The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-01-06

whose name today suggests immedi
ately the word Roosevelt" They
came out of. the west-plainsmen
miners, rough and ready fighters Wit
weren atural marksmen, and Wood be
came their colonel and Teddy as hi
has has become Familiarity called by
the public, their lieutenant.colonel. In
company with the regulars of the army
they took transports to Cuba, landed
at Santiago and were soon engaged
In, the thick of battle. Among the
promotions which this hardy regi.
ment's galalntry brought about were
those of Wood to brtgadier-generala and
Roosevelt to colone1-and this title
Theodore Roosevelt cherished until
the end. Some of the Rough Riders
formed the military escort when he
was elected president a few years
later. ~
Return to New York u
| When Cuba had been liberated.
Roosevelt returned to New York. A
gubernatOrial campaign was In swing,
with the Republican party In need of
q capable candidate. Roosevelt was
nominated. Van Wyck, his Democratic
opponent. was defeated The reforms
Roosevelt had favored as Assembly
man he now had the opportunity to
conslmmate, 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 Phila-
delphia In 1900 his party In New York
state demanded and attained his nom.
ination for vice president on the tick
ct with William Mckinley, In No
vember of that year this ticket was
elected. .,,.s .s-.. .
The policies Of Mckinley, Roose-
welt endeavored to carry out after he
succeeded the FORMER upon the pres.
ident's tragic death at the hands of
an assassin. Roosevelt retained his
predecessors 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 var
ious states began endorsing him as
their next candidate.
1t was thus that 1.-THE many Of des-
tiny" idea became associated with his
life. Ostensibly, Roosevelt, leaving
the governorship@ of New York to be-
come vice president, was moving for
ward from state politics into national
politics, so his political opponents pro-
fessed publicly, to believe; but it was
their secret desire to "shelve" the
man and Intimate him from promi-
nence in their own community, it was
said, that prompted these political
foes to obtain for him the vice presi.
dental nomination, which he person
ally did not desire.
At the height Of his public and poll
teal career, during the four years Of
the term for which he had been elected,
Roosevelt accomplished achievements
which historians will rink high in the
international and Industrial progress
of the country. They included his in
Influential negotiations which, conduct
ed at Portsmouth, N. H., effected Ieace
between Russia and Japan; :ha:nten-
.ance Of the Monroe doctrine ut a Pc
Rod when European powers were in
terested in the affairs Of Venezuela;
the recognition of Panama rs rC!ub-
lie and his treaty with Panama by
witch the inter oceanic canal through
that country was pvt under way: and
the settlement, through his Moral IN.
ftience In the face Of a situation in
which there was no adequate federal
legislation Of the Pennsylvania coal
mine strike! For his part in terminal
ing the Russo-J Japanese conflict nc was
awarded the, Nobel peace prize in 1905
Four years later, once morefa private
citizen: he was special Ambassador
from the United States at: the funeral
Of King Edward VII of England.
y, "A rift ii the friendship between,
Roosevelt and his successor os Rresi-
dent William Howard Taft, led to the
formers announcement Of his opposi-
ton to Mr.. Taft's reorganization. The
ex-president's influence had been large
in placing Mr.. Taft in the white house
Now his influence was equally strong
In preventing Mr.. Taft from remaining
there. Men who had clashed with the
Taft policies quickly rallied to Roose
velt's support. Roosevelt assembled
what he termed as constructive ideas
as opposed to the conservative ones of
the so-called republican "old guard"
them with the descrip- |
tion progressive" and organized the
progressive party by withdrawing with
his followers from the Chicago conven- |
ton of 1912. He became the new
party's candidate for president. This |
split in the republican ranks resulted
in Woodrow Wilson'S election. 4
One Of the most dramatic incidents |
in Roosevelt's life occurred during this
As he was leaving hotel |
in Milwaukee to 60 to a meeting hall
to make political address, man
among the spectators in the
street fired a shot which struck the
colonel and smashed rib. Roosevelt |
insisted he was not seriously hurt and
his automobile conveyed him to the
hall. There he spoke to an audience
which had knowledge Of what had hap
women and grave
faced men shaken with emotion by his
appearance under such circumstances
Of the wound showed it
was serious and the candidate was hurA
ried by special train to Chicago for
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