Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-04-09
ROOSEVELT IS
DRIVEN INTO
The LIMELIGHT
POPULACE FOLLOWS THEM AND
SPRINKLE THEM WITH FLOW
ERS UNTIL THEIR TRIP IS
LIKE THE COMING OF GENTLE
SPRING HERSELF.
(By a staff correspondent of the Uni
ted Press


(By staff correspondent of the Uni
ted Press)
Genoa, April S.-Former Presl-
dent Theodore Roosevelt arrived in
Genoa at 5 o'clock this morning. He
was not expected until tomorrow.
He declared he was simply driven
here by the hospitality of the peo-
pie Instead of the privacy he had
expected, he was confronted on ev-
cry hand by crowds of villagers who
threw flowers in his path and waved
banners with mottos of welcome. He
found it impossible, he said, to re-
visit the scenes of his honeymoon
trip.
In sipte of the fact that Roose-
velt's plans for a quiet trip along
the shores of the Mediterranean
were prevented by the demonstra-
tions of the Italians, the colonel said
he appreciated their hospitality.
The earlier arrival of the Roose
velts here will not interfere with the
plans of the party to go to Porto
MauriziO tomorrow where the col
onel and Mrs. Roosevelt have plan
ned to visit ftripem bmb NIB NIB m
ned a visit of several days at the
NAAlcl VI mloS SdltMy Mis-. INOOHC-
velts sister
1t was announced recently that the
colonel will meet Clifford Pinchot at
the villa, and it is probable that
they will discuss every phase of the
present political situation at home
Colonel Roosevelt has said, how
ever, that neither he nor Pinchot
will have any statement to make
follnwfng tbpir Tnootiu0
After the conference with Pin
chot at Porto Maurizio, Roosevelt
will confer with Senator Root. AL
though he has so far refused to
make any statement regarding poll
tics in material, and has declared
that he will not have anything to
say after his talk with Pinchot, he
has made it plain that at the proper
time and place he will discuss polit-
ical matters.
The fact that he is to meet both
Pinchot and Root and that he has
already discussed conditions with
Oscar Strauss, formerly a member
of his cabinet. is considered by the
Americans here as a key to his atti-
tude regarding affairs in America
Any prediction that Roosevelt will
break with Taft is considered alb
surd. 1t is equally absurd, say
those who have been commenting on
the matter, to commit Roosevelt at
long range to an approval of the tar
iff of Ballingerism, Aldrichism, Can
nonism or any specific acts of the
Teactionaries.
It was hardly necessary for Roose- |
velts political advisors and friends
20 have travelled to Khartoum or to |
have come to Genoa to discover that |
certain tariff schedules which are
generally accepted as having broken !
the party pledges, are not to the
colonePs liking.
His opposition to the weakening
of the conservation policy and Bal +
linger's attitude on conservation 1
matters were known before he had |
left New York. That he favored in |
surgent plans and approved of the |
attitude of insurgent leader, Victor |
Murdoch, was also known before he |
sailed for Africa. Therefore the |
political dopesters who declare that |
there was a strong feeling of ap
proval in his breast when he heard |
of the overthrow of Cannon in the |
rules committee might have had |
plenty of material on which to base
the belief long before Roosevelt had
reached Italy.
There is little speculation here as
to how Roosevelt will receive the
news Pinchot is bringing him.
But he has made it clear that he
will not discuss the matter until af-
ter he has talked with men compe-
tent to represent both sides of the
political controversies in his own
country.