Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-06-25

booker family, and his mother was a
descendant of Archibald Bullock, first
president of Georgia during the
Revolution.
AS a lad Roosevelt was exceed
inglv frail from a physical viewpoint.
He was sent to private schools during
his early school years and preDaration
for Harvard university to avoid the
rough treatment of boys in the public
schools. He was a devotee of all ath-
letic sports at Harvard and when he
graduated from that institution in
1880 his health was very much i'm
proved. After extended travel in
Europe, be returned to this country.
studied law for a few months, and
then plunged at once into the mael
strom of municipal politics. He was
elected in 1881 an assemblyman from
the Twenty-first assembly district of
| New York. At Albany he was prompt
ly dubbed ''silk stocking and q
freak of a popular election. Mr..
Roosevelt, but 90 wears old, soon sue
ceeded in making himself storm GEN.
ter. His best known work in leoisla-
ture at this time was IN connection
with the passage of the acts abolish
ing the fee system in county offices
and in depriving the board of alder
men of their veto power of the may
or's appointments. This was relic
of the Tweed regims.
In 1884 Mr.. Roosevelt went to Chi
cago as a delegate to the republican
national convention. He opposed tho
nomination of Blaine, but when Mr..
Blaine became the republican choice,
Mr.. Roosevelt fell into line and work
ed for the party candidate 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 a candidate for mayor.
A braham S. Hewitt was the nominee
of the democrats. Mr.. Roosevelt was
put in the field by the republicans.
Mr.. Hewitt won Roosevelt next at
tracted 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 appointed
Mr.. Roosevelt United States civil SER
vice commissioner. President Cleve-
land retained him in office, although
Mr.. Roosevelt resigned in 1895 to be
come president of the New York board
of police commissioners. His service
as police commissioner was of most
strenuous type and he was credited
with effectually stopping the police
blackmail Of saloonkeepers,
President Mckinley appointed Mr..
Roosevelt assistant secretary of the
navy, which office he resigned at the
outbreak of hostilities with Spain.
Returning to the Bad Lands Mr..
Roosevelt organized his famous regi-
ment of Rough Riders for service in
Cuba. The history of Roosevelt and
his Rough Riders during the Santiago
campaign is well remember Re.
turning to the United States after the
campaign was over, Col. Roosevelt
found himself already talked of for
the gubernatorial nomin alton of New
York. He was nominated and elected
governor over Augustus Van Wyck,
: the democratic candidate, by II, 1856
: votes.
From the governors chair to the
; vice presidency was but step, al
though an unwillingly one, for Mr..
Roosevelt. He was nominated at
Philadelphia jane 81. 1900, for the
second highest Office in the Gift of the
people. Mr., Roosevelt. it is said,
was unwillingly to have his name
presented TO the convention, declar-
ing that he did not desire the nomina-
ton. There was great popular de-
mand for his nomination, however,
and he finally Welded He had served
| but little more than six months as
vice president when the assassination
} of President Mckinley resulted in his
elevation to the executive chair.
The wife of President Roosevelt was
J Miss Edith Kermit Carew. The pres.
ident has six children. The eldest,
Miss Alice, is now twenty years old.
) The others are Theodore Roosevelt. jr. :,
now sixteen; Kermit, aged fourteen ;
Ethel, - years old, Archibald, nine,
aud Quiutin, six, The president has
been twice married, Miss Alice being
the child of his first wife, who was
Miss Alice Lee of Boston.
SKETCH OF SEN. FAIRBANKS.
There will be no opposition to the
nomination of Senator Fairbanks, of
Indiana, for vice-president. all others