Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-01-07

the promotions which this hardy regi-


 the promotions which this hardy regi- ment's gallantry brought about were those of Wood to Brigadier General and Roosevelt to Colonel-and this ti- tie Theodore Roosevelt cherished un- til 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 capable candidate. Roosevelt was nominated Van Wyck, his Demo- cratic opponent, was defeated. The re- forms Roosevelt had favored as As semblyman he now had the opportun- ity to consummate, together with oth- CTS of more importance, and 1t was during this Administration that he is said first to have earned the hostility of corporations. When the Republican national convention was held ill Phila- dclphia in 1900 his party in New York State demanded and attained his nom ination 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 suc- ceeded the former upon the Presi- dents tragic death at the hands of an assassin. Roosevelt retained his pre- Gecessors 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.
 It was thus that t'the man of destiny" idea became associated with his life. Ostensibly, Roosevelt leaving the Gov ernorship of New York to become Vice President, was moving forward from State politics into national politics, 50 his political opponents professed pub licly to believe; but it was their sec ret desire to "shelve" the man ana eliminate him from prominence in their own community, it was said, tha. promped these political foes to obtain for him the Vice Presidential nomination, which he personally did no. desire
 At the height of his public and poli- tical career, during the four years of term for which he had been elected Roosevelt accomplished achievements which historians will rank in the in- ternational and industrial progress ot the country. They included his influen- tial negotiations which. conducted at Portsmouth, N. H., effected between Russia and Japan; maintenance of the Monroe Doctrine at a period when European Powers were interested in the affairs of Venezuela; the recogni- tion of Panama as a Republic and his treaty with Panama by which the ln- ter-oceanio canal through that coun- try was put under way; and the set tlement, through his moral influence in the face of situation in which there was no adequate Fedc,al legis. latiun, of the Pennsylvania ccal mine strike For his part in terminating the Russo-Japanese conflict he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906 Four years later, once mbre a private citizen, he was Special Am bassador from the United States at the funeral of King Edward VII of Eng. land. A rift ill the friendship betwee1 Roosevelt and his successor as Presl- dent William Howard Taft, led tc the formers announcement of his op. position to Mir. Taft's renomination The eX-President's influence had been large in placing MT. Taft in the White House. Now his influence was equal ly strong in preventing MT. Taft from remaining there. Men who had clash ed with the Taft policies quickly ral lied to Roosevelt's support. Roosevelt assembled what he termed as con- structive ideas as opposed to the con servative ones of the so-called Re publican "Old Guard" characterized them with the description Progress sive" and organized the Progressive Party by withdrawing with his follow CTS from the Chicago Convention o1 1912. He became the new party's can didate for President. This split in tho Republican ranks resulted ill Wood row Wilson's election
 Target of Assassin.
 One of the most dramatic incidents in Roosevelt's life occurred durins this campaign. AS he was leaving hotel in Milwaukee, to go to a meet ing hall to make political address a man standing among the spectators in the street fired shot which strucl the Colonel and smashed a rib. Roose welt insisted he was not seriously hur