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III. THE PROGRESSIVE PARTY

"I Am Going Down Like Dewey"

The Return to Politics

Why Mr. Taft Was Nominated in 1908
The Break with Taft

The Sudden Formation of the Progres-

sive Party

As a member of the New York Assembly
As Civil Service Commissioner, 1889-1895.
With a party of Republicans who came to tell him that

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Theodore Roosevelt at Work .

Frontispiece

As President of the Board of Police, New York City,

1895-97

In cowboy costume during his early years as a ranchman In 1885, in North Dakota, four years after Joe Murray started Mr. Roosevelt's political career

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Addressing a street audience with characteristic gesture
and emphasis.

A rear platform speech to a group of citizens in Ohio
In his English Academic robes

This is believed to have been Colonel Roosevelt's favour

ite photograph of himself

Reviewing the Battle Fleet at the time of its world

cruise .

Theodore Roosevelt as President

The last meeting of the Roosevelt Cabinet.
With members of the Conservation Commission
Peace Envoys on board Mayflower, August, 1903
At Panama inspecting the Canal which "he took"
Crossing a part of the desert near Khartum.

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