TABLE OF CONTENTS. PUBLISHERS' PREFACE. PREFACE. INTRODUCTION....... CHAPTER I. THE ROOSEVELT FAMILY. Holland and Huguenot Stock-President's Grandfather, Explorer of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers on the First Steamboat That Navigated Them-His Father's Public Spirit and Philanthropy - His Mother of a Historical Family in Georgia The President's Family at the White House-Ages of His Children.... CHAPTER II. IN THE NEW YORK ASSEMBLY. Roosevelt's Way of Self-Making-Disciplined Body and Mind-Studied and Assailed CHAPTER III. ROOSEVELT'S RANCH LIFE. The Little Missouri Ranch Was One of the President's School Houses - How He Is a Self-Made Man-Gets Acquainted with the Great American Animals and Introduces Them His Ranch on the Missouri – Literary Work Shop-His Past Experiences There-Bear Stories- His Most Thrilling Moment - Good and Bad Shots with Rifles... CHAPTER IV. A NATIONAL FIGURE IN 1884. Theodore Roosevelt Leads New York Delegation in a National Convention, When PAGE XIII XV XIX 233 31 37 52 CHAPTER V. STARTING CIVIL SERVICE REFORM. Very Interesting Testimony - Business Advantages Gained - Funny Questions and PAGE Important Official 65 CHAPTER VI. WHEN POLICE COMMISSIONER. His Fight for the Honor of New York City - Brief Statement of the Facts - Unwise Legislation - Bi-Partizan Police Failure - The Blackmail Business - Morning Calls on the Police-Dry Rot in Politics - A Brave Man's Great Good Work........ CHAPTER VII. ROOSEVELT'S SWORN ROUGH RIDER HISTORY. ... 81 His Talks under Oath to the Spanish War Investigation Commission - Thrilling Personal Narrative of Trouble and Triumph-How He Got into the Fight at Santiago, and the Way It Was Won 91 CHAPTER VIII. THE SANTIAGO BATTLES ASHORE. Col. Roosevelt on the Fire Lines - Led the Way with His Volunteers - Official Reports of Superior Officers and His Own-Going Home with the Sick-Important Military Suggestions - Lessons of Actual Service.. CHAPTER IX. THE ROUND ROBIN LETTER. Secretary of War Alger and Colonel Theodore Roosevelt Differ Radically-The Full CHAPTER X. PRESIDENT'S PERSONAL EXPRESSIONS. Kindly Views and Pleasant References - A Fighter, Not a Quarreler - Experiences 102 116 Reflections of Himself in Writings and His Heroes-He Gives His Confidences in Glowing Pages - Washington, Lincoln and Grant, Three Pre-eminently Great Men-Aspirations Revealed in His Laudations - He Corrects a First Impression -Loves Cowboys, but "There Are Others - How He Became a Remote Ranch- HOME AND ABROAD VIEW OF THE PRESIDENT. American Competition in English Magazines about Americans-Some Errors of Eng- land—“Articulate" Surroundings of Roosevelt-The Scorching Light upon Him - Resemblance of "Theodore" to "William" Traced by "Poultney"-Supple- ment by Dr. Shaw-British Historian as an Expert Correspondent... Two of Them as Lofty Examples - The Famous "Strenuous Life" and "Manhood and Statehood"-The Boldness with Which the President Expresses Himself - Led to and from Cuba-Paints Enchanting Picture of the Island - From Santiago to Albany-Vice-Presidential Notification of Nomination Rough Rider Games at A Study of Governor Roosevelt's Message to the Legislature of New York Covering the Latest and Greatest Modern Questions,-Taxation, Restraint of Trusts, All Phases of Labor Issues - Corporations, Municipal Ownership, the Boxing Law.... 191 Free City". "Tri-Insula" Policy Once Proposed - Roosevelt out West-Encounters Roughs Who Were Not Riders - His Immense Campaign Work-Striking Speeches Go to the Right Spot-Returns Home in Time to Stamp upon Sedition-A Great Public Service - The Ruffians Ridden Down by CHAPTER XVII. THE SPECIAL TRAIN IN POLITICS. It Is an Agency That Serves to Make the People a Harmonious Nation -It Binds the Union to Make the Nation a Neighborhood of States - Roosevelt's Campaigning in New York and the West - Bryan's Competition-Roosevelt Fights to the Finish- List of His Literary Works. CHAPTER XVIII. RIDE FROM MOUNT MARCY. From the Source of the Hudson to the Niagara River - How Roosevelt Came to be on Mount Marcy When McKinley Died Delay of Information and Rush from the Adirondacks to Lake Erie - The Splendid Story of the Ride.... CHAPTER XIX. RELATIONS OF MCKINLEY AND ROOSEVELT. The Twenty-Fifth President and His Predecessor's Policy - The Vice-President Succeeds to the Presidency — Roosevelt's Tributes to McKinley - The Message to Congress an Example of Fitness . CHAPTER XX. THE PRESIDENT AS A PEACEMAKER, Auspicious Conditions at His Succession-Distinction from Vice-Presidents Gone Before Conservatism, Not Revolution - British Study of the Senate, with an Erroneous Theory-The Senate Has Ratified an Isthmian Treaty with England - Roosevelt Strong for Peace because His Word Stands - His Admirable Deportment in Time of Trouble..... CHAPTER XXI. THE QUESTION OF RACE. It Is the Bequest of Slavery-Roosevelt a President without Prejudice - Phases of Racial Problem-The President's Oration on Frederick Douglass-Shall We Amend the Constitution?. . . . . . . PAGE 223 234 244 261 277 CHAPTER XXII. ROOSEVELT IN THE WHITE house. "Strenuous Life" There - First Night in President's Home - Dignity Need Not be Tedious-Quickened Foot-Steps-The Functions of Luncheon - Busy DayHorseback Ride - The President upon a Gallop-New Year's Reception- Play of the Children Pleases All 285 CHAPTER XXIII. THE PRESIDENT TAKES THE RESPONSIBILITY. His Rapid and Rugged Style-Goes Right at His Work-Makes Frontal Attacks Precedents of Public Policy as Governor of New York Have Application to All the States-Secretary Long's Appreciation-Square Dealings with the People, Poor and Rich-There Is No Safety in Hiding or Running - The Final Responsibility for Reciprocity-Our Cuban Policy and the President's Ambition and Ideality... PAGE 298 CHAPTER XXIV. PRESIDENT'S FIRST MESSAGE TO CONGRESS. - A Paper That Would Alone Give Its Author a Foremost Place among Public Men One That Has Seldom Been Equaled, and Never Surpassed, in the Information It Contains, and the Ability with Which It Is Stated-The Courage of Conviction-The Wealth of Suggestion and Recommendation, and the Brilliancy of Literary Execution.. 309 CHAPTER XXV. WINNING THE WEST." Preservation and Restoration of Forests - Irrigation of Arid Lands, the Desert Cancer Cure-More Good Land for the People at Home-The President's Books on the West-His Western Politics-Secretary of the Treasury Lives West of the Mississippi River-Literary Men in Politics. CHAPTER XXVI. HIS CO-ORDINATE DEPARTMENTS. Lieutenant-General Miles Imparts Information and Is Rebuked-What the Secretaries of War and Navy Had to Say-Admiral Dewey Did Not Tell All He Meant-The President on Dangerous Obedience to Orders-His Two-Year-Old Opinion Was Sampson Was in Command-There Is a Shake Up-A "Historian" Ordered Not to Labor Any More, Pleads He Is of the Civil Service Class, but Is Put out - Melancholy Illness of Admiral Sampson-The Origin of the Trouble-The President's Finding Finally CHAPTER XXVII. OUR COUNTRY'S GREAT HEREAFTER. The Settled Issues - Burning Questions of the Future - After the Problems, the Premiership of the Nations Is Ours-The Competency of the President to Guide Us on the Way..... 324 337 |