The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-06-14
N JANIS H0i GAY

Murray hill. who never wortA
and never WILL" snickered Il
TEDDY" for mixing up with The
groom and the saloon keeper Il
the district headquarters. But be
retorted that il this was the GOV
erning class in New York, he want
ed to belong to it. Still they kspt
ON laughing at him for 20 years, n.
til one day they saw him Laughing
back at them from a window Of ~
White house.
Roosevelt cut his eye teeth b :
political leadership in the corrupt
machine-run legislature Of New
York. He could not have chosen 1
more thorough school for instruc.
ton in the hidden, muddy spring.
of parties and politics. His expert
ence at Albany put realism into BIZ
idealism. and made the academic
reformer over into the most H.
tensely practical politician ~
have had in the presidency. It alse
lightened his zeal with humor. ht
moral indignation with q saMng
tolerance, enabling him to enjoy
and pass along Tim" Campbsll1
moving appeal to him not 70 III
the constitution stand between
friends"
He decided at the outset to ct .
each office as il 1t was to DO To
last that he ever would GET ana
for nearly Is years after be len
the legislature, Roosevelt could NOT
have been elected to anything q
the boss-ridden state of New lork.
For a long time he was "shslvsd
on the civil service commission y
Washington, until a reform mayor
of New York appointed him on ~
four-headed police commission;
but it was soon single-headed @
far as the public could see. ana
that head was full of teeth for po-
lice grafters and lawbreakefs. AZ
SO the most that he could az q
/, the Republican politicians, with ~
hope OF getting it, was the assse
ant secretaryship OF the nav.
Mckinley was reluctant 70 y"
him have even that modest posi-
for fear that he might shake ne
tranquil atmosphere OF bis aomn'
istration. The presidents premon.
ition was correct. The assis.Aas
secretary contrived to keep n'nss
so stirred up, in his clear-eysa -.
ticipation OF war with SPAN ~
the entire administration s'Snse
| with relief when at last be VEN
off to lead his Rough Riders 70 ~
lighting front in the Spanish w.
In FIVE months he was back wv
Cuba in the far more troubissCns
role Of a popular hero. Inc w.
York machine was in sucn -
need Of a good name to pun =
I; through the pending election ~
! it met him at the wharf ana a nun.
Bly laid at his feet the Repuoil1a
nomination for governor. but .
the governship, he realized -
1 worst fears OF Boss Plat f'N =
harbored, as the boss naively 49,
him, various altruistic ideas, =. -.
that he was "a little loose on wv
relations Of capital and laDo'' W
trusts and combinations ana
the right Of a man to run ni' Wv
business in his own way. 80.
The only thing to 90 WIN .
wild engine was to turn the swI'. =
and shunt it on to thu SIDE III -
the vice presidency. koo sa1 -
Loudly protested that ne wan's AVA
be reelected governor. Ana wv. ~
Plat was trying to push him on ~ =
the national ticket, Mckinney NV
Hanna Just as earnestly triec ~ -
push him back on to Plat ~
jkepublican national convenu..
rose up and roared his no'ninao .,s
fiinging him, in spite or nlms
upon the tide that led to ioft'A
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