The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-01
RoosEvELT's SWING.
His Tour to Be the Biggest Since
 Andrew Johnson.


 Andrew Johnson.
 From Washington to New York World.
 Even so astute a person as Secretary Cortelyou, the wonderful executive of the Presicent's force. gets tangled when the strenuous President wants him to arrange railroad schedule that will put the President into Detroit and Indianapolis on the same day and permit him to make speeches at one and the same time to the rival associations of Spanish war vete-
 This is but one of Mir. Cortelyous problems. The President is so anxious to swing around the circle that he has promised almost all corners that he will visit this city and that one. The trips he is to take this fall. as now tentative ly arranged, contemplates three swings. The first one will be through New Eng land. The second one will be through Ohio, Indiana. Kentucky, Michigan. Wis consin. West Virginia. Illinois and Ma ryland. The third will take in the South as far as San Antonio. Tex.
 The trips will begin in September and will last until nearly December. They will be made in snecial train. with all the luxury the Pillmans can provide. This will he the biggest swing any President has made since Andy Johnson made his historical round. To be sure, PreSident Cleveland went out during his terms. and so did. President Harrison, but they didn't cover the country as President Roosevelt will, nor for the same reason.
 
 he saw what a success his little excur sion to Charleston was. He let it be known he would visit few cities. He has been overwhelmed with invitations. He has accepted nearly all The only real refusal has been to go to Duluth, where he was invited by Representative Page Morris. He thought that was too far out of the beaten track. Morris thinks he will get the President yet, and he probably will
 The development of the idea into the gigantic swing that is now in con temptation arises from the Presidents overwhelming ambition to be nominated and elected President in 1904. He gives all his waking throughts to that problem. So when he learned that the politicians are against him, secretly. for that nomi- nation and that the financial interests of the country refuse to have anything to do with him and will try to defeat him. he decided that he would lay his case before the people. He first thought 1t would be good thing for him to go into the Congressional campaigns, and called tho Congress Campaign Commit tee of the Republican Party to the White House and told them so. They demurred. They said it was not GUS tomary for Presidents to go Into cam paigns. and while they would be very grateful for all the aid the President could give them they thought he would better make his speeches incidental, if he made any. and not solely political.
 The President apparently acquiesced. Secretly however, he decided that he would make political speeches if the ne- necsity arose, and he will make them. too
 He wants to defend the army and the administrations Philippine policy. He wants to look after Wood and Root and Knox and his trust crusade, and. lastly. he wants to prepare the way for some plan of tariff revision. The Republican leaders think that if the subject of tariff revision is gone into before the Presi- dtntfal elections in 1901 the Republi:1 Party has d good chance to lose. They want to stave it off if they can.
 The President is a tariff reformer. He is willing. indeed anxious, to cut down the schedules, but he has been persuaded to wait.
 The Presidents speech at the Harvard commencement is type of the addresses he will make. In that speech ne took full responsibility for Wood and Root and Taft and all the rest. He stood out in the open and said: These are my men and I belieev in them and uphold them" It is an open secret here that Woood will eventually cause the administration much trouble. The Democrats have ammunition similar to the receipts for over S1lO0O paid by Wood to Thurber to influence Headers of thought for Cuban reciproc- ity.
 They say he spent Cuban money with equal liberality in other similar direc- tions, and that they have the proof. They may not use this proof until after the next elections, or they may use it in the Congressional campaigns. They are guarding 1t very carefully and will not hint at what they have. They say. how ever. that Wood will need a great deal of. defense from the President and from others before they get through with him.
 In addition to the political side of the trip. with it's vast possibilities to the Presidential mind, in the way of getting himself known to the people, there is a sporting side that has been fully consid- cred. The President has been lured and allured by stories of partners and black bears and deer that he can hunt in the South. He has been told of the prairie chicken he can shoot, the grouse and duck he can bring down and the tarpon fishing that is to be had. Men who could not get him otherwise came in with sto- r:CI of mountain fas.d esses and we'll guarded marshes where big game turks. and there isn't t,me on record where the President failed to respond. His trip to the South will be more for a hunting expedition than anything else. although he will, of course. put in a speech hero and there and trust to results.
 It will be some weeks before the sched- ules are all arranged.