The Grit-advocate., 1903-06-12

fTeSluent Roosevelt nnlSned MS ten
weeks tour of the West June at 7
p. m. at which hour his special train
arrived at the Pennsylvania station at
Washington. Nothing in the way of
demonstration had been planned
and there was no formal reception.
Mr.. Roosevelt will find much less
work awaiting him than might be
imagined from the length of his alb
sence from the White House. All i'm
portant communications have been
forwarded to him, and by means of
the telegraph and mail he has kept
right up with his official duties.
On the Tuesday following his re-
O., to attend the wedding of Senator
Hanna's daughter on June 10. He
Is to speak at the National Saenger
fest at Baltimore on June Is, and
the next day he will attend the Uni
versity of Virginia commencement
exercises at Charlottesville.
1t has not been decided when the
President will go to Oyster Bay for
the summer, but he probably will go
before the end Of June. Mrs. Roose
welt and the children have arranged
to move to their summer home about
June Is. and it is thought the Presi
dent will soon follow them
Never before has a President of the
United States made a Swing round
the circle" like the tour Of President
Roosevelt. During the trip, which
lasted fifty-six days, he covered up
ward of 14,OOo miles, and addressed
upward of 100000 people
1t has been a remarkable trio in
many ways. To begin with, the work
maEErau out by MIR. Roosevelt was
~sach that no ordinary man could hope
to go through with it. When Presi-
dent Nicholas Murray Butler of Col
umbia University. left the President
about a fortnight ago. he estimated
that MIR. Roosevelt had made about
$50 speeches up to that time. A study
of the itinerary shows that before he
returned to Washington the total
reached about 400.
OF these about half a dozen were
formal, carefully prepared addresses.
The manuscript of them was fur
nished the newspapers in advance.
The others were eXtempore and it is
evidence of the Presidents versatility
and resource that he has seldom re-
peated himself. The language has al
most always been different, although
there has been recurrence of ideas.
Another remarkable phase of the
tour is the fact that twice the Presi-
dent of the United States has been
cut off from the world--for two weeks
while he was in Yellowstone Park and
afterwards for two days, while in the
Yosemite. Only once before has
President of this country hid him
self. President Cleveland had that
distinction, and there was excuse for
it. He went to Deer Park, Maryland.
for his honeymoon, and only his most
intimate friends knew where to find
him.
The other trips which President
Roosevelt has made have been af-
fected by accidents. When he was
in Connecticut last summer he mar
rowly escaped death in trolley col
Msion. Later, when he went on
tour, he was compelled to abandon it
in Indianapolis because of an abcess
which developed on his leg. But
nothing has marred Mr.. Roosevelt's
grand tour, although he narrowly es-
capped injury in the Yellowstone, when
a detective revolver cartridge eXplod-
ed while he was shooting at a mark,
and piece struck him over the eye
Altogether PresIuent Roosevelt had
a most magnificent time on this trip.
He left Washington on April !. In
Chicago he made his first stop of
any length and his first formal speech.
He said:
Il believe in the Monroe doctrine
with all my heart and soul, but |
would infinitely prefer to see it
abandoned than to see us put it for