The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-01-13

something more exciting Leonard Wood, now Major-General ir France, was then President Mckin ley's physician and one of Roosevelt's friends.
 The famous Rough Riders were or ganized by Wood and Roosevelt-s band of fighting men the mention ot whose name today suggests immedi ately the word Roosevelt" They came out of the. west-plainsmen miners, rough and ready fighters who were natural marksmen, and Wood became their Colonel and Teddy, as he had become familiarly called by the public, their Lieutenant Colo nel. In company with the regulars of the army they took transports to Cuba, landed at Santiago and were soon engaged in the thick of the bat tie. Among the promotions whicf this hardy regiments gallantry brot about were those of Wood to Briga dier-General and Roosevelt to Colo nel-and this title Theodore Roose welt cherished until the end. Some o the Rough Riders formed the military escort when he was elected Presiden a few years later.
 When Cuba had been liberated Roosevelt returned to New York. 4 gubernatorial campaign was in swing with the republican party in need o a capable candidate. Roosevelt was nominated. Van Wyck hls demo cratic opponent, was defeated. Ine reforms Roosevelt had favored a. assemblyman he now had the oppor tunity to consummate, together witt others of more importance, and it was during this administration that he is said to have earned the hostility o1 corporations. When the republican national convention was held ir Philadelphia in 1900 his party ir New York state demanded and at tained his nomination for vice.Presi dent on the ticket with William Me Kinley. In November of that yea, this ticket was elected.
 The policies of Mckinley. Roose welt endeavored to carry out after he the former upon the Presi dents tragic death at the hands of an assassin. Roosevelt retained his predecessors cabinet as his own anc 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 organiza tions in various states began endorsing him as their next candidate.
 It 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 politics, so his political opponents professed publicly to be. lieve; but it was their secret desire to "shelve" the man and eliminate him from prominence in their own community, it was said, that prompt. ed these political foes to obtain for him the vice-Presidential nomination which he personally did not desire.
 At the height of his public and political career. during the four years Of the term for which he had been elected, Roosevelt accomplished achievements which historians will rank high in the international and Industrial progress of the country They included his influential nego. tiatlons which. conducted at Ports. mouth, N. H., effected peace between Russia and Japan; maintenance of the Monroe Doctrine at period when European powers were inter. esteo Tn the affairs at ZenezueIa: {: the recognition of Panama as a re. public and his treaty with Panama oy which the inter-oceanic canal thru that country was put under way: ana the settlement, thru his moral influence in the fact of situation 'n which there was no adequate fed. eral Legislation of the Pennsylvania coal mine strike. For his mart in the Russo.Japanese con. 'lict he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906. Four years later. once nore a private citizen, he was Spe. ,lal Ambassador from the United states at the funeral of King Edward VII of England.
 A rift in the friendship between Roosevelt and his successor as Presi. lent William Howard Taft, led to ne formers announcement of his op. position to MT. Taft's renomination The ex-President's influence had been
 arge In placing MT. Taft in the White House. Now his influence was 'qually strong in preventing MT. Taft rom remaining there. Men who had dashed with the Taft policies quickly allied to Roosevelt's support. Roose 'elt assembled what he termed as constructive ideas as opposed to the ones of +bo soou