The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-09-19

Gay. he was IN Santiago at the sur
render, brought his regiment back to
the United States and disbanded it
at Montauk Point in the fall of 1898.
1t contributed among the volunteer
troops more to the success of the
American arms in Cuba than any
other regiment formed.
The Colonel became Governor of
New York Immediately after his re-
turn to this country. AS Governor
he stood for radical taxation Iegisla-
ton and State control of the trusts.
His term was marked by a pro-
nounced fight on his part against the
New York Republican machine. He
did not seek the Presidential
nomination last year, but had it
forced upon him, and he accepted at
the last moment. During the cam
paign he made a trip of over 81 900
miles, speaking for the ticket, and
was received everywhere with popu-
lar acclaim. Since his Inauguration
he has presided over one extra session
/ of the Senate, and made several trips
throughout the country attending
public functions. He was in Chicago
within the last 10 days as the guest of
Governor Yates.
In an interview i'll 1898 upon the
subject of Americanism, Mr.. Roose-
yelt developed some of his ideas as
follows
II naturally disapprove of the half
conscious spread-eagle Americanism
which is eyer exerting itself at the
wrong moments. | dislike it, of
course, when it is put forward as
! plea to excuse moral shortcomings of
a kind usually connected with public
affairs. Nevertheless, in spite of this
abuse, l am sure that no man can
well play his part in our life who is
not honestly American in heart, be-
lief and instinct.
"If one wishes to find a typical
American one may consider Francis
Parkman. He always appealed to
my admiration, because he made his
| life work largely of the description of
that frontier warfare between our
backwoodsmen and their foes which
has been of such incalculable impor-
lance in our lands history"
In one of his published works he
says: "In speaking to my own coun-
trymen there is one point upon which
| wish to lay especial STRESS that is,
the necessity for a feeling of broad,
radical and intense Americanism, if
| good work is to be done in any direc-
ton. Above all, the one essential for
success in every political movement
which is to do lasting good is that our
| citizens should act as Americans, not
as Americans with prefix and quail
tication-not as Irish Americans, Ger
man Americans, native Americans
but as Americans pure and simple.
st is an outrage for a man to drag
| foreign politics into our contests and
| vote as an Irishman or German or
| other foreigner, as the case may be;
and there is no worse citizen than the
professional Irish dynamiter or Ger
man anarchist, because of his attitude
! toward our social and political life,
not to mention his efforts to embroil
us with foreign Powers. But it is no
less ali outrage to discriminate against
one who has become an American in
good faith merely because of his creed
or birthplace"
OF caste he has written: "As for the
upper social world, the fashionable
world, it is much as it was when por-
trayed in the 'Portiphar Papers, save
that modern society has shifted the
shrine at which it pays comical but
sincere homage from Paris to London.
Perhaps it is rather better, for it is
less provincial and trifie more Amer
lean. But would-be upper class,
based mainly on wealth, in which it
is the exception and not the rule for
man to be of any real account in
the national life, whether as a poll
tician, literary man or otherwise, is
of necessity radically defective and of
little moment"
The titles of some of Mr.. Roose-
velt's best works are Life of Thomas
Benton" Life of Gouverneur Nor
ris, ;" Ranch Life and the Hunting
Trail, - 1.-The Winning of the West"
History of New York City," Essays
on Practical Politics." 1.-The Wilder
ness Hunter" Hero Tales from
American History" NAVAL War of
1872
He is an intimate of Jacob Riis, the
tenement-slums reformer of New
York; of Frederick Hollis, secretary at
The Hague Conference, and of Sena-
tor Henry Cabot Lodge. His habits
are simple, his life most strenuous.
He does not know the meaning of the
words idle" and "misapplication.
He has often been called a typical
American"
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