Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-06-11

the Admiral Bullock of the Confed
crate navy who brought the southern
states stores of gold from Britain
after the rebellion and turned them
over to the victorious government.
At Harvard Roosevelt was weak
stoop-shouldered, near-sighted, but
nevertheless interested in outdoor ex
ercise. He was graduated in 1880
A few months later he married Alice
Lee of Boston. She died in 1884, leav.
ing little daughter, Alice-now Mrs
Nicholas Longworth.
In 1881 Roosevelt was elected to
the New York general assembly, and
reelected in 1888. He ran Tor speak
er of the assembly. but was licked
by the "stalwarts" of that day
President Arthur's crowd.
After the death of his wife RoOse'
welt moved to the Dakota Bad Lands
and became rancher-but not until
he had been chosen delegate'at-
large to the republican national con-
vention of 1884. In the meantime he
had written and published history
of the War of 1872, and several pa
pers on ornithology and natural his
tory.
His ranch life was the foundation OF
Roosevelt's later popularity. They
took him for tenderfoot-bu not
for long A few weeks after Roose'
welt landed in the Bad Lands bad
man" came into store where he was
talking, whipped out revolver, and
said Dance, you tenderfoot!" Roose-
welt raised his hands as il to comply,
but shot them into the gunman's face
so forcibly that the latter crumpled in
a heap. 1-t. a.. MI
Riding the range, sleeping in the
open, the young rancher" spent two
healthful years. But in 1886 he, re-
turned to New York, which had not
forgotten him, and ran for mayor
against Henry George, single taxer,
and Abram Hewitt, democrat. He
witt was elected. Roosevelt visited
Europe, and married, in London, Miss
Edith Kermit Carew. l
And in the meantime Roosevelt pub
lished Hunting Trips Of a Ranch
man" and a life of Thomas Benton.
President Benjamin Harrison was
attracted by Roosevelt's magazines on
civil service, and offered the young
politician his choice of being head OF
the new civil service commission or
assistant secretary Of state. T. r.
picked the civil service job. He kept
it till 1895, put $4,000 men on the
lists, and tried to keep public service
up to private efficiency. "
Then came the call to the thankless
job of New York police commissioner.
There were two years OF hell Tor
crooked policemen. Blackmailers and
inside politicians. were kicked out.
In 1897 Mckinley invited Roosevelt
to be assistant secretary of the navy.
Roosevelt overhauled things general
", being more of the boss than Secre-
tary Long himself. At the outbreak
of the Spanish war n. R. was Wrang-
ling with ship owners over their prices
for vessels sold to the government.
But desk job was too slow TOR
Roosevelt with war at hand. so
he resigned from the. navy department
and organized a regiment of volun.
teer cavalry-the famous Rough Rid
ers." This was the best Dress.agented
regiment in the war. Leonard Wood
was his chief aid in organizing the
regiment and getting it accepted.
Wood was the first Trough Rider"
colonel. At the end Of the war he
was brigadiergeneral and T. r. was
colonel.
The regiment was on hand at the
storming of San Juan hill, although
other soldiers But popular belief for
years credited Roosevelt and the
Trough Riders" with this feat.
Rooseveh's military fame swept
him into the New York governorship.
AS ibefore, in his boyish assembly
days, he was IN inveterate insurgent;
he wouldn't ne bossed. Senator Platt
couldn't dictate appointments, as was
the custom. Wiseacres began to fear
Roosevelts Eower would land him IN
the presidency after Mckinley won
his second term. Sc they nominated
him for vice president. That job was
recognized as an effectual political
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McKinley's assassination thrust him
into the presidency. His election IN
1904 was a matter of course. WINS.
perjngs of third term were heard
in 1907, but Roosevelt silenced them,
and forced Taft in. Taft carried out
the Roosevelt radical policies-on a
And this brought about
the memorable split of 1912, when the
was stolen from Roosevelt
for Taft, and the Rough Rider started
the progressive party and wrecked
the republican machine. and elected
Wjlson-altholgh carrying a bullet
fired at him by fanatic at MilWall-
kee.
What we're Roosevelt's presidential
achievements? These:
Employers liability act: Northern
Securities victory convention of post
office grafters and public land thieves;
Standard Oil and Tobacco suits; es-
Establishment Of department OF com
merce and labor; doubling of the
navy's tonnage; battleship trip around
the world; intervention and festora'
ton in Cuba; settling OF Alaska
boundary dispute; pure food and drug
and meat inspection acts; "a arbitra-
ton treaties; settlement OF Russo.
Japanese war; settlement OF ldo2
coal strike; and
THE PANAMA CANAL!
Trips into Africa and South Amer
lea, from both Of which he was re-
ported III and dying, furnished spec
tacular episodes in Roosevelts career