Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-27
MR. ROOSEVELT'S YOUNG MEN.

politician than any OF the other boys
whom Mr.. Roosevelt has appointed to i'm
portant Office He belongs IN the same class
with Elmer Dover. They both believe in
clean and decent politics, of course but
! neither could quite be counted as of the
Rooseveltian school.
Reynolds has divided his time between
Journalism and politics since he was mere
boy. He Is not yet quite thirty-five years
of age. Born in Saratoga. n. Y. he studied
in the public schools and In 1890 was grad
uated from Dartmouth College He launch
ed at once into journalism. Going TO Bos-
ton, he secured position as reporter on
the Advertiser and Record. After doing
city assignments for time he was given
the legislative assignment. and there he
was In his element. He rapidly acquired a
wide acquaintance with Massachusetts re-
publicans. and his work in reporting legts-
lative proceedings won him considerable
reputation. Two years later he was sent TO
Washington as correspondent Of his papers.
which, by the way. is pretty quick rise In
Journalism.
During the three years he spent In Wash
ington his acquaintance broadened from a
state to a national one and his reputation
kept pace with his acquaintance. His re-
ports of the progress OF the Wilson-Gorman
tariff bill attracted so much attention that
he was offered position as editorial writer
on the New York Press. He served a year
or more in this capacity. and his editorial
attacks on Tammany and Tammany meth
DDS were considered among the strongest
ever written.
In 1897 he was selected for secretary of
| the Massachusetts state republican COM
| mittee. and since then has been in active
politics. He has been one of Senator
Lodges chief lieutenants. and it was large
J ly upon Lodges recommendation that he
was appointed to his present Office Presi-
dent Roosevelt knew the young man well,
however, and admired his ability.
James Rudolph Garfield, commissioner of
corporations in the Department of Com
merce and Labor. is the elder brother in
Mr.. Roosevelt's family OF boys" In fact,
his years are almost as many as those OF
| the President himself and it is only by
| courtesy that he really can be classed as a
| boy at all. This classification is accorded
him probably because he is young look
ing and because many people call him
Jimmy" A quarter of a century ago,
when their father was President of the
United States, the Garfield boys" were
the most widely knewn youngsters in
America, If not in the world.
1t was a pretty heavy handicap for
young man to have, that of being the son of
a greatly beloved and cruelty murdered
President. That young Garfield was strong
enough to overcome 1t and to make place
for himself on personal merit Is abundant
evidence that he has some pretty sterling
stuff in his makeup.
President Roosevelt and Mr.. Garfield have
known each other Intimately for a good
many years. Both are reformers when it
comes to questions political. and they hold
q good many other tastes and beliefs in
common. Garfield's advanced education
was secured in Williams College and the
Columbia Law School in New York. 1t was
in New York that Roosevelt and Garfield
first met. The former was police commits
sioner, and Garfield became interested in
some of the reforms he working out.
Later, when Roosevelt was governor of
| New York he asked Garfield to come to
Albany to discuss with him new enaCtments
in Ohio for the taxing of corporations and
inheritances.
1t was as member of the Ohio senate
that Garfield first attracted public attention
to his abilities. He was the author OF
BILL which became law, requiring cand-
dates for public office to file sworn state
ments of their expenses in campaigns and
limiting the amounts which they might
eXpend in the pursuit of office. The pur-
pose was laudable one, but the thing was
a failure in practice, its chief effect being
to make perjurers out of oftice-seekers. The
law has since been repealed. He also
drafted and vigorously prosecuted a civil
service act for Ohio, but the machine poll
ticianS defeated 1t.
Garfield admits that early in life he was
very much inclined to be a mugwump but
finally concluded that If ever he was to ac-
complish anything in the way of reform he
would have to accomplish 1t through the in
strumentality of the republican party. In
I this respect his experience was a good deal