Show JUST I IBy 1 By 1 ALBERT LBERT F. F PH PHILIPS J Perhaps the stability of the government government government gov gov- W was waa S never better shown than was vas the transfer of the mantle mantle man man- tb tle of president from McKinley to Roosevelt The ceremony was sim situ pie The oath of office was administered admin admin- In Buffalo Buffal and there was not a slipping of a cog not a a. break in the machinery of ot the govern govern- meat ment Roosevelt became the tile idol of his party as he had been a unique figure in the politics of the country where he ho had In a short period made a brilliant record He had been three years a member of the New Kew York Toik legislature and a aleader aleader aleader leader In tho the political world in the Empire state slate He had been a candidate candidate candidate can can- for mayor of New York Tork lIe He had been for six years president of the United States civil service commission com corn mission then two years as president of the board of police commissioners commission ers era of New York He was then called to W Washington Washing Washing- ton to become assistant secretary of the nav navy which position he re resigned resigned resigned re- re signed to head a regiment of Rough RoughRiders RoughRiders RoughRiders Riders when the war with Spain broke out and who was a hero Inthe inthe In the tho battle battlo of ot El Caney hill He had been a cowboy himself and while the tho makeup of the regiment which he lie commanded was not en en- en of cowboys there was a large jarge number of ot his old comrades in the saddle with him So great was the dem demand nd for service In his regiment of volunteer cavalry that had the president desired five or ten more regiments had Roosevelt lt requested them they would have been quickly quick quick- ly recruited ELECTED GOVERNOR Then after the Spanish Amer lean ican war he was governor of the I Empire state for two years ears when he was nominated and elected vice I president and had served in that position only a few months when the assassination of President McKinley Mc- Mc Kinley called cal him to the highest place in the gift of the of the United States And when this call came he was but 42 years of age His Ills activities were remarkable He was the father of the modern American navy anc and it was due to him that when the war with Spain Spam broke out the American navy was wag wagIn In the condition that It was The million and a half of dollars that he asked and obtained from congress congress congress con con- gress when he was assistant secretary sec eec rotary of the target practise practise sec sec-j tise proved that his preparedness In this branch of the government hadnot had hadnot hadnot not been In vain It was duo due to his efforts that Admiral Dewey was assigned to tho the command of the tile Asiatic squadron and also that his preparedness in having the famous battleship Oregon in the condition that she was which enabled the accomplishment of the tile American armada in the sea in the time destruction of Cervera's fleet and which about the end of I the war I ADMIRED BY MEN He was the idol of the regiment that h he commanded and this regiment regiment regiment regi regi- ment differed from other regiments in that the members came camo from college and ranch the millionaire and the cowpuncher slept under the tho sanie same blanket and were real buddies bud bud- budI buddies I dies dies- where true Americanism was I shown asked and obtained the appointment of his friend of many years rears Dr Leonard Wood as colonel colo cob no nel of the regiment while he ac accepted ac- ac c the position of lieutenant colonel and when Wood was promoted promoted pro pro- tp be brigadier general Colonel Roosevelt became colonel When he became president his first message dwelt at length on the necessity of more moro stringent laws against anarchy as also more stringent stringent stringent gent laws regarding immigration he recommended to congress and the recommendation was at once acted upon that an appropriation of ofa ofa a half million dollars be made for the sufferers from the eruption of Mt Pelee which destroyed the Island Is island is- is land of Martinique He advocated reciprocity with Cuba which he declared would complete the work In the Island that was Inaugurated just after the close of the tho war and his request was complied led with at a special session of congress held In August 1903 Through l his s efforts the great coal strike which began May 12 12 1903 and continued until October 23 of that year a period of days a compromise agreement between employer er and miner was reached reachel which was satisfactory to all ail parties parties par par- ties concerned SUFFERS INJURY During a trip through the New Ne' England states in September 1002 1902 he was In an automobile accident In l Pittsfield Mass l wherein his auto collided with another and the president presIdent president pres pres- ident was severely Injured so much so that on n his return to Washington Washing Washing- ton he had to undergo an opera opera- tion A member of the secret service servIce service ice William Bray who accompanied accompanied nied flied him was killed in the accident Among the great features of his first administration was the settlement settlement set set- of ot the Alaskan boundary dispute and which settled the question question question ques ques- tion of the peace of nations in the future the commissioners appointed by President Roosevelt and by time the British government determining the vexed question on October 17 1903 1003 the conclusion given being due to the work of Baron Alverstone lord chief justice of ot England The American commissioners were Secretary Secretary Sec See of State Elihu Root Hoot and Senators Senators Senators Sen Sen- Lodge Ledge and Turner The hearIng hearing hear hear- hearIng ing was had in London It was these accomplishments among among many others that made Roosevelt his own successor and when the Republican national convention convention con COn- on ent convened in Chicago in inJune InJune InJune June 1904 1004 no one was thought of except Roosevelt |