| Show ROOSEVELT FEARLESS AND ABLE Glimpse ol of the tJI Man Mall Who tins Has Become the tile Nations Chief Exec Proud He tie is an name Fame and Honor by Hard Honest Endeavor i f f iTh r i i 0 0 4 8 4 z r 49 k u 4 F Y i 4 i iF 1 ii i r rf f z I IS S 1 I o l itt S F i 1 5 j eq r f RESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT New York special to tho Chicago Vice President of ot the tho United States Iud and President In the event of ot the death of ot President was born in inthis Inthis Inthis this city elt October 27 7 lie will be Le beU 41 U years old this coming October He HI HIj I Ihas has been before tho the public eye ce since j 1831 1581 when hen he ho first turned his eyes to toward toward toward ward the far tar West to seek new now health fortune In the cattle lands of ot northwestern Dakota He lie looks younger than 40 lie Ho Is ath athletic letic letle His eyes eres are arc blue and clear his bin hand cordial in and his hili teeth which his manor maner of ot speech habitually h discloses arc marvelously regular and und white lie He Is IH studious and zealous Ho lie scorns l a lie He tout and lie He Is U too frank trank to be bc a n politician and too tou strong In the popular mind to be Lt shelved by party combinations 13 IS A SI LF MAN w nat lIat ho lie I Is he be owes owell to himself Ills His ancestry made New York City history It was waa Dutch und and It was and laborious It had opinions and It II clung to them The Tim Vice ice President Inherited all the family traits At 20 he was wal almost an tin in invalid invalid valid Close application to 10 his studies In III Columbia Harvard had hall still further weakened him lie He was vas a 1 heavy hea reader flader of ot books a 11 patient stu Btu student student dent a 11 quick observer He lie tried a plunge Into Now New York politics In his city elt district was as a u nn machine combination that thaI showed no disposition to recognize his lila desire lre to become n a member of or the leg legislature He lie fought the tho machine and defeated It ItHe itlie lie He went to Albany Alban In 1551 nationally obscure but Indomitable In thice till ce years ho put ut through tho the states act lIet and an In net act regulating 1111 mary elections Party machine Is frowned upon him put but ut he Ito went vent on his lila way WR That has hils always been his meth method 01 od WITH COWBOYS In ISSI he appeared before beCore the nation lie He was as n a 1 delegate to the thc national con of ot that year car Ills His health trou troubled bled tiled him and amI he lie sought a n new life at lit Chimney Dak where he lie grazed cattle onil led the life of ot a 11 cowboy lie He became known from Medora Mcdora to Dick an as the boldest est anti and bravest cattle cattleman cattleman man In tho tue region lie Ho did what tho the cow cov co men inca did lie He lived an nl they ther lived Und He commanded the even of ot the tue desperadoes Ills Ilk lungs lun expanded his body boly developed nail ho rained pained n u re nerve of ot health that seems seema fi to have grown every ear since lie He lost money moner on his cattle venture but he returned to New York Yort a n strong strongman strongman strongman man physically and made tho the race for tor mayor of that city He lie was wal defeated l Jut hut he ho laughed lau He lie understood that the Irrupt corrupt elements of this city ell would not tolerate him but hut he waited Meanwhile J he lie wrote hooks on hunting books on western life lite books on east eastern era ern citIe c llio lila His style atle In literature was vigorous nail antI pleasing Ills His books sold sob well ell and the maga made great de lIe demand mand inand for his writings The public imbUe liked d his lii breeziness hl his evident sin sincerity his courage and partially Ill r lIall ap op appreciated him even cen before Lefore he became a n national service e commissioner In im TO DUTY Once at Washington he lie commenced nn on enforcement of nI the law of the most kind He lie made malle himself ills dis disliked liked among the of or both bolh par parties parties ties but he held MId to the line lino of his hIli duly duty lIe He took the law as ns he found It lived true tilie to 0 his oath of ot and made the measure respected re In ninny mallY quarters where It ha hall had l been sneered nt at before Prom From Washington he lie passed to Ii u po police police lice In this lila city elt lila His peculiar ability to work and work on right lines lints gave the corrupt i ollee Pollee force torre such a shaking up ns as It had never lIen had before He lie was vas police commissioner In every sense s of the word un unapproachable approachable fair to the severe on the tho criminal lUll His iii books con continued tinned to sell lieU In tn increasing number unit and the public through the tho press began legan to have ft n broader view 11 of ot him him When the war came come he wan wall secretary of ot the navy by b the authority of President Mc Ic He lie had much to do with the organization of the navy na for tor the con eon and It has always been h n believed that his 1118 Influence largely larel contributed to the sending of oC Admiral Dewey to Hong kong and thence to Manila Bay Ua A When war tar became a certainty Mr Ir resigned his hIli position portion 1 In the thc navy nax X department and with General Leonard Wood W OO organized the tho First Vol 01 r Cavalry bettor better known as the Hough HIder General Wood was colonel regiment and Mr Ir Jl House e evelt I velt lieutenant colonel The members l of ot the regIment came from the first families In the tho East J ast from ranches In Inthe Inthe inthe the West Vest came caine from coin good tood daring men and good shots could be secured cured f The rh regiment was time the most unique of ot otlis Its lis kind kin c ever eyer e organized and was much scoffed nt at In the beginning Before It hail had been bean two days In Cuba the wisdom of ot its lis organization was as plainly seen The men were vere fitted for tor any an kind of ot campaigning Their colonel and lieu lieutenant lieutenant lieutenant tenant colonel took what they the look took Tho The regiment practically foraged Itself and was vuis first In tho the field and first to be e baptized with lire tIre At Las Kettle Hill HIli and amid Rn San Juan It gave up Its bravest and best Lest and went sent on to vic victory Ie ic tory tor Mr hr was s Its colonel before the end of ot the war lar and pronounced b 11 the foreign military attaches who ol oh o served sered bin hihi conduct In the field as one of ot the first military of at the day tIn daylie HP lie was wall In Santiago at the tho surrender brought his regiment back to the Unit United United United ed States and disbanded It nt nl Point In tho the tall fall of ot It d among the volunteer troops more to the tho Success sor of the American anus In Cuba than any other regiment formed INJECTED mI AS GOVERNOR The colonel became governor of New Now NewYork NewYork York Immediately media tel aft r his lila return to thin this country countr As Aa governor he stood for tor radical taxation legislation and state control of or the trusts His Ills term was wa marked ll by Uy a n pronounced fight tI ht on his part against the New York Republican machine lie He did not hot seek the tho A vIce Ice Iee presidential nomination last year but bu hall hail It II forced upon him and he Im ac or accepted at the tho last moment luring During 1 the campaign he lie made a Il trip of ot over oer 21 1 mile miles speaking for the ticket and was wall received everywhere with popular acclaim Since his Inauguration ho has presided over one mo extra pe session slon of oC the Senate and made several trips through throughout out the country countr attending public tunc fune functions He lie was In Chicago within the thelast thelast last lost ten days dOrB as ns the tho guest of ot Governo Yates As to the real Theodore authentic things thuit he lie has said give ghe ample revelation ns as to what manner mannor of ofa ofa a it character he lie will hiring bring to the tho presidency dency On Americanism In an nn Inter Interview view In lit ISM he lie said Miti saidI I 1 naturally disapprove III of the halt half conscious Americanism which Is ever Clr exerting Itself nt lit the wrong moments I dislike It II of ot course when shien It Is ii put forward ns as n II plen plea li to III excuse e moral shortcomings of or a n kind connected with public affairs Nevertheless In spite of or this abuse abue I Iam Iam Iam am wire sure that no moan man can cnn well vell 11 play his part In our life lite who Is III not honestly I American In heart belief antI and instinct CITES AN N If It one onu wishes to utah find a 11 typical American one may ma inS consider Francis Parkman larkman lit ho always to my admiration because he lie made malle his life lite lifework work cork largely of ot the description of ot that frontier warfare between n our back backwoodsmen woodsmen anti their foes toes which has hu been blen of ot such Incalculable Importance In our lands history In one ono of ot hU hili hI published works he heny says ny In speaking to my tny own cOlin coun countrymen there Is 11 one Of point which I with wish to lav ln la especial stress that Is 18 the nece for a feeling of ot broad radi radl radical radical cal 81 and Intense Americanism It If Rood work U is I to bo be done ilone In any Rn direction Above Ahoe all nil the one on essential for or success u In every political movement which Is to todo toO todo do O lasting good Is that our citizens net art ns nil Americans not ns as Ameri Macri Americans AmerIcans cans Sans with ft a prefix and ant qualification catlon Slot not as ns icons IS native Americans out ut an as Ameri Americans lerl cans pure vuro and simple AMERICANS It Is i an on outrage tot for or a to drag Iral foreign politics Into our contests OhtO and nn vote ote as us nn In Irishman or Cerman or other foreigner ns as the ease case may mn ho bo bound und and there Is 18 no worse citizens than thon the tho professional lush dynamiter or nr Jer Jerman er erman man anarchist because of at his toward our social antI and political life not notto notto to 10 mention hi his hb efforts to us with foreign powers Hut Hilt It Is hi no loss 1000 I Inn nn outrage to discriminate a In t one onu who has hu become nn an In goad 01 I fulth merely because u enu a of lila his creed cited c ed or birthplace Of caste eRste his hI has written As s a for tor tho the upper either social world the fashionable world It ID III It much us liS It was wo hOtl por portrayed pOrtrayed In the Viors fn nv ave that modern society has unified It tho the nt lit which It pays comical but ln lii core coro homage homa l from Paris to tn n It Is la ruttier rather better hetter for It In is le II s provincial n II trifle snore more Hut a would be upper mainly on wealth In which It Is the this cx caption not the tho rule rull for tr a fl man mush manto to tn be he of ot any nm roil account in the na an national life II Co whether as all a R politician n a literary 11 tern r man nina or otherwise Is 18 of or noco city radically detective defective antI and of ci II little lItte moment HAS N MUCH mcl These utterances reveal the time mann lie He has hall written much lOuch The titles ft of f nine nime of or hula his best works nr arl Life Ilfe nt or Th ma Life of or Life Ilfe an the Hunting traIn Tho TIm Winning of the West Vest of nr if New York It Ks I Essays on Irac Practical Politics The Wilderness Hunt cr cm Hero Till Tal s from merican Ills His History tory tor Naval War of ot 1812 1512 He lie Is II nn an Intimate of ot Jacob his nils the thio tenement slum reformer of ot this city or Frederick Holt s sr tny at itt This The Hague ron r Mire and an of oC r Henry henri His hi bit a arc are hl his hiM life most mon t He lie dONI doc not know time the nf tho word Idle hue or of ot lIe He has often orten hem called 0 I a typical American The Tile tits its him |
