Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-06

toGSh nut nficHy upon sotue Va '"N
more striking phrases of his varied.
Interesting and strenuous life to re-
call TO the publia mind full details OF
his many exploits and experiences.
I Called to the White House In 1901
after President Mckinley had been
assassinated. Colonel Roosevelt q.
years OF age. became the youngest
president the United States has ever
had. Three years later he was elected
as president by the largest popular
vote a president has received.
Thus Roosevelt, sometimes called a
man Of destiny, served for seven years
rs the nations chief magistrate. In a
subsequent decade the fortunes OF
politics did not favor him, for, again a
candidate for president-this time
leading the progressive party which
ne himself had organized when he dif-
sered radically with some OF the
policies Of the republican party In 1912
he went down TO defeat. together
with the republican candidate, William
Howard Taft. Woodrow Wilson, demo-
| crat, was elected.
Respected BY Enemies.
Colonel Roosevelt's enemies agreed
.
character and his writings represented
high type of Americanism.
OF Dutch ancestry. born in New
York on Oct. 81. 1855 in a house in
East Twentieth street, the baby Thee
dore was a weakling. He wars one OF
| four children who came to Theouo,~
| and Martha Bulloch Roosevelt. The
mother was OF southern stock and the
! father OF northern, a situation which
| during the early years of Theodore.
| juniors, boyhood was not allowed 10
| interfere with the family life OF these
children during the civil war days.
! SO frail that ne was not privileged
| to associate with the other boys in
his neighborhood, Roosevelt was
tutored privately, in New York ano
| during travels on which his parents
| took the children abroad. a porch
| gymnasium at his home provided him
with physical exercise with which he
coInbatted a troublesome asthma. His
! father, glass importer and man OF
| means was his constant companion;
| he kept a diary: he read so much his
| tory and fictional books of adventure
that he was known as a bookworn; he
| took boxing lessons: he was an ANA
teur naturalist; and at the age or II
| he entered Harvard University. Thare
he was not as prominent as some
others in an athletic way. as it is not
recorded that he made" the baseball
and football teams, but his puny body
! had undergone a metamorphosis and
before graduation ne became one OF
the champion boxers OF the rollere.
~. -
! was emphasized by something which
took place shortly after he left Har-
ward in 1850. He went to Europa
| climbed the Matterhorn. and as a re-
suit was elected a member Of the AL
| pine Club Of London-an organization
Of men who had performed notable
feats Of adventure.
A few months after his graduation.
Roosevelt married Miss Alice Lee, o:
Boston. She died in 1854. leaving one
| child, Alice, now the wife OF Repre-
sentative Nicholas Longworth OF Ohio.
In 1885 Roosevelt married Miss Edith
Kermit Carow. Of New York, and to
| them Ave children were born-Ethel.
now the wife Of Dr.. Richard Derby. and
four sons, Theodore. Jr., Kermit, Archi-
bald and Quentin. Quentin was killed
IN the war few months ago while
battling Hun a!rInan.
Long Public Career.
The public career Of the man who
was to become president began not
| long after he left college. His profess
sion was law but the activities that
were 10 come left him no time in which
! 70 practice it. In 1852, 1883 and 1884
he a1e-ctoI 70 z.a "a
assembly, where his efforts on behalf
OF good government and civil reform
attracted attention. When the repub-
| lican national convention OF 1884 was
| held, in Chicago, he was chairman OF
the New York state delegation.
After this experience he dropped out
Of politics for two years. Going west
| he purchased ranches along the Little
Missouri river, in North Dakota, and
/ divided his time between outdoor sports
particularly hunting, and literary
work. Here he laid the foundation for
his series OF books, The Winning 0:
the West" which was published from
| 1889 to 1896, and Of other volumes Of
kindred character.
Enters Public Life.
| Returning to New York ne became
the republican candidate for mayor, in
1886. He was defeated. President Har-
rison in 1889 appointed him member
| OF the United States civil service com
mission and President Cleveland con-
tinued him in this office, which he re-
signed in 1895 10 become New York
| Cty's police commissioner.
| "A thing that attracted me TO this
| nffica - PnnCavalf he he
accepted this appointment ives that IL
was to be done IL the hurly -burly, for
don't like cloister life" Honesty was
the watchword of this administration.
and the two years OF his occupancy
| became memorable thru the reforms he
inaugurated, attracting the nations at
tention while holding a position which
was obscure in comparison with the
events to come. Illicit liquor traffic,
gambling. vice in general Of these
evils he purged the city in the face Of
corrupt political opposition, and the
reputation he established az a reformer
won him the personal selection by
President Mckinley as assistant secre-
tary 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 cab
met position with war offering some
thing more exciting, Leonard Wood,
now a major general. Wood was then
President McHnley's physician and one
OF Roosevelts staunchest friends.
| Organizes Rough Riders.
The famous Rough Riders were or
ganized by Wood and Roosevelt
band Of fighting men the mention Of