The Morning examiner. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1904-1910, 1910-06-19

NEW YORK, June 1S.-Theodore
Roosevelt set foot on home shores
today for the first time i'm nearly
fifteen months and received a rousine
reception, He bore with his usual
buoyancy 4 day of heavy fatigues,
public duties and private receptions
and at 4:40 o'clock this afternoon,
after family reunion at the home
of Theron Butler, grandfather OF his
prospective daughter-in-law, Miss
Eleanor Butler Alexander, left the
city he had surveyed the same morn.
Ing from a float, reviewed In parade
ashore and greeted by explicit word
OF mouth. 10 be welcomed more in
tinlately by his lifelong neighbors at
oyster Bay, l.. l., tonight. Tomorrow
he will rest
As a private citizen he was the
same ousSpoken. vigorous man OF
words and deeds the city OF his birth
has known for thirty years as assem-
blyman, police commissioner, assist
ant secretary OF the navy, colonel of
state, Vice president and president of
the nation, and more latterly ambas-
sador to the Jungle and monitor to
those who sit in the seats Of the
mighty
With the Same Old Smile.
He had all expansive smile for
everybody, a CHEEKY word for the
sboys,' his old friends. the news
paper men, a pet anecdote for the
politicians. especial greetings Of af-
fectlon for his old command, the
Rough Riders, and Il quick eye for
absolutely everything. Lyman Alb
bott he called partner" Jacob Riis
vas plain Jake" Assemblyman
"Paridise Jimmy" Oliver was greeted
by his nickname; Senator Thomas
Grady, his old antagonist IN state pol
tiles, be greeted jovially, and so it
vent down the line
Roosevelt good luck" still followed
him Although hot and sultry, the
weather held fair until the marine
parade, the exercises at the battery
aud the march up Broadway and
Fifth avenue to Central park had
been carried through with punctual-
lty and precision, and then il rained
great guns.
it cleared again shortly before 8
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
as he waved them welcome.
Three Great Welcomes Of Nation.
Within a generation the nation re-
members three great welcomes be-
fore the one of today-to General
Grant in San Francisco. after his tri-
umphai tour of the world. following
the expiration OF his two terms as
president; Admiral Dewey on his re-
turn from the Philippines. and then
William Jennings Bryan after q tour
OF the world The welcome TO Grant
was the most tumlbltous. that to
Dewey the most elaborate and stately
but the welcome to Roosevelt today
was shot through with dramatic ex-
pectancy which long ago found pop.
ular expression IN the typical phrase,
the return from Elba."
Grant, on his return, was still a
political possibility, but, as events
proved. foredoomed to defeat.
Admiral Dewey was a hero, not @
national leader. Bryan. prominent
as his past had been before the peo-
pie, had never been intrusted by
Them with executive responsibility
Roosevelt had been something of all
things all these men -.had been
statesman and soldier and sailor.
TOO" Born in the east, he had made
an especial friend Of the west His
welcome today brought men from all
parts Of the country. II was ma
tional.
Political Speculation Rife.
The first zcst of public curiosity
satisfied speculation now turns on
what share Roosevelt will take in an
acute political sirSation within his
p4n party, OF which he had already
zen advised abroad by old associ-
ates who had carried him tidiDgs.
But OH that score speculation must
go unsatisned The colonel had posi-
lively declared his intentions by
wireless the night before. 81 shall
have nothing whatever TO say In the
immediate future about politics." and
he kept his word.
Therefore there was nothing In tho
only speech he made here today thai
could be construed as applying spe
cifically to this or that phase OF i'm
mediate state or national issues
That he will be importuned TO take
hand In the New York campaign
his fall is foregone conclusion. bui
by his own declaration he Will moi
commit himself to any expression o
opinion until he has acquainted him
self at first hand after long confer
ences With those best informed JUS
how the political land shapes itself
Awakened by Salute.
Tho presidential salute awakened
SIR. Roosevelt at O'Clock this morn
ing as his ship. the kalserin August'
Victoria, drew into the harbor. From
the mists OF early morning emerged
first the drab hull Of the battleshiI
South Carolina, with two lean. swif
destroyers and two torpedo boats be
hind her. Then spoke the guns
Blue clad sailors lined the docks, in
close ranks. while massed on th'
quarter deck OF the South Caroline