The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1919-01-11

] ItOOScVclI, 1OT SEVERAL years ITcSAucuI
of the United States, died at his home
at Sycamore Hill at 4:15 a. m. today.
The famous American, exponent of
1.-The strenuous life," who had fought
in the Spanish-American war and
risked death in hunting big game and
] exploring the jungles of Africa and
South America, passed away peace
fully while asleep, the victim of a
blood clot in the lung, resulting from
| inflammatory rheumatism traceable to
an infected tooth, from which he suf-
| fered 20 years ago.
| Active to the Last.
| To the last Colonel Roosevelt was
active in the interest of his country.
The program of public addresses in
tended to help hearten the nation for
it's part in the war and to strengthen
! the resistance to enemy propaganda
and pacitism was interrupted late in
the fall when he entered a hospital
for treatment of his long standing all
ment, but the colonel redoubled his eff
forts in the writing of editorials and
public statements, one of the latter
having been read only last night at
an assemblage arranged by the Amer.
lean Defense society. His last day
was spent about his home reading and
writing.
Four Soldier Sons.
Quentin, a lieutenant of aviation,
died fighting above the German lines,
and Archie, captain of infantry, was
sent home, his left arm paralyzed by
a wound. Lieut.. Col. Theodore Roose.
welt, Jr., is with the army of occupa.
ton in Germany and Kermit, cap
tain originally with the British forces
in the Near East, now is an American
officer in France. DR.. Richard Derby
who married the former president s
daughter, Ethel, is a major in the
army medical corps.
The death of Quentin, youngest of
the Roosevelt children, and the injury
to Archie were serious blows to the
colonel's vitality, his physician said,
and he failed to respond with his old.
time vigor to the treatment admins.
tered at the hospital Yet he went
home the day before Christmas, ap.
parently much improved and had been
fairly we'll, although suffering pain
since then.
| Son Killed in Combat.
Quentin was killed in combat July
II, 1918, at Chamery, France. For
weeks previous to confirmation of his
death there we're reports that he had
possibly been taken prisoner by the
Germans and might turn up alive
This suspense added to the distress
Of the Roosevelt household.
When the death was officially con
firmed General Pershing cabled Colo
mel Roosevelt that if desired the body
of Quentin would be removed to Amer
lea. France, meanwhile, had paid the
fullest honors to the dead aviator and
the Roosevelt family declined to &C.
cept the War departments offer.
In letter to General Peyten c.
March, chief of staff, Colonel Roose
welt wrote:
MRS. Roosevelt and l wish to en-
ter most respectful but most emphatic
protest against the proposed course sc
far as our son Quentin is concerned
We have always believed that:
Where the tree falls
""Theree let it lie'"
His IiIustrious Career.
Colonel Roosevelt's career has left
such vivid impression upon the PEG
pie of his time that it is necessary
to touch but briefly upon some Of the
more striking phases of his varied
interesting and strenuous" life to re
call to the public mind full details o.
his many exploits and experiences.
Called to the White House in 1901
after President Mckinley had been as
sassinated. Colonel Roosevelt, AZ year.
of age, became the youngest President
the United States has ever had
Three years later he was elected al
President by the largest popular vote
President has received.
Thus Roosevelt, sometimes called !:
man of destiny, served for seven year,
as the nations chief magistrate. In ,
subsequent decade the fortunes of poll
tics did not favor him, for, again /;
candidate for PRESIDENT this tim
leading the Progressive party whicl
he himself had organized when he dill
fered radically with some of the pol
icies of the Republican party in 1912
he went down to defeat, together wit
the Republican candidate, William
Howard Taft Woodrow Wilson, Demo
: crat, was elected.
Colonel Roosevelt's enemies agree
with his friends that his life, his char
acter and his writing represented