The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-07

assistants in prosecuting the campaign in Alabama, and particularly in the state headquarters in Birmingham.
 1897. A year later the Spanish-American war broke out
 The Roosevelt temperament did not all low the man to retain a deputy cabi- net position with war offering something more exciting. Leonard Wood, now a major-general, was then President Mo knley's physician and one of Roose- velt's stanchest friends.
 The famous Rough Riders were organ ized by Wood and Roosevelt-a band Of fighting men the mention of whose name today suggests immediately the word Roosevelt" They came out of the West-plainSmen, miners, rough and ready fighters who were natural marks men-and Wood became their colonel and Teddy as he had become familiar ly 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 engaged in the thick of battle. Among the promotions which this hardy regi- ments gallantry brought about were those of Wood to brigadier- general and Roosevelt to colonel-and this title Theo- dore Roosevelt cherished until the end. Some of the Rough Riders formed the military escort when he was elected President few years later.
 GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK When Cuba had been liberated, Roose- welt returned to New York A guberna- torial campaign was in swing, with the republican party in need of capable candidate. Roosevelt was nominated VanWyck, his democratic opponent, was | 6nfn tr favored as assemblyman he now had the opportunity to consummate together with others of more importance, and it was during this administration that he is said to first have earned the hostility of corporations. When the republican national convention was held in Phila- tdelphia in 1900 his party in New York state demanded and attained his nomi- nation for Vice President on the ticket with William Mckinley. In November of that year this ticket was elected. | The policies of Mckinley, Roosevelt endeavored to carry out after he sue ] ceeded the former upon the President s tragic death at the hands of an assas- ] sin. Roosevelt retained his predecessor's s l cabinet as his own and he kept in office l the ambassadors and ministers whom Mckinley had appointed. As much as 1 two years before the presidential cam
 
 various states began indorsing him as their next candidate
 It was thus that 'the man of destiny" ! idea became associated with his life Os- 1 tensibly, Roosevelt, leaving the govern ship of New York to become Vice Presi- kdent, was moving forward from state 1 politics into national politics, so his po- 1 ltlcal opponents professed publicly to believe; but it was their secret desire ''Sha1Vnh a mo nd al; from prominence in their own communi- l ty, it was said that prompted those political foes to obtain for him the Vice Presidential nomination., which he per- sonally did not desire.
 At the height of his public and political career, during the four years of the term for which he was elected, Roose- Welt accomplished achievements which historians will rank high in the interna- tional and industrial progress of the country. They included his influen- tial negotiations, which, conducted at Portsmouth, N. H., effected peace be- tween Russia and Japan; maintenance of the Monroe doctrine at a period when European powers were interested in the affairs of Venezuela; the recognition of Panama as republic and his treaty with Panama by which the interoceanic canal through that country was put un-
 
 moral influence in the face of a situation in which there was no adequate federal legislation, of the Pennsylvania coal mine strike. For his part in terminat- ing the Russo-Japanese conflict he was awarded the Nobel peace prize in 1906. Four years later. once more a private citzen he was special ambassador from the United States at the funeral of King Edward VII of England.
 
 BREAK WITH TAFT A rift in the friendship of Roosevelt and his successor as President, William Howard Taft led to the formers an- nouncement of his opposition to MT. Taft's renomnation. The ex-President' S influence had been large in placing Mr. Taft in the White House. Now his in fluence was equally as strong in pre- venting MT. Taft from remaining there. Men who had clashed with the Taft politics quickly rallied to Roosevelt's support. Roosevelt assembled what he termed constructive ideas as opposed to the conservative ones of the o-called republican "Old Guard,'' characterized them with the description progressive" and organized the progressive party by withdrawing with his followers from the Chicago convention of 1912 He became the new party's candidate for President.