The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-12
Former President Is Back Home
After Three Weeks of
Strenuous Speaking.
DROPS CARES OF LIFE
FOR ONE WHOLE DAY
During His Journey Through
Middle West Roosevelt Made
One Hundred Speeches.

OYSTER BAY, Sept, 11-After an
absence of three weeks, Colonel Roose.
vclt is home again, weary from his
western trip, but well satisfied with
the result. He enjoyed every minute
of it, he said.
The colonel reached New York at 10
clock this morning from Pittsburg.
His first orders were that no one should
be permitted to invade the privacy of
Sycamore hill, and for the day he re
Iapsed into the comforts and seclusion
Of his family life. Tomorrow he will
plunge into mass of correspondence.
1t is likely that this will occupy his
entire day. and that whatever consul
tatons are TO come with those who
have in hand the fight to force his elec-
ton IA temporary chairman of the COM
ing Republican state convention will be
postponed until Thursday, when he will
visit his Office again.
Talked Much Politics,
Before he started on his trip, Col5-
mel Roosevelt had said little Oh public
matters. but to the people of the middle
west he declared himself on almost all
the questions now before the nation.
His uttcranccs were accepted as his
political creed, and were received with
satisfaction by many insurgents. al
though Colonel Roosevelt himself in "a
speech at Kansas City classed himself
as progressive.
The Itinerary 10 which he had com
mitted himself and its attendant obi
CATIONS were enough TO have dismayed
a less confident and energetic man. but
the colonel not only executed it, he
ooverlappcd, it at every stage of his
journey. In all he delivered about 100
speeches, including both his set adj
dresses and his impromptu talks.
The first political utterauce of his
trip was made at Utica, Y, Y, where
in indorsing State Senator Davenport,
to whom Vice President Sherman has
been reported hostile, he declared war
on the old guard in the Republican party
OF New York state. Continuing his
hurried outward rush TO Cheyenne, he
made a number Of speeches attacking
dishonest individuals and corporations,
"oor men and rich men.
Swinging back around the circuit.
through Denver. and passing from Colo.
RADIO into Kansas. the most important
enunclatlop of his trip came at Ossa-
watomie, kas. There he declared that
the nation was facing a crisis as grave
as that which preceded the civil war.
and there he outlined at greatest length
his theory of what ought TO he done
about il.
How He Urged Action.
These led to his plea for ga new
nationaIism,' to deal more effectively
with such questions as control of cor
porations and the conservation of ma
tlonal resources,
In Kansas City he urged federal act
TO regulate the compensation of work
inc men. In Iowa. he turned for the
first time TO the tariff. AT Sioux City.
in that state, he first mentioned the
Taft administration. commenting the
president IS stand for a tariff commits
sion. At Fargo, n. d., he declared him.
self IN hearty sympathy with organized
labor and at the same time warned the
unions That they must oppose lawless
violence.
The following day in st. Paul, he
urged, even more emphatically than be
FORE the control Of the country IS natU-
raj resources by the federal government
instead Of by the states.
Early in October, Colonel Roosevelt
will launch out again on shorter tour
through the south. during which he will
make Il campaign speech for Senator
Bevcridec in Indiana. He has also
promised TO speak for Senator Lodge in
Ma