Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1901-11-09
26h PRESIDENT of the u. S.

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 CommiISfoncr in NetO
York.
Roosevelt continued in thaI Office un-
III May !. 1895. when he resigned to
accept the Office OF Police Commits
sioper 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 10
achieve a system OF dealing decently with
our homeless poor Two score years be-
fore. the surgeons Of the police depart
meni had pointed out that herdinR them
In the cellars OF over the prisons OF police
stations in fostering heaps. and turning
them out hungry al daytIeak TO beg their
way from door TO door, was Indecent ana
inhuman. Since then grand juries. aead-
srniea OF medicine. committees on phil
disgrace. but TO no purpose, Pesthence
favaEcd the prison lodgings. but siill they
stayed I know what that hght meant
for was one OF a committee that waEeo
II year after year. aud suffered deitat
every time until Theodore hooseNcit
came and destroyed the nuisance III
night / remember the caricatures OF
tra,np. sbiyrrtur In the cold with which
the yellow newspapers pursued MN az
| the time labelling him the poor man
| foe And remember being Just n A1tie
| ,,ueaHy lost they wound him. and perhaps
/ tnak, him think he had been hasiy. Bnt
not he. II was only those VINO ola nol
know him who charged him with eelhs
bRnty He thought thing out auicklS-
,.e. ,ha, 1. his way; but he thought II
| Out. and. having thought It out, suited ac-
| lion 10 his Judgment OF the consequences
F, he didn't think al all. lie made sure ne
| was right. and then went ahead with per
/ feet confidence that things would eo'"e
out right
His Advice 10 Organfsed LABOR.
Mr.. Riis says he never saw Roose-
welt 10 better advantage than when ne
once confronted the labor men al tneif
meeting place. Clarendon Hall:
The poliec were all the time having
| trouble with strikers and theft pickets
| Roosevelt Jaw that Il was because heish.
or marty understood fully the position OF
the other, and, with hts usual directnsss'
| amt word TO the labor organizations tnAa
| he would like to talk II over Win t"e ~
! AZ HIS request | went with nun " ~
meeting. II developed almost irIheu
| ataly that tho labor men had taken
| s,,x,,,, measure Of the man. They met MN
az politician playing for points, anu
| MATED nj trouble unless their demahus
were met. Mr. Roosevelt broke them on
"f,en,,emen," he said-with that snap
| NJ the laws that always made people rs
! tent asked to meet you. hoping wa ,'
we might come TO understand one aho.
cr Remember, please before We ~ ~, ~,
,her that the worst injury anyone Oh Wv
onn Az 10 the cause Of labor Is 10 counsel
,to,once II will also be worse for MIN.
soir understand distinctly that oroe'
VIII n. Kent, The police will keep II. NO"
we can proceed. ,a.a N.
whom they applauded him to the ccho. N.
Redeemed with pleasure, TOT ne saw 80
the best In them had come OUT w wy
MS he expected Il would
Arracked by "yeiios0 Ness'S
papers.
II was of this incident that a nanoi'
was f,rst made by Mr.. Roosevelts enc
mics In and out OF the police board
ana be had many--to attack him:
:, ,onpened that there was a music
.at, In The building In which the iapo
,,,an met, The yellow newspapers ciIsu
,ntna the lie that he went there on pu.
~ 90 ssa the show, and the ridicuiou
pos .,, ,,aa repeated until actually TN
500 49,, ,,orsuaded themselves that II was 80
,.a.n,, p,,nvld not have been able to unoer
insy ,ha Kind OF man they had 10 a.
stau sad they tired. Accordingly tne.
WIZ, VIZ ,,,,n their own trap. II Is tradi,Io'
Is" .,,iharry street that the notoriou
sseiey dinner raid was planns s, ~ he ua
s,,,i.s I'm the department OF winch ne ""
NJ bead. In the belief that .hes $780,
wy mn Mr. Roosevelt there. me o''''ei
...ora supposed to be his set
"s some time after that. Mr.. Rms wa
;. pooseyelt's Office when a police Of
~ "a superior rank came in, and re
a ,.oa,ed n private audience with him
Thoy stepped aside and the pol iess1a
10 IN nm undertone, urging so,ieV : ~
spnnyiy Mr.. Roosevelt hsteheu' suo
SUI, aaw him straighten up as mn ~.
oei, . from something unciean, anu u''
Ieeo sna other with n sharp NO, SIR
mi mus, tyht that way" The pohSein ny
uoh II crcatfnllen. Roosevelt TOOK wv
, wen. 80 turns about the hoor, struBBin,
, OF sn with strong disgust He toi