The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-09-23
CHARACTERISTIC ANECDOTES OF
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT.

odore Roosevelt. Always forceful and
picturesque, his actions as well as his
utterances have been worth reading.
Here are few of the stories told about
him.
When the Rough Riders. after their
Cuban campaign, first landed at Mon
tauk Point from their transport and
marched to the detention camp, the
first demand of the soldiers was to see
Roosevelt.
The next day Colonel Roosevelt walked
through the camp He stopped at every
tent and looked in.
Don't get up, boys" he would say.
Lie still. All. Jim how's your leg feel
ing today? Getting better? That's
good. You'll soon be all right now.
Billy, l hope your back doesn't trouble
YOU so much now. You'll have lie easier
here"
And so it went all along the lir\ He
had a word for each man and he knew
each by name. He even knew just what
allied each one.
Colonel Roosevelt was shown picture
} of himself during the war. 1t showed
him waving a sword and dashing up
hill on horseback in one of the flights
in Cuba.
us it good picture?" he was asked.
8"Ye-es.' he replied. 'It's all right,
except that my sword is still wrapt up
in bundle in Tampa. and 1 didn't ride
a horse. Otherwise it's all right!'
During his career as a police commits
sioner Roosevelts might walks were
a source of terror to the delinquent po-
lice. He encountered many strange ex-
periences. and some amusing ones, one
Of which he relates.
He was going through street in the
Tenderloin, and had been pointed out to
a number of policemen, one of whom
was patrolling his beat just behind the
commissioner.
II feel like the Caliph Of Bagdad"
said Roosevelt, laughingly, to his COM
panion.
,"Begorra," said the policeman. "thot
man thinks he's Haley of Bagdad! Com
mish or no commish, Ia better be rum
MIN him in fer crazy man."
Before Santiago the Rev. Peter Nc
Queen approached Col. Roosevelt and
and said:
"Wll, you're getting to be quite gen.
eral now, aren't you. Colonel?"
"Not a bit of it, replied the leader
of the Rough Riders. I'm just getting
to be middle-aged literary man."
1t is told how at one of the camps
in the south, not long after Wood and
Roosevelt joined the Rough Riders,
cowboy was on guard near Colonel
Woods tent. Col Wood was sitting at
the entrance and the guard was at the
regulation distance pacing up and down.
| Suddenly the sentry walked straight up
to the Colonel and saluted.
acYOu'ro Colonel Wool all rich. amt
| you?" he said.
Eyes, sir, I am Colonel Wood gasped
| the astonished officer.
| ,r''Well," said the cowboy soldier, II
want to tell you the boys didn't much
know what to make o. you an Roose-
Welt when you first came down. but
we've been sizing you up an talkin' 1t
over an we've bout made up our minds
you're both white. an 1 reckon most o
the boys would go plumb to hell for you
now
A New Yorker who was in the AS
sHnbly with Roosevelt twenty years
ago says that the appearance of the
| young man who now occupies the most
| prominent position in the eyes of all
| mankind was strange, not to say ludi-
| crous.
.sHe was a queer little whippersnap-
| per-" says the New Yorker, mot weigh
| ing over 1875 pounds. His manner was
that Of a bantam, and his funny voice,
| when he raised it in appeal to Mr..
Speaker was enough to make us all
turn around and laugh. But he was
an awful fighter"
During the campaign OF l9OO, me Jay
the train bearing Roosevelt was halted
within calling distance Of that from
| u,hich William Jennings Bryan was
making "rear-platfOrm" speeches.
roosevelt recognized his political oppo-
nent and called:
"Helo, Teddy" came the democratic
candidates answer. How's your
voice."
.'About as strong as the democratic
nlatform." shouted Roosevelt, hoarsely.
"And yours?"
"Oh," wheezed Bryan. mines in about
the condition Of republican promises
And the trains passed on.
During Colonel Roosevelt's campaign
ing tour in the west his speeches were
| frequently interrupted by impudent re-
marks. The Colonel and his party had
| a happy faculty of turning these inter-
ruptions to advantage. Once during
short stop in a Colorado town Col. Hoose-
Welt was frequently interrupted by
man named Phelps. The man STOOD on
the outskirts Of the crowd and shouteo
repeatedly:
'Bet you 500 to $50 that you are not
elected"
The Colonel laid q restraining hand on
+! sergt, Buck Taylor and Trooper Mega
nrone Bell. his companions. to keep them
s...xv, ,,;,,,,;,. oxor into the crowd after