Bisbee daily review., 1919-01-07

 dent by the largest popular vote g president has received.
 Thus Roosevelt, sometimes called a man of destiny. served for seven years as the nations chief magistrate In a subsequent decade the fortunes of politics did not favor him for, again a candidate for president-this time leading the progressive party, which he himself had organized, when he diff fered radically with some of the poll cies of the Republican party in 1912 he went down 10 defeat. William How ard Taft. Woodrow Wilson, democrat was elected.
 Colonel Roosevelts enemies agreed with his friends that his life. his char. acter and his writings. represented a high type of Americanism.
 Born in 1858
 Of Dutch ancestry. born in New York city on October 27. 1858, Tn house on East Twentieth street. the baby Theodore was a weakling. He was one of four children who came to Theodore and Martha Bullock Roosevelt. The mother was of south ern stock and the father of northern, a situation which. during the early years of Theodore, juniors boyhood was not allowed to interfere with the family life of these children during the Civil war days.
 So frail that he was not privileged to associate with the other boys in his neighborhood, Roosevelt was tu- tored privately in New York and dur ing intervals on which his parents took the children abroad. A porch gymnasium at his home provided him with physical exercise, with which he combatted a troublesome asthma. His father. a glass importer and man or means, was his constant companion; he kept a diary; he read so much history and fictional books lof ad- venture that he was known as book worm: he took boxing lessons; he was an amateur naturalist: and at the age of r he entered Harvard university.
 There he was not as prominent as some others in an athletic way, as 1t is not recorded that he made" the baseball and football teams, but his puny body had undergone metamor- phosis and before graduation he be- came one of the champion boxers Of the college. This remarkable physi- cal development was Emphasized by something which took place shortly after he left Harvard in 1880. He went to Europe, climbed the Matter horn, and as a result was elected member of the Alpine club of London -an organization of men who had performed notable feats of adventure.
 First Wife Died in 1884
 A few months after his graduation Roosevelt married Alice Hathaway of Boston. She died in 1884, leaving one child, Alice, now the wife of Rep resentative Nicholas Dongworth of Ohio. In 1886 Roosevelt married Miss Edith Kermit Carow, of New York, and to them five children were born Ethel, now the wife of Dr. Richard Derby. and four sons. Theodore, IT,, Kermit. Archibald and Quentin
 The public career of the man who was to become president, began not long after he left college. His pro- fession was law. but the activities that were to come, left him no time in which to practice it. In 1882, 1883 and 1884 he was elected to the New Nork state assembly, where his ef- forts on behalf of good government and civil service reform attracted at tention. When the republican na- tional convention of 1884 was held in Chicago, he was made chairman of the New York state delegation.
 After this experience he dropped out of politics for two years. Going west, he purchased ranches along the Little Missouri river. in North Da- kota, and divided his time between out door sports particularly hunting, and literary work Here he laid the foundation for his series of books. fThe Winning of the West" which was published from 1889 10 1898, and of other volumes of kindred char acter.
 Defeated for Mayor
 Returning to New York he became the republican candidate for mayor, in 1886 He was defeated. Presi- dent Harrison appointed him mem Der of the United States civil service commission and President Cleveland continued him in this office. which he resigned in 1895 to become New York city's police commissioner.
 "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 don't like cloister life" Honesty was the watchwOrd of th:s administration. and the two years of his occupancy became memorable through the reforms he inaugural ed. attracting the nations attention while holding a position which was obscure in comparison with the events to come. Illicit liquor traf- fic, gambling, vice in geneTal-of these evils he purged the city in the face Of corrupt political opposition, ana the reputation he established as a reformer won him the personal se- lection by President Mckinley as assistant secretary of the navy, in 1897. A year later the Spanish American war broke out.
 The Roosevelt temperament did not allow the man 10 retain a deputy cabinet position with war offering something more exciting Leonard