The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-10-04
Discards all Pretense at Tricks
of OratOry, But Devotes At
tentiOn TO Emphasis and Dis.
tinctness-Wastes no Word
in Vain Effect
TALK TEENS WITH EPIGRAMs.
(Staff Correspondence

Cairo. H., Oct. 4.-The Mississippi
valley is for Roosevelt And Roose-
welt is for the Mississippi valley.
This is not a mere assumption
based on his word and apparent sin
Cerity of his manner No man could
witness the parade of that great mer-
chant fleet, see the throng of enthu-
siastic people and feel the warmth
of that hospitable welcome he re-
ceived yesterday at Cairo, and not be
profoundly and lastingly impressed.
There is something about the ST.
lent, relentless sweep of a great river
that stirs the emotions. The waiting
crowds, the floating banners. the
line of military, the white hulled
dozen of them lying full
lily manned at the wharf-and the
busy stir of the little harbor tugs,
turned for the occasion into police
patrols, added an air of expectancy,
which the river was to fulfill. Then,
as if to carry out in detail the effect
of magic, while the cannons doomed
a salute of 21 guns, there was a blur
of black smoke, as the flotilla turned
into the Ohio, that resolved itself in
to the units of the presidents fleet
with the Mississippi leading, and the
Others ranging in three lines be-
hind, and the harbor patrols running
fussily about, an impudent excursion
boat. playing ribald tunes on a steam
Icalliope, bringing up the rear.
Sharply outlined and solitary on
the forward deck of the Mississippi,
the presidents stocky figure was cas-
lily made out Solidly planted, erect
and attentive, he looked like tho
Theodore Roosevelt OF the magazines
and the Teddy" Of the cartoons. The
sight he witnessed from the steam
boat deck must have repaid him as
well as the trip to Cairo did the ex-
Indeed, he said, in one of the in
frequent outbursts of extemporane-
GUS condolences in which he INDUCES
The president gets more good out
of these visits over the country, than
do the people of the section which he
visits"
Roosevelt is an odd mixture of inn
patience, abruptness and courtesy.
He had no more than blurted out the
formal introduction of his speech
than he turned his back on the au-
.dience, seized a chair, planted 1t
where he had stood and mounted 1t
SO that he rose two feet higher be-
fore the audience.
81 saw some or you standing on
your tip toes" he said simply, his
voice squeallng when he said Tip"
.on account of hoarseness.
One gets no more from hearing
.Roosevelt's set speeches than from
reading them, except the genuine
sincerity of tone, which only is nee
Iessary to utterly convince his public.
Roosevelt has no graces of form,
carriage, manner or tone. His
gestures are exclusively for empha-
sis and as rule involuntary. When
he Is in earnest he seems to be ply
sically in earnest, and he enllsts every
fibre and muscle of his body in the
supreme effort to make himself en-
phatic. And he succeeds.
He Is No Orator.
Yesterday was my first opportunity
to watch the president deliver an
address. / have gotten up at un-
earthly hours, after working all night
to tell the public how Roosevelt came
in. l have paraded with him and
shaye stood at the tailend Of his train