The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-28
SEES ROOSEVELT,
SMILES BROADLY
Insurgent Leader and
Ex-President Talk
Politics.
OTHERS GOING ON
SIMILAR ERRAND
La Toilette Comes From Saga.
more Hill Bearning Like School
Boy, and Makes Assertion
That Roosevelt Is Great
est Living American"
Joy in Radical Camp.

oyster Bay, June 27.---Robert NJ La
Toilette. United states Senator from
Wisconsin, and the father of Republi-
can Insurgency, spent two hours this
afternoon talking politics with Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt. He left oyster
Bay wearing broad smile.
Senator Elmer Burkett, of Nebras-
ka, another out and out 1nsursent, is
coming to Sycamore Hill after Colonel
Roosevelt returns from Boston. He,
too, will talk politics.
Representative Madison, of Kansas,
Insurgent and ardent
defender Of Clifford Pinchot as mem
her of the Ballinger-Pinchot congress
sional investigating committee. Will be
Al Sycamore Hill probably late this
week, His theme will be politics.
Senator la Toilette arrived early in
Roe, New York lawyer. who was
formerly his law partner Colonel
Roosevelt's chauffeur was waiting for
them. and whisked them away to Sag
anore Hill. The Senator had pulled
his hat down over his eyes. and tried
to escape unseen. But he was caught
fairly at 1t by a group of newspaper
men who saw, the Roosevelt automo-
bile. They tackled him on suspicion,
although nobody recognized him, for
his hat hid his famous pompadour
Not word" he said, I'm going to
Sycamore Hill. but l don't want a
word said about it
Smiles Like School Boy.
When he returned just IN time to
catch a train for New York, he looked
like a school boy who had just won a
medal. He was smiling his most ex-
pansive. persuasive smile. He is all
right, BOYS" he cried. The colonoI
says 1 may talk to YOU
The train pulled out, and so the
group of interyiewers hoped on with
the Senator and rode on To the rcxt
station.
Did we talk politics?' he replied to
the first question. I'VE did, and he
emphasized the affirmation.
"We talked of the campaign of the
present session of Congress-" he con-
tinued. from the attitude Of those
members OF the Republican party
whom the newspapers are pleased to
call insurgents"
Can you go into details?.'
NO, l prefer that they come from
Sycamore Hill. / am very much pleas
ed with the result of my visit, very
much pleased indeed"
The Senator paused for a moment,
recalling the happenings of the after
noon. Suddenly the smile left his face
for the first time and he said impress
sivcly:
Il want to tell you that Colonel
Roosevelt is the greatest living Amer
ican, and" he added slowly anu sig
nifcantly. 'he is in hghting trim"
An hour later the colonel received
yba Ill Il;
what Senator La Toilette said about
him and their meeting. The colonel
smiled as though he liked IT.
II think there is nothing | can add
to what the Senator has said." he COM
mented.
Speculation Keen.
Speculation among oyster Bay poll
ticians is keener than ever because of
to-day's occurrences. One story going
the rounds is that the Insurgents have
come and seen, but have not conquered
Yet there is another group of positive
ones who insist that the colonel has
shown clearly by his acts that he is
veering toward the Radicals. All
agree, however. that 1t is entirely a
matter of opinion. When Colonel
Roosevelt received the interviewers he
was standing on the sdo OF the hill
which slopes down from his home.
One of group of four thickly cus-
tered trees he had chopped half
through.
Wait Just moment, please" he
called out, He raised his axe and
whacked at the tree with a hard, true
stroke. In another minute the tree
quivered and then fell
Great exercise" said the colonel. as
he sat cross-legsed on the fallen trunk,
his axe across his knee. Its about
the only exercise ] get out here.
have just been in the hay field.
II spent all the morning In going
through this mornings mail" he con-
itinued. Il am willing to work rs hard
as any man. but l like to get some
where. 1t reminds me of the famous
cat which fell into the we'll and climbed
up one foot every day, only to fall
back two feet at night, The volume of
mall has become so great that left
word at the post-otiioo to have it all
sent back to my editorial office in New
York"
The colonel agreed definitely to-day
to speak before the Milwaukee Press
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