Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-01-10

transports to Cuba, landed at santiago,
and were soon engaged in the tnlck OF
, battle. Among the promotions which
his hardy regiments gallantry brought
about were those of Wood to brigadier
general and Roosevelt to colonel-and
this title Theodore Roosevelt cherished
until the end. Some of the Rough Rid
ers formed the military escort when he
was elected president a few years later.
When Cuba had been liberated,
Roosevelt returned to New York. A
lgubernatorial campaign was in swing,
with the Republican party in need of
a capable candidate. Roosevelt was
nominated. Van Wyck, his Democratic
opponent, was defeated. The reforms
Roosevelt had favored as assemblyman
he now had the opportunity to con-
summate, together with others of more
Importance, and it was during this ad-
ministration that he is said first to
have earned the hostility of corpora
tions. When the Republican national
convention was held in Philadelphia in
1900 his party in New York state de-
manded and attained his nomination
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 presi-
dents tragic death at the hand Of an
assassin. Roosevelt retained his pre-
decessor's cabinet as his own and he
kept in office the ambassadors and
ministers whom Mckinley had ap-
pointed. AS much as two years before
the presidential campaign Of 1904 Re-
publican organizations in various states
began endorsing him as their next
candidate.
1t was thus that "the man Of des4
tiny" idea became associated with his
life. Ostensibly, Roosevelt, leaving the
governorship of New York to become
vice president, was moving forward
from state politics into national poll
tics, so his political opponents profess
sed publicly to believe; but it was their
secret desire to "shelve" the man and
eliminate him from prominence in
their own community, it was said, that
prompted these political foes to obtain
ton, which he personally did not de-
sire.
At the height Of his public and po-
litical career, during the four years of
ed, Roosevelt accomplished achieve
ments which historians will rank high
in the international and industrial pro-
gress Of the country. They included
his influential negotiations, conducted
at Portsmouth, n. H., effected peace
between Russia and Japan; mainten-
ance of the Monroe doctrine at a Pc
riod when European powers were in
terested in the affairs of Venezuela;
| the recognition. Of Panama as repub-
lie, and his treaty with Panama, by
which the inter- oceanic canal through
that country was put under way; and
the settlement through his moral influ-
ence in the face of a situation in which
there was no adequate Federal legis-
lation, of the Pennsylvania coal mine
strike. For his part in terminating the
Russo japanese conflict he was award
ed the Nobel peace prize in 1906.
Four years later, once more private
citizen, he was special ambassador
from the United States at the funeral
of King Edward VIZ Of England.
Breaks With Taft.
A rift in the friendship between
Roosevelt and his successor as presi-
dent William Howard Taft, led to
the formers announcement of his op-
position to Mr.. Tafts denomination.
The ex-president's influence had been
large in placing Mr.. Taft in the White
House. Now his influence was equally
strong in preventing Mr.. Taft from re-
naming there. Men who had clashed
with the Taft policies quickly rallied to
Roosevelt's support. Roosevelt assem-
bled what he termed as constructive
dS OPpOSSo " SOiiSSi NoliNS
ones Of the so-called Republican "Old
Guard" characterized them with the
description pr ,gressive" and organic
ed the Progres i've party by withdraw
ing with his 70 lowers from the Chica-
go convention Of 1912. He became the
new party's candidate for president.
This split in the Republican ranks re-
suited in Woodrow Wilson's election.
One of the most dramatic incidents
in Roosevelts life occurred during this
campaign. AS he was leaving hotel
: in Milwaukee, to go to meeting hall
to make a political address, man
standing among the spectators in the
; street fired shot which struck the
colonel and smashed a rib. Roosevelt
; his automobile conveyed him to the
hall. There he spoke to an audi cnce
which had knowledge of what had hap
pened-sobbing women and grave-fac-
ed men shaken with emotion by his ap-
; pearance under such circumstances
, Examination Of the wound showed il
t was serious and the candidate was hur-
ried by special train to Chicago fol
treatment. Though he speedily recov-
cred the bullet was never removed
=, The assassin was sent to an asylum fol
e the insane.
Roosevelt after leaving the White
5 House devoted his life largely to liter
= rary work, hunting and exploration
t He became contributing editor to the
, Outlook in 1909, continuing this fol
five years. and later held editorial po.
: sitions with the Metropolitan and the
= Kansas City Star. From 1882 to 1871
n he published about fifty volumes Of
= works covering the wide range of ma
val history, hunting, biography tho
4 Rough Riders, Americe1ism, national
. ism, conservation of womanhood ant
4 childhood, animals, exploration, the
e world war and Americas participation
in it, and his autobiography. His hunt: