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, itary escort when he was elected
president 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 a capable candidate. Roose-
welt was nominated. Van Wyck,
his democratic opponent, was de-
feated. The reforms Roosevelt had
favored as assemblyman he now had
the opportunity to consummate, to-
gether with others of more i'm
portance, and it was during this ad-
ministration that he is said first to
have earned the hostility of corpora
tons. When the republican national
convention was held in Philadelphia
in 1900 his party in New York state
demanded and attained his nomina-
ton for vice president on the ticket
with William Mckinley. In Novem-
Der of that year this ticket was
elected.
The policies of Mckinley, Roose-
welt endeavored to carry out after
he succeeded the former upon the
presidents tragic death at the hands
of an assassin. Roosevelt retained
his predecessors cabinet as his own
and he kept in Office the ambassa-
doris and ministers Mckinley had
appointed. As much as two years
before the presidential campaign in
1904 republican organizations in va
rious states began endorsing him
as their next candidate.
Man of Destiny.
1t was thus that "the man of des-
tiny" idea became associated with
his life. Ostensibly, Roosevelt, leav-
ing the governorship of New York
to become vice president, was NOV
ing forward from state politics into
national politics, so his political op-
ponents professed publicly to be-
lieve; 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 OBJ
tain for him the vice presidential
nomination, which he personally did
not desire.
At the height Of his public and
political career, during the four
years of the term for which he had
been elected, Roosevelt accomplish
ed achievements which historians
will rank high in the international
and industrial progress of the coun-
try. They included his influential
negotiations which, conducted at
Portsmouth, N. H., effected peace
between Russia and Japan; main
tenance of the Monroe doctrine at
a period when European powers
were interested in the affairs of
Venezuela; the recognition of Pana-
ma as a republic and his treaty with |
Panama by which the interoceanic
canal through that country was put
under way, and the settlement,
through his 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 terminating the Rus
so-Japanese conflict he was awarded |
the Nobel peace prize in 1906. -Four
years later, once more a private citi-
zen, he was special ambassador
from the United States at the fu-
neral of King Edward VII of Eng |
land.
A rift in the friendship between
Roosevelt and his successor as pres
ident, William Howard Taft, led to
the formers announcement of his |
opposition to Mr.. Taft's renomina-
ton. The ex-president's influence
had been large in placing Mr.. Taft
in the White House. Now his influ
ence was equally strong in prevent
ing Mr.. Taft from remaining there,
Men who had clashed with the Taft
policies quickly rallied to Roose-