Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-06-20

tihehudple lO ofueTS! MT. Roosevelt, V
 Bosses Antagonized. sl do not number party loyalty among the ten commandments" said he, and his troubles with the bosses began
 He was twenty-three when he took his seat in the state legislature at Albany. He was unknown and alone very much alone. Yet within a short time he was one of it's most notable members
 His first imbroglio. of note arose around the report of railroad bill by the railroad committee of which Roosevelt was a member. The orders from aboves were to 'bottle it up." The railroads did not like the measure and the majority of the machine men on the railroad committee showed signs of favoring their instructions.
 But MT. Roosevelt intervened. He asked to see the bill and calmly plac- ed it in his pocket, declaring his in- tention of making minority report on the measure to the assembly. His action threatened personal encoun- ter, but in the end the machine men agreed to make report, with the re- suit that the bill was bottled up in the assembly instead of in the committed
 The fame of the young legislators daring won him many friends, howev- CT, and though the measure was as eff fectually killed in open session as it would have been in committee, the fight he made showed plainly his cali bre.
 Another instance of his early state legislative career was the fight he made upon the bosses in the matter of impeaching a corrupt judge. Roose- velt stood alone in the fight. The judge was machine sman-a man to be shielded. But Roosevelt arose time after time and demanded that his judicial record be investigated.
 On the first vote the assembly was overwhelmingly against the investiga- tion. Rooseelt kept on fighting At the end of week the papers took up the fight and then the people. The result was that on the eighth day publicity swayed the legislators and they reversed themselves, registering an overwhelming majority for the in5 vestigation. .
 Mr. Rooseelt was twd. years in the state legislature. becoming the leader of his party and one of the most in- f!uential men of the assembly. He had thoroughly organized his district and succeeded in electing his dele gates to the National Republican Con- vention of 1884. He himself. was elect ed delegate-at-large from the Elm pire State and his fellows conferred upon him the office of chairman.
 X Young Fighter.
 At the convention MT. Roosevelts menal. He was twenty-five years old and perhaps the youngest member of the national body. Despite his youth, however he entered the fight with viz or and vim, opposing the National Committees choice for temporary chairman and practically forcing the selection of negro delegate for that position.
 He lost the great battle of tie nat ional meeting, however. Both lie and his fellow delegates had made . strenuous fight against the nomination of James G. Blaine for president Their grounds seemed to them to b. beyond reproach but in spite of their fight Blaine was nominated, both Roosevelt and his fellows capitulat- ing and casting their votes for the popular choice rather than follow the action of other delegates who broke with the Republican party.
 With Blaines defeat and the cleo ton of Grover Cleveland, Roosevelt sought ranch, and retired from poli- tics for the time being. The ranch was in North Dakota.
 He now entered upon term of sor- row and disappointment. His party was in eclipse and he was forced into political oblivion. In October of 1884. his mother passed away. to be follow two days later by his wife.
 Ranching became Rooseyelt's busi- ness rather than his pleasure. He bought cattle farm and entered up- the rugged life. of plainsman, work ing and riding with bis men.
 There are many stories told of this period of Roosevelt's career. From g tenderfoot, recruit from the Ahete East he speedily won the respect and admiration of his fellows by his en-