The title of the picture was "His Favorite Author." This was the old fellow whom I always used to keep in mind.

He had probably been in the Civil War in his youth; he had worked hard ever since he left the army; he had been a good husband and father; he had brought up his boys and girls to work; he did not wish to do injustice to any one else, but he wanted justice done to himself and to others like him; and I was bound to secure that justice for him if it lay in my power to do so.[*] [*] I believe I realized fairly well this ambition.

I shall turn to my enemies to attest the truth of this statement.

The New York _Sun_, shortly before the National Convention of 1904, spoke of me as follows: "President Roosevelt holds that his nomination by the National Republican Convention of 1904 is an assured thing.

He makes no concealment of his conviction, and it is unreservedly shared by his friends.