The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-01-12

leading the Progressive Party which
he himself had organized when he diff
fered radically with some of the poll
cies of the Republican Party in 1872
he went down to defest, together
with the Republican candidate, Will
liam Howard Taft Woodrow Wilson
Democrat, was elected
Col Roosevclt's enemies agreed
with his friend that his life his cha
racter and his writings represented
a high type of Americanism.
OF Dutch ancestry, born in New
York City on October q, 1853, in a
house in East Twentieth Street, the
baby Theodore was weakling. He
was one of four children who came
to Theodore and Martha Bulloch
Roosevelt The mother was of South
ern stock and the father of Northern
"A situation which during the early
year Of Theodore, Juniors boyhood
was not allowed to interfere with the
family life of these children during
the Civil War days.
SO frai that he was not privileged
to associate with other boys in his
neighborhOod, Roosevelt was tutored
privately. in New York and during ira
wells on which his parents took the
children abroad A porch gymnasium
at his home provided him with phys,
cal exercises with which he combatted
4 troublesome asthma. His father, q
glass importer and man of means,
was his constant companion; he kept
Il diary; he read so much history and
iictonal books Of; adventure that he
was known as bO0kworm; 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 record
d that he made" the baseball and
.octball teams, but his puny body had
Undergone metamorphosis and be-
fore graduation he became one of the
champion boxers of the college. This
remarkable physical development was
emphasized by something which took
LACE shortly after he left Harvard in
1880, He went to Europe. climbed the
datterhorn, and as a result was elect.
d a member of the Alpine Club of
ondOn,-an organization of men who
J ad performed notable feats of adven-
lure
A few months after his graduation.
Gosevclt married Miss Alice Lee Of
Noston, She died in 1884. lpagiHg en-.
aid, Alice, now the wife of Eo,rc
ntative Nicholas Longwort, Ct Cha.
4 1856 Roosevelt married Miss I!,i.
>rrmil Carow, of New York, and to
lcn fi?c children were bonn-Edith
NV the wife of DR.. Richard Derby
nd four ,Gns, Thodorc, Jr. Kermit
rch,bald and Quentin.
The public career of the man who
. become President began not long
or he left college. Ills profession
as law but the activities that were
'oilc leIt MN no time in which
> practice it, In 1882, 1883 and 1884
was elected to the New York State
SScmbly, where his efforts ON behalf
Eouu government and civil service
form attracted attention. When the
epublic1n National Convention of
'S4 was held, in Chicago. he was
(airman of the New York State dele
rtiOn
After this experience he dropped
at of politics for two years. Going
est he purchased ranches along the
title Missouri River, in North Dako-
). and divided his time between ont
DOR sports, particularly hunting, and
terary work. Here he laid the found
ion for his series of books "Tbe
Winning of the West" which was pub.
shed from 1896 to 1889. and of other
oiumes of kindred character
Returning to New York he became
Ia. ~.