Republican farmer., 1919-01-10


 sOnally did not desire.
 At the height of his public and po- litical 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 in dustrial progress of the country. They included his influential negotiations which, conducted at Portsmouth. N. H., effected peace between Russia anI Japan; maintenance of the Monroe Doctrine at a period when European Powers were interested in the affairs of Venezuela; the recognition of Pan anna as a Republic and his treaty with Panama by which the inter oceanic canal through that country was put under way; and the settlement, through his moral influence in the face of a situation In which there was no adequate Federal legisla ton, of the Pennsylvania coal mine strike. For his part in terminating the Russo Japanese conflict he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906. Four wears later, once more a privite citizen, he was Special Ambassador from the United States at the funera! of King Edward VII. of England.
 A rift in the friendship between Roosevelt and his successor as Pres ident William Howard Taft, led to the formers announcement of his op- 1 position to MT. Taft's renomination The eX-President's influence had | been large in placing MT. Taft in the | White House. Now his influence was equally strong in preventing MT. Taft i from remaining there. Men who l had clashed with the Taft policies 1 quickly rallied to Roosevelts support ! Roosevelt assembled what he termed as constructive ideas as opposed to ! the conservative ones of the so-caIl- 1 ed Republican "Old Guard" charac- | terized them with the conscription i Progressive and organized the Pro- ! gressive party by withdrawing with i his followers from the Chicago con- Vention of 1912. He became the new party's candidate for President, This split in the Republican ranks
 resulted in Woodrow Wilson's cleo
 tton
 One of the most dramatic incidents | in Roosevelts life occurred during
 this campaign. As he was leaving
 a hotel in Milwaukee, to go to a
 meeting hall to make a political ad-
 dress, man standing among the l spectators in the street fired a shot which struck the Colonel and smash ed a 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 happened
 sobbing woman and grave faced men
 shaken with emotion by his appear
 ance under such circumstances Ex- 1 animation of the wound showed il
 was serious and the candidate was
 hurried by special train to Chicago
 for treatment. Though he speedily
 recovered the bullet was never re-
 moved. The assassin was sent to ar
 asylum for the insane.
 Roosevelt after leaving the White
 House devoted his life largely to lit
 erary work, hunting and exploration
 He became contributing editor tc
 The Outlook in 1909, continuing this
 for five years, and later held editoria
 positions with The Metropolitan ana
 the Kansas City Star. From 1882 tC
 1917 he published about fifty volumes
 of works covering the wide range O.
 naval history, hunting, biograp phy, the
 Rough Riders, Americenism, Nation.
 alism, conservation of womanhooC
 and childhood, animals, exploration
 the world war and America's parti
 cipation in it, and his autobiography
 His hunts for big game and his zeE
 for exploration took him into thu American West the heart pf Africs
 and the wilderness of Brazil
 Upon his return from his Africar
 journey-a return during which h. made triumphant entries into Euro 7 pean capitals and was received by na : tions' rulers, including the Emperor of GermaRy-he arrived In New Yorl
 to experience what was general, conceded to be the greatest ovation , an American private citizen was eve
 accorded by the people of his coun try. This was in 1910. At the heat | of an exploring party in South Amer [ tca in 1914 he discovered and follow ed for 500 miles a Madeira river tri 7 butary which the Brazilian Govern ment subsequently named, in his hon ) or Rec Theodore. This was the fam l our f'River of Doubt'-so called be 5 cause in many quarters considere, 7 | authoritative it was questionet . whether Roosevelt was the first ma, } to explore the stream. During thi ., journey the President contracted - jungle fever which was held indi , rectly responsible for the abscesse = which developed indignantly and re 3 quired several operations at tn l Roosevelt Hospital in New York city s in 1918.
 Theodore Roosevelt, besides bein l a prolific writer, lectured and mad Il public speeches extensively, not onl s in his own country but in England
 Spain, South America and other part : of the world. The facility wit
 which he made political enemies an Il followers made him a marked ma : for both the bitter and friendly al l. tention of cartoonists and paragraph . CTS. Quaint and picturesque phrase s were coined literally by him and b others concerning him. Speak soft Q ly and use the big stick "weast i words" "pussyfoot," "mollycoddle 5 and "my hat is in the ring" wer q some of the Rooseveltian expression T which attained wide publicity.
 u The strenuous physical activities i - which Roosevelt engaged at tn n White House included boxing.
 was not until about eight years af V ter he left the White House that Il was disclosed that during one of thes :" bouts, which he welcomed as a mean
 of keeping him in fighting trim, I blow landed by a sparring opponer
 injured one of the ColonePs eyes. La . ter blindness of this eye developed. Il In the later years of his life tW - court suits, in which he figured