St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1910-06-24
ROOSEVELT IN NEW YORK.
City Wild With Enthusiasm-Heav'
Storm Holds OF.

City Wild With Enthusiasm-tieavy
Storm Holds OF.
New York-Theodor Roosevelt set
foot on home shores Saturday, June Is.
for the first time in nearly 15 months.
and received a rousing welcome.
He bore with his usual buoyancy q
day Of heavy fatigues, public duties
and private emotions commingled, and
at 4 40 o'clock in the afternoon, after
family reunion at the home Of
Theron Butler, grandfather of his pros
pective daughter-in-law, Miss Eleanor
Butler Alexander, left the city he sur
veyed the same morning from anost,
reviewed in parade ashore and greeted
by explicit word Of mouth, to be well
coined more intimately by his lifelong
neighbors at Oyster Bay, L. I. As a
private citizen he was the same out
spoken, vigorous man Of words and
deeds the city of his birth has known
for 80 years as assemblyman, police
commissioner, assistant secretary Of
the navy, colonel Of the Rough Riders,
governor Of the state, vice president
and president Of the nation, and more
latterly, ambassador to the Jungle and
monitor TO those who sit in the seats
of the mighty.
He had an expansive smile for every
body, a CHEEKY word for "the boys, )"
his old friends, the newspapermen, pat
anecdotes for the politicians, greetings
Of affection for his old command, the
Rough Riders, and a quick eye for
absolutely everything.
Lyman Abbott he called "partner,
Jacob Riis was plain Jake" Assem-
blyman Paradise" Jimmy Oliver was
greeted by his nickname; Thomas
Grady, his old antagonist In state pol
itics, he greeted jovially, and so 1t
went down the line.
"Rooseclt good luck" still followed
him. Though hot and sultry, the
weather held fair until the marine
parade. the exercises at the Battery
and the march up Broadway and Fifth
avenue 10 Central Park had been car
ried through with punctuslity and pre-
cision-and then It rained great guns.
II cleared again shortly before s
o'clock IN plenty Of time 10 give his
eager fellow citizens Of Long Island
ample chance TO see him standing on
the rear platform Of his special train
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Within a generation the nation re-
members three great welcomes before
the one Of Saturday-to General Grant
In San Francisco after his triumphal
tour Of the world, following the expir-
alton Of his two terms a. president; TO
Admiral Dewey on his return from the
Philippines, and to william Jennings
Bryan, also after tour Of the world.
The welcome 10 Grant was the most
tumultuous; that TO Dewey was the
most elaborate and stately, but the
welcome 10 Roosevelt was shot through
with a dramatic expectancy which long
ago found popular expression In the
Elba."
Grant on his return was etill poiit-
ical possibility, but ~ events proved.
forcdoomed 70 defeat. Admiral Dow
ey was hero, not a national leader.
Bryan. prominent m his part had been
before the people. had never been en-
trusted by them with executive re-
sponsibility.
Roosevelt had been something Of all
these things-statesman. and "soldier
and sailor, too" Born In the East, he
had made an especial friend Of the
West. His welcome brought men from
all parts Of the country. II was ma
tional.
The first xest Of public curiosity hav-
ing been satisfied. speculation now
turns on what share Roosevelt will
take In an acute political situation
within his own party. Of which he had
already been advised abroad by old
associates who had carried him tidings.
But on that score. speculation must rest
unsatisfed. The Colonel had positive
ly declared his intentions by wireless
the night before.
81 shall have nothing TO say what
ever In the immediate future about
politics. and he kept his word.
Therefore, there was nothing In the
only speech he made here that could be
construed as applying specifically TO
this or that phase Of immediate state
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