The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-09-12
COLONEL ROOSEVELT REACHES
HOME AGAIN AFTER Ex.
HAuSTiNG JOURNEY.
HIS SPEECHES REVIEWED
interesting Is Resume Of tho Former
Presidents ccntiments--WlI Cam
paion Again IN October for Senator
6everid9e OF Indians-May Tour
Massachusetts for Old Friend Lodge.

! oyster l'as Sept ll After an ~,
scncn uf three weeks tnlonrl kpusc
vet Is homo again. weary from lis
western trip, but well satisfied witi
tho result. III. enjoyed every minute
cf II. he said. The colonel reached
New York at 10 O'Clock this morning
from Pittsburg. Ills first orders were
that no one should ~ permitted Ii
invade the privacy or Sagamorc 1lill
ana for the day he rclapscd into tho
comforts and scclusipns Of his family
lifc. Tomorrow ~ viii plunge into Il
mass Of correspondence
II Is likely that this will occu,,y his
entire day and that whatever consul
tations are t. come with those who
have in hand the fight to force his
election us temporary chairman of the
coming republican state convention
viii be postponed until Thursday.
when lie will visit his office again.
Before he started on his trip, COL
oncl Roosevelt had said little on pub
lie matters. but to the people of the
middle west he declared himself on al
most all the questions now before the
nation. His utterances were accepted
as his political creed and were re-
ceiNed with satisfaction by many in
surgents. although Colonel Roosevelt
himself in II. speech at Kansas city
classed himself as "a progressive.
The itinerary to which he had com
mitted himself and its attendant obli-
cations We're enough to have dismayed
II less confident and energetic man.
but the colonel not only executed II, he
overiappcd 1t at every stage OF his
journey. In all, he delivered about 100
speeches, including both his set ad-
dresses and his impromptu talks. The
first political uttcrance OF his trip was
made at Utica. y. Y, where ndors-
Ing state Senator Davenport, to whom
Vice President Sherman has been re-
ported hostile. he declared war on the
old guard In the republican party of
New York state. Continuing his hnr-
ricd outward rush to Cheyenne. he
made a number of speeches attacking
dishonest individuals and corporations.
poor men and rich men.
Swinging back around the circuit
through Denver and passing from
Colorado To Kansas. the most ilnpOr-
llll FIhHNihibpll ~ MS tTiD came ~
Osawatomie. Kan. There he declared
that the nation was facing a crises AZ
grave as that which preceded the civil
war and there he outlined at great
length his theory of what ought to be
done about II. This led tn his plea
Tor "a new nntionalsm'' to deal more
effectively with such questions as con
trol of corporations and the conserNa-
tion of natural resources.
In, Kansas city he urged Il federal
act Ia regulate tho compensation Of
worlsingmcn. In Iowa he turned for
tile first tim. to tho tariff At Sioux
city, in that state, he first mentioned
the Taft administration, commenting
the presidents stand for a tariff com
At Fargo. n. D.. lie dcGldrrf
himself in hearty sympathy with or
gnnzcd labor and ut the same time
warned the unions that they must OPP
pose laWlcss violence
The following day IN st. Paul he
urged even more cnplatlcal'y than
before the control Of the coInlry'S
natural resources by the federal gov
crnmcnt instead of by the states.
l1arly In October. Colonel Roosevelt
VIII launch out again on shorter tour
thc south. during which he
will make IL campaign speech for Sen
ator Bcverdigc in Indiana He has
also promised to speak for Senator
Lodge in Massachusetts.