Semi-weekly herald., 1916-06-12
Roosevelt, a Man
Of Great Ability

T. Roosevelt is the man who put III
1.-THE "ticks" in politics. He's probabl,
the most universally known man il
ithe world.
Inc best news paper reporter il
the world was spoiled when Roosevelt
entered political life-also chack.
erjack press agent, famous explor.
er, crack rifle shot, professional
hunter, an historian, country gentle
man, a soldier a cowboy and few
score of other things.
He is just az much at home dis.
cussing babies and fauna and flor
of Ester Island as he is in the mys.
tsriss of corralIinR delegates and the
habits of dinosauri. He's human
dynamo for energy-the kind of q
man whom you can't imagine ever
was baby or the puny, weak boy he
really was.
The Roosevelt of 1916 is the same
t. R. of 1904--except that he's a lit
TIE stouter, little grayer and maybe
n little more sunburned. His teeth
still snap; he's still "dee-lighted";
things are still "bully" and there are
such things as "mollycoddles" "short
and ugly" words; men with "soft
thands and hard hearts; and "pussy-
Foo6ne' and "Bazantine logothetes"
In this year of 1916 however, T. r.
is no longer the bosom friend of EN-
Iperor Hohenzellern, because of Roos-
evelt's hearty championship of Bel
Fgium.
To the list of Roosevelt haters
might also be added William H. Taft
Senator Tillman, William Barnes,
Bellamy Storer and few more with
lwhom he has had historic set-tos.
| Roosevelt's platform is prepared
mess, with a capital "P", American
l ization" of the people unification of
| endeavor and social betterment. Heart
and soul the Progressive National
Party is with him.
Roosevelt is without doubt the
most picturesque figure in American
public life today.
I His name suggests thousand and
lone unique ctivities-entertain
{of Booker T. Washington in the
White House; carrying around a
black eye he received in boxing en-
lcounter with regular prize fighter
employed as trainer; reformer oil
fspelling; the man who ordered army
officers to ride 80 miles a day at
least one day year-and then went
| and did such a stunt himself to prove
2it wasn't a hardship; most volumin-
Gus message writer that ever occupi-
ed the presidency; inventor of the
Ananias Club; winner of libel suit
against Michigan editor who insinu-
lated that he was a drinker; possessor
iof the right by court, to call william
Barnes political boss, anti race
suicide preacher.
Roosevelt either coined or inspired
the phrases; "Bwana Tumbo", the
f"retum from Elba", "Almagedon",
and "Americanism."
Although now preaching the gospel
lof preparedness and inveighing
against peace at any price, Colonel
Roosevelt was awarded the Noble
peace prize while president, and he
was peacemaker in the Russo-Jap
war as well as between the anthracite
miners and their employers.
Two famous strains of American
blood course through his veins--that
|of the Bullocks of Georgia and the
sturdy, tenacious strains of Glaes
Martaen zen Won Rosenvelt, Dutch
burgher, who came to Nieuw Amster-
dam two yers after Peter Stuyvesant.
Martha Bullock, the Colonel's
mother, was daughter Of the Ad-
miral Bullock who 50 gallantly fought
for the Lost Cause.
Theodore Roosevelt was born on
October 27. 1858, in New York. He
entered Harvard in 1876 weak, sick
ly, 9ear-dsdtsd boy. He determined