The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-08-23
ROOSEVELT ON
SPEAKING TOUR
Ex-Presldent Begins speech-Makins
Tour That VIII Carry Him
Through IA States.

New York, Aug. 23.-Theodore
Roosevelt started today on a journey
Of 6,493 miles, which will extend nearly
three weeks, and in the course oi
which he will travel through fourteen
states
He will deliver fourteen set speech
es, one for each state.
The party will travel in the private
car Republic, attached to regular
trains, except in few cases in which
special trains will be used for short
distances to enable Col. Roosevelt tc
fill all his engagements. Ernest Alb
bott and w. B. Rowland of New York
who are associated with him in his
editorial work, and Frank Harper, his
secretary, will travel with him
In addition to his set speeches, Col
Roosevelt will make many extempor
aneous addresses from the rear plat
form of the car.
At almost every point along the line
of travel elaborate preparations to re
ceive him are being made, and from
start to finish he will be governed in
his movements by a schedule which
will keep him on the move during his
waking hours.
The start was made at 10:S0 O'Clock
this morning and the first days jour
ney will be over the New York Central
railroad to Utica. AS soon as he arrives
there he will go by trolley car tc
Oriskany, nine miles out of Utica
thence to Summit Park, mile further
on, where he is to speak to the farm
( ers of Hermier and Oneida counties
He will spend the night at Mohawk
Herkimer county, at the country home
Of his brother-in-law, Douglas Robin
son of New York
The journey westward will be re
sumed at midnight the next night over
the New York Central lines to Chica
go, where the party is due at p. Ia.
August 25 At 10:45 p. M, the same
night the party will leave for Omaha
over the Chicago and Northwestern
Arriving there at 1928 p. M. August
26, the car will leave at p. m, goins
by the Union Pacific railroad to Chey
enne, Wyo, which will be reached al
1925 a. m., August "a. At Cheyenne
Col. Roosevelt will deliver his secont
set speech.
Col, Roosevelt will spend Sunda.
with Gov. Brooks of Wyoming at Chey
enne, and will leave Cheyenne at 8: 81
a. M, August 29, over the Union Pa
cific to Denver, where he is to arrive
at 1885 that evening.
In Denver he will speak on conserva
ton, remaining there until a. M, Aug
80, when he will start for Pueblo, Col.
over the Denver & Rio Grande. He viii
reach Pueblo at noon and leave a
1890 p. M, over the Missouri Pacific
to Ossawatomie, Kan, where he is du'
at $3.50 a. m.
At Ossawatomie the ex-president vii
make one of the most importan
speeches of tbs trip. In it he will dea
with number of problems wjsh whicl
the national administration IS esne
cially concerned.
He will remain over might at Osa
watonnie ands leave by the Chicago
Burlington & Quincy railroad at 9:3
o'clock in the morning. September
for Kansas City, where he is schedules
to arrive at u Is o'clock that day
The Kansas City speech viii be de
liverel before the. Commercial. club
Col. Pobsevei: Wis stay n the cit
until 1910 O'clock at nighse wnen Ii
will depart over the Chicago & North
western railroad for Omaha Arriving
at Omaha at GAS O'Clock in the morn
ing, September 2, he will make
speech on the Panama Canal, an
spend the night there.
The party will start at 7:50 a. NJ
September 8. over the Chicago 1
Northwestern railroad for Sioux Falls
and is due there at $3.50 p N. tha
Is