El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-06-11
Theo. Roosevelt's Homecoming
GREAT PREPARATIONS FOR A GREAT MAN

w THEN Theodore Roosevelt reach
w eS New York next week he
will be accorded welcome
such as has been given to few mortal
men, 1t has been with the greatest diff
ffculty that the committee has kept
the demonstration within the limits i'm
posed by the physical conditions of
New York city, the second largest town
on earth. Mr.. Roosevelt will set foot
or the sofl of his native land to be
greeted by the cheers of hundreds of
thousands of his fellow countrymen, who
desire him to become a candidate for
president in 1912. Hundreds of thou
sands who do not desire him TO be a
candidate will admit that he can have
the presidency again for the asking.
Other hundreds of thousands say he
cannot, even if he will.
zen: L. s. Grant came home from a
trip around the world and was greeted
with third term boom. He was de-
feated in the Republican national con-
Vention of 1880 in spite Of the fact that
MS followers were captained by the
superb Conkling, and in spite of the
TACT that the Immortal 500" stood
faithful to the end
Dewey's Doom.
Admiral George Dewey came home
from the victorious battle of Manila
bay and was greeted as few Roman
cohquerers were greeted. He listened
10 the buzzing of the presidential bee
~, WIN the speed of a Lucifer, fell
TO place of comparative obscurity
william Jennings Bryan returned
from trip around the world and was
greeted at New York by the ever en-
'husIastlc tegions of the Democratic
party with confident predictions that
ne would De nominated the third time
TOT president and would be elect al
ne was nominated, but not elected
NIahy democrats believe that his defes+
was Que IN some measure to the snaanb
Mnicn Ne made at Madison Square Gar
reception. O'iiiiHs
"lillam Howard Taft came homo
.I1ih trip around the world. under
taken under orders from nrosidon+
roosevelt when Taft already was
canoldate for Sthe presidency. There
70 no general popular reception b,,t
IdIt FOUND upon reaching Wash
ihston that sappers and miners "a
taken advantage of his absence r. i .n1.
10 explode his boom. Mr. TAR 80
some very positive statements and Ala
some very positive things that SUNDAY
among the results NAV he rna1+ior-,s
the admitted facts that Mr.. TaftNs -
president of the United States and
se b. Cortelyou is in private life
n nue tne Ia1t homecoming was not the
No"Sioh OF popular demonstration
Possible Third Term.
The record of Gen. Gron+
De"ey and Mr.. Bryan goes 70 nro[-a
eHa. IL Is highly dangerous tbine 90
SuDJect presidential boom to the 10.
aus OF travel in foreign lands and tba-
D,hs IL nome to be the object Of a hin
nurrah mass meeting at the steam
ba nS. no great presidential boon,
mas yet survived this treatment
since 1t is given to no man n Gov
what is in the mind of Tbeodo-a %
'eIt' II cannot be said what he +biv1..
u MS thlrd term boom. Yet evarvboI,
ADMITS that there is such a tbino 60
mat IL mas It's roots in the soil of Tho
Nnoie country. VIII it survive tho be-
lolc experience of a great homecomine-9
VI VIII II go the way Of the boom at
and Bryan? De"ey
The Grant third term hoor,
launched in the great enthusia m q, his
"eicone nome at San Francisco T.
was wrecked on the rock of precedan,
George Washington refused tbir5
term and no man has been abla 70
overcome the force of that decIina+yop
M roosevelt, If he is again elected.
:" III rave what is practically a third
what
bourne cans second elective term. &"
VIII Roosevelt Say No.
The Dewey boom was born in des,e--
alton OF the defeated and dividad Dar-
ocratlc party. 1t died of too much cnd-
dI1ng- The moment the gallant adm5raI
admitted that he entertained the motion
that moment the boom collapsed wise
politicians now say that the ONLY nos
sible way to kill the Roosevelt boon e
Tor the colonel himself to appear 10 no
over anxious There is nothing in his
past record to indicate tht Roosevelt
Is capable of such a gross tactical err
ror.
The Bryan third nomination boom
was born the day Alton B. Parker was
defeated for president and reached high
tide when he was given the third nom
nation at Denver in 1908. His home
coming and his Madison Square Garden
speech in 1906 affected rather his
chances for election than his chances
for nomination. The explosion of the
Bryan boom is harder to account for
then the others, since Mr. Bryan had
expressed his opinion about government
ownership of railroads hafora he lo<4