The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-06-11

Washington, June 9.-There Is some
very interesting and important presi-
Dental politics bound up in the official
confirmation by Secretary Loeb thas
President Roosevelt, next April, accom-
panied by his son, Kermit. now ready
ITO enter Harvard university, is to go
for a hunting trip in Africa and be gone
from the United States a year and per-
haps a yea and q half.
The presidential politics of this hunt
ing story is made further significant by
the statement, also made by Secretary
Loeb, that on his return to this unit
the president will devote six months or
a year, or such time as may be neces-
sary, to writing a book describing hi
African hunt. The hun and writing
the account of it will thus rum two
sears or more into the next presidential
luadrennium. and is a sufficient reply
to the oft repeated charge that If Taft
is elected president he will be dominat
ed by Roosevelt.
1t may be said in passing that one OF
the chief purposes the president has
in getting away from the United States
next year is to make it certain hat no
charge can be successfully made that
Taft as president is being Influenced
by Mr.. Roosevelt's personality.
Secretary Loeb said hat the presi-
dent for the past six weeks has been in
active correspondence with men in this
country, Germany and England, who
have made a speciality of hunting big
gestions as to itinerary, commissary
and general equipment. Half a dozen
letters by way of reply already have
been received. Before he sails from
New York, the president will have all
his plans laid out. He will gas mel
with equipment to meet him at various
stages of the trip, all the way from
Cairo to points along the upper Nile
and Lakes Albert and Victoria Mama,
across to Bombaso, a port Of entry to
British East Africa. 1t is part of his
plan to make a thorough inspection OF
the C~ape-to-Cairo railway.
Very little of the presidents equip
ment will be taken from this country.
He will have expert guides meet him at
Cairo. After this he will be met by
other guides with equipment at points
along the route to be hereafter agreed
upor.
No photographers or newspaper men
will be with the party.
One or two stenographers will be in
attendance to take down notes while
the subject matter to which they relate
is fresh in the presidents mind. There
is just a possibility that one or two dis
tingLished hunters from this country Or
Europe will be in the party. but this is
still an open question.
1t is announced that the president
"a vi SiAio Iitp, lAohS Ia otopo
in Europe. He will sail from New York
for the Mediterranean n proceed di-
rect to Cairo, where he will re-embark
for a trip UP the Nile. At some con
venient point up that liver he will take
the Cape-to-Cairo railway for the in
terror, and. leaving that railway at
some point to be agreed upon, he will
plunge into the hear of the continent,
it being his aim to be away from civil
ization perhaps for months at a time,
going north and south as the season
may dictate.
This will be the greatest hunting trip
ever taken by the president. and the
longest in duration. He is very enthus-
iastic in talking to his friends about 1t,
and is planning to bring home with
him enough tiger skins.
There will likewise be numerous ele-
plant Isl among the trophies.
The formal announcement Of the
hunt, coming as it does just in advance
Of the republican national convention
at Chicago, may possibly be for the
purpose OF putting a good cri'ap into
the plans of third-term boomers and
reactionaries.