New-York tribune., 1898-11-10
ROOSEVELTS PLANS
A GOOD REST FIRST AND THEN LIT
ERARY WORK.
GREATLY SURPRISED AT BROOKLYN's voTE-HE-
GRETs JUSTICE DALY's DEFEAT AND
PLEASED At wOODRUFFs ELEC-

TION-THANKS TO ODEII.
Oyster Bay. Long Island. Nov. 9.-Colonel
Roosevelt spent the morning hours receiving
ard reading telegrams congratulating him on
his election and sent away big lunches Of an
swers until his stock Of Internal Revenue stamps
gave out and then he sent messenger down to
tho village for more. The operator at Oyster
BAY did the largest days business in the his
tory Of the Office
In the afternoon Colonel Roosevelt mounted
his bicycle and went for a spin along the Sound
shore. When he returned to his home his face
showed the effects Of the exertion and his eyes
had recained some of their brightness. He SAID
he had beer kept on the jump pretty steadily
for the last six months. but the bicycle ride ne
had Just taken he felt did him good.
IT was no fun he added. to go flying around
the State day and night speaking almost con-
stantly His throat had held out better than ne
had expected and there were times when ne
feared he would have trouble but the rest OBJ
tained on Sunday had enabled him to Keep up
the strain. The Colonevs voice Is still httle
husky, but has improved considerably since MS
arrival home yesterday afternoon He hopes II
will be all right by Sunday.
Colonel Roosevelt said he was greatly pleased
with the result of the election and the outcome
as a whole was not surprise to him. as 1t was
about what he expected. There was feeling
OF surprise. however, in regard to the locaiities
from which the majority came. Brooklyn as an
instance, was a great surprise to him. He had
not expected that his rival would get majority
there. He had counted upon a majority lor
himself in Brooklyn. There were other cities IN
the state in the upper part, which had sur
prised him. The rest of the State had gone Re-
publican even more heavily than ne expected
Taking all in all he was we'll satisfied with lhe
result. As he understood the situation, ne was
elected by about twenty thousand, perhaps
little under and perhaps little more
ore of the things which pleased the Coohei
was the electiOr of Mr.. Woodruff. without INC
election OF Woodruff, the victory would not ne
half complete he said and the defeat OF Noou
ruff would have been a calamity lie regret'eu
that the fight for Judge DAILY had been lost IN
Manhattan. In this the COIOnel salu hc wac
disappointed. , ,o
As to his plans. Colonel Roosevelt said he
was going to spend the immediate future d,
home taking things as easy as possible d anu al
resting from the faigues of the last few years ds
best he might in the limited time he would nav :,
TO himself For the last three years he had had
littlc time to himself During ms ioicT ',,r,
missionership days he had not had much ielSute'
and then. when he had gone TO washington ne
had hardly got settled in the Navy department.
when preparatiOns for the war had begun, anu
then there was LITTLE or no rest Tor any one
connected with the Government IRON the out
break OF lhc war 10 the present time ne had no'
The Cuban campaign. Of course, had given MN
little leisure. and the political absolutely none
Between now and the first OF the year he H'u
e,rht lectures to deliver, and they had not yet
hcon prepared: and this would use up gooo
part of his time There we're also some maSa-
zine articles h. had promised 10 write ana III a d
general way he could say that from no" uitl' IL
the first Of the year he would be engaged III
literary work. -,
During the campaign the Colonel said he had
made Il number Of promises. Every one OF
siedc
ried out Ee had made them openly and In sood
la;th on the stump to the people. The peope, ne
felt had elected him because he MADE these
promises. and were entitled 10 have them .Il-
i.i;ed .
There was one man. Colonel Roosevelt said, TO
whom he Wished to express his appreciation
and that was Chairman Odell He was splen-
did political general and hrst-rate man In
every way.
Colonel Roosevelt said that IN the course or
the day he had received many telegrams from
police officers in all parts OF New-York city ex-
pressing qualification at his election some OF
them were men he appointed while on the Ponce
Board others were men whom he had promoted
ana there were others Of whom he had no rccol-
lection He did not feel justified in making
known the names Of any Of the officers
Among those who sent congra tulatory teIe.
grams were william T. Dewey. the brother or
the Admiral: Major Avery u. Andrews Memo
las Murray Butler Elias Goodman. Colonel W.
A. Downs and political and personal friends