Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-16
COL, ROOSEVELT
GREAT AMERICAN
Pathway Lined With Monu-
ments to Public Service"
Says Depew

The great achievements Oh Coi'
Roosevelt, his unconauerable deter
thing that was crooked and danger
Gus in business and politics. his re-
fusal to be tied by party, influence
al charm and magnamity Of his char
acter Were sketched by Mr. DepeT.
And there was hardly an event IN
the Coioners life or phase Oh ms ms
nature which the former senator oio
not illustrate with a story.
For the whole active life Of the
late Theodore Roosevelt" he SAID.
II was intimate with him and knew
his father. before him. And through
the young man an intense adinlra-
tion. He had more enthusiasm. more
vitality more human magnetism
than any man I ever knew. IN thg
eighty-four and more years thet /
have lived I have never known
more vital personality. and his path
way Is lined with monuments 10 nis
public service. Theodore RooseNett
mingled with the experience OF the
great plains"
started on his political career as the
controlled district. 1t was hair sllk
stockings and half East Side, ana
the Republican leader went TO MI; Mr;
Depew with his troubles. and told
Roosevelt could win. He suggested
that the youth just out of college, De
nominated at dinner at Delmoni-
cos, at which Depew should PRESIDE.
HE was % and he looked 16. said
Mr.. Depew. but for one hour he told
the big business men gathered there
of the evils of government starttea
and shocked them. and after that. for
his whole life lived the principles ne
uttered that night. +
career was made Civil Service Com
missioner and then Police Commiso
sioner because he was thought TO pe
6 the one man unafraid to tut against
the evils of the police system.
"Friends of the party tried TO
shelve him." Mr.. Depew went on, so
they made him. AssiSant secretaiss az
81 War. and in six months he was the
most conspicuous man in the Unlted
states. 1 recall one time when John
d. Long, Secretary of the Navy, was
stalking on vacation ne turned 10
some of us and said: believe ~
better go back and watch that young
s Assistant Secretary of the Navy.
"He got from Congress an appro,
priation of more than sl,oOOoVo. anu
and when he was asked what he had
done with that he. said he had spent
it in target practice. Congress was
shocked. but the target practice mace
it possible for Dewey TO win the pat
tie of Manila Bay and Tor schleE
10 come out victorious at Santiago.
.Sne neeuiiarity about Roosevelt
was that he never asked anybody to
go anywhere or do anything that ne
wasn't willing to be in the front
Police Commissioner; it was true IN
/ the war. And so when the spanish
war came he raised the Roush ma
ers and led them" -, -.
IL was that Roosevelt was the onlv
man who could be selected as quo
ernatorial candidate after the Spanfsh
war. and the part Mr.. DepeW; ;on nau III
"In politics" he said. 1T Is crises
that makes the man. That is not true
of business, it is not true OF the pro-
fession. for il man has in him the
!. win ultimately succeed either in bus
mess or the professions. There was
n crisis then in the Republican party
in this state. Gov. Black had asked
had become of s1,000.00O approprl-
ated for the canal.
THOMAS C. Platt sent for me. to
come in consultation and sald that
the canal trouble threatened the en-
tire ticket. Odell had advised him
TO nominate Roosevelt. but he said.
'he has always kicked over the ira
I ces: you can't control him. ana ne
will be a peril to our orga nlZation.
Well" 1 said. you can't elect anyone
1.-THE hecklers will want to know
what has become of that million. L
Z Roosevelt all will be able to say is
that il only a million. But II you
nominate Roosevelt. I Will be able TO
/ say, We've nominated the greatest
thief catcher the world ever knew:
He'll find out what became Of that
million; he may get it back; he'll put
+he men responsible for it in Jail. and
he'll do 1t all to the Star Spangied
Banner. .,,,
when 1t came to the second nomi-
nation there was such feeilns
against him. going way down to the
district leaders in the orGaniZatlon'
that we knew he couldn't be re-elect-
ed and if we nominated anyone else
his successor couldn't be elected. so
we decided to boost him up and
make .t him Hics so5,Gn't pfgSidfnt hear to it, He
said, 4 don't want to be in tomb
and the Vice Presidency is tomo.
They put you there ana You stay
there. until you are aeaa: IN .ne
inetion and he declined: lie made a
rousing speech and said If he was
nominated he would deGtlne on the
.1oor of the convention. BUT the heAC
tbe berinning of the greatest life in
AMERICAN history. the greatest lite
~ any man who had the talent to
control his fellow men.
akfter Mckinley was assassinated
l,e carried out loyalty. for that was
his nature. the policies OF Mci\lnley.
pmt when he was elected he became
president and began to shape his own
policies. ,.,,,,,,od nros
roritv You may remember the Tor
nation Of the trusts. great comDlna-
t.ons ~ business and they were talk
Sn@ of grouping all the railroads OF
the country in single combination
punosavAlt. alone of tho people of this
n,,n.rv took alarm Mt the tendency
- ,ba day and instantly he aroused
ench n venemous ciamor against him
as was never before raised against
aS,,bIic man. The sreculators were
ngatnst him, the millionaires were
against him, most OF the press was
aeainst him. But he so knew his
noxyer and so used 1t that he was
abIe to curb the dangerous tendency
% ar rememher how he dominated one
80 The biggest men of the time; He
called him in and said to hon. sir.
deaI with me now or you deal later
with the mob.
a third term he had all he could do
to prevent it. He had declared
card up his sleeve that he had been
seIacted but once. But when he did
refuse he had all he could do to bring
about the nomination and election of
his chosen successor. Mr.. Tart. Then
was shown the maRnamimo chival-
nv of the man. He knew that his one
term would overshadow Taft's so Ale
went away to Africa. where he was
"a 1a.gf 70 ft.n ri 70 ANW-n