New-York tribune., 1910-08-24
DEf|ES THE old GUARD"
"No Compromise" Mr.. Roosevelt
Says, Departing for the West.
WILL LIVE ON PRIVATE CAR
Many Speeches Scheduled on
Long Tour, Which Ends
September II.

Theodore Roosevelt left New York yes
iarday morning at 1880 O'Clock on the first
extensive trip through this country that he
has made since the time he was President
and he left with every possible shadow of
disa agreement between himself and his sue
cessor in that Office entirely dissipated.
Il am very much pleased with Mr.. Taft's
statement It makes the situation perfectly
clear II Nassau County wishes me to so
10 the state convention I shall go. I regard
the issue as clean cut, and as far 1 am
concerned there viii be absolutely COM
promise" was the parting message Mr..
Roosevelt left for the "old guard in his
home state to ponder while he is away.
This statement followed a short confer
ence with Lloyd c. Griscom, president of
the Republican County Committee. and was
Mr.. Roosevelt's only comment on matters
political
The platform Of the Grand Central sta
ton was crowded with friends of the former
President, who had come TO see him off on
his tour Congressman and Mrs. Nicholas
Longworth. Mrs. Roosevelt and Quentin
Roosevelt came in with him from oyster
Bay, and Collector William Loeb, jr.. joined
the party at the station.
and declared that it was just like campaign
days.
In the private car Republic, on which he
will travel until his return to New York on
September Il, the party included William
B. Rowland. the publisher of The Out
look: Ernest Abbot, of The Outlook and
Frank Harper. Mr. Roosevelt's secretary,
and the car ahead bore a special party of
Irhn will nv floo
colonel throughout the trip.
Mr.. Roosevelt himself was far more ready
to talk about his latest book-his african
book he called it-than about the state of
mind of Vice-President Sherman or any
one else who might have been affected by
President Taft's statement published yes
teTday morning.
A party of Australian mounted cadets
who are touring the world, lent military
color to the scene. and acquired fame
quickly by the simple process of lining up
before the famous traveller while their
Lieutenant II. ]. Thornton was
presented and explained the nature of their
tour
Mr.. Roosevelt responded that he was glad
TO see them: sorry he didn't have time to
meet them all, but that he hoped to visit
Australia some time, and with that the
young men from the AntipodeS went off
cheering
Utica. n Y, is the first stop on the
colonel's tour, and from there he goes
straight to Cheyenne, Wyo. He will arrive
there next Saturday and plunge into cow
boy celebration which IS likely TO make
him forget even the courts of Europe
From there Mr.. Roosevelt goes to Denver
where he will speak on conservation. and
then on to John Browns home Ossawato-
mie, Kan, where he is scheduled to put
forth his first purely political speech
on September / Mr.. Roosevelt will speak
in Kansas City, and on succeeding DAYS in
Omaha and Sioux Falls, S. D. arriving in
Fargo, N D, just before Labor Day His
| Iabor Day speech will be delivered there,
and on September he will speak before
the conservation congress In ST Paul Mil
waukee. Freeport, H.. and Chicago are the
next stops on his schedule, and Cincinnati
and Pittsburg will be the last two
Mr.. Roosevelt was in one of his happiest
moods during the time he spent upon the
platform before boarding the car He
laughed and joked with his family and the
friends who came up to see him leave, and
remembered to speak
word to the station master when that Of
fetal passed up the platform
''Everything's fine, and / want to thank
you for your courtesy" he said to w. y.
Cramer, the station master, and Mr.. Cra-
mer smiled reminiscently.
The colonel was besieged with questions
about his attitude toward vfce-President
Boss" Barnes, of Albany, and
the others named in President Taft's state
1nent, bat he refused to offer word of
comment further than the formal statement
given above.
Mrs. Roosevelt and Quentin Roosevelt
accompanied the party. but only TO go 10
Utica, and Henderson House, in Herkiner
County, the country home of Douglas Rob
nson. Mr.. Roosevelt's brother-in-law where
the traveller will spend his last night in
the state until the end of the trip.