The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1919-01-09
DEATH CALLED EXPIRES.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
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gave the distressing news to the world
through the Associated Press.
Cable messages and kilograms of
sympathy addressed to Mrs. Roosevelt,
poured in in such numbers that the lOc- ,
al operator was unable to handle them
and three more telegraphers were call
ed from New York to assist. I
Colonel ROOsevelts Career.
Colonel Roosevelt's career has left
such vivid impression upon the peo
pie of his time that it is necessary to
touch but briefly upon some of the
more striking phases Of his varied, in
teresting and strenuous" life to recall
to the public mind full details of his
many exploits and experiences.
He was called to the White House in
1901 after President Mckinley had
been aSsassinated, at the age of AZ,
and became the youngest president the
United States has. ever had. Three
years later ne was elected as presi-
dent by the largest popular vote Il
president ever received.
Thus Roosevelt, sometimes called a
man of destiny. served for seven years
as the nations chief magistrate. In
"A subsequent decade the fortunes of
politics did not favor him. for, again
Il candidate for president-this time
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 1912
he went down to defeat, together with
the Republican candidate, William
Howard Taft. Woodrow Wilson, Dem
ocrat was elected.
Colonel Roosevelts enemies agreed
,,.;t Ia f,in hnt 10. nbat,
acter and his writings represented a
high type of Americanism.
OF Dutch ancestry, born in New
York City on Oct u, 1858, in house
on East Twentieth street, the baby
Theodore was weakling. He was one
one of four children who came to
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, Jr.'s boyhood was not al
lowed to interfere with the family life
of these children during the Civil war
days.
SO fral that he was not allowed to
associate with the other boys in his
neighborhood, Roosevelt was tutored
privately in New York and during trav-
els on which his parents took the chill
dren abroad. A porch gymnasium at
his home provided him with physical
exercise with which he combatted a
troublesome asthma. His father, Il
: glass importer and a man of means,
was his constant companion; he kept
diary; he read so much history and
fictional books of adventure that he
was known as a bookworm; he took
boxing lessons; he was an amateur nat
4 a. no. 80 l.,n ,1tn
Harvard university. There he was not
as prominent as some of the others in
an athletic way, as it is not recorded
: that he made" the baseball and foot
ball teams. but his puny body had un
dergone IL metamorphosis and before
: graduation he became one of the cham
pion boxers of the college. This re
: markable physical development was
4 emphasized by something which tool
: place shortly after ne left Harvard il
Y 1880. He went to Europe, climbed the
8 matterhorn. and as a result was elect
a ed member Of the Alpine club OF
London-anorganiZati of men whC
. had performed notable feats of adven
| ture.
few months after his graduation
| Roosevelt married Miss Alice Lee o.
| Boston. She died in 1884. leaving on,
| child. Alice. now the wife of Repre-
| sentative Nicholas Longworth of Ohio
| In 1856 Roosevelt married Miss Edit
/ Kermit Karow of New York, and t.
/ them five children were born-Edith
4 now the wife Of DR.. Richard Derby
Il and four sons, Theodore, Jr., Kermit
H Archibald and Quentin.
II The public career of the man VIII,
II was to become president began no
Y long after he left college His pro
II feSsion was law but the activities tina
u were to come left him no time il
IL which to practice it. In 1882. 1883 an,
II 1884 he was elected to the New Yorl
Il state assembly, where his efforts OF
IL behalf of good government and civi
II service reform attracted attention
Il When the Republican national conyen
II ton of 1884 was held. in Chicago. h
81 was chairman of the New York delega
j ton;
North Dakota Rancher.
n After this experience he dropped on
'e of politics for two years. Going ives
T. he purchased ranches along the Littl
Missouri river in North Dakota and d
vided his time between outdoor sport
o particularly hunting, and literar
a work. Here he laid the foundation 70
= his series of books. THE Winning q
y the West" which was published froI
u 1889 to 1896. and of other volumes @
,r kindred character
IS Returning to New York he becam
~ the Republican candidate for mayor
1856. He was defeated Presider
= Harrison in 1889 appointed him men
- Der of the civil service commission an
- President Cleveland continued him
~ office, which he resigned in 1895 to b,
"a come New York City's police commits
lie sioner.
n "A thing th2t attracted me to this o
d. flee Roosevelt said at the time he a,
he cepted this appointment, was that
m was to he done in the hurly-burly, fc
don't like cloister life" Honest
was the watchword OF this administr,
s. ton, and the two years of his occi
n pancy became memorable through til