi-
nent of Rough Riders. This was
not Mr.. Roosevelt's first military
experience. AS far back as 1884 he
became lieutenant of the Eighth
regiment of the National guard of
the state of New York, afterwards
rising to captain, remaining mi
litiaman for more than four years.
History bequeathed the idea of
Rough Riders to Mr.. Roosevelt. He
knew we'll what Marion's men had
done in the American revolution;
how the Texas rangers rode in the
Mexican wars; what Andy Jackson's
sharpshoots did in the war of 1872;
and he felt that this arm of the SER
vice would be invaluable in the
Spanish war. When he called for
volunteers, the rough riders of the
west who had known him as cow
boy, policemen of New York, COL
lege boys, Wall street traders, flock
ed from the width of the nation to
his standard, and they were natur'
ally men who possessed the fight
ing qualities of their leader. This
was what made the rough riders
In 1893 Mr.. Roosevelt was nomina
ted and elected governor of New
York, and at the Philadelphia con
vention in 1900, he was, against his
expressed desire, nominated for the
vice presidency and elected in Nov
ember In 1886 Mr.. Roosevelt mar
ried Miss Edith Kermit Carow, anG
they have five children, three sons
and two daughters. Their home is
at Sycamore Hill, about three miles
from Oyster bay, on Long Island
sound. Contrary to a somewhat
general belief, Mr.. Roosevelt is not
a wealthy man, although he has {
moderate income, to which he has
added himself by his literary work
A NEW view of the Boer wal
comes from the Cape Colony cor
respondent of the London Times
who solemnly wrote Aug. II: "Fron
the very outset we have been fight
ing distances and at this perio<
we are still fighting them, with thu
additional disadvantage of a very
considerable reduction in the mum