The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-06-18
81 JAnEs MOi oAr

While campaigning in the middh
OF October, Roosevelt was shot by
a crazy man in Milwaukee. "Ha
pinked me-" he admitted to the AM.
ious bystanders, but he insisted On
continuing his ride to the hall
where he was to speak. II will d.
liver that speech or de-" he Der.
sisted, and he spoke with the bullet
hole In his chest undressed aud
bleeding.
The next year this unresting e..
president outdid his African e1.
ploits by plunging into the tropic
wilderness of Brazil. At IS be
was less fitted for the hardships
which he had successfully brayed
in the Dark Continent four years
before, and he never again was to
be the robust embodiment Of that
strenuous life which, for genera.
ton, he had practiced as well u
preached.
The life Of the Progressive party
was as short as its rise was sud.
den. Although its founder smiling
ly vowed in 1916. II am still Pro.
gressive," he gave his earnest Y
not enthusiastic, support to Charles
E. Hughes, the Republican nom.
inee.
For two years before America
entered the war. his pon-he wa
on the staff of magazines and
newspapers-was continually gosd.
ing the country out OF its neutrd
position in the great struggle,
After we got into the confid, II
continued to goad the country 70
20 faster and farther.
Roosevelt was eager to lead a.
other band of Rough Riders to the
front, but President Wilson sus-
tanned the objection Of the military
advisors of the government to any
volunteer organizations. Il am the
only one he has kept out OF tns
war;" the disappointed applicant
retorted on the recent campaign
slogan of the president.
He found proud consolation In
the service in the field OF all TOUT
of his sons. At the supreme saerl-
fee of the youngest, Quentin, VINO
fell battling in the air, he. turned
brave front to the public and ea's
no outward sign Of the cruel nul.
that the blow must have causea
the heart of father so fond. 'onis
those are fit to live who 90 no'
fear to die" was his message il,m
the shadow Of the loss OF his oaps
boy. -.
Old foes hailed him as the nops
OF the Republican party IN IVY.
He smiled at the suggestion thousu
his intuition and his increasing W,
ments may already have wssns ss
him that he had fought MS n.y..
and finished his course. bota ..
parents were short-lived ana ~
/, had exceeded his natural prospee.
| of life, when the final summV -.
came to him as he slept IN ~ -.
i home at Oyster Bay before Wv
dawn of a January day in 1919.
The death of no other ex-pr~s
/ dent. of no other private citizen !.
| any land has called out sucn ;
worldwide expression OF resi.s
To Americans, it was like a aessI
in the family. For 20 years ie g,
DIV" had been passing in ana ~. w,
| of their homes like a familiar "a. aa
touching their lives on every ' .ss
He had excited among them .h s
same instructive affections anu a s,s
same furious resentments that az
reserved for kith and KIN Id
and last. all had agreed ana az a. u
disagreed with him, and WIN ea ~.
Violence. but remaining all .;m
while immoderately proud o. . n,,
as the very presentation OF shG =,
selves, of America. Even IN ~
grave, he still bears NIUE ,s 'st n,
mony to the democracy and -. -.
real Americanism which were re-. = :,
emplified in the many-sidea ii' :
Theodore Roosevelt.
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