Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1919-01-22
which was to prove invaluable to him

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 in London She was the daugh-
ter,of Charles Carow of New York.
In the Spanish War.
In 1898 Roosevelt resigned from the
civil service commission and began a
fight on Tammany hail. 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. 1t was the IA
nous rough riders. of which Leonard
Wood was made colonel.
Colonel Wood was later given bri-
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-
welt was elected governor of New
York. But he would not be bossed by
the politicians, so instead of giving
him a 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, 1901,
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 condi-
lions so cleverly worded as to be not
easily forgotten.
AS president, Roosevelt's activities
and scope of endeavor were immense /;
he became a great international figure
through mis- many negotiations with
foreign powers and took in hand many
problems at home seldom touched by a
president.
8ooms Taft for Presidency.
Roosevelt declined a second elective
term in 1908 and fostered the candi-
dacy of his secretary of war, William
H. Taft, who was elected president.
When he left office, March 4, 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 a mighty hum
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
cago, beginning June IS, 1912, Taft
was nominated by 81 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 its 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,
was elected, however, and the colonel
had to be content with defeating Mr..
Taft for second place.
In 1914 Colonel Roosevelt led a
party of exploration in South Amer
lea, especially in the interior of Bra
I'll. Then he made another tour of
Europe. In 1916 he was again con-
sidered as a candidate for the presi-
Dental nomination by the Progress
sives. but at the last minute he de-