The Alaska daily empire., 1919-01-06

his occupancy became memorable through the reforms he inaugurated, attracting the Nations attention at which was obscure in comparison with the events to come. Illicit H. quor traffic, gambling, vice in gen eral--of these evils he purged the city in the face of corrupt political opposition, and the reputation he established as 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 deputy Cabinet position with war offering something more exciting, Leonard Wood, now a Major-General in the Army, was then President Mckin- leys physician and one of Roosevelt's ,taunchest friends.
 Formed Rough Riders
 The famous Rough Riders were organized by Wood and Roosevelt band of fighting men the mention If whose name today suggests i'm mediately the word Roosevelt They came out of the West-plainsmen miners, rough and ready fighters who were natural marksmen and Wood became their Colonel and Teddy as he had been familiarly called by the public, their Lieutenant-COlonel In company with the regulars of the Army they took transports to Cuba, landed at Santiago and were soon engaged in the thick of battle Among the promotions which this hardy regiments gallantry brought about were those of Wood to Briga dier- General and Roosevelt to Colon el-and this title Theodore Roosevelt cherished until the end. Some of the Rough Riders formed the mili tary escort when he was elected President a few years later.
 Once Cuba had been liberated Roosevelt returned to New York. A gubernatorial campaign was in swing, with the Republican party in need of a capable candidate. Roose- welt was nominated. Van Wyck, his Democratic opponent, was defeated. The reforms Roosevelt had favored as Assemblyman he now had the op portunity to consummate, 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 Philadelphia in 1900 his party in New York State demanded and attained his nomination for Vice President on the ticket with William Mckinley. In November of that year this ticket was elected.
 Policies of Mckinley
 The policies of President McKin- ley, Roosevelt endeavored to carry out after he succeeded the former upon McKinley's tragic death at the hands of an assassin Roosevelt retained his predecessors Cabinet as his own and he kept in office the Ambassadors and Ministers whom Mckinley had appointed. As much as two years before the Presidential campaign of'1904 Republican organi cations in various States began en dorsing him as their next candidate
 It was thus that "the man of des tiny" became associated with his life Ostensibly, Roosevelt, leaving the Governorship of New York to become Vice-President, was moving forward from State politics into National poll tics, so his political opponents pro fessed publicly to believe, but it was their secret desire to "shelve" the man and eliminate him from promi hence in their own community, it was said, that prompted these politi cal foes to obtain for him the Vice Presidential nomination, which he Personally did not desire.
 At the height of his public and political career, during the four years of the term for which he had been elected, Roosevelt accomplished the achievements for which historians will rank high in the international and industrial progress of the coun try. They included his influentla! negotiations which, conducted al Portsmouth, N. H., effected between Russia and Japan; maintenance oi the Monroe Doctrine; the recognition of Panama as a Republic and hi; treaty with Panama by which thc inter-oceanic canal through that coun try was put under way; and the settlement, through his moral in
 fmence in the face of a situation | in which there was no adequate Federal legislation, of the Pennsyl
 yania Noal mine strike. For his part
 in terminating the Russo-Japanese l conflict he was awarded the Nobel
 Peace Prize in 1908. Four years lat CT, once more a private citizen, he
 was Special Ambassador from the United States at the funeral of King | Edward VII. of England
 | A rift in the friendship between | Roosevelt and his successor as Presi | dent William Howard Taft led to