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candidate for Mayor.

Candidatc Tor Mayor.
Returning to New York he became
the Republican candidate for mayor
in 1886. He was defeated. Presi-
a member of the United States Civil
service Commission and President
Cleveland continued him in this Of
fee, which he resigned in 1895 to be-
come New York's police commission
er.
s "a thing that attracted me TO this
Office" Roosevelt said at the time he
accepted this appointment. was that
it was to be done in the hurly-burly,
for 1 don't like cloister life" Hon
Eesty was the ~watchword Of this ad-
m~inistration, and the two yeors Of his
occupancy became memorable
through the reforms he inaugurated,
attracting the nations attention while
holding a position which was obscure
in comparison with the events to
come. Illicit liquor traffic. gambling.
vice in general-of these evils he
purged the city in the face Of COR
reputation he established as a reform
er won him the personal selection by
President Mckinley as assistant Sec
rotary Of the navy. in 1897. A year
later the spanish-American war
broke out.
The Roosevelt temperament did
not allow the man to retain a deputy
cabinet position with war offering
something more exciting. Leonard
Franco. was then President McKin-
ley's physician and one Of Roosevelt's
s~taunchest friends.
The famous Rough Riders were or
ganized by Wood and Roosevelt
band of lighting men the mention Of
whose name today suggests immedi-
ately the word Roosevelt" They
came out Of the west-plainsmen,
miners. rough and ready fighters who
became their colonel and Teddy" as
he had become Familiarity called by
the public. their lieutenant-colonel.
In company with the. regulars Of the
army they took transports to Cuba,
landed at Santiago and were soon en-
gagged in the thick of battle. Among
the promotions which this hardy regi-
ment's gallantry brought about were
those Of Wood to brigadier-generai
title Theodore Roosevelt cherished
until the end. Some Of the>Rough
Riders formed the military escort
when he was elected president a few
years later.
When Cuba had been liberated.
Roosevelt returned to New York. A
gubernatorial campaign was in swing,
With the Republican party in. need of
a capable candidate. Roosevelt was
cratic opponent, was defeated. The
reforms Roosevelt had favored as as
semblyman he now had the oppor-
tunity to consummate, together with
others of more importance. n it
was during this administration that
he is said first to have earned the
hostility of corporations. When the
Republican national convention was
held in Philadelphia in 1900 his par
ty in New York state demanded and
attained his nomination for vice presi-
dent on the ticket with William Nc
Kinley. In November Of that veal this
ticket, was elected.
The policies of Mckinley, Roosevelt
endeavored to carry out after he sue
ceeded the former Upon the presi-
dents tragic death at the hands of an
assassin. Roosevelt retained his pre-
decessor's cabinet as his own and ne
kept in office the ambassadors and
ministers whom Mckinley had APP
pointed. AS much as two years be-
fore the presidential campaign in
1904 Republican organizations in va
rious states began endorsing him as
their next candidate.
Mar OF Destiny.
1t was thus that 1.-THE man, of
destiny idea became associated with
his life. Ostensibly, Roosevelt, leav-
ing the governorship Of New York to
become vice president. was moving
forward from state politics into ma
t1onal politics, so his political oppon-
ents professed publicly to believe; but
1t was their secret desire to "shelve"
the man and eliminate him from
prominence in their own community,
1t was said. that prompted these poll
tical foes to obtain for him the vice
presidential nomination, which he
personally did not desire.
At the height OF his public and
political career. during the four years
of the term for which he had been
elected, Roosevelt Accomplished
achievements which historians will
rank high In the international and in
dustrial progress of the country.
Ihey included his influential nego-
tlatlons which, conducted at Ports
mouth, N. H., effected peace between
Russia and Japan; maintenance Of
the Monroe doctrine at a period when
Euiopeah powers were interested in
me a1airs of Venezuela; the recogn,-
tton OF panama as a republic and his
treaty with Panama by which the
1~nter-oceanic canal through that
country was put under way: and The |
settlement, through his moral inf1u-
ence IN the face Of a situation in
winch there was no adequate federal
legislation. of the Pennsylvania coal
mine strike. For his part in termi-
natlng the Russo-Japanese conflict he
vas awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in
1906. -Four years later, once more a
pa!vate citizen, he was special am
na s IRON the United States at
England. o WI VI
A rift in the h
Roosevelt and his successor ,e 49,
cent: William Howard TAFT. lea t.
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