The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-10-05
st. I.nnis Glohe-Democrat.l

1dent ROOSeyelt'S personality, out per
haps only those who have seen him
from day to day in his family life can
realize his extreme simplicity OF man
ner and conduct. On the last election
day, after a campaign of activity that
eclipsed the memorable speechmaking
period of Bryan, Roosevelt retired to
his comfortable home at oyster bay
and awaited the result of the voters
battle. Awaited, and yet not awaited,
| for not a single telegraph Wire was
put in. and the candidate had to depend
on his neighbors or the newspaper
men for the news. one of the latter
Sun reporter-Wds the first to serve
him, arriving Overheated and breath
less with the report that there was I'M
doUbtedly another Republican victory.
and that he had been elected. Presl-
dent Roosevelt himself responded. to
the bell ing and came out on the
piazza. have great news for YOU
Mr.. RooseN eIt.' said the reporter pant
ing; you are electeE vice president of
the United States" 81 hope the coun-
try has indorsed the Republican party
and it's principles, as it should re-
piled Roosevelt. 1T has continued
the reporter, land Bryan has lost in
his own strongholds." That's very in
teresting," said Roosevelt. but tell me
all about the football game. Who
won?" And despite the reporters
eageTness to go into the election re-
turns. Roosevelt continued TO discuss
enthusiastically the college contest of
that day. until. owing to the lateness
of the hour and the pressure of other
duties, the reporter retired Not an
other word was spoken about the cleo
ton, and Roosevelt went to bed with
nothing more than some brief telephone
and Geographic reports sent to his
home contrary to his instructions.
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Roosevelt's democracy never failed
him. whether he was a student at
Harvard or in the saddle in the west,
or legislator in Albany, and his cor
diality to the masses was shown to
particular advantage in the campaign
which made him governor of New
York. One evening. after speaking
twice in New York, he was rushed by
special train to Yonkers. n. Y, and
carried in over the heads of the in
vited guests on the shoulders of Fred
erick w. Hollis, Chauncey NJ. Depew
and others. There was tremendous en-
thuSIasm bottled up in the crowd, and |
it repeatedly overlowed to the inter
ruptiOn of the speaker A red-faced |
lrishman in the gallery, who looked
like typical Tammanyite of the kind
that voted by the thousands for Roose-
yelt after the Santiago campaign, sud
denly called out: Teddy 'sSh-sh,' |
said big policeman with a big club. |
Roosevelt continued, but the exploding |
exclama ton. Teddy" rang out a sec
ond time. I'll put yez QUIT said the |
big policeman to the offender. But the !
warning Gf zone of the finest" failed to !
suppress the interrogation. Just as |
Roosevelt was dilating on the virtues !
of the German. whose gemuetlichkeit. !
ho CI1
derstood by the other members of our
complex population, the red-faced |
Irlshman arose and yelled at full voice:
Ieddy, what did yez feed that haste
OF a mustang to make it throt so in |
cuba p The house collapsed, but |
Teddy rejoined. THE Republican
PLATFORM turned the laugh on the
Irishman, and continued his speech.
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During his administration as police
Roosevelt met a police
man under the influence of liquor, and
determined to discipline him, so that he
would never forget his offense Ac-
costing the policeman, who had been !
on the force for so short a time that he
did not know his superior, Roosevelt
stirred him up sufficiently to induce
the policeman to arrest him. At the
station house the officer described in a
the prisoner, and during the investiga-
tlon Roosevelt slipped around the raft
ana into an adjoining room. and re-
turned in company with another com
missioner. The policeman received a
Tip, sobered up very rapidly on
whom he had arrested, and
don.
President Roosevelt's home life has
always been delightful In his leisure
at Oyster Bay he has enjoyed
the companionship of his family and
taken a rare delight in directing the
affairs of his small estate Soon after
MS return from Cuba his aged gardener
came up the walk hoe in hand. and
tipping his cap, said:
MI. Roosevelt, I've come to finish
hat talk we had the other day about
hose onion beds" What talk. James?'
asked Roosevelt, with a smile. ooh"
SAID the gardener, you know that the
afternoon you received that telegram
o go to Cuba you and 1 were standing
lere and laying out an onion patch.
f it suits you, let us plant those on
ons nOwi' And the onions were
planted.
hive branches, and likes children other
han his own. Except that he became
'usier and more inaccessible, Roosevelt
arried the same domestic habits and :
preferences with aim from his Oyster
say home to the governors residence
It Albany. One day a clique of New
York city politicians who had come M I
n a special train to see Governor :
Roosevelt rushed into the corridor of
he capitol and upset he office boys and {
ecfetaries. Governor Roosevelt was
.pSent from his room and no one knew c
ust where he could be found. A dozen =.
Messengers were sent out in search for
I'm, and after ter or fifteen minutes
e was found, curled up in a corner
nth one or two neighbors' boys and a h
treet arab, drawing pictures of ponies ;,
nd guns on a writing table The chill u
rem had Waylaid him and begged him >
0 show them pictures of the guns and l
ne mustangs he had in the war. At !
neither time New York artist found 8
I'm IN the executive chamber, half =
uried under children .clambering over "
Is chair. While he strove to show "
hem photographs of the scenes of the
ampaign. |
Some years ago, when President Il
was better known among )
is friends as a devotee of sport, and "
seeker after health in the far west, Z
G met repeatedly in New York City =
young man who lost no opportunity l
snub him, and who suggested with
Ut disguise the possibility of a final Il
attlement on some field of honor" g
met him for a while with u
Dol reserve and equally undisguised "
but finally astonished the q
pstart with genial greeting, several u
Stended conversations and a cordial c,