The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1901-10-10
26th PRESIDENT OF zhe L. 5. !

United States Civil Service Commits
sion. His ability and rugged honesty
in the administration of the affairs of
that office greatly helped to strengthen
his hold on popular regard.
Police Commissioner f7 Metz,
York.
Roosevelt continued in that Office un-
til May L, 1895, when he resigned to
accept the Office of Police Commits
the administration of affairs in a de-
moralized condition, but he soon
brought order out of chaos. Says James
A Riis, who is intimate friend of
President Roosevelt:
We had been trying for forty years to
achieve a system of dealing decently with
our homeless poor Two score years be-
ment had pointed out that herding them
In the cellars or over the prisons of police
them out hungry at daybreak to beg their
way from door to door, was indecent and
en1es of medicine, committees phil
anthropic citizens, had attacked the foul
ravaged the prison lodgings, but still they
stayed I know what that fight meant,
for of committee that waged
it year after year, and suffered defeat
every time, until Theodore Roosevelt
came and destroyed the nuisance in
night 1 remember the caricatures of
tramps shivering in the cold with which
the time labelling him the poor mans
foe" And I remember being just little
uneasy lest they wound him. and perhaps
make him think he had been hasty. But
not he 1t was only those who did not
know him who charged him with being
hasty. He thought a thing out quickly
yes, that is his way; but he thought 1t
out, and, having thought it out, suited
ton to his judgment OF the consequences
he didn't think at all. He made sure he
was right. and then went ahead with per
feet confidence that things would come
out right
His "A Dolce 20 Organized Labor
Mr.. Riis says he never saw Roose-
welt to better advantage than when he
once confronted the labor men at their
meeting-place, Clarendon Hall:
The police were all the time having
trouble with strikers and their -pickets
Roosevelt that it was because Meth
the other. and. with his usual directness.
sent word to the labor organizations that
At his request I went with him to the
meeting. It developed almost immedi-
wrong measure of the man They met him
a a politician playing for points, and
were met Mr. Roosevelt broke them OFF
short
of the jaws that always made people lis
tent asked to meet you. hoping that
we might come TO understand one anon
er Remember. please, before we go FUR
Their, that the worst injury anyone of you
can do to the cause OF labor is to counsel
self. Understand distinctly that order
VIII be kept The police Will keep 1t. NOW
we proceed
was never so proud and pleased as
when they applauded him to the echo He
Redeemed with pleasure, for he saw that
the best in them had come out top,
he expected 1t would
Attracted By -'yeIE0tO NeeOS-
papers.
1t was of this incident that a handle
was first made by Mr.. Rooseve1t's enc
mics in and out of the police board
and he had many-to attack him:
1t happened that there was a music
hall In the building in which the labor
men met The yellow newspapers circu-
lated the lie that he went there on pur-
pose to see the show and the ridiculous
story repeated until actually the
liars persuaded themselves that 1t was So
They would not have been able to under
with, had they tired Accordingly they
fell into their own trap 1t is a tradition
of Mulberry Street that the notorious
Seeley dinner raid was planned by his en-
the head. in the belief that they would
catch Mr.. Roosevelt there The dinners
were supposed to be his set
Some time after that, Mr.. Riis was
in Roosevelt's office when a police Of
fetal of superior rank came in. and re-
uuested private audience with him:
They stepped aside and the policeman
spoke in an undertone. urging something
strongly. Mr. Roosevelt listened Sud
denly saw him straighten up man
recoils from something unclean, and dis
don't fight that way The policeman
went out crestfallen- Roosevelt took two
three turns about the floor, struggling
evidently with strong disgust He told