Norwich bulletin., 1920-06-09

habit, he could not stop fighting and he
fought his way into politics and into the
legislature.
The ward politicians did not want any
Silk stockings from the avenue and
the gtided youth of Murray Hill who
/ never worked and never will" smoker
ed at Teddy for mixing up with the
groom and the saloon keeper at the dis
tiict headquarters But he retorted tina,
| if this was the governing Class of New
! York, he wanted to Belong to it. Still
| they kept laughing at him for twenty
| years, until one day they saw him laugh
! ing back at them from window of the
| White House.
| Roosevelt cut his eye teeth in politi-
! cal leadership in the corrupt machine
! run Legislature of New York He could
| not Have chosen more Thorough school
| for instruction in the hidden, muddy
| springs of parties and politics. His Ell
perierce at Albany put realism into his
idealism and made the academic reformer
over into the most intensely practical
politician we have had in the presidency.
1t also lightened his zeal with huinor.
his moral Indignation With a saving toll
erRnee. enabling him to enjoy and pass
along Tim Campbelrs moving appeal to
him not to let the Constitution stand be-
tween friends"
He decided at the outset to act in each
once as II IL was 10 De the iaSt t.fs.I ne
ever would get, and for nearly flftee1
years after he left the Legislature, Roose-
welt could not have been elected to any
thing in the boss-ridden state of New
| York. For long time he was "shelved''
on the Civil Service Commission at Wash
ington. until . reform mayor OF New
York appointed him on the four-headsd
police commission but it was soon
sifigle-heade6 SO far as the public could
see. and that head was fill Of teeth for
police grafters and lawb:eakers. At
thirty-eight the tnost that he could ask
of the republican, politicians, with any
hope of getting it. was the assistant
etarysfip of the navy
Mckinley was reluctant to let hin
have even that modest post. for fear that
: ne might shake the tranquil atmosphere
Of his administration The president:
premonition was correct. The assistant
secretary cortrived TO keep things sc
stirred up. in his elear-eyed anticipation
of war with Sbairi. that the entire ad.
ministration sighed with relief when a
! last he went off to lead his Rough Rider:
to the fighting front in the Spanish war
In five months he was back from Cub,
in the far more troublesome role of ;
I popular hero The New York machin,
was in such sore need of good name t
pull it through the pending election tina
] it met him at the wharf and htirnbly laiC
at his feet the republican Nomination TO
governor. But in the gcverfiorship h
realized the worst fears Of Boss Plat
| that he harbored, as The Boss NAVEL.
wrote him, various altruistic ideas" an
MAT he was "a little loose on the relation
Of capital and labor; on trusts and combi
nations and the right of man t
I run his own business in his own way
The only thing to do with this wild en-
piUe 10 40 and
on to the side track of the vice pfesi
dency. Roosevelt loudly protested tina
lie wanted to be reelected governor. An
while Platt was trying to push him on t
= the national ticket, Mckinley and Ham
3 just as earnestly tried to push him bac
on to Plat. The republican national con
vehtion rose up and roared his norniiia
: ton, f1inging him. in spite of hifnsei
upon the tide that led to fortune
;, Tomorrow: The Square Deal.