Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-01-07
THEODORE ROOsEvE[T's
LIFE FULL OF ACTION
Description OF Former President as
the strenuous One" Was
We'll Applied.
FEATURES OF Ills CAREEls
Developed From Wcnkling Child Into
Strong Man, Hunter, Explorer,
Author, Lecturer and Statesman.
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brought to the presidential Office
greater degree OF energy or more
liked determination to make his ad-
miniStration one or achievement than
ala Theodore Roosevelt.
The reference to him as the siren
uous one" was well applied. Ills career
has left such a vivid Impression upon
tho people OF his time that it is neces-
sary to touch but briefly upon some Of
and interesting life to recall to the
public mind the details of his many ex-
PLOTS and experiences.
after President Mckinley had been
sassinated. Colonel Roosevelt. forty
f 1 afs n S9s
had. Three years later he was elected
as President by the largest popular
vote a President has received.
Thus Roosevelt, sometimes called q
man OF destiny. served for seven years
as the nations chief magistrate. In
subsequent decade the fortunes Of
politics did not favor him. for, again
candidate for Prcsidcnt-this time
leading the Progressive party, which
nc himself had organized when he diff
fcrcd radically with some of the poll
cies OF the Republican party in l9le-
tho Republican candidate. William
Howard TAFT. Woodrow Wilson. Dem
ocrat. was elected
AGREE HIS CHARACTER
REPRESENTED HIGH TYPE
Colonel Roosevelts enemies agreed
with his friends that his life. his char
acter and his writings represented a
high type Of Amcricansim.
or Dutch ancestry. born in New York
City on October %. 1858. in house in
Fast Twentieth street. the baby Theo,.
four children who came to Theodore
and Martha Bulloch Roosevelt The
mother was of Southern stock, and III"
father Of Northern. situation which
Jr.'s boyhood was not, allowed to, in
children during the civil war days.
So frail that he vas not privileged
neshberhood. Roosevelt ctr was as ,l n r,d
privately In New York and during
travels on, which his parents took the
at his home provided him Viii. physi.
cal exercise with which he combatcd
troublesome asthma
His father. glass importer and n
man OF means. was his constant COM
panion; he kept a diary: he read SO
much history and tctional books Of ad-
venture that he was known as a book
worm: he took boxing lessons; he was
OF seventeen he entered ii Harvard d' III: ri
rersitT. There he was not as prorni-
nent as some others In, an athletic
way, as II is not recorded that he
made" the baseball and football teams
but his puny body had undergone a met
became one OF the champion boxers Of
tho college.
This REMARKABLE physical develop
which took place shortly after he LEFT
Harvard In 1850 lie went To Europc
Was elected a member OF. OF the Tho =" Ain pnte
Club Of London. an orGa n iaa lon OF
OF adventure.
ONE OF HIS SONS
GANI: LIFE: IN WAX
few months after his graduation.
Roosevelt married Miss Alice Lee. Of
Boston: She died in 1854. leaving one
ihii1 A Yt nov ne WIFE OF Repf essen
IN 1881 Roosevelt married. Miss Ia
Kermit Carow, OF New York and to
4 them h'e children were born--Ethel,
four sons-Thcodorc. Jr.. Kermit
Archibald and Quentin. the latter OF
shom was killed in an aviation BATH.
The public career OF the man who
was TO become President began not
fcssion was law. but the activities mat
were 10 come left him no time in which
to practice IT,. In 1852. 1883 and 1881
he was elected TO the New York state
Assembly. where his efforts OF, behalf
reform attracted attention. II When sr V the
Hisespublican National Convention OF
man vas "; sh hei Gin In Chicago he was chair
.Attcr TINS experience lie dropped out
or politics for two years. Going West.
divided his lime between no." ontd S@q
crary work. Here he qY aid Tic ana fnn, H.
tion for his series Of books. The Win
HIRE OF I'm inc sWest." which was pub
.. volumes of kindred character. W '''''
WAS DEFEATED IN
CAMPAIGN FOR MAYOR
Returning TO New York he became
in 1886. lie was defeated. rrcsi dSnt
Harrison in 1859 appointed him a linen mem n.
Der Of the United States Civil service
Commission and President Cleveland
c cosianuS him IN this office, which he
resigned IN 1925 to become New York
office Roosevelt said Mt the he time i'm 'I hs
il was to be done IN The hur TSs that
LOT ! don't like clostcr life" Honesty
t Mas the ae wa ,hc OF this adn,inis,ra-
pancy became memorable through the
ret9inm,s ne inaugurated. attracting the
tion which was obscure in compa rison
WiIn me events to come.
in genera ilquoff , tbpaiiic' gambling. vice
me city in the face Of corrupt poiiticai
1ffp ppos and the reputation he estab-
sonal selection by President Mckinley
as s,7 assistant Snsr secretary Of the Navy in
can War broke out.
.,, nne Roosevelt hm temperament did not
cabinet t"G nof man to retain Il deputy
something more exciting. Leonard
H MeeGj now cI w9iaj,2rEensra was then
one OF Rooscvelts staunchest friends.
WOOD AND ROOSEVELT
ORGANIZE ROUGH RIDERS
The famous Rough Riders were or
ganized by Wood and Roosevclt~a
bnnd or ilghting men, the mention of
whose name to-day suggests immodi
ately the word Roosevelt" Thny
came out Of the plainsmcn. min.
crs. rough and ready lighters. Who
we're natural marksmcn. and Wood be-
had become familiarly called by the
company with the regulars OF the army
they took transports TO Cuba. landed
jat Santiago and were soon cnrnrcd
lin the thick of battle.
= Among the promotions which this
{ hardy regiments gnllantry brought
! about were those OF Wood to brigadcr-
general and Roosevelt to colonc!--tnd
this title Theodore Roosevelt cherished
until the end. Some of The Tough
Riders formed tho military escort when
he was elected President n few years
later.
When Cuba had ben liberated Roosc-
velt returned TO New York. y gubcr-
natorial campaign was in swing with
lheSRepuhlican party in need OF a cap
abl& candidate. Roosevelt was nomi-
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