Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-28

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, November 2s.-Theo-
dore Roosevelt was the "gadfy" who'
in 1898, stung Washington bu-
reaucracy and pacificism into prepare
ton for the war with Spain, says 10
seph Bucklin Bishop, the coloneis
biographer in fresh revelations OF the
which will appear in the forthcoming
issue of Scribner's Magazine. The ar
ticle was compiled from public rec
ords and some of the 10000 letters
written by Col. Roosevelt during the
course of his active life.
Action taken by the then Assistant
Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt, he
says, "in the face of the persistent OPP
position of Secretary Long, his su-
perior officer, and over that ofhcer s
made it possible for Dewey to hight
and win the battle of Manila
Roosevelt's gift of foresight is again
J touched upon, letters showing that
nearly twenty years before the revo-
luton in Russia he predicted that un-
less her rulers changed their conduct
they would some time experience a
red terror that will make the French
revolution pale At the same time, in
1897, he predicted: Germany is the
power with which we may very pos
sibly have ultimately to come into
hostile contact"
Mr. Bishop also brings to light an
address delivered by Roosevelt before
the Naval War College on June 2,
1897, soon after he became assistant
secretary of the navy, showing that
"he was saying at that stage of his
career precisely the things about ma
j tional preparedness that he said with
such courage, pertinacity and force
twenty years later when war with
Germany was upon u.s."
necried paeiAats Of 1906
When the battleship Maine was
blown up on February Is, 1898, in the
harbor Of Havana, Roosevelt, who had
previously denounced the Spanish
regime in Cuba, emphatically declared
himself in favor of war with SPAIN
1898, he said: You would be amazed
and Mortified at the peace-at-any-price
kilograms. Of. the. most abject descrip-
| ton which come in multitudes from
the President and senator's" Two days
| later, after saying that Mckinley had
| taken "a position from which he can
not back down." Roosevelt wrote: I'VE
have our plans in the Navy, and be-
yond that there is absolutely nothing.
The President doesn't know what
message he will send in or what he
will do if we have war"
What Mr.. Bishop regards as "the
most interesting and Illuminating let
I
| Mr.. Roosevelt by Senator Lodge on
September 81, 1898, after the peace
protocol had been signed with Spain.
| In it he tells of preparing articles on
the war and of seeking from Secre-
tary Long the facts regarding IRoose-
velt's order to Dewey on the previous
! February 25, when he cabled the ad-
miral at Hongkong:
! "Order the squadron except the
Monocacy to Hongkong. Keep full of
coal. In the event of declaration of
war with Spain, your duty will be to
| see that the Spanish squadron does
| not leave the Asiatic coast. and then
offensive operations in Philippines.
Keep Olympia until further orders.
| ROOSEVELT"
Senator Lodge wrote that in seeking
| the text of the cablegram he met with
| the opposition of Rear Admiral A. S.
Crowninshield chief of the bureau of
navigation, who told him Secretary
Long was unwilling to give him the
"exact language" because. to do SO,
might appear to put us in light of
being almost overprepared; in other
words, it might seem that the depart
ment had, as early as February rs, the
date of the order, made up its mind
that there was going to be war any
way"
Cared Not for Taunts.
In letter to DR.. w. Sturgis Bige-
low of Boston, an old friend, on
March 20, 1885,. shortly before he re-
signed his post in Washington to or
garize the Rough Riders, Roosevelt
wrote: "a mans usefulness depends
upon his living up to his ideals as
far as he can. like life very much.
I have always led a joyous life. l
like thought and I like action and it
will be very bitter for me to leave my
wife and children, and while 1 think
IL could face death with dignity,
have no desire before my time has
come to go out into everlasting dark
ness so I shall not go into war