The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-15
SHORT SKETCH OF ROOSEVELT

York representative, who has known Ol the Following brief story of his fife for | that paper.
 the United States, and President in the event of the death of President Mckin- | ley, was born in this city (New fork) Oct. 27. 1851 He will be fl years old this coming October. He has been before the public eye since 1884. when he first turn ed his eyes toward the far West to seek new health and fortune in the cattle lands of Northwestern Dakota. He looks younger than 40. He Is ath- letic. His eyes are blue and clear, his hand cordial in greeting, and his tee3h. which his manner of speech habitually discioses are 5o maFXeousiy regular essors aRS Ha scorns a lie and double. dealing. He Is too frank to be politician and too strong in the popular mind to be shelVed
 what he is he owes to himself. His ancestry made New York City history. It was Dutch and French -Huguenot. lt was God-fearing and laborious. It hal opinions and 1t clung to them. The Vice President inherited all the family traits. At 20 he was almost an invalid. Close and Harvard had still further weakened him. He was a heavy reader of books, a patient student, a quick observer. Plunges Into Politics.
 He tried a plunge into New York poli- tics. In his city district was Repub,, lican machine combination that showed no disposition to recognize his desire to become a member of the Legislature. He fought the machine and defeated It.
 He went to Albany in 1881, nationally he put through the States civil service act and an act regulating primary cleo, tions. Party machine leaders frowned upon him, but he went on his way. That has always been his method.
 In 1884 he appeared before the nation. He was delegate to the National Con. venticn of that year. His health troubled him and he sought a new life at Chimney Butte, Dak., where he grazed cattle and led the life of a cowboy. He became known from Medota to Dickinson as t9e boldest and braVeSt cattleman in the re- zion. He did what the COW men did. He lived as they lived. He commanded the respect even of the desperadoes His lungs expanded. his body developed and to have grown every year since
 He lost money In his cattle venture, but he returned to New~ York strong man, physically. and made the race for Mayor of that city He was defeated, but he laughed. He understood that the cor rupt elements of this city would not tol- wrote books-books on hunting, books on Western life. books on Eastern cities: His style of literature was vigorous and pleasing His books sold well and the writings. The public liked his breezi- ness, his evident sincerity. his courage. and partially appreciated him even before he became a National Civil Service Com missioner in 1899.
 Disliked by Spoilsmen.
 Once in Washington he commenced an enforcement of the law of the most viz orcus kind. He made himself disliked among the spoilsmen of both parties, but he held to the line of his duty. He took the law as he found 1t. lived true to his oath of office and made the measure re spected in many quarters where 1t had been sneered at before.
 From Washington he passed to police oommissionership in this city. His pe- culiar ability to work and work on right lines, gave the corrupt police force such a shaking up as 1t had never had before He was police commissioner in every srnse of the word, unbribable, unap- proachable. fair to the fair-mlnded' se- were on the criminal. His books con .tinued to sell in increasing numbers, and ths Ssye pubic vEew 'nf of hm REesS began
 When the eSpanish-American war came he was Assistant Secretary Of the Navy He had much to do with the organization of the navy for the conflict, and 1t has always been believed that his influence largely contributed to the sending of thence to Manila Bay.
 When the war became a certainty MT. Roosevelt resigned his position in the Navy Department. and with General Leonard Wood. organized the First Vol unteer Cavalry, better known as the Rough Riders. General Wood was Col onel of this regiment and MT. Roosevelt Lieutenant Colonel. The members of the regiment came from the first families in the East. from the ranches in the West; came from wherever good horsemen daring men and good shots could be se- cured.
 The Rough Riders.
 The regiment was the most unique of it's kind ever organized, and was much scof[ed at in the begipning Befc~" it had been two days in Cuba the wisdom ur It's orSanizat4On was piaInls seen me men were fitted for any kind of cam paigning. Their Colonel and Lieutenant Colonel took what they took. The regi- ment practically foraged itself, and was first in the field and first to be baptized with fire. At Lag Guasimas, Gettle Hill and San Juan 1t gave up its bravest and best and went on to victory
 MT. Roosevelt was its Colonel before the end of the war, and pronounced by the foreign military attaches who ob- served his conduct in the field as one Of the first DAlitary officers of the day. H0 was in Santiago at the surrender, ted States and dtsbanded it at Montauk Point in the fall of 1898. It 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 retSrn to this country. As Governor he stood for radical taxation legislation and State control of the trusts. His term was marked by a pronounced fight on his parL against the New York Republican a -1r El---