The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-01-17

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purchased and the names az
We're soon dropped. He beeans
lar, noted hunter, a go.d a
provided himself during his ].
roughing ii with a good eo...'y
which was TO prove inyaIuahla n
later in life.
In 1886 Roosevelt became ]
date for mayor of New York
third His reputation was a,l
however. and President Harris.I
ed him for place on the natio,.
service commission. He donin..l
body and later became It's prexs
1t was in 1886 that Mr.. R,,I
married Miss Edith Kermit
while in London. She was IN.
ter OF Charles Carow of New !
In the Spanish War.
In 1898 Roosevelt resigned n,
EVIL service commission and i.
fight on Tammany hall. He
two years as police commissia,
New York city, stirring IN Il.
ruptionists. and then President
ley made him assistant secretar
navy. When the Maine was
up he resigned and helped mi
first volunteer regiment of cav
the war with Spain. Ii was u
nous rough riders. of which ~
Wood was made colonel. z
Colonel Wood was later giyes
gade and Roosevelt promoted
mand of the Rough Riders.
Roosevelt was commended 70,
conduct at the battles of Las O
and San Juan hill.
Governor and Presiden,
Coming back from the war
welt was elected governor
York. But he would not be bOl|
the politicians. 50 instead Of
him a second term they persuaj
| to take the nomination for viz
dent on the ticket with M
When President Mckinley, shai
assassin, died on September
3
Roosevelt became president
President Roosevelt served
Kinley'S uneXpired term and WI
ed president in 1904 by the lara
! jority ever given a candidate
Office. In his seven and a hss5
in the White House he had an
| portunity to show the stuff thai
him. He lived deeply and bros
was at once the accomplished
the world, the student Of
| problems, as well as of bod
adroit politician, the forceful Il
books and eloquent public sps
He had the happy knack d
ing or reviving phrases that
the memory of his hearers a
who heard him usually Card
with them an apt summary I
tons so cleverly worded as b 80
easily forgotten.
Colonel Rooseyelt's stand. =
first cry for the square dea
fight for second elective tern
was always On the basis of So
tice and on the platform of
the condition of the working s
die classes. Along this line
his demand for the initiative
erenum. and the recall of ID
and judicial decisions.
AS president, Koosevelt's
and scope of endeavor were
he became a great internatiO
through his many negotiat
foreign powers and took in b 4
problems at home seldom tou
president.
Booms Taft for Preside J.
Roosevelt declined a secou ~
term in 1908 and fostered Ir,a]
dacy of his secretary of wai 4
II. Taft, who was elected y
When he left office, Marci IN
Roosevelt was the unqueStior
of his party. Taft was his cls
Roosevelt went to Africa -
specimens for museums and
understood, to be out of II
and escape possible accuSat u
tempting TO influence the
the new administration. ~
Colonel Roosevelt was a nj
ter. His exploits In killing ~
in equatorial Africa are
through the book which bel I,
the subject.
Ii WAS in the summer Of
Colonel Roosevelt Travelled IT,
country promulgating his
of the new nationalism." a j
year he editorially attacked !.
treaties with Great Britain
proposed by President Taft
Candidate Of Progress
At the Republican convennexe
cago, beginning June IS, n u
was nominated by 81 votes - y
jority, but a few hours , ~
nomination Roosevelt had h vi
his name as q candidate c0rt3;
night at a meeting in Orcet3Ss
Chicago, the Progressive lcers
given its first real impetus viii,
stration for Roosevelt and n 4,
was named for president II.
I party. A formal copyputiftI&S