River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-01-16


provided himself during his years Of
roughing it with a good constitution
which was to prove invaluable TO him
later in life.
In 1886 Roosevelt became a candi-
date for mayor of New York, but ran
third. His reputation was enhanced,
however, and President Harrison NAM
ed him for place on the national civil
service commission. He dominated the
body and later became it's president
1t was in 1886 that Mr.. Roosevelt
married Miss Edith Kermit Carow
while "A London. She was the daugh-
ter of Charles Carow of New York.
In the Spanish War.
In 1893 Roosevelt resigned from the
civil service commission and began a
fight on Tammany hall. He served
two years as police commissioner OF
New York city, stirring up the cor
ruptionists, and then President McKin-
ley made him assistant secretary OF the
navy. When the Maine was blown
up he resigned and helped raise the
first volunteer regiment of cavalry for
| the war with Spain. It was the IA
| nous rough riders, of which Leonard
Wood was made colonel.
Colonel Wood was later given bril-
gade and Roosevelt promoted to COM
mand of the Rough Riders. Colonel
Roosevelt was commended for heroic
conduct at the battles of Las Guaymas
and San Juan hill.
Governor and President.
Coming back from the war, Roose-
velt was elected governor of New
York. But he would not be bossed by
| the politicians, so instead of giving
him second term they persuaded him
to take the nomination for vice presi-
| dent on the ticket with Mckinley.
When President Mckinley, shot by an
assassin, died on September IA, 1871,
| Roosevelt became president.
President Roosevelt served out Nc
Kinley's unexpired term and was elect
ed president in 1904 by the largest ma
| jOrity ever given a candidate for the
Office In his seven and half years
in the White House he had ample OPP
| portunity to show the stuff that was in
him. He lived deeply and broadly and
was at once the accomplished man of
the world, the student Of national
| problems, as well as Of books, the
adroit politician, the forceful writer of
books and eloquent public speaker.
He had the happy knack of invent
ing or reviving phrases that stayed in
the memory of his hearers and those
who heard him usually carried away
with them an apt summary of cond1-
tons so cleverly worded as to be not
easily forgotten.
Colonel Roosevelt's stand, from his
first cry for the square deal' to his
fight for a second elective term in 1912,
| was always on the basis of social JUS
tice and on the platform of elevating
| the condition of the working and mid
| die classes. Along this line developed
his demand for the initiative, the ref
erenum, and the recall of judges and
and judicial decisions.
AS president, Roosevelt's activities
| and scope of endeavOr were immense
| he became a great international figure
| through his many negotiations with
| foreign powers and took in hand many
| problems at home seldom touched by a
| president.
Booms Taft for Presidency.
Roosevelt declined second elective
| term in 1908 and fostered the candi-
| dacy of his secretary Of war, William
III. Taft, who was elected president.
| When he left office, March A., 1909,
Roosevelt was the unquestioned leader
| of his party Taft was his close friend.
/ Roosevelt went to Africa to secure
| specimens for museums and also, It is
understood, to be out of the country
and escape possible accusations of at
| tempting to influence the conduct of
| the new administration.
Colonel Roosevelt was n mighty hun
ter. His exploits in killing big game
| in equatorial Africa are well known
| through the book which he wrote on
| the subject.
| 1t was in the summer of 1910 that
| Colonel Roosevelt travelled through the
country promulgating his doctrine Of
| of the "new nationalism" and the next
year he editorially attacked arbitration
treaties with Great Britain and France,
| proposed by President Taft.
Candidate of Progressives.
At the Republican convention in Chi
cage, beginning June IS, 1912, Taft
was nominated by q votes over a ma
| jority, but a few hours before the
nomination Roosevelt had withdrawn
his name as a candidate, and that
night at a meeting in Orchestra hall,
| Chicago, the Progressive party was
given it's first real impetus in demon
stration for Roosevelt and at which he
was named for president by the new
| party. A formal convention was held
later and he ran as the regular candi-
date of the third party, drawing sup
port from Republicans and Democrats
alike. Woodrow Wilson, the Democrat,