The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-29
PRESIDENTS LONG TRIP
AN ACCOMPANIMENT OF LOCAL SoUABBLES AND WRANGLING.
MT. Loeb, the New Secretary, Having Hard Tme-Mr. Roosevelt Ex- pected to Make About One
 Hundred Speeches.

washington Special to New York Evening Post.
 Tn arranging a Presidential trip such as Mir. roosevelt Is soon to make. the greatest prob ie'n is 10 steer clear of local and facttonal souaooies in the places where the President is 10 DC entertained. There always people III every locality who fin these events an opportunity to exploit themselves. Sometimes the purpose is social. sometimes political. and more often 1t is merely the mad thirst for mo- une'y' IL is an opportunity for the self-as- sertive and aggressive to shoulder themselves mo the glare of the calcium light.
 All this makes 1t very hard for the secretary ot the President, and for the President himself, He is in constant danger of being captured ana carried of bodily by the wrong people. " gives an element of uncertainty 10 the programs of entertainment Unseemiy squab- oies are imminent. and the distinguished guest IS liable to leave behind him train of heart ournings There is wrangling now In nearly every city and town where President Roosevelt purposes to stop. The White House Is flooded with protests by telegraph and rail Senators ana Representatives have been crowding the executive offices trying to straighten out local ehtanglements. Seattle lhnd Tacoma are hardly on speaking terms. St Paul Is complaining of Minneapolis. and vice versa. Kansas has sent its Governor and delegation to head of rival political faction. There is trouble in Los Angeles and in San Francisco. and all the way up the coast. IL in such matters as these that Mir Ces4ets was of inestna b e service to the Preside9ess5shose trips he man ased He was diplomatic and firm. He be- came well posted. and able to steel clear of the rocks and pitfalls His successor. MT. Loeo. who is just getting his baptism in the art. is beginning to wish he had never been born.
 smaller number of persons willsaeoompany president Roosevelt on his lerthedTning trip than were with him on the Jpsstsrn trip last September. or the trips thr5Tgh NewsEngland and the South which preceded 'itH 'So far as can be learned, the party will include Secre- tary Loeb. Assistant Secretary Barnes. Sur seon-General Rixey, three stenographers. three messengers and two Secret Service men: John Burroughs, the naturalist, who will accom- pany the President through the Yellowstone Park; John Muir, who will act as his escort through the Yosemite: one representative of each Of three press associations. one represen- tative of each of three weekly illustrated news papers. one official photographer. and one representative of each of the two great tele- graph companies.
 In addition, room will be made on the train Tor six or eight representatives of the daily press local to the territory through which the special train passes from day to day These special newspaper will be changed as the train continues on its way For ex- ample. in the Middle West men representing the Omaha newspapers will be with the train through Nebraska. leaving 1t at Council Bluffs where their places will be taken by men rep- resenting the Iowa newspapers. Later these men will disappear. and, as the train ap- breaches St Louis. men representing the news papers of that city will get aboard and pres- ently in their turn give way to others There has been strong demand from certain East ern daily newspapers for places on the special train. but it has ben necessary to refuse them
 The speeches made during the trip will be important. for they will probably comment on the work of the Fifty-seventh Congress, and furnish some forecast of the administrations s plans in the way of legislation in the Fifty eighth. In al the President will probably make more than 100 speeches. long and short while he Is away. From the point of view of physical endurance alone he has undertaken large contract No other President has ever mapped out such a trip the one which will begin on April l and end on June B. When it Is completed. the President will have covered the entire Middle West. the Southwest and the Far West. Last year he went through New England and the South. and portion of the northern half of the Middle West The people of every section will thus have had a chance to see him.
 The special train will be in charge of Secre- tary Loeb. who will make his initial bow to the country-at-larg in his new office. Mir Cortelyou. as he became Secretary of Commerce and Labor, turned over all plans for the trip to Mir. Loeb. who has since been busy working out the many difficult and an- moving details.