Bisbee daily review., 1919-01-07

Or9dnizeo Rougn hioerS
 The famous Rough Riders were organized by Wood and Roosevelt a band of fighting men the mention of whose name today suggests imme- diately the word Roosevelt" They came out of the west-plainsmen. miners. rough and ready fighters who were natural marksmen, and Wood became their colonel and Teddy" as he had become familiarly called by the public. their lieutenant-colone:
 In company with the regulars of the army they took transports to Cuba, landed at Santiago and were soon engaged in the thick of battle
 Among the promotions which this hardy regiments gallantry brought about were those of Wood to briga- dier-general and Roosevelt to colonel and this title Theodore Roosevelt cherished until the end Some of the Rough Riders formed the mili- tary escort when he was elected presi- dent few years later
 When Cuba had been liberated. Roosevelt returned to New York. A gubernatorial campaign was in sw:n> with the republican party in need of 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 consumate. together with others of more importance, and it was during this administration that he is said, first 10 have earned the hostility of corporations. When the republican national convention was held in Philadelphia in 1900 his party in New York state demanded and attained his nomination for vice president on the ticket with William Mckinley In November Of that year this ticket was elected.
 Retained McKinley's Cabinet
 The policies of Mckinley, Roose. welt endeavored to carry out after he succeeded the former upon the presi- dents tragic death at the hands of an assassin. Roosevelt retained his predecessors cabinet as his own and kept in office the ambassadors and ministers whom Mckinley had ap- pointed. As much as two years be- fore the presidential campaign of 1904 republican organizations in various states began endorsing him as their next candidate.
 It was thus that "the man of des- tiny" idea became associated with his life. Ostensibly. Roosevelt, leaving the governorship of New York to be- come president, was moving for ward from state politics into national politics, so his political opponents professed publicly to believe; 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 politi- cal foes to obtain for him the vice presidential nomination, which he personally did not desire.
 At the height of his public and po- litical career, during the four years of the term for which he had been elected, Roosevelt accomplished achievements which historians will rank high in the international and in- dustrial progress of the country. They included his influential negotiations which, conducted at Portsmouth, N. H., effected peace between Russia and Japan; maintenance of the Mon roe doctrine at a period when Euro pean powers were interested in the affairs of Venzuela; the recognition of Panama as a republic and his treaty with Panama by which the ,u1 IrnT rcrh ha country was put under way and the settlement, through his moral influ- ence in the face of a situation in which there was not adequate federal legislation, of the Pennnsylvania coal mine strike
 Given Noble Peace Prize
 For his part in terminating the Russo-Japanese conflict he was awarded the Noble peace prize in 1906. Four years later, once more a private citizen, he was special am bassador from the United States at the funeral of King Edward VIII of England.
 A right in the friendship between and his successor at presi- dent. William Howard Taft, led to the formers announcement of his Op- position to NIT. Taft's renomination. The ex-president's influence had been large in placing MT. Taft in the White House Now his influence was equal ly strong in preventing MT. Taft from there Men who had clashed with the Taft policies quickly rallied to Roosevelt's support. ROose- welt assembled what he termed as ideas as opposed to the ones of the so-called re- publican "Old Guard" characterized them with the description Progress sive" and organized the progressive party by withdrawing with his follow CTS from the Chicago convention of 1912 He became the new party's candidate for president. This split in the republican ranks resulted in Woodrow Wilson election.
 One of the most dramatic incidents in Roosevelt's life occurred during this campaign. As he was leaving a hotel in Milwaukee, to go to a meet ing hall to make a political address, a man standing among the spectators in the street fired a shot which struck the colonel and smashed a rib. Roosevelt insisted he was not seri- ouslv hurt and his automobile con