Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-10-10
26h PRESIDENT .of the US.

cabin, and for several years mingled
the life Of ranchman with that Of a
literary worker. From lis front door
he could shoot deer, and the mountains
around him were full Of big game
Amid such surroundings he wrote
some of his most popular books. He
became daring horseman and rival
of the cowboys in feats of skill and
strength. In 1886 Mr.. Roosevelt was
the Republican candidate tor Mayor
against Abram S. Hewitt, United
Democracy, and Henry George, United
Labor. Mr.. Hewitt was elected by
about twenty-five thousand plurality.
In 1889 Roosevelt was appointed by
President Harrison a member of the
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 CommilSioner in Metz
York.
Roosevelt continued in that Office I'M
til May 1, 1895, when he resigned to
accept the Office of Police Commits
sioner from Mayor Strong. He found
the administration Of affairs IN de-
moralized condition, but he soon
brought order out of chaos. Says James
A. Riis, who is an intimate friend OF
President Roosevelt:
We had been trying for forty years 70
achieve a system of dealing decently WIZ
our homeless poor Two score years De
fore, the surgeons of the police depart
ment had pointed out that herding tn NJ
in the cellars or over the prisons OF poilee
stations in fostering heaps. ana tuIn T
them out hungry at daybreak TO Deg M
way from door to door, was indecent
inhuman. Since then grand 1urles' 49,
emies of medicine, committees on pm,
anthropic citizens. had attacked the ~
disgrace, but to no purpose. PesIh.
ravaged the prison lodgings, but SUN nv
stayed. i know what that fight meaht,
Tor was one of a committee that We.
II year after year, and suffered uel,t
every time, until Theodore RooseNe
came and destroyed the nuisance III
night. / remember the caricatures u
tramps shlvering in the cold with winch
the yellow newspapers pursued MN az
the time labelling him the poor man
foe" And remember being Just iittIe
uneasy lest they wound him, and perhaps
make him think he had been hasty. bu.
not he. 1t was only those who did not
know him who charged him with peins
hasty. He thought a thing out quickly.
yes, that Is his way; but he thought II
out. and, having thought 1t out, suited ac-
ton to his judgment. OF the consequence
he didn't think at all. He made sure ne
was right and then went ahead with per-
feet confidence that things would come
out right.
His A dvice TO OrSanized Labor.
Mr.. Riis says he never saw Roose-
welt to better advantage than when ne
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 saw that 1t was because neith-
er party understood fully the position OF
the other, and, with his usual directness'
sent word to the labor organizations that
he would like to talk 1t over with them.
At his request / went with him 10 the
meeting. 1t developed almost lmmedi-
ately that the labor men had taken
wrong measure of the man. They met MIN
as a politician playing for points ana
limited at trouble unless their demands
were met Mr.. Roosevelt broke them on
short:
"Gentlemen!" he sald-with that snap
of the jaws that always made people rs
tent asked to meet you, hoping that
We might come to understand one anoth-
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
violence. 1t will also be worse for him
self Understand distinctly that order
will be kept. The police will keep 1t. Now
we can proceed"
l was never so proud and pleased as
when they applauded him to the echo. He