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cal opposition, and the reputation he
established as a refOrmer won him
the personal selection by President
Mckinley as Assistant Secretary OF
the Navy. in 1897. A year later the
Spanish American war broke out
The Roosevelt temperament did not
allow the man TO retain a deputy Ca
binet position with war offering some
thing more exciting, Leonard Wood,
now a Major General in France was
then President McKinIey's physician
and one Of Rooscvelt's staunchest
friends.
The famous Rough Rider were or
ganized by Wood and Roosevelt
band of fighting men the mention OF
whose name today suggests immedia-
tely the word Roosevelt" They came
out OF the west--pl9 nsmen, minors,
rough and ready fighters who were
natural marksmen, and Wood became
their Colonel and "Teddy' as he came
Familiarity called by the public, their
Lieutenant Colonel In company with
the regulars of the Army they took
transports to Cuba, landed at Santi-
ago and were soon engaged in the
thick of battle. Among the promo
lions which this hardy regiments
gallantry 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 a few years
later.
When Cuba had been liberated,
Roosevelt returned to New York A
gubernatorial campaign was in swing
with the Republican Party in need of
Il capable candidate. Roosevelt was
nominated. Van Wyck, his Democra-
tic opponent was detected The re-
forms Roosevelt had favored as AS
semblyman he now had the oppor-
tunity to consummato. together with
others of more importance, and it was
during this Administration that he is
said first to have earned the hostility
Of corporations. When the Republican
national convention was held in Phi
ladelphia in 1900 his party in New
York State demanded and attained his
nomination for Vico President on the
ticket with William Mckinley In Nov
cmber of that year this ticket was
elected.
The policies of Mckinley, Roosevelt
cndeavored to carry out after he sue
cceded the former upon teh Presid-
Cnt's tragic death at the hands of an
assassin. Roosevelt retained his pre-
'eceasors Cabinet as his own and he
ept in office the Ambassadors and
Ministers whom Mckinley had ap-
pointed. As much Us two years before
he Presidential campaign Of 1904
Republican organizations is various
States began endorsing him as their
'Xt candidate.
1t was thus that the man of des-
ting idea became associated with his
life. Ostensibly, Roosevelt, leaving
c Govcrnorship of New York to be-
come Vice President, was moving for
Yard from State politics into national
tics, so his political opponents
protested publicly to believe; but it
was their secret desire to "shelve"
he man and eliminate him from pro
mineCc in their own community it
was said, that prompted these politi-
cal foes to obtain for him the Vice
Presidential nomination. which be per
#onally 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 elect,
ed, Roosevelt accomplished achieve
ments which historians will rank high
in the international and industrial
progress at the country. They includ-
ed his influential negotiations which
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