Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-05
WILL MAKE A SENSATION
Denounces Professional DISCOVERIES of
Corruption.
NUMEROUS MAYORS RECEIVED
Invited to Attend Convention of the
League Of American Municipalities
In Chicago In September.

PRESIDENT Roosevelt will go to Norfolk on
Decoration day and will deliver an address
before the Army and Navy Union which
Is the organization of the enlisted men The
ceremonies will take place at the sailors
cemetery and the navy yard The address
which the President will deliver Will be a
notable one. and is bound to attract unusual
attention all over the country For several
months Mr.. Roosevelt has refrained from
accepting public invitations where he would
be expected to make speeches. and for that
reason he has not had an opportunity to
say some things he would like TO say.
The Norfolk Speech will 1e a repetition of
the address, he recently made at the dinner
SlTen by Speaker Cannon 70 the members
of the Gridiron Club and other gaests The
subject or that speech was The Man with
publishers and writers of the present day
with the famous character in Pilgrim
progress.
The Pres dent denounced the men who
make business of raking up all the graft
and rascalty they can lind in the world.
and who ignore the good which is, after all,
In Mr.. Roosevelt's opinion, largely pre-
dominate.
Many requests have been received by the
President to make this dinner speech pub
lie, and he has concluded to revise it care
fully and then deliver it at Norfolk. He
will score the sensational magazine writer's
are personally and Intimately acquainted
with the President, and they have frequent
ly consulted him In regard to articles which
they had in course of preparation. Mr.
Roosevelt has made many suggestions to
them and has shown q disposition to help
them in their efforts to gather ma terial for
magazine articles. but he has not always
agreed with all the views expressed by the
writers in question. At any rate, the Presi-
dent has recently criticised several OF the
magazine writers in severe terms and the
climax is expected to be reached in his ad-
dress at the Norfolk navy yard. 1t w II be
a speech full of ginger.
There have been suggestions also that the
President may say something in his speech
as to organized labor and that his remarks
would not be exactly complimentary to the
present management of some of the labor
organizations. The proba bility however is
that the President will find that his talk
on the subject mentioned VIII take suffi-
cient of his time and it will not be com
plicated by other matters
President May Go to Chicago.
President Roosevelt today received a dele
CATION representing the League of Amert-
can Municipalities that called at the White
House to invite him to attend the tenth
annual convention of the lea gue which Is
to be held in Chicago September &C, p and
Is next The delegation included the MAYORS
ana other officials of several cities and
American municipalities. Included among
the callers were Mayor E. +. Dunne, D. r.
Forgan. Hugo Grosser statlstician; Ed
ward Rose. p. F. Carpenter and Joseph
Belheld of Chicago; Mayor G.. NJ. Hfne of
Poughkeepsie, n. Y; Mayor r. G. Rhett
OF Charleston. S. c.: Mayor E. c Timanus
and ii. F. Hopper. register, of Baltimore;
Mayor NJ. A Brown of Kokomo. Ind. !: 10,
sCph E. MeCafferty of Wilmingtoa, Del,
and John MacVicar of Des Moines Iowa
secretary of the League of American Mu-
inequalities
Mr.. Macvicar on behalf of the league
formally presented the invitation to the
President, urging him strongly to attend
the convention. He assured the President
ms presence at the convention would in
splre the delegates to their best work and
do the cause of municipal reform great
good throughout the country.
The Presidents Response.
President Roosevelt, in a brief address to
his callers, assured them he realized fully
the great work the league was doing and
by reason of the Importance of the invita-
ton he would not pass upon it without
careful consideration. He promised to give
a definite answer within forty Eight hours
Continuing, the President said that two
thirds OF the population of England, one
malt or the population of Germany and one
third of the population of the United States
lived In large cities, and that municipal
questions, therefore, were of the highest
Importance lie auueQ thdI his chief atten-
ton now was being devoted to questions
affecting national interests and if he should
consent to address the convention of the
league 1t would. in measure be neces-
sary for him to disjoint his ideas He held
out the hope to the delegation, however.
that he might accept the invitation
A Roumanian Fathers Appeal.
Since the announcement of the engage
ment of the Presidents daughter to- Mr.
Longworth, and especially since the we'd
ding was given such prominence In news
papers throughout the world. the White
House has been flooded with letters of all
KINDS from young persons who are about
10 marry, or whose love affairs have gone
wrong, ana with communications from pa
rents who anxious to have their chill
dren marry
The most unusual among these letters are
from European countries where young
before satisfactory marriages are possible
Appeals In nearly all the European lam
guages have reached the White House from
parents who desire assistance in supplying
the indispensable dot.
One Roumanian father with three I'M
married daughters on his hands wrote
pitiful letter imploring the Presidents as
siStance. For twenty-five years the old
Roumanian worked and saved to supply his
daughters with their marriage portion, but
before the much-desired sons-in-iaw were
obtained the bank in which the funds were
deposited failed. and now the three daugh-
tiers are without sweethearts and without
prospects.
After commenting on the very desirable
match which the Presidents daughter had
made the old man begged that his plight
be considered by the fortunate chief execu-
tive of this country, and that means be sup
piled him with which to win suitable hus-
bands for his girls.