Two years after this, in 1886, when Roosevelt was on his Dakota
ranch, the Republicans nominated him for Mayor of New York City.
He was about twenty-eight years old, and it is evident that he had
made a mark in politics. He came East, accepted the nomination,
and made the campaign.

The opponents were, first, Abram S. Hewitt, a respectable
candidate nominated by Tammany Hall in its customary fashion of
offering a good man, now and then, to pull the wool over the eyes
of persons who naturally need some excuse for voting to put New
York into the hands of the political organization whose existence
has always been one of America's greatest disgraces.

The other candidate was Henry George, a man of high character,
nominated by the United Labor Party. Mr. Hewitt was elected, with
Mr. George second and Mr. Roosevelt third.

About a month after the election, Mr. Roosevelt went to England,
where he married Miss Edith Kermit Carow, of New York. She had
been his friend and playmate when he was a boy, and was his
sister's friend. The groomsman was a young Englishman, Mr. Cecil
Spring-Rice. Years later the groom and his "best man" came
together again in Washington, when the American was President
Roosevelt, and the Englishman was Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, the
British Ambassador to the United States.