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covered with enormous glasses like those
the new official wore-and always wis-
| his teeth were like those of the distin-
| suished man below, and when he cried out
three cheers" and gave them. he bit the
,, words Off. exactly as his father does. with
snaps II was Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.
His father waved his hand to him and
grinned. He was thinking more of the
small boy Just then than he was of being
Governor, there is no doubt OF that
When the Governor received the news
that he had been elected Vice President
of the United States. there was ono detail
OF the episode which reminded me of that
other one In Albany. Again a minor mat
ter took his mind off the great things
that were happening. lie was not the
kind OF candidate who has special wires
put into his house so that he may get
the election news earlier than II goes to
the people. Instead OF doing that, he had
his telephone disconnected the night be-
fore the election. When election day came
ne mad no means of receiving any news
whatever unless he went 10 get it, or
some one took IT to him. He did not go
TO get 1t, and l was lucky enough to be
one OF two men to take 1t to him. The
other man was New York Sun man In
whom the Governor had confidence.
The Governors house was three miles
from the village Of oyster Bay where the
newspaper men had gathered Our news
came to us by telephone from our Of
fees In New York. We had hoped great
things of the telegraph, but they did not
materialize An operator looked too long
upon something or other when It was red
or brown-and the result was tele-
graphic chaos, and think. the caIaboose
for him. At any rate we could neither
send nor receive news by telegraph
When we were tod, at ten minutes
after 10, that the result was assured, that
there was no doubt Of the election of the
Republican ticket and that the Demo
| cratic managers had given up the ight
we drove out to the Governors house
It was long drive in the dark, and
remember that II was much colder than
j had expected Il TO be. had taken
| no overcoat with me borrowed a
eoachman's coat from the livery stable
Every window in the house was bril-
hantly lighted when we arrived. A din
| ner party had just ar sen from the table
and all were in evening dress. The Gov
| ernor met US at the door, and we told
| him the glad news in the hallway
newspaper correspondent must be non
| partisan. but think that he as well as
the other Republican managers had been
much nearer to worry over the result of
the election than they had been willing
to acknowledge
abbreviated tail of his dinner coat, his
aands worked convulsiveIy as he marched
around the ROOM and said:
| i am glad / am very glad!
| each word was chopped off as all his
words are, and the smile on his face was
| pleasant TO our sight. He thanked us for
| dur news. He then took us all into the
parlor, and asked us for fewer details
| than we had expected. We had really
| made an effort TO get all the news that
we could, but he did not seem 10 care
about knowing other than the result in
| general
Then came the occurrence which made
me think of that Inauguration day occa-
sion, when his small sons cheer had
seemed to mean more to him than the
| fact that he was about to be inauRuratad
Governor of New York He suddenly
| turned to the Sun man. while we were
| both trying to get our election figures
ready for him, and demanded:
What was the score in the football
gamer"
The matter Of his election to the vice
presidency was over. He knew that he
had been elected and that settled 1t. He
was no longer interested in that. He
| wanted TO know how the football game
had turned out.
! A curious thing happened earlier I'm the
! day, when he went TO vote. He was dis
| tinctly worried and nervous as he had
been before the battle In Cuba began. He
forgot that it was necessary to take a
blank ballot into the booth with him af-
ter he had reached the polling place, and
so, when he got inside, he could not vote.
The reason for this did not come to his
excited mind He simply knew that there
was something wrong. and asked for
help. A kind-hearted citizen Of Oyster
Bay came along and showed him how to
prepare and cast his ballot--a thing which
he certainly knew as we'll as any one
I could, but he was ratified.
! And that is the man. He is nervous
! and excitable The little things Of life
I he thinks not very much about. The big
! things are the things on which he concen-
| trates his mind. And he does them.
Edward Marshall.