The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-07-12
r. D. ROOSEVELT
 DRAFTED JUST AS COL lONEL WAS

Another Roosevelt pathway has taken a turn toward the White House in 1920, after following an oddly sim liar course to that which ended there in 1900.
 Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Demo dency, was born at Hyde Park, Duchess County. N. r., on Jan. 30. 1882. His father was James Roose- welt, a fourth cousin of Col Roose- welt, and his mother Sara DeIano, of the equally well known family of New York. He is a half-fbrother of James Roosevelt, whose daughter is the wife of Theodore Douglass Robinson, neph ew of Col. Roosevelt.
 And even more intimate relation ship arose, however, through F. D. Roosevelt's own marriage, for his wife was Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, whose father, Elliot, was Col. Roosevelt's only brother. Col. Roosevelt, than President, gave his niece away at her marriage, which was solemnized on
 March 1. 1905, a date that has come to have some significance in MT. Roosevelt's calendar, for 1t was on that day in 1913 that he took up his duties as assistant secretary of the navy in Woodrow Wilson's first cab inet.
 MT. Roosevelt was graduated from
 
 been one of the overseers of the uni versity. He was active and popular while in college, and-in keeping with the journalistic note that has been sounded so clearly in this years nom | nation made his best record as pres l ident and editor of the Crimson. It was he who started the fire es- cape scandal of 1903, when he wig orously attacked the corporation for it's failure to provide sufficient means of egress from the dormitories. Upon his graduation from Harvard MT. Roosevelt went to Columbia Law 1 school, where he took his degree in 1907. Then he went into the office of Carter, Ledyard & Nilburn, serving
 there as managing clerk until in 1910 l he formed a partnership of his own 1 with the title, Marvin, Hooker & | Roosevelt, connection he still re- tains. His practice there was of a
 general nature and did not bring him l into any especial notice.
 In that year finally he took a plunge l into politics. The Senatorial district
 to which Duchess County belongs had | been represented at Albany by Re | publicanS for an unbroken period of
 28 years-the exact span of MT. Roose- velt's life at that time. Democratic
 leaders, including Mayor John s. Sa-
 que, of Poughkeepsie, and former l Lieut. SoN. ouduleI, uet1ued IHo Lldle E. | had come to interrupt if they could
 not end, this heirarchy. They per | suaded MT. Roosevelt to take the | nomination, and he went on the stump.
 A week after Roosevelt took his seat at Albany he became a national | figure. Tammany had put forward
 Blue Eyed Billie'' Sheehan as its | candidate for the United States Sem | ate in succession to Chauncey M. De- | pew. The party caucus seemed to | make his election assured in spite of | the protest that arose throughout the | state. Then, on Jan. 16. 19 members | of the legislature bound themselves l to work and vote" against Sheehan | to the end, declaring that they did
 so in loyalty to the true principles ] of the Democratic party"
 | Senator Roosevelt was the chief of | these insurgents. He was laughed l at wherever the Old Guard and it's l followers gathered. Even those who
 welcomed his aid had their doubts | that he and his fellows would be able
 to do anything real. But for 60 bal
 lots the insurgents under his leader | ship blocked every move in Sheehan's 1 behalf, and on the 64th 1t was Su- | preme Court Justice James A. OGor l man and not Blue Eyed Billie" that ] was elected.
 He was among the first. of the mer | to take up the presidential cause of | Woodrow Wilson, then governor o1 New Jersey, and to thwart the Tam l many hindrance to that cause which | was already impending, he began a | fight against the unit rule, just as | he fought 1t at San Francisco this
 year with Thomas Mott Osborne and
 a group of others he organized the
 Empire State Democracy, whose
 avowed purpose was to give a voice
 at Baltimore to those who wanted Wilson and who would not be able to