Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 131, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1916 — JAMES W. BECKMAN VISITS T. R. HOME [ARTICLE]

JAMES W. BECKMAN VISITS T. R. HOME

In Company With New York Sculptor He Met Teddy In His Own Home and Was Impressed.

James W. Beckman, of whom Elbert Hubbard wrote shortly before he lost his life on the Lusitania, “He is an extension of myself," continues to move forward as a writer in New rork City. On last Saturday, May 27th, he was one of about 3,000 persons who paid a visit to the home of Theodore Roosevelt at Sagamore Hill, Long Island. He went in a car with a famous New York sculptor who is a close friend of the expresident and three other prominent New Yorkers. They were received into the home of Mr. Roosevelt and he showed them about his house, exhibiting with pride the famous paintings he has gathered together and talking freely with them. He mentioned to the sculptor that there were several other paintings he would like to have but that he too poor” to buy them. Mr. Beckman wrote to his parents here about the trip and said that he was surprised at the plainness and simplicity of the Roosevelt home. Aside from the paintings there was nothing of great value in the home, that is of great cost. Mr. Beckman said that the -house really needed a coat of paint and a new roof. He learned that Mr. Roosevelt does not have much money and that he devotes a great deal of his earnings to things in which he is interested and not for his personal use. Four years ago this fall Mr. Beckman, who had long been a great admirer of Senator LaFollette- of Wisconsin, and who is a freelance in political thought, voted for Woodrow Wilson, but he has long since decided that he was mistaken and now' he is a Roosevelt convert and thinks that he is the greatest living American and the one man to become president.