The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-09-24

strong social instincts which he loves
to indulge among his special friends.
These he numbers in various walks
of life, from the millionaire to the
humble day lahorer, from the learned
professor to the plain farmer.
A nan of more democratic nature
and manners than Theodore Roose-
welt is rarely
In college he took an active part
in debates and soon after his gradua-
tion became prominent in his party
conventions and among it's campaign
speakers.
With Henry Cabot Lodge, of Mas
sachusetts, and a number of other
rising young Republicans he was
conspicuous for his opposition to the
Presidential nomination of Blaine in
1884. George F. Edmunds, then a
Senator from Vermont, was the can-
didate of this ~coterie, but he received
a very small vote in the convention.
AS Governor of New York Roose-
Welt displayed marked executive
ability and firmness and his admirers
regarded him as IA future President
of the United States.
His nomination for the Vice-Presi-
denoy was aided by few of the party
bosses and was, in fact, accomplished
over the desire and opposition of
most of them by one of the most en-
thusiastic and almost spontaneous
uprisings ever witnessed in a nation
al convention.
Theodore Roosevelt is one of the
youngest men who ever achieved the
Vice-Presidenoy, and certainly few
of our Vice Presidents have had so
swift a rise or so romantic a career.
He was born in New York City, o.
tober 81, 1858, and is, therefore, I'M
der 43 years of age.
The original Roosevelts of New
York have been famous from the
time the Dutch founded their settle
ment at the mouth of the Hudson to
the present day.
Through successive generations
they have been sturdy, valiant and
forceful men, who have contributed
their full part to the coUntry's his
tory.
Their Individuality has asserted
itself in many ways and there has
never been a time since political par,
ties were formed In this country
when each of these leading forcesdid
not number Roosevelts among it's
devoted, adherents and valiant cap
tains
The Roosevel5s have distinguished
themselves in war as we'll as in poll
tics. Courage is part of their nature.
To the stolidity and s~tubbornness of
their Dutch nature has been added
the enthusiasm and fire which has
ever distinguished the men of this
republic. No family in the United
States has sustained itself more
steadily. Since the first Roosevelt
landed here there has not been a
generation in which one or mOre of
them was not a commanding figure.
The fine strain of Dutch blood
which predominates in Theodore
Roosevelt has been enriched by a
dash of the rest Scotch Irish anres-
try to be found. The original RooEe
velt in America came in 1919 He
was Klaas Roosevelt, a man who had
proved his quality before he crossed
the sea and who showed himself
equal to large duties after he was
domiciled in New York
The descendants of this bold and
resourceful Dutchman held many
places of trust and honor in their
adopted State and became connected
with several of the other leading
families of New York.
The father of Theodore Roosevelt
was a strong man in every sense
and he won for his wife a brilliant
and accomplished woman, Martha
Bullock, daughter of James and
Martha (Oswald) Bullock, of Ros-
well, Ga.
It is said that the Vice President
is as much a Bullock as a Roosevelt.
In him as in many men of marked
ability and high ambition the traits
of his mother are clearly displayed
The Bullooks made history in the
year of the Revolution, the struggle
with England in 1925 and on both
sides # the Civil War.