The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-10-26
ROOSEVELT 7 IN
THE CANE
BRAKE
Trip of Strenuous Man
Through Southern
States.
(Mail Special to the Advertiser }


| WASHINGTON, D. c., October O.
In the canebrakes at last, banging
away at bears Out of touch with the
big world to an extent that would not
be permissible in town or village.
Shouldering a gun all day; basking
before the camp fire in the evening
sleeping in a tent, with only a thickness
of canvas between him and the blue
sky.
The country has followed President
| Roosevelt on his wonderful and like
wise spectacular tour but the curtain
has been drawn and for two weeks or
more the name of the President of all
the people will figure little in the
date lines of the daily newspapers
People may imagine foY themselves
what is going on in the Louisiana cane
brakes along the Tensas river. There
will be terrible slaughter of bear and
wild hog and deer and cougars, if the
President gets within shooting dis
tance. If the preparations of mortal
man can make it so, the hunt will be
long and enjoyable. There will be
many an animal tragedy in the brakes
and many burly carcass will be laid
low and toted on to the camp.
OF course, the people are glad that
the President finds an opportunity to
hunt. He glories in the chase He
finds pleasure in features of the hunt
that do not appeal to many other men.
But it gives him relaxation and recre-
alton. Perhaps, when a few weeks
have rolled by, he win write an ae-
count of it. After he had hunted for
a long, period in the Colorado noun
tains few years ago he wrote for i
a magazine a detailed account of his
shooting trips, with many scientific
and biological observations on the side.
The President is one Of the best living
writers on hunting themes.
Unless he chooses to give his own
account of the sorties for game in the
canebrakes, the people will be but lit
tie wiser as to what he is doing and
how he is enjoying himself. In a
couple of weeks he will be speeding
back to Washington and the country
viii make ready for more of the Roose-
velt activity. About that time the
movement on to Washington will be
becoming general. There are but
few elections this year. The lawmak-
ers will come early and the prepara-
tions will be large for the work of
the winter.
HIS OUTWARD JOURNEY.
The President now has been out ,
from Washington one week. He has f
made wonderful sweep in the course q
If his journey. Sunday, September 29, i
along toward evening his train pulled f
,ut of the Washington depot and the f
sight of the Washington monument q
AIDED in the ruddy autumn twilight. +
The next day he was at Canton, where I
he Mckinley memorial was unveil- h
1
uIogy of his immediate predecessor u
n the White House. Away he hur-
led to the far west and to Keokuk,
owa, where the Governors of many s
tates and a great concourse of en- Il
husiastic Western people awaited b
i'm. Another speech in which he re- !
-erated his intention of enforcing the
lw against the rich and the poor, the j
ign and the low alike, and then on ST
own the greatest of all North Amer
an rivers with a striking cayalcade
river boats as his escort. A speech
/ St. Louis, in the driving rain. on
own the river to Memphis, where he re
poke again. and then for the hunt. of
It has been a new and successful ~
.st of the Presidents popularity. He
In but feel gratified at the continued ~
gard in which the people across the ST
hold him. There has been he
D faltering on the part of the rank tn
nd the file toward him. They be-
eve in him and in his work. He
i'll have their support from now on IN
much as he has had it heretofore. sc
hat means volumes to him. His III
eat popularity alone has enabled the .
resident to do many of the things he
Is done and in the way he has done S0
em. Popularity has been the breath oV
his political nostrils. It has kept on
e Senators and members of his own CO.
lrty from turning against him. 1t sta
Ill strengthen him for what he may oil
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