Republican farmer., 1919-01-10
ROOSEVELT

iE East Twentieth street, the baby Theodore was weakling. He was one of four children who came l.. Theodore and Martha Bulloch Roose- welt The mother was of Southern stock, and the father of Northern, a situation which during the early years of Theodore, Juniors boyhood vas not allowed to interfere with the family life of these children during the Civil War days
 So frail that he was not priviliged to associate with the other boys in lis neighborhood, Roosevelt was tu- tored privately. in New York and during travels on which his parents took the children abroad. A porch gymnasium at his home provided him with physical exercise with which he combatted 8 troublesome asthma. His father, glass importer and a man of means, was his constant com panion; he kept a diary; he read so much history and fictional books of adventure that he was known as a bookworm; he took boxing lessons; was an amateur naturalist; and at the age of F he entered Harvard Univ ersity.
 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 Rep resentative Nicholas Longworth of l Ohio. In 1886 Roosevelt married 1 Miss Edith Kermit Carew, of New 1 York, and to them five children were l hGrn-Edith, now the wife of pr. Richard Derby, and four sons, Theo- dore, Jr, Kermit Archibald and Quentin. Quentin was killed while fighting in the clouds above the Marne battlefield.
 The public career of the man who was to become President began not long after he left college. His pro- fession was law but the activities that were to come left him no time in which to practice it. In 1882, 1883 and 1884 he was elected to the New | York State Assembly where his ef- forts on behalf of good government ano civil service reform attracted at tention. When the Republican Ma tjonal convention of 1884 was held ir Chicago, he was chairman of the New York State delegation.
 After this experience he dropped out of politics for two years. Going l west, he purchased ranches along the Little Missouri River, in North Da- kota, and divided his time between outdoor sports particularly hunting and literary work. Here he lait the foundation for his series o books, "The Winning of the West which was published from 1889 tC 1898, and of other volumes of kind. red character.
 Returning to New York he became the Republican candidate for mayor in 1SS6 He was defeated. Prestden Harrison in 1889 appointed him member of the United States Civi Service Commission and Presiden ClveIand continued him in this office
 which he resigned in 1895 to becom New York City's police commissioner
 "A thing that attracted me to thi! office" Roosevelt said at the time ht accepted this appointment. was tha it was to be done in the hurly-burly for I don't like cloister life" Hon esty was the watchword of this ad ministration, and the two years of hi occupancy became memorable througi the reforms he inauugurated, attract ing the nations attention while hold : ing a position which was obscure il : comparison with the events to come l Illicit liquor traffic, gambling, vice il general---of these evils he purged tn
 city in the face of corrupt politica opponents, and the reputation he es 3 tablished as a reformer won him tn = personal selection h. President Nc ? Kinley as Assistant Secretary of tn l Navy. in 1907. 4 year later the Span - ish American war broke out.
 The Roosevelt temperament did no I allow the man to retain a deput f Cabinet position with war offerini $ something more exciting Leonar e Wood, now Major General il , France, was then President McKin
 ley's physician and one of Roosevelt
 staunchest friends.
 The famous Rough Riders were or
 ganized by Wood and Roosevelt--- | band of fighting men the mention c whose name today suggests immedi l. ately the word Roosevelt" The came out of the west---plainsme U miners. rough and ready fighters wh
 
 x became their Colonel and Teddy" a y he had become familiarly called b s the public, their Lieutenant Colone /. In company with the regulars of tn ,- Army they took transports to Cub.
 landed at Santiago and were soon CT It gagged in the thick of battle. Anon r the prom ottons which this hardy reg el iment's gallantry, brought about wer e those of Wood to 2rigadier Genera
 and Roosevelt to Colonel---and tn e title Theodore Roosevelt cherishe o until the end Some of the Roug @ Riders formed a military escort whe :. he was elected President q few year if later
 g When Cuba was liberated, Roose S welt returned to New York. A gubel l. material campaign was in swing, wit /" the Republican party in need of G "a pablo candidate Roosevelt was non J. mated. Van Wyck, his Democrat @ opponent, was defeated. The reform
 Roosevelt had favored as Assembl! t man he, now had the opportunity 0 consummate, together with others ( l. more importance, and it was durin e this administration that he is sai s first to have earned the hostility
 corporations. When the Republica |, national convention was held in Phi
 adelphia in 1900 his party in New Yo1
 State demanded and attained his non | ination for Vice President on tl
 ticket with William Mckinley. l- November of that year this ticket ws lS elected.
 The policies of Mckinley, Rooseve A endeavored to carry out after he SUI ceeded the former upon the Pres
 dents tragic death at the hands of ; assassin. Roosevelt retained his pr