The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1919-01-09

band Of fighting men the mention of
whose name today suggests immediate
~ the word Roosevelt" They came
out Of the west-plainsmen, miners,
rough and ready fighters who were
natural marksmen, and Wood became
their colonel end Teddy" as he had
become Familiarity called by the public,
their Northumberland. In company
with the regulars of the army they
took transports to Cuba, landed at San
tiago and were soon engaged in the
thick Of battle. Among the promotions
which this hardy regiment brought
about were those of Wood to brigadier-
/ general and Roosevelt to Colonel-and
this title Theodore Roosevelt cherished
until the end. Some of the Rough
Riders formed the military escort when
he was elected president few years
ago.
When Cuba had been liberated
! Roosevelt returned to New York. A
gubernatorial campaign was in swing.
, with the Republican party in need of
capable candidate. Roosevelt was
nominated Van Wyck, his Democratic
opponent, was defeated. The reforms
Roosevelt had favored as assemblyman
| nv ItON hdi alit opIoi tuhiiS w tohShh
mate, together with others of more i'm
portance. and ii was during this adj
ministration that he is said to have
earned the hostility Of corporations.
When the Republican national conven-
tion was held in Philadelphia in 1900
his party in New York state demanded
and obtained his nomination for vice
president on the ticket with William
Mckinley. In November Of that year
this ticket was elected.
The policies of Mckinley, Roose-
welt endeavored to carry out after he
succeeded the former upon the presi-
dents tragic death at the hands of an
assassin. Roosevelt retained his pre-
decesSor'S cabinet rs his own and he
kept in office the ambassadors and min
listers whom Mckinley had appointed
AS much as two years before the
presidential campaign of 1904, Repub
lican organizations in various states
, began endorsing him as their next can
didate.
. 1t was thus that the man of deS
tiny" 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 poll
ties, so his political opponents profes
, sed publicly to believe; but it was
their secret desire to "shelve" the mai
and eliminate him from prominence
, in their own community. 1t was sale
: that prompted these political foes t.
| obtain for him the e-presidentia
nomination, which he personally die
not desire.
t At the height of his public and pc
| litical career. during the four years o
, the term for which he had been elected
, Roosevelt accomplished achievement
which historians will rank high in tn
+ international and Industrial progress
/ of the country. They included his III
o fluential negotiations which, conducts
< at Portsmouth, N. H. he effected peac
!. between Russia and Japan; mainten
a ance of the Munroe doctrine at q pei
+ iod when European powers were inter
n ested in the affairs Of Venezuela /; tn
a recognition of Panama as republi
T.. and his treaty with Panama by whic
J. the inter-oceanic canal through tina
% country was put under way, and tn
!. settlement, through his moral influenC