The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-06-23
SKETCH OF MAN NOMINATED FOR
PRESIDENT By THE REPUB-
LICAN CONVENTION.
His Political Career Began in 1881
When He Was Elected to the
Legislature.

known az one of the most unique and
picturesque figures in American pub
vice presidency in 1900 and succeeded
to the presidency year later through
| the death of William Mckinley. His
diversified and vigorous activities had
| not only brought him recognition and
won him renOwn on the field of battle,
| in the Bad Lands of the west as ranch
man, hunter and cowboy, and also in
! the more peaceful pursuit of honors in
! the literary world.
In contravention of we'll established
tradition concerning national heroes,
the president was born in a great city.
His birthplace was in East Twentieth
street, New York city and the date,
youngest president when he succeed
| ed to that high office three years ago.
His father, Theodore. belonged to an
old and wealthy Knickerbocker family,
| and his mother was a descendant of
Archibald Bullock, first president of
Georgia during the revolution.
AS a young man, young Roosevelt
was exceedingly frail from a physical
viewpoint. He was sent to private
schools during his early school years
and preparation for Harvard univer-
! sity to avoid the rough treatment of
| boys in the public schools. He was a
devOtee of all athletic sports at Har-
ward and when he graduated from
that institution in 1880 his health was
very much improved. After extended
! country, studied law for few months.
and then plunged at once into the
maelstrOm of municipal politics. He
was elected in 1881 an assemblyman
| from the Twenty-first assembly dis
| trct of New York. At Albany he was
! promptly dubbed silk stocking and
! Roosevelt, then but % years old, soon
succeeded in making himself a storm
center. His best known work IN the
| Legislature at this time was in con-
nection with the passage of the acts
labolishing the fee system in county Of
fees and in depriving the board of al
Il Of 11i,, Of = |,
mayors appointments. This was a
relic of the Tweed regime.
In 1884 Mr.. Roosevelt went to Chjca-
go as delegate to the republican ma
tional convention. He opposed the
nomination of Blaine, but when Mr..
Blaine became the republican choice
ed for the party candidates success.
After retiring from the Legislature Mr.
/! Roosevelt spent some time at his
ranch in North Dakota.
In 1886 he was again in the turmoil
of New York City politics. Henry
George was candidate for mayor.
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the democrats. Mr.. Roosevelt was put
in the field by the republicans. Mr..
Hewitt Won. Roosevelt next attract
ed notice as a hunter of big game. He
delighted in hunting the grizzly bears
and other fierce animals of the west.
President Harrison in 1889 appoint
service commissioner. President
Cleveland retained him in office al
though Mr.. Roosevelt resigned in 1895 |
to become president of the New York |
board of police commissioners. His |
service as a police commissioner was
of a most strenuous type and he was
credited with effectually stopping the |
police blackmail of saloon keepers.
President Mckinley appointed Mr.. |
Roosevelt assistant secretary of the ma
Wy, which office he resigned at the out
break of hostilities with Spain. Re
turning to the Bad Lands Mr.. Roose-
Welt organized his famous regiment of
Rough Riders for service in Cuba. The
history of Roosevelt and his Rough Ri
ders during the Santiago campaign is
we'll remembered. Returning to the |
United States after the campaign was
over. Col Roosevelt found himself all
ready talked of for the republican
gubernatorial nomination of New York
He was nominated and elected COVER
nor over Augustus Van Wyck, the
democratic candidate, by 1876 votes.
From the governors chair to the
vice presidency was but step, al
though an unwilling one, for Mr. Roose-
welt. He was nominated at Philadel-