Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-09-15

! erary world. His later productions.
with the exception ri sen1e excellent
, Biographical WORK, have been on the
whole inferior 20 hts frst encrt.
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In 1876 he was nominated for mayor
OF New YORK. but ~ ran agsinss a
disastous combination OF cireun
s1hnees. Ills Democratic opponent vas
Abram \. Hewitt, an able g Nho
had the confluence OF the business men.
On the labor ticket was Henry gcofge,
then at b zenith of his popularity De
cause his Progress n Poverty a
created a profound sensation. The
conservative element feared. u they
SHOULD support Roosevelt they would
possibly aid the election Of Georse.
whose ideas were regarded as reyolu-
tionary, so the conservative element of
thu Republicans supported Hewitt. ana
Roosevelt met defeat. That same year
he married Miss Edith Carov. OF New
York.
In 1889 Mr.. Roosevelt was again
ready for the life amid the
Eaunts OF men and he was appointed a
member OF the civil service commits
aion by President Harrison. During
the six years of his service on that
board the number OF civil service posi-
ticns increased from 1000 TO 4o,ool
and the further increase made by or
der of President Cleveland was in part
que to Roosevelt's suggestion. he SC
signed from the commission to accept
the Office of police commissioner OF
New York at the hands OF Mayor
Strong. The sudden shake-up In the
New York police department wnifn
followed his acceptance OF the Office
in May, 1885. - still n Of the sensa-
lions OF Gotham. He ignored tho
bosses and bounced the BOSSES pets
when he found them crooked. He
promoted men upQn his own judgment.
The city council tried to block his APP
pointments but il was found that the
law the police commissioner a car
ried through the Legislature years be-
fore had taken away from the council
the power Of confirmation. His course
was characteristic OF the man. He
went in for rigid enforcement of the
law and fer the first time In history
New York had a Sunday when the
saloons were really closed, on June D,
1895.
Such vigorous methods were too
abrupt a change and the new police
commissioner appeared to have de-
stroyec his political future, so bite"
was the opposition TO his methods. He
found, after a few weeks. that he had
been wasting time and effort in clean
ing up ~fyspecks from the body polite
when there were more serious matters
and larger game was to be had for the
Killing.
Roosevelt and the strikers.
When labor troubles came he taught
the strikers that the police were not
their natural enemies and suggested
that police interference would be I'M
necessary if the strikers would put
some Of their best men at police duty
to restrain the reckless strikers. The
result was a gratifying success, for
the strikers, when they no longer had
to make common cause against a hos
tile police force managed to keep
themselves in pretty good order. While
he was commissioner he practically put
a stop to Matchmaking schemes n ac-
complished so many reforms that the
police force became a respectable and
self-respecting body, but all this was
not accomplished without friction.
Roosevelt was the best hated man IN
New York, and all kinds Of traps were