The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-16
ARIZONA BREEZE INCH|CAGO CROWD Sturges Had an Adventure
 With Roosevelt HAS STIRRING TALES Tells Some Exciting Experiences in the Old Territory-Came of
 Sturdy Old Connecticut
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Boston, June 15.-(Speeial. IA Chi cago dispatch to the Transcript says: 'grheodore Roosevelt Is the only man who ever told me to go to hell. and swear can't get over it. But he was then President of the United States and what could I dor"
 But William s. Sturges. national com mitteeman from Arizona, has much be- sides this unique distinction to make him interesting. When one says that MT. Sturges is one of the most picturesque figures attending the republican nation al convention, the words are not intend Cd to convey that Mr. sturgess is freak ish. or eccentric or anything of the sort. He is fascinating to the hlase as- sociate of professional politicians be- cause he is natural and honest and open, and speaks his mind without fear of consequences. because he has nothing to conceal and no man to fear. With the frank, clear eyes of a child. powerfully built, with close cropped grayish beard and the swing of vitality in every move ment. this breezy son of the godlen west is a refreshment in himself against the scores of city bred traders. in dollars and votes who seem as much in place as sturges would appear on the back of free bounding horse.
 "rhe moment my work Is done want to get out of here, where l can breathe, ' says Committeeman Sturges. T live 70 miles from the nearest town, and I am used to doing my own thinking, out alone under tho stars. l have no use for the convention. but have my work to do until we are through. Then l shall light out for home"
 Forefathers Did Great Things
 Of Connecticut ancestry MT. sturges was born in Ohio, where his maternal grandfather Areas Nye. was the first white child born in the state, at Fort Marietta. and his own father raised the first company of soldiers to enlist for the whole period of the Civil War. The government was al first hesitant to ac- cept them, as the call had been for only 90 days, but the company finally was enrolled, as precious letter signed by simon Cameron attests. This was the Twenty-fourth Ohio; the Twenty third was commanded by William Me- Kinley, and the elder Sturges and she future President were lifelong comrades in peace and in war.
 The Sturges family were fighting pat riots from their early days The most prized profession Of the Arizona visitor Is photograph of a gravestone bearing the legend. 'Zachariah Sturges shot by he British, aed S49 Solomon Sturges Co, were one of the great banking houses of Chicago when the Civil war broke out, and Solomon Sturges financed the Grant campaign.
 q want to live until Richmond has fallen" said the old man, as he lay on his dying bed. Richmond fell under the thunders of the Grant artillery, and Sturges died the next day Before his death he directed his sons to tear up S400, poo worth of notes which the Unit ed States government owed him. II Is little wonder that man of such stock is the embodiment of rugged hon esty and patriotism, and that his repub- licanism Is of the kind that sees noth- ing to admire fin the political heroics Of the veterans" of the Spanish war The issue today is not a question of politics, it is question of patriotism,' says MT. Sturges. "The question is whether the ambition of one man is to be permitted 10 override the whole repub- lican party and everything 1t stands for. That Is the real question wo are called upon to decide"
 MT. Sturges went to Arizona 32 years ago. He had position and the prestige of a great family name to bring him success, where he made his home but, al the grandson of Solomon Sturges, he wanted to make a name of his own, in a place where ancestry did not count and personal merit did. He took up ranching and mining and he now rides over the TO miles from home to town fin his own automobile.