A FIGHTING FAMILY

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 22, 25 July 1918, Page 6

A FIGHTING FAMILY

Ex-President Roosevelt's four fighting sons are adding extensively to the Roosevelt- reputation, particularly to that branch of it which is based on gunpowder rather than on politics.. The head of the house was himself a colonel of Rough-riders in Cuba before he presumed to aspire to the Presidential Chair; and his political methods in those days so little commended themselves to the Republican Party bosses that his nomination as Vice-President wae really intended by them to blanket him with a sinecure. But fate willed it that an assassin's bullet, which caused the death of President M'Kinley, should elevate Theodore Roosevelt to the very position which the plotters sought to close to him. When the war came, the ex-President was the biggest American advocate of an immediate, entry of the United States into the arena. In the new American army he has lost one son and two others have been wounded; and a fourth holds a British commission as captain with the Mesopotamian forces. Not content with sending four scions into the field, the old war-horse himself yearned for a command, but he is not as young as he i^sed to be, and Rough-rider principles in Cuba are hardly analogous with the conditions of Wjir in France. Nevertheless, Theodore Roosevelt remains a pillar of the Allied .cause, which finds in tho Roosevelt family one of its chief adornments.