The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-02
THE TOURS OF
THE. PRESIDENTS
Continued From First Page.

tours President Mckinley travelled a dis
tance equal to the circumference of the
globe, and all within the limits Of the
United States, and without duplicating
routes.
President Roosevelt believes in these
junkets quite as strongly as did President
Mckinley, and already he has made a
very good beginning, considering the fact
that he has been in office but a year and
half. He has been through the south
ern states and New England and the
northern part of the central west. Dur
ing the present tour he will cover the far
west and the northwest, so that when he
returns to Washington, June 5, he can
say that in a year and a half he has vis-
tied every section Of the country. The
present tour will embrace twenty two
states, cover $4,000 miles, and last for
sixty-six days. It is the greatest of all
presidential tours in all Of these respects,
as well as in the number of addresses to
be made. It has been estimated that the
president will have occasion to speak not
fewer than 200 times. Half a dozen or
more of these speeches will be of the
highest importance, as outlining the policy
&of the administration regarding certain
public issues. But there will be no par
tizan oolitics in any of them. For ex-
ample, On Saturday night of this week the
president will deliver a tariff address in
not to attend any members of the oppo-
site party who may have places on the
local committees Of entertainment and as
such be seated on the platform with him.
The politics of the tariff, including all Of
the things the president cannot say at
Minneapolis. will be discussed tonight by
Secretary Root before the Home Market
club at Boston.
3. Presidential Tours Are Here to Stay
All in all, it appears that the presi-
Dental tour has come to stay and that no
matter what the political party which
claims the president as it's own, he will be
invited at regular intervals to show him.
self before the people and discuss for
their benefit the important questions
which from time to time will be upper
most in the public thought-not as par
tizen, or as the leader Of a political party,
but as the chief executive of great world
power, whose people want the educational
benefit and the moral uplift which always
i comes from contact of this sort.
This tour will undoubtedly be the last
President Roosevelt will make until after
the presidential election Of 1904. Next fall
he gill be kept in Washington by a spe-
= cial session of congress, which he has
said 5s would call on account of the
pressing demand for early action on the
Cuban question. Next winter, spring and
early summer congress will be in session
and he cannot get away, and even if he
could, it would be inadvisable, owing to
the nearness Of the national conventions
land the opening Of the presidential cam
s.paign. The campaign will compel him to
remain in Washington, or at his home at
Oyster Bay, next summer and fall, and
Nto speak only when compelled to do so
@by the urgency of public necessities. If
Z he should be the nominee of his party for
#president, and as such be elected for the
coming quadrennial term, he will prob
ably plan for another tour during the
{ summer or fall of 1905. After June s. of
< this year, the country will see no more of
him as a junketer until that time.
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