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were soon dropped. He became popu
lar, noted hunter, good shot ant
/ provided himself during his years O
ronghlng 1t with good constitution
which was to prove invaluable to hin
later in life
In 1886 Roosevelt became n candi
date for mayor of New York. but rar
third. His reputation was enhanced
however, and President Harrison nam
ed him for place on the national civil
service commission. He dominated the
body and later became its president.
1t was In 1886 that Mr.. Roosevelt
married Miss Edith Kermit Carow
while in London. She was the daugli.
ter of Charles Carow of New York.
| In the Spanish War.
In 1893 Roosevelt resigned from the
civil service commission and began a
/ fight on Tammany hall. He served
two years as police commissioner of
New York city, stirring up the cor
ruptionists, and then President A1cKin-
ley made him assistant secretary of the
navy. When the Maine was blown
up he resigned and helped raise the
| first volunteer regiment of cavalry for
| the war with Spain. 1t was the ia
nous rough riders, of which Leonard
Wood was made colonel.
Colonel Wood was later given a bril-
gade and Roosevelt promoted to COM
mand of the Rough Riders. Colonel
Roosevelt was commended for heroic
conduct at the battles of Las Guaymas
and San Juan HILL
Governor and President.
Coming back from the war, Roose-
welt was elected governor of New
York. But he would not be bossed by
the politicians, so instead of giving
him second term they persuaded him |
to take the nomination for vice presi- |
dent on the ticket with Mckinley. |
When President Mckinley, shot by an |
assassin, died on September IA, 1901,
Roosevelt became president.
President Roosevelt served out Nc
Kinley's unexpired term and was elect
ed president in 1904 by the largest ma
jority ever given candidate for the
office. In his seven and half years
in the White House he had ample op-
portunity to show the stuff that was in
him. He lived deeply and broadly and
was at once the accomplished man of
the world, the student of national
problems, as well as of books, the
adroit politician, the forceful writer of
books and eloquent public speaker.
He had the happy knack Of invent
ing or reyiving phrases that stayed in
the memory of his hearers and those
who heard him usually carried away
with them an apt summary of condi
tions so cleverly worded as to be not
easily forgotten.
Colonel Roosevelt's stand, from his
first cry for the square deal" to his
was always On the basis Of social jus
tice and on the platform of elevating ,
the condition of the working and mid !,
lie classes. Along this line developed :.
MS demand for the initiative, the ref
arenum. and the recall of judges and
md judicial decisions.
AS president, Koosevelts activities n
md scope Of endeavor were immense; Il
lie became a great international figure Il
through his many negotiations with
oreign powers and took in hand many
at home seldom touched by q {,
PRESIDENT. c
Booms Taft for Presidency. a
Roosevelt declined a second elective
ERIN in 1908 and fostered the candi- +"
acy Of his secretary of war, William
/. Taft, who was elected president.
When he left office, March 4, 1909, a
Roosevelt was the unquestioned leader u u
f his party. Taft was his close friend. "
Roosevelt went to Africa to secure VI
pecimens for museums and also, IT Is
to be out Of the country :.
nd escape possible accusations OF at
,mpting to influence the conduct of 90 90
lie new administration. =,
Colonel Roosevelt was mighty hun 81
r. His exploits In killing big game "a
equatorial Africa are well known dc
trough the book which he wrote on
lie subject. w
1t was in the summer of 1910 that III
olonel Roosevelt Travelled through the re
untry promulgating his doctrine Of W
the "new nationalism, and the next TN
ar he editorially attacked arbitration
eaties with Great Britain and France,
opposed by President Taft ce
Candidate Of Progressiyes. 49,
At the Republican convention In Chi fol-
go, beginning June IS, 1912, Taft ne
Is nominated by 81 votes over a ma Ag
rity, but few hours before the col
Roosevelt had withdrawn S3(
J name as a candidate. and that
sht at meeting in Orchestra hall, l
icago, the Progressive party was pei
zen its first real impetus in demon fig
alton for Roosevelt and at which he ing
s named for president by the new TIL
rty. A formal convention was held sta
er and he ran as the regular candi- rio,
'e Of the third party, drawing sup den
t from Republicans and Democrats
ke. Woodrow Wilson, the Democrat. A
$ elected, however and the colonel the
| to be content with defeating Mr.. Tel
t for second place. wor
q 1914 Colonel Roosevelt led n n,