The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-06
EX-PREsIDENT ROOSEVELT.
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| 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
| he became one of the champion boxers
of the college. This remarkable physical
development was emphasized by some
thing which took place shortly after he
| left Harvard in 1880. He went to Europe
climbed the Matterhorn, and as a result
was elected a member of the Alpine Club
of London,-an organization of men who
| had performed notable feats of adven-
ture
| A few months after his graduation,
Roosevelt married Miss Alice Lee of
Boston. She died in 1884, leaving one
child, Alice, now the wife of Representa-
tive Nicholas Longworth of Ohio In
1856 Roosevelt married Miss Ethel Ker-
init Carow. of New York, and to them
| five children We're born-Edith, now the
wife of DR.. Richard derby, and four
sons, Theodore, jr., Kermit, Archibald
and Quentin.
Public Career Began Early.
If The public career of the man who was
to become President began not long after
he left college. His profession was law.
but the activities that were to come left
him no time in which to practice it. In
IllSS2, 1883 and 1884 he was elected to the
New York state assembly, where his eff
Iforts on behalf Of good government and
civil service reform attracted attention.
when the Republican National Conven-
lttion of 1884 was held, in Chicago, he was
chairman of the New York state delega-
y ton.
. After this experience he dropped out
s. of politics for two years. Going west, he
a purchased ranches along the Little Mis-
r souri, river. in North Dakota, and divided
IN his time between outdoor sports, pafticu-
ye larly hunting, and literary work. Here
es he laid the foundation for his series of
al books, The Winning of the West, which
Y, was published from 1899 to 1896, and OF
lie other volumes of kindred character
Returning to New York he became the
Republican candidate for mayor, in 1886
He was defeated. President Harrison in
'. 1889 appointed him member of the
m United States Civil Service Commission
IT and President Cleveland continued him il
this Office, which he resigned in 1895 to
become New York City's police commits
sioner.
"a thing that attracted me to this of
e fice" Roosevelt said at the time he ac
- cepted this appointment, 'was that il
y was to be done in the hurly- burly, for
- don't like cloister life" Honesty wa
10 the watchword of this administration
as and the two years of his occupancy be
came memorable through the reforms h
inaugurated, attracting the nations at
tention while holding a position whicl
was obscure in comparison with tn
u events to come. Illicit liquor traffic
eYop xriaa IN IF
he purged the city in the face of eorrup
~ political opposition, and the reputation
~ he established as reformer won him tn
personal selection by President MeKin
ley as assistant secretary of the navy, i
1897. A year later the Spanish America
ar war broke out. =
ma The Roosevelt temperament did not al
for low the man to retain deputy cabine
he position with war offering somethin
err more exciting. Leonard Wood, now
icy ma jor general in France, was then Pres
zen kdent Mckinley's physician and one c
ty. Roosevelt's staunehest friends.
of The famous Rough Riders were organ
it lied by Wood and Roosevelt band c
va fighting men the mention of whose nam
a today suggests Immediately the wor
as. Roosevelt" They came out of the ives
zed I-plainsmen, miners. rough and read
II fighters who were natural marksmel
,rt and Wood became their colonel an
BILE Teddy" as he had become familiar
of called by the public, their lieutenan
ris colonel. In company with the regular
j of the army they took transports
alb Cuba, landed in Santiago and were soc
Of engaged in the thick of battle. Amor
ms the promotions which this hardy reg
de ment's gallantry brought about we
nod those of Wood to brigadier- general al
y Roosevelt to colonel-and this title The
con dore Roosevelt cherished until the en-
,ey Some of the Rough Riders formed Il
COO military escort when he was elect
,ns President a few years later.
tho When Cuba had been liberated, Roos
Of welt returned to New York. A gubern
;ng- torial campaign was in swing, with t
Republican party in need of a capat
candidate. Roosevelt was nominate
Van Wyck, his Democratic opponent, W
defeated The reforms Roosevelt had t
vored as assemblyman he now had t
NJ opportunity to consummate, togeth
: with others of more Importance, and
was during this administration that
-. is said first to have earned the hostili
'ii' of corporations. When the Republic
convention was held in Philadelphia
1900 his party i'll New York state
manded and attained his nomination
rio, vice president on the ticket with Villa
,nt;l Mckinley. In November of that W
a1;s+ this ticket was elected.
inter- "The Man of Destiny"
the The policies of Mckinley, Roosev
endeavored to carry out after he succe'
,iety ed the former upon the Presidents ira
alist death at the hands of an assassin. Roo
done welt retained his predecessors cabinet
n ofthis own and he kept in office the amb
the sailors and ministers whom Mckinley
hem appointed. As much as two years bef
| an the presidential campaign of 1904
t So publican organizations in various sta
began endorsing him as their next Ct
same didate.
trout 1t was thus that ''the man of destir
G OH idea became associated with his life.
the tensihly, Roosevelt, leaving the COVE
other ship of New York to become vice pr,