The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-14
ROOSEVELT TO RE7JRN EARLY Jm Vacation at Oyster
 Bay. TO AID IN TAFT CAMPAIGN President Does Not Relish Situation That Confronts Repubs. Some People Predict That Before the First of october Ends, the President win Fire on a
 Speech.
10 AID IN TAFT CAMPAIGN
BY ALFRED ;. sToFER.


 Washington. Sept. is.-tspecial.)-- The understanding is that President Roosevelt will return to the White House on the goth instant.
 From what can be learned. the head of the nation will remain here right along up to the day of election. Last year MT. Roosevelt broke up at Oys- ter Bay In September. He came on to Washington and remained few days, when hc went off on. a hunting trip, and really was not settled in the Executive Mansion until some days after November 1. There Is reason for his wishing to be in Washington this year.
 The President, according to the ru- mors floating about, does not relish the situation that confronts his can. didate for President. At any rate It Is said that he Is not going to take any chances. Work has got to be done to remove the uneasy feeling among Republicans generally. Some people predict that before the first will ire off a speech. But others are of the. opinion that Mr. Roosevelt will hardly take the stump. They argue. in the first place that 1t would be decidedly undignified for him to do that. In the second place his oratori- cal powers are lacking. He hasn't voice enough to reach large crowd at an open air meeting. Eight years ago, when he was running for Vice President on the ticket with President Mckinley he was sent out West to .'wh oop up' the voters. Tn two weeks. Candidate Roosevelt had such q bad ly cracked voice that he had to be cailed In.
 !. Te Issue ,sfanisestoes. l dent will exert himself in other ways for Judge Taft They rather expect. that he will from time to time find 1t convenient to issue one of his char. actcristic nsanifestoaas He will also pass the word along that certain men might ind It to their interest to call to sec the President. Ip 1903 thingy were not going to suit Mir. Roosevelt In Maryland. He sent for the late ex- Governor Lloyd Lowndes to come to. Washington, take lunch at the White House and give an account of the sit- uation in the State. Then he sent for the late United States Senator. Mo- comas. and subsequently, he had all of the Maryland Republican Congressmen come over. and several of the higher Federal officials. The factions were fighting in Maryland Just as they are at 1t now In New York Connecticut. West Virginia, Iowa. Indiana, Ohio. Kansas. Michigan. Wisconsin. Minne- sota and the far off State of Wash lngton. Roosevelt considers himself a remarkable straightener out, and when 1t comes to bossing he is known to be right up to that sort of busi- ness. too. That's what the machine fellows in New York are charging him with at present, for they assert that he Is forcing the renomination of Hughes with the Idea that Taft's salxn NA .t,..- improved, but the local bosses almost to man are telling it around that if Hughes Is not dropped they will not be responsible for the result Novem- ber 3.
 Considerable speculation is heard here as to how Judge Taft will stand a stumplng tour. he having decided to play Mir. Bryan at his own game In spite of the fact that the Eastern pa- pers have been beratinE Bryan for several weeks for travelling about to make speeches thing they said Taft should not do because it was not dig nified or effective, and as a Presiden- tial candidate he certainly should not initiate the "mouthy" Bryan. If Judge Taft attempts too many open air speeches many of his friends fear that he will soon break down. Oth- CTS, however, say that even If he does weigh practically ROO pounds and is troubled with shortness of breath at times, he will be able to worry through the campaign. The under standing is that he will use large halls for his meetings wherever thev are to be procured and not run the FISK Of hoarseness by addressing the vast crowds that would want to hear him at open air meetings
 Record of Travel.
 m MT. Bryan's first campaign twelve XeAEG ha the country in order to come face to race with as many voters as possible. A complete record was kept of the miles traversed, and 1t was published In detail in the' closing pages of his DOOR issued shortly after .hls defeat. entitled The First Battle The total number of miles travelled during the four trips was 1S.0O9. The mileage on the third trip was the greatest of all, totalling\ l2,S37. The States in which MT Bryan spoke during the third trip were Missouri. Kentucky. Tcnnes- see. North Carolina. Delaware. Penn sylvania. New Jersey. New York, New Hampshire. Maine. Massachusetts. Ohio Indiana, Illinois, Michigan. Iowa, Wis consin. Minnesota, North Dakota and Nebraska. He made from ten to twen- ty-five speeches a day and nearly all were in the open air.
 Frequently he would speak in drenching rain to thousands of people, and as the candidate remarked to some of us newspaper men who accompa- nied him in his travels. if attendance and shouting were to be turned actu-, ally into votes his majority could not possibly fall short of million. Mir Bryan's voice was virtually as strong and clear at the end of both of his remarkable stumping tours as when he started out. Within two years he has addressed very large audiences in Washington and it Is the general opin- ion of those who heard him here and at the Chicago Convention of 1S96, when he won his nomination by his wonderful oratorical effort, that his oratoricsl powers had not waned in the least. Indeed, some people think that his delivery is finer now than 1t ever was.
 Rrynn's Good Health.
 The secret of this is that William J. Bryan has taken the utmost care Of magnificent constitution that he was blessed with when he came into the world. He enjoys superb health, sleeps