The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1919-01-06

Solonel hOOSeVelCS career has left
such vivid impression Upon the peo-
pie of his time that it is necessary to
touch but briefly upon some of the
more striking phrases of his varied,
interesting and strenuous" life to re-
call to the public mind full details of
his many exploits ana experiences.
Called to the White House in 1901
after President Mckinley had been
assassinated, Col. Roosevelt, AZ years
Of age, became the youngest president
the United States has ever had. Three
years later he was electd as president
by the largest popular vote presi-
dent has received.
Thus Roosevelt, sometimes called q
man of destiny. served. for seven year;
as the nations chief magistrate. In
subsequent decade the fortunes of
ltics did not favor him, for, again
candidate for president--this time
leading the Progressive party which
he himself had organized when he diff
fered radically with some of the poll
cies of the Republican party-he went
down to defeat, together with the Re-
publican candidate, William Howard
Taft. Woodrow Wilson, Democrat,
was elected.
Colonel Roosevelt's enemies agreed
with his friends that his life, his
character and his writings represent
ed high type of Americanism.
Of Dutch ancestry, born in New
York City on October 27, 1853, in n
house in East Twentieth Street, the
baby Theodore was a weakling. He
was one of four children who came to
Theodore and Martha Bulloch Roose
velt. The mother was of Southern
stock and the father of Northern. a
situa tion 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.
SO frail that he was not privileged
to associate with the other boys in
his neighborhood, Roosevelt was tu-
tored privately, in New York and dur
ing travels on which his parents took
the children abroad. A porch gym
nasium at his home provided him with
physical exercise with which he COM
batted a troublesome asthma. His
father, glass importer and a man of
means, was his constant companion;
he kept diary; he read so much his
tory and fctional book 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 athletic way, as it
is not recorded that he "made" the
baseball and football teams, but his
puny body had undergone a meta
morphesis and before graduation he
became one Of the champion boxers
Of the college. This remarkable ply
sical development was emphasized by
something which took place shortly
after he left Harvard in 1880. He
went to Europe, climbed the Matter
horn, and as a result was elected n
member Of the Alpine Club of Lon
don-an organization Of men who had
performed notable feats Of adventure.
A few months after his graduation,
Roosevelt married Miss Alice Lee of
Boston. She died in 1884, leaving one
child, Alice. now the wife of Repre-
sentative Nicholas Iongworth of Ohio.
In 1886 Roosevelt married Miss Edith
Kermit Carow, of New York, and to
them five children were born-Edith,
now the wife Of DR.. Richard Derby,
and four sons, Theodore, Jr., Kermit,
Archibald and Quentin.
The public career of the man who
was to become president began not
long after he left college. His pro-
fession was law but the activities that
were to come left him no time in