El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-01-06


assassinated, Col. Roosevelt, ~ years
OF age, became the youngest presi-
dent the United States has ever had.
( Three years later he was elected as
president by the largest popular vote
a president has received
Called Man OF Destiny.
Thus Roosevelt. sometimes called
years as the nations chief magistrate.
IN a subsequent decade the fortunes
. Of politics did not favor him. for,
again a candidate for president-this
Z time leading the progressive party
which he himself had organized when
he differed radically with some OF
the policies OF the Republican party
in 1912-he went down 10 defeat. to-
gether with the Republican Candi-
date, William Howard Taft Wood
row Wilson, Democrat was elected.
Col RooseTelts enemies agreed
with his friends that his life. his
character and his writings repre-
scented n high type Of American
OF Dutch ancestry. born in New
York city on October q, 1855, in a
house in East goth street, the baby
Theodore was a weakLing- he was
one OF four children who came 10
Theodore and Martha Bulloeh Roose-
welt The mother was OF southern
stock and the father OF northern. a
situation which during the early years
Of Theodore. juniors boyhood was
not allowed TO interfere with the
family life OF these children during
the civil war days.
Is TutOred Privately.
So fral that he was not privileged
10 associate with the other boys in
his neighborhood. Roosevelt was tn
tOred privately, in New York during
travels on which his parents took
the children abroad. A porch gym
nasium at his home provided him
with physical exercise with which
he combatted a Troublesome asthma.
His father. glass importer and a
man OF means. was his constant COM
panion; he kept a diary; he read so
much history and fictionRl books OF
adventure that he was known as a
bookworm; he took boxing lessons;
he was an amateur naturalist: and
at the age Of II he entered Harvard
university. There. he was not as
prominent as some others in an ath-
letic way, as it is not recorded that
he made" the baseball and football
teams. but his puny body had UNDER
gone a metamOrphosis. and before
graduation he became one OF the
champion boxers Of the college.
lIarries Boston Girl.
A few months after his graduation.
Roosevelt married Miss Alice Lee. Of
Boston. She died in 1884, leaving one
child Alice. now the vile OF repre-
sentative Nicholas LongwOrth, OF
Ohio. In 1856, Roosevelt married
Miss Edith Kermit Carow. Of New
York. and to them five children were
horn-Ethel. now the wife OF Dr.
Richard Derby. and four sons. Theo-
dore. IT., Kermit. Archibald and Quen-
tin
The public career Of the man who
was 20 become president began not
long after he left college. His pro-
fession was law. but the activities
that were 10 come left him no time
in which to practice II. In 1882, 1888
and 1884 he was elected 10 the New
York state assembly. where mis- ef-
forts on behalf Of good government
and civil service reform attracted at
tention- When the Republican na-
tiona1 convention Of 1884 was held.
in Chicago, he was chairman OF the
New York state delegation.
Drops Politics; Goes West.
After this experience he dropped
out Of politics for two years. Going
west, ne purchased ranches along the
Little Missouri river. in North Da-
kota, and divided his time between
outdoor sports. particularly hunting.
and literary r-nn1r Here he aid the