The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-05


lin general-of these evils he purged
the city in the face of corrupt poiltl7
cal opposition, and the reputation he
1 established as reformer won him
+ the personal selection by President
| Mckinley as Assistant Secretary of
the Navy, in 1897. A year later the
Spanish American War broke out.
The Roosevelt temperament did
not allow the man to retain deputy
Cabinet position with war offering
something more exciting, Leonard
/ Wood, President McKinley's ply
sician and one of Roosevelt's staunch-
est friends.
The famous Rough Riders were
organized by Wood and Roosevelt
a band of fighting men the mention
of whose. name today suggests imn1e-
.hdiately the word Roosevelt" They
came out of the west-plainsmen,
miners, rough and ready fig tiers who
were natural n1arksmen, and Wood
/ become their Colonel and "Teddy," J"
as he had become familiarly called by
the public, their Lieutenant-Colonel.
/ In company with the regulars of the
Army they took transports to Cuba,
landed at Santiago and were soon en-
i gagged in the thick of battle. Among
i the promotions which this hardy reg
liment's gallantry brought about were
those of Wood toBrigadier-General
i and Roosevelt. to Colonel--and this
4 title Theodore Roosevelt cherished
until the end.
i When Cuba had' been liberated,
! Roosevelt returned to New York A
i gnbernatorial campaign was in swing,
with the Republican party in need of
ia capable candidate. Roosevelt was
nominated. Van Wyck, his Demo
cratic opponent, was defeated. The
reforms Roosevelt had favored as
:, Assemblyman he now had the oppor-
tunity to consumnate, together with
others of more importance, and it was
during this administration that he is
said first to have earned the hostility
i of corporations When the Republi-
can national convention was held III
AtAaalp In 1900 his party ia
New York state demanded and at
tained his nomination for vice presi-
Edent on the ticket with William Nc
Kirley. In November of that year
this ticket was elected.
After President McKinley's tragic
death at the hands ofa n assassin he
succeeded as President and in 1905
: was elected president Here Roose-
welt accomplished achievements
which historians will rank high in the
international and industrial progress
of the country, They included his
influential negotiations WHICH, con-
Quoted at Portsmouth, N. H., effected
peace between Russia and Japan;
maintenance of the Monroe Doctrine
at a period when European Powers
were Interested in the affairs of Vene-
zuela;, the recognition of Panama as
Republic and his treaty with Pana-
ma by which the inter-oceanic canal
through that country was put undel
, way; and the settlement, through his
moral influence in the face of a sit
; uation in which there was no ade.
: quate Federal legislation, of The
Pennsylvania coal mine strike. Fol
;; his part in terminating the Russo.
1 Japanese conflict he was awarded tht
Nobel Peace Prize in 1906. -Four
8 years later, once more q private citi
i, zen, he was Special Ambassador from
'the United States at the funeral Of
3 King Edward VII of England.
A lift in the friendship hetwecf
/ Roosevelt and his successor as Presi
/ dent William Howard Taft, led to tn,
' formers announcement of his opposi
E tion to Mr.. .Taft's e-nomination. TIL,
!. ex-President's influence had beel
: large in placing Mr. Taft in th
/ White House. Now his influence wa
equally strong in preventing Nj
D Taft from remaining there. Men VIII,
t had clashed with the Taft policie
: quickly rallied to Roosevelt's support
Roosevelt assembled what he ter1ne,
as constructive ideas as opposed t,
> the conservative ones of the so-calle,
Republican tOld Guard eharacteriz
S ed them with the description "Pro
: gresive Party by withdrawing wit
: his followers from the Chicago Con
:. vention OF 1912. He became the ney
! party's candidate for President. Thi
: split in the Republican ranks resulte
in Woodrow Wilson's election.
Roosevelt after leaving the Whit
y House devoted his life largely to lit
: era1y work, hunting and exploration
He became contributing editor t
:, The Outlook in 1909, continuing thi
: for FIVE years, and later held editoria
:, positions with The Metropolitan an
; the Kansas City Star. From 1882 t
y 1917, he published about fifty volume
i of work covering the wide range c
: naval history, hunting, biography, th
Rough Riders, Americanism, Natior
% alism, conservation of wognanhoo
r and childhood, animals, exploration
i the world war and Americas partic
!, patton in it, and his autobigraph,
= His hunts for big game and his ze'
# for exploration took him into tf
E American West, the heart of Afrie
o and the wilderness of Brazil
/