Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-06-24
besieges Col. Rooseve|t's
Editorial Offices.
No idea When He will Make
First Political Speech.
piuchot and Garfield Are Guests at
Sycamore Hill.

4SSW IOih julie L uOi fAiiON
that 1 shall ever make another politi-
cal speech" said Theodore Roosevelt
today. The colonel had just popped
out of his editorial office late in the
afternoon, his collar wilted with per-
SEPARATION and his face red from the
heat. He saw group of interviewers
and stopped. They told him that his
first political utterance was awaited
with the greatest interest-and when.
please. would he make it,
II have no idea when l shall make d
political speech" he replied Il shall
make no speech of any kind for two
months. and my first speeches in
Kansas City, Cheyenne Milwaukee
and Chicago. will have nothing to do
with politics. | don't know that l shall
ever make another political speech"
What never?" someone exclaimed.
Il don't say Never" he corrected;
Il simply don't know"
But speeches or no speeches. con-
ferences will continue. Clifford Pinchot
and James r. Garfield former secre-
tary of the interior will go to Oyster
Bay tonight to spend the night. Two
or three of the Rough Riders will be
the colonel's guests at luncheon to-
morrow. They will return two regi-
mental flags which Col. Roosevelt
loaned them for their reunion today.
| Frances J. Heney and Jack" Green
way of the Rough Riders will prob
ably take dinner with the Roosevelts
| tomorrow.
Henry l.. StimSon. special prosecu-
| tor in the sugar fraud trials, will run
down Saturday for luncheon. and late
in the week. probably Saturday w. r.
| Nelson of Kansas City is expected.
Nobody knows when to expect Gov
ernor Hughes. Col. Roosevelt sur
| prised his hearers today by informing
them there is at least one man in the
country who is too busy Just now to
visit Sycamore Hill. Governor Hughes
has accepted Col Roosevelt's invita-
| ton. but he explained in his letter of
acceptance that he is so much occu-
pied at Albany just now that it is i'm
possible for him to set date.
Mr. Roosevelt did not reach his edi-
| torial offices until 1898 o'clock toda~
| The place was boiling all day long. In
| reviewers. photographers, old friends.
and people bent on every sort of mis-
sion besieged it. At 1 o'clock the col
onel left his offices for the Harvard
Club, where there was two hours OF
yarn spinning, across the luncheon ia
J bile. As he entered the dining room.
the orchestra struck up whats the
Matter With Father?' and every
Rough Rider, standing in his chair.
| Joined in the chorus. The colonel and
his boys found it so interesting swap
ping stories that he did not get away
| until after o'clock, instead Of at 2,
as he had planned.
Just as he was leaving the club, the
police raided a group of boys who had
clambered up the fire escapes to look
ia Is"Tcddy," but Col. Roosevelt inter-
fered and no arrests were made.
Among the guests at the luncheon
were William A. Larned and Robert
D. Wrenn. former tennis champions,
Dave" Goodrich, Harvard '9s, the
carsman and Rough Rider. John G.
Greenway, an old football player. Z
number of polo players, and several
members OF the New York Stock Ex-
change.
After the luncheon. Col Roosevelt
passed an hour at his editorial office.
where he talked with Louis ano Tenn
nle Alternately, the boys who rode on
horseback from Oklahoma to see him.
Then he took an automobile for Oyster
Bay.
On Tuesday he will leave for Cam
bridge, Mass, to attend the Harvard
Commencement He expects to be back
in New York Friday, but he may take
in the Yale Harvard boat race at New
London CT