Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-06-20

e Hu oouIiueu IlHl dS. JD HIS poll 'ule of the machine? Would he he 'ou1d not.
 thusiasm and feats of daring. H, engaged in fist fights, chased hors, thieves, punched cattle and lived tt it's fullest the rugged life then pre- valent in the West.
 Hears of His Nomination.
 Roosevelt's recall from the Wes came in the fall of 1886. He read il New York newspaper, long delayed in transmission, that he had beer chosen candidate for the mavorality O. New York by the Independents. His candidacy was seconded by the Re publican party.
 The young rancher immediatel. started at once for the scene of the political battle. There was smal chance of his election in a constit tuency so strongly Democratic, but he made a memorable fight and accepted his defeat with good grace.
 Following his defeat he sailed fol Europe, where, shortly after his ar rival in England he married Mis-. Edith Kermit Carow. Roosevelt ha( known Miss Carow from his early boyhood. She was twenty-five and ht had just passed his twenty -eightl birthday at the time of the marriage.
 On his return from his honeymoon in 1888, MT. Roosevelt took the stum1 for General Harrison. And when tht newly elected president was forming his cabinet he offered his services Roosevelt hoped to be appointed sec retary of state, but MT. Blaine, who had been appointed chief of that de partment remembered the strong figh made against him in the National Re- publican convention of 1884 and ob jected to his proposed help meet. liar rison offered Roosevelt place in tho Civil Service Commission in lieu o the State Department job and Roose- velt accepted.
 The Civil Service Commission was then little known institution. His new duties, therefore, offered him al most virgin field of endeayor and he performed them SO we'll that several important measures looking toward the. firm establishment of the civil service were made during his six year tenure of office. = Police Commissioner.
 He next bobbed up as president ot the New York Police Commission un7 der, Mayor Strong, who was elected bA the Independents. He held this office from May, 1885 to April 1897, and his administration was marked by viz orous and we'll directed campaign that brought him more than ever before his neighbbrs and friends, the citizens ot New York. -,
 After his two year service as police head, Roosevelt again turned tt Washington. The Republican party was firmly entrenched there and h( felt this services could be used tt greater advantage in the nationa field, so he resigned his municipa position in New York for an appoint ment as Assistant Secretary of the Navy.
 It has been said that this position was rendered the dynamic New York CT because it offered little chance te do harm" But fate in the shape of the Spanish American war inter. vened and again gave him an op portunity to present himself in the fore front of the fray.
 Mir. Roosevelt, in fact became pro. phet and leader almost immediately after his appointment. He made nc secret of his firm conviction that af fairs in Cuba were in such a precari, ous state that intervention ill the is land by the United States would be necessary, and in order to forestal the emergency he set about advocating reforms in the navy.
 He organized a system of rank and promotion among naval officers; advo- cated vital changes in the target prac' tice of United States war vessels, and sought in every way to cut the rec tape that bound that slow going de partment.
 With the destruction of the Maine ir Havana Harbor his duties and re- sponsibilities increased a thousand fold. War was inevitable and he plunged into the work of preparing the navy for the expected encounter ...->.. Ills 1oct occi cnn1ont in