The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-06

IHdn Il6 HOW udu lllS OkpOl luIliLy lO consummate, together with others of more importance, and 1t was during this administration that he is said first to have earned the hostility of corporations When the Republican national convention was held in Phil adeIphia in 1900 his party in New York State demanded and attained his nom ination for Vice President on the ticket with William Mckinley. In November of that year this ticket was elected.
 The policies of Mckinley, Roosevelt endeavored to carry out after he sue ceeded the former upon the PresI-
 dents tragic death at the hands of an assassin. Roosevelt retained his pre- decessor's Cabinet as his own and he 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 vari- ous States began endorsing him as their next candidate.
 It was thus that "the man of destiny" idea became associated with his life Ostensibly, Roosevelt, leaving the
 Governorship of New York to become Vice President, was moving forward from State politics into national poli- tics, so his political opponents pro- fessed publicly to believe: but it was their secret desire to "shelve'' the man and eliminate him from pronli- hence in their own community, it was said, that prompted these political foes to obtain for him the Vice Pres identfal nomination, which he per sonally 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 Monroe Doctrine at a period when European Powers were interested in the affairs of Venezuela; the recognition of Pan- | ana as a. Republic and his treaty with
 Panama by which the inter oceanic
 canal through that country was put l 1lt through his moral influence in the
 face of 8 situation in which there
 was no adequate Federal legislation, l of the Pennsylvania coal mine strike For his part in terminating the Russo Japanese conflict he was awarded the
 Nobel Peace Prize in 1906. Four years
 later, once more a prlvite citizen, he
 was Special Ambassador from the
 United States at the funeral of King
 Edward VII of England.
 A rift in the friendship between
 Roosevelt and his successor as Pres.
 ident William Howard Taft. led tc
 the formers announcement of his op.
 position to MT. Tafts renomtnation
 The ex-President's influence hat
 been large in placing MT. Taft in the I White House. Now his influence wa!
 equally strong in preventing Mir. Taf
 from remaining there. Men whc
 had cfashed with the Taft policie!
 quickly rallied to Roosevelt's support
 Roosevelt assembled what he termed
 as constructive ideas as opposed tt
 the conservative ones of the so-call
 ed Republican "Old Guard" charac
 terized them with the conscriptior
 Progressive" and organized the Pro
 gresstve party by withdrawing witt
 his followers from the Chicago con
 vention of 1912. He became tn
 new partys candidate for President
 This split In the Republican rank
 resulted in Woodrow Wilson's cleo ; ton.
 One of the most dramatic incident in Roosevelt's life occurred durin; l prn AC ha a hotel, in Milwaukee, to. go to meeting hall to make a political ad dress, a man standing among tn , spectators in the street fired a sho l which struck the Colonel and smash f ed Q rib. Roosevelt insisted. he wa not seriously hurt and his automobil ) conveyed him to the hall. There h spoke to an audience which ha
 knowledge of what had happened sobbing woman and graVe-faced me shaken with emotion by his appear t ance under such circumstances. Ex l animation of the wound showed l was serious and the candidate wa t buried by special train to Chicag ', for treatment Though he speedil e recovered the bullet was never re . 1 moved. The assa ssin was sent to a 5 asylum for the insane.
 3 Roosevelt after leaving the Whit t House devoted his life largely to lii :, | erary work, hunting and exploration = He became contributing editor { = The Outlook in 1909, continuing tht s for five years, and later held editoris I positions with The Metropolitan an = the Kansas City Star. From 1882 t = 1917 he published about fifty volume a of works covering the wide range ( }. naval history, hunting, biography, tn n Rough Riders, Americanism, Natior @ aism, conservation of Womanhoo | and childhood, animals, exploration = the world war and Americas part e cipation in it, and his autobiograph ,- His hunts for big game and his ze e for exploration took him into tt - American West, the heart of Afric
 and the wilderness of Brazil.
 It Upon his return from his Africa y journey-a return during which l g made triumphant entries into Eur, d pean capitals and was received by Il; n tions' rulers, including the Empert l. of Germany-he arrived in New Yo1 s to experience what was general
 conceded to be the greatest ovatic = an American prlVate citizen was ev a, accorded by. the people of his coul If try. Tl.is was in 1910. At the hes i- of an exploring party in South Anne y ica in 1914 he discovered and folio, n, ed for 500 miles a Madeira river tr 10 butary which the Brazilian Cover d ment subsequently, named, in his ho, IS or Rec Theodore. This was the far ,y our "River of Doubt"-so called b T. cause in many quarters considers le authoritative it was question, a, whether Roosevelt was the first m; l- to explore the stream. During tf