The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-09-28
VOL. II. NO. 80.


the result Of the voters battle. Awaited,
and yet not waited, for not a single tele-
graph wire was put in, and the cand1-
date had to depend on his aeighbors or
the newspaper men for the news. One
Of the latter-a Sun $reporter-was the
first to serve him, arriving overheated
and Breathe ss with the report that there
was undoubtedly another Republican VIC
tory, and that he had been elected. rPes-
ldent Roosevelt himself responded to the
bell ring and came out on the piazza II
have great news for you, Mr.. Roosevelt
said the reporter, painting, you are
elected vice president of the United
States. - II hope the country has In
dorsed the Republican party and its prin-
ciples as 1t should" replied Roosevelt.
1t has," continued the reporter, land
Bryan has lost in his own strongGholds'
That's very interesting,' said Roose-
welt, but tell me all about the football
game Who won?" And despite the re-
porter's eagerness to go into the cleo
ton returns, Roosevelt continued to dis
cuss 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 another
word was spoken about the election, and
Roosevelt went to bed with nothing moro
IMAM some brief telephone and tele-
graphic reports sent to his home contrary
to his Instructions
Roosevelt's democracy never failed him,
whether he was student at Harvard or
in the saddle in the West, or a LEGISLATOR
in Albany, and his cordially to the
masses was shown to particular advant-
age IN the campaign which made. him
governor of New York. One evening,
after speaking twice in New York, he
was rushed by a special train to Yonkers.
the invited guests on the shoulders Of
Frederick w. Hollis, Chauncey M. Depew
and others. A red-faced Irishman in the
gallery, who looked like a typical Tam
manylte Of the kind that voted by the
thousands for Roosevelt after the San
tago campaign, suddenly called out:
Ieddy 'Sh-sh'' said a big policeman
with big club Roosevelt continued
but the exploding exclamation: ."Teddy,'
rang out a second time. III put yez
QUIZ said the big policeman to the Of
fender But the warning of lone of the
finest failed to suppress the interro-
gator Just as Roosevelt was dilatins
on the virtues of the German, whose
gemuetlichkeit he said, could not be
translated or understood by the other
members OF OUR complex population the
red-faced 1rishman arose and yelled at
full voice: Teddy what did yez feed
that basic of mustang to make it shrot
so IN Cuba?' The house collapsed but
Teddy rejoined, THE Republican plat.
rorm!'' turned the laugh on the Ir1snmen,
and continued his speech.
During his administration as police
commissioner Roosevelt met a policeman
under the influence of liquor and de-
te1mined to discipline him. so that he
would never forget his offense. Accost-
policeman no
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 Of
hcer described in a staggering manner
the misconduct of the prisoner and dur
ing the investigation Roosevelt slipped
around the rail and into an adjoining
room, and returned in company with
another commissioner. The policeman re-
celTed a. tip sObered up very rapidly
on learning whom he had arrested. and
with tears in his eyes begged for pardon.
President Roosevelt's home life has all
ways been delightful. In his leisure mo-
ments 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 his return from
Cuba his aged gardener came up the
walk, hoe in hand, and, tipping his cap,
said:
Mr.. Roosevelt, I've come to finish that
talk we had the other day about those
onion BEDS What talk, James," asked
Roosevelt, with smile. "Oh,' said the
gardener, you know that the afternoon
you received that telegram to go to Cuba
you and 1 were standing here and laying
out an onion patch. If it suits you, let
us plant those onions now' And the
onions were planted
Inc president has a culver full of olive
branches, and likes children other than
his own. Except that he became buster
and more inaccessible, Roosevelt carried
the same domestic habits and preferences
with him from his Oyster Bay home to
the governors residence at Albany One
day a clique of New York city politicians
VINO mad come up on a. special train to
see Gov. Roosevelt rushed into the cor
r1dor of the capitol and upset the office
boys and secretaries. Gov. Roosevelt was
absent from his room and no one knew
just where he could be found A dozen
messengers were sent out in search for
him, and after ten or fifteen minutes he
was found, curled up in corner with
one or two neighbors' boys and a street
arab, drawing pictures of ponies and
guns on writing table. The children
had waylaid him and begged him to
show them pictures of the guns and the
"A
time New York artist found him in the
executive chamber, half buried under
children clambering over his chair, while
he strove to show them photographs of
the scenes of the campaign.
Some years ago, when President Roose-
welt was better known among his friends
as a devotee of sport and seeker after
health in the far West, he met repeat
jt1ya
lost no opportunity to snub him. and
who suggested without disguise the posi-
bility of a final settlement on some
field of honor" Roosevelt met him for
awhile with cool reserve and equally
undisguised contempt, but finally aston
lshed the upstart with a genial greet
Ing, several extended conversations and
cordial invitation to his country home.
The carriage was in waiting at the sta
ton, and Roosevelt received his guest
with distinguished consideration, fed him
on trout from the upper Adirondacks
and finally led him into his library and
trophy room. Then taking down a huge
knife, Roosevelt, ran his finger carelessly
over the edge, renarking that it was the
blade with which he had killed a savage
Indian planning an assault upon his per.
son. and handed the weapon over fol
closer examination After that the presi
dent took up a little case, emptied it Of
a half dozen teeth. and remarked: This
I'm proud to say, is all that is left o
Jim, the chopper, who thought he ough
to throw me down Hale's gulch, and fel
into it himself. = And this. . said he, con
tinuing. and reaching for long rounS
pasteboard box labeled I. ynamite = this
Is the invention of a friend of mine and
known as the campers and woodsman'
companion-a bit of dynamite, equal,
handy to blow open the ice in the winte
season for fishing or blow up,,s Tn