Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-09-14
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naval officers agree that the remarka-
BILE skill in craftsmanship displayed
by the American gunners was due to his
| foresight. He saw the necessity of
practice, and he thought it the best
economy to burn UP ammunition in ac-
curing skill.
characteristic story, of the truth
of which there is no doubt. is told re-
garding Rooseyelt's insistence on prac-
tice in the navy. Shortly after his APP
pointment he asked for an appropria-
ton of 100000 for ammunition, powder
and shot for the navy. The appropria-
ton was made, and a few months later
he asked for another appropriation, this
time of 100000. When asked by the
proper authorities what had become of
the first appropriation, he replied, "Ev-
cry cent of 1t was spent for powder and
shot, and every bit of powder and shot
has been fired" When he was asked
what he was going to do with the $780,
GOO, he replied, Use every ounce of
that, too. within the next thirty days in
practice shooting" When the Maine was
blown up. Mr.. Roosevelt had no doubt
that war would follow and that shortly,
and his energies were bent with redou-
bled force to getting the navy ready.
When war did finally break out, MIR.
Roosevelt was for rushing matters. for
taking Havana at once and debating
terms there.
Naturally enough. Roosevelt would
not be content to sit behind a desk
while there was fighting going on. He
submitted his resignation to the presi-
dent on April 16 and tried to get an APP
pointment upon Gen. Lees staff Then
came the rough rider idea, the seventh
phase of Roosevelt's career hardly
thought of before it was realized.
"Roose-velt's rough iders'-somethin
in the ALTERATION of the name struck
the popular fancy, and the regiment
became famous before 1t was organized.
Roosevelt had had some military ex-
perience as captain in the Eighth reg
iment, but not enough, in his estimation,
TO fit him to command regiment in
time of war, and he modestly took the
second place and was content to learn
from his friend DIR. Wood.
1t is hardly necessary to recount the
history of the rough riders from the
time they We're organized in San An
tonic, Tex. until they were mustered
out at Camp Wickoff-to recall the jun
gle fight of Las Guasimas and the
bloody charge at San Juan Hill.
Colonel Roosevelt returned to the
United States TO find that ne was al
ready talked of ass the next governor of
New York. But his regiment, which
he had "breathed and eaten with for
three months was still on his hands,
and he had no time for anything but It,
Not until he became a plain citizen on
Sept. 10 would he talk Of politics. and
then efound the tide of events bearing
MIN along inevitably and irresistibly.
The next stage of Roosevelt's career
began with his assumption of the office
of governor of New York state and the
next with his Inauguration as vice presi-
dent of the United States March 4,19O1.
Another phase is just opening for him
as the chief executive of the greatest
nation in the world.
President Roosevelt's ancestry and his
rearing and education, coupled with an
tested Enthusiastically even in his very
early boyhood, seemed to presage for
him more than ordinary career.
l ,
1858. in his fathers ouse, % East
| Twentieth street. in New York city. In
that quiet region around Gramercy
park, the home of many families bear
ing names held in high honor and es-
| TEEN. there was none bearing a name
more highly honored and esteemed than
| the family into which Theodore Roose-
! Welt was born. For six generations his
forbears had been prominent az citizens
/ of New York and distinguished IN the
councils of the city. His father, James
j. Roosevelt, was alderman in 1928, 1926
and 1880. assemblyman from 1885 to 1910
/ congressman from 1S41 to 1S43 and SUI
preme court justice from 1854 to 1860;
! his grandfather, James Roosevelt who
was merchant, was assembiyman In
| 1861 and alderman in 1909; his great
| grandfather, Cornelius G. Roosevelt
| likewise merchant, was alderman
from 1855 to 1901; his great-great-grand.
| father, Cornelius Roosevelt, was alder
man from 1853 to 1864: his great-great.
great grandfather, John Roosevelt, also
a merchant, was alderman from 174S tc
1867. and his great-great-great-g
grandfather, Nicholas Roosevelt, was
alderman of New York city in 10000.
Such was the life of the sturdy Dutch
ancestors from whom Theodore Roose.
yelt inherited his name. But, Attic
his name is Holland Dutch, Scotch
Irish and French Hugenot blood minglt
in his veins in equal measure with thai
| of his Dutch ancestors and accounts t.
no small extent for the personal quail.
ties of the man, his energy and perse.
verance. his impulsive, not to say
frey, temperament and his vivacious
mode of expression. With the impetu,
of family and the favorable materia
conditions in which he found himself
as well as by the force of his own per.
sonality, Roosevelt might have ad.
yanced rapidly in any path he chose
whether 1t led toward brilliant socia
success or the making of large fort.
une. That he chose career of public
service is Characteristic OF the man, thu
more so in that he saw In the course h,
had marked out for himself small
chance of pecuniary remuneration ant
a struggle for principle that might jeo
pardize those rewards that are the poll,
tician's Once decided he never swervei
from his course. For more than twent,
years he has been before the public eyl