. Outing. ent in a returnedhero of his type. Unquestionably, it wasthe attractive halo of heroism that landedhim in the Governors chair of the State ofNew York, following a campaign after hisown heart, in which he covered the state,wearing his rough rider regalia and at-tended by a squad of members of his regi-ment, making speeches here, there andeverywhere in his unlovely, almost gro-tesque, but forcible and convincing man-ner. And it was his term as Governor,with his well-timed, studied and spectacu-lar occasional disregard of boss rule and hisconsequent growing, picturesque appeal tothe mas
. Outing. ent in a returnedhero of his type. Unquestionably, it wasthe attractive halo of heroism that landedhim in the Governors chair of the State ofNew York, following a campaign after hisown heart, in which he covered the state,wearing his rough rider regalia and at-tended by a squad of members of his regi-ment, making speeches here, there andeverywhere in his unlovely, almost gro-tesque, but forcible and convincing man-ner. And it was his term as Governor,with his well-timed, studied and spectacu-lar occasional disregard of boss rule and hisconsequent growing, picturesque appeal tothe masses of the people, that led the EasyBoss and those who were his allies to de-cide to still this particular dominant note,to bind and gag Theodore Roosevelt andlock him away in the padded cell of theVice-Presidency. Everyone knows what happened. Howthey did curse, those too astute, self-de-stroying gentlemen, who for morally ob-lique reasons had wanted Theodore Roose-velt—a force for good most of the time. He loved this infant—once. 724 The Outing Magazine but a force all of the time—out of the thoughts were theirs when the President McKinley had beenshot, and later, when in the middle of thenight the telegraph systems of the country,linked endlessly from Buffalo into web-likethreads, reaching every state and section,carried the quick-flashed whisper of hisdeath. A DRAMATIC ENTRY INTO PRESIDENTIALOFFICE But Roosevelt, the Vice-President, wherewas he? Hunting in the Adirondacks and,after the fashion that was his, further intothe woods than any one else, away, forthe moment, from civilization and the tele-phone and telegraph. But word was car-ried to him, part of the way by courier andguide; and then, from the heart of the for-est, through the night, by springless buck-board to North Creek, and by record-breaking specials over the Delaware &Hudson, and the New York Central toBuffalo, he made that wild dash of ajourney that constituted the most dra-mati
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