Show I NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY I ITHE THE WHO GAVE ROO SEVELT AID By 1 E ThIll do II serIes of anecdotes throw new and on events and personalities ot p t have been collected by Edwards durin years of more or 11 mato Ith many ot tho contrys lenders since tho Civil War or nt Is tresh Mr notebook either In or In part It constitutes Now News ot tram tho mon who the q s Aa Im Important contributions at tho Human Interest sort to history have 0 their own The morning after Theodore Roose Roosevelt velt had that wonderful guber gubernatorial ot his through the ot New Yorka personal appeal that undoubtedly resulted In hiR elec election tion by a of eighteen thousand I met him as ho was Republican lican headquarters In the old Fifth vc nue hotel In ew York Col Roosevelt I ald It Is vcr necessary that I eo ou at oneo ana I hac been to convey to you a most message Ith s tho colonel about fed nd led tho Wll to cn Inner room Vell be left alone here he said saidI I como from Ir I began the name or a oC na national and of the hl reputation for and poll Ho Is a great or he has great In ou and our ability to do the right thing In public life and he that you have a Teat career ahead of you He expressed all to mo the other day and then added expenses he ver In the ort or that he III making thoro are a good many expenses which a candidate can cannot not call upon the state or commit committee tee to meet It Is generaU known that Is not a wealth man ond he III so punctilious about meeting his personal obligations that I wondered whether hIs campaign not mUlled a pretty upon purse I think it has and so a aono ono who In him Ib that his eJection ns or New NewYork York Is to the best Interests of the state I have made up mind to contribute something to But I been thinking that tho best use I put my contribution to would be to make It to Mr So I that ou would got luto with hIm ns soon an t him I and hand him the ch ck I am to tov v OU It will be check fO that Its cannot be It will be made out to his personal or order der And ou aro to tell him In offering him the I only two conditions must not turn the oyer to any committee but must u t It personally and t must not be become come known I havo figured In his In way I held out the bit of paper Here ColonI I concluded Is the check Ho took It and glanced nt its tace hewl he san Thon there came tho smile It docs beat all how good Juck to come to me nt tho right moment just now when you met me as asI I the hotel I was on my wa down town to soo If I not bonow two or three thou nd dollars somo or mine that I might meet vory pressing per personal which I In Incurred by reason of my canvass But now this check this gift comIng from froma a man whom I knol to have no uT In making It mo of a rather position Again the glanced at the bit ot paper he held In hIs hand His race grew 6 Yes he I ald I understand per perfectly welT that It Is help to tomo mo not for any personal reason on tho part of Mr Blank or from ani of but he ex expects mo to live up to my Ideals It I Ilm elected governor I accept tho aid In tho spirit In which It Is and I want you to con convoy voy to the RIver m for his belief and confidence In me meI I did so And perhaps I should that not once either directly or th did this ever ask n fn vor of any sort of Roose Roosevelt velt But expressed to me his tion at helped at so a time for this Democrat to the day of his death remained Roosevelt admirer nB he dill that the Colonel more than up to the confidence dence and belief placed In him an his nune of this Democrat I am sorry but I am not at to male it known |