The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1901-09-27


the ambulance was near He gave
and took hard knocks, and each
day became more formidable with
bits of dynamite in his arguments
A STRICT PARTY MAN.
About this fine the heaviest
blow OF a mans career fell upon
HIM. His dear mother and wife
died in one week. That touch OF
sorrow made him new and lifelong
friends among men of both parties.
In 1884, the never-to-be-forgotten
year of the Blaine campaign, Mr..
Roosevelt was recognized as a pow
er in the State and made a dele
gate to the Republican National
Convention to lead the Edmunds
forces, and, though opposed to Mr..
Blaine. refused to follow the bolt
ers who went over to Cleveland,
for he believed he could do nothing
except through the regular party
organization.
Whatever good have accom-
plished," he said, has been through
the Republican party. So he enter
ed the campaign, and made speech
es, and then went to his Dakota
ranch and spent two years writing
and shooting. 1t was in that
Western home that he developed
his taste for cowboy life, became a
crack shot and bronco rider and ex-
pert with the lariat. He killed big
game and wrote his books on
Ranch Life and "The Winning
of the West"
His next appearance was can
didate for Mayor of New York, in
the famous Henry George cam
paign, when Abram S. Hewitt won
on the Tammany ticket. Under
the circumstances, Roosevelt made
strong fight, and President Har-
rison appointed him to the Civil
Service Commission, where he
made brilliant record, increasing
the number of positions on the civil
service list from $4,000 to 10000.
A POLICE COMMISSIONERS.
He resigned to become Police
Commissioner under the reform ad.
ministration of Mayor Strong.
When a literary friend expressed
surprise that man of his scholarly
attainments should enter on a po-
lice crusade, he said:
II thought the storm center was
in New York, and so | came here,
1t is great piece of practical work.
l like to take hold of work that has
been done by Tammany leader,
and do it as well, only byapproach-
ing it from the opposite direction.
The thing that attracted me to it |
was that 1t was to be done in the |
hurly-burly, for don't like cloister
life
The new Commissioner stirred |
up the town. The regulation re-
formers did not know whether to
applaud or curse. Many declared
that his rigid enforcement OF the
excise law enabled Tammany to re-
turn to power by capturing the
votes of liquor men who had tempo
rarily joined the reformers. In re-
ply Roosevelt said he had sworn to
enforce all the laws and he would
not compromise his conscience.
Besides, he held that the best way
to get a bad law repealed was to
rigidly enforce it.
The "Abrabian Nights features
of Mr.. Roosevelt's police admins
tration, his sudden appearance in
unexpected places, his unheralded
personal tours of inspection about
the city after dark, catching many
a policeman napping-all this and
several volumes are part of histo-
ry. Roosevelt made fame and
friends during his police regime,
and all classes admitted that he
xuas a,, houaat man
AVOIDED TRAPS SET FOR HIM.
He said once, at the close of a
meeting. that he believed maiori-
ty of policemen were good men.
He believed in giving every appii-
cant chance to show what he
could do, and treating him honestly
and fairly, regardless of his nation
ality, politics, religion or pull"
I'VE have every country repre-
sented on the police force, he said.
Hebrews working harmoniously
with Irishmen; Germans making
good records with Spaniards--in
fact, every nationality is represent
ed almost but the Chinese, and ]
find the men as class willing to
give faithful service. When men
End the officials in charge Of them
consistent, always keeping his
word to the letter, they will soon
begin following the example set
before them.
Treat man squarely and you