The New President of the United States.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 104, 19 September 1901, Page 3

The New President of the United States.

Colonel Theodora Roosevelt, 'Who, through tha 'a'.al issue of the attack which was made upon tho life of President McKiiiley, President of the Unitßd States, U a young man, being only in his f.-rfcy-third year. Like the Vanderbilta, tha Rooserelt family U descended from the early Dutch'settlers. Colonel Roosevelt's father wai a wellknown philanthropist, who bequeathed to hia son a large fortune. Colonel Roosevelt has one of the most varied and picturesque careers belaud him that an American tician could have lie was e uc.ited .it Harvard, spent somo J time in Europe, B'ud.*d law, and wrote books. To cure a delioa'-e constitution he took a rauch in the '• Bad Lauds " of Dakota, and spent a great deui of time there, though he alway% managed to keep in touch with the politics of hia State. Out iu the wilds oi the West he made his name a'a a fearless horseman and an intrepid and keen hunter, and a man wno would stand no nonsense. It ia characteristic of him that when a gang of desperadoes stulc some of hie cattle he hunted them down and did not lest until he landed them all in gaol. All this time he w .a aotivdy engaged in Now York State politics. At the ago <f twenty-three he was a member of the State Assembly, and five yearß l»ter he ' fought toughly as Republican candidate for the Mayoralty of New York city, t'nough his defeat was a foregone concluH<m. Meanwhile he was coining reputation by his active work in connection with Civil Service reform, and was President of the Civil Service Commission f-r seveial years. When, iu 1895, the Tammany oppression was opposed, Major Strong, then Mayor, made him President of the City Polio Board, and there lie had a chance to show what xtuff he was made of. Th« corrupt state of the New York polioe at tho time iu now a matter of history, but his work in reformation 'of a disgracefu 1 condition of -affairs ttands out lis the

only clean p*ge in it. Resigning hia position on the Police Board to become Assistant Secretary to the Navy in President McKinley's Administration, he devoted hinnelf to the task of putting the navy upin a proper war footing—with excellent results as far as America was concerned in the war with Spain. Bat in connection with the war hia name will live longest as commander of Rjosovelt's Rough Riders, a unique corps in which young millionaires served as troopers side by side with cowboys. The c>rps, it will be remembered, was a great factor in the defeat of the Spaniards. Certainly the new President is one ot the most popular men, not only in the State of New York, but in tho whole of America.