Evening journal., 1910-03-11
ROOSEVELT
LIKE A CLAM
Former President Declines to
Comment on American
Politics
WILL SAIL FOR NAPLES
ON FIRST OF APRIL

BY United Press Leased Special Wire.
RENK, Soudan March n--Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt has absolutely Moth
ing to say publicly regarding American
politics. The "insurgent move" the new
tariff, the Ballinger-P -Pinchot controversy
and the alleged graft investigation at Al
bany. n. v. might as well not exist In
so far as getting an expression from him
goes.
The ex-President, looking as brown and
hard as a prize fighter in training, arrived
here to-day aboard the steamer Dal and
Immediately encountered a group OF Amer
lean newspaper correspondents who had
come to Renk aboard the AbbRs, a special
" chartered boat
The colonel greeted them with much en-
thusiasm, all Of them being his personal
friends. But IL the correspondents thought
by reason of their friendship. the colonel
might loosen up bit, they suffered a
keen disappointment. for as forecasted
by all Of the United Press dispatches, MIR.
Roosevelt absolutely refused 10 comment
on American politics.
"I have nothing to say and will have
nothing TO say on American or foreign
politics" declared Colonel Roosevelt and
turning TO your correspondent he said:
Il want to ask you to state once more
through the United Press that will grant
no interviews and will make no state
ments Of any kind on American or wor d
politics and the public can accept as false
as soon as It appears. anything purporting
to be an interview with me relative to
such subjects.
"This applies not only TO the present,
but to my entire stay in Europe"
coIoneIs Guard Perfect.
II was the ex-President who did the
questioning and the correspondents who
uuburdened themselves OF comment. He
proved a greedy listener and simply ''ate
/ up everything the correspondents had tc
/ tell him, but never once did he let sAT
even a bit of comments that proved the
least Illuminating. The colonels guard
was simply impregnable.
The colonel and Kermit are in perfect
health but Cunninghame, Loring, Hei
Ter and Mearns. the other official member
OF tho party showed the effect Of recen
slight fevers. They are all right now. hu
had clearly not vdthstood the rigors o
]
guished head Of the party.
The moment the colonel sighted the cor
respondents boat from the deck OF tn
Da., he sent a small boat out to bring IN
newspaper men aboard his own vessel
As proof of the activities of the expedi
ton in its nine months of hunting in tn
jungles. the party is returning with 1900
specimens for the Smithsonian Institute
the American Museum Of Natural His
tory and other American museums. Thes
are in addition to several thousand speci
mems that have already been sent Il
America.
Among the specimens is the first who'll
skin of a Grant Eland ever obtained
Plans European Trip.
2 Mr.. Roosevelt plans to spend eight day
on the trip from Khartoum. where he vii
arrive Monday. TO Cairo. He will sail 70
Naples April /. A number Of sightseein
trips will be made out OF Naples and the
successive trips made to Rome, Vienn
and Budapest. He will arrive in Paris
according to the present schedule on Apr
o. A day each will be spent in Belgium
Holland and Chrlstiana and then the Wis
It made to Berlin, where he will arriv
/ May TO- From Berlin Mr.. Roosevelt wi
go direct to London. reaching there Ma
( 16. He Will appear at oxford Universit
[ May Is and plans to reach America Jun
co.
Despite the exactions that his Europea
Y tour will make, the colonel looks forwar
e TO it with keen anticipation. He expresse
himself as pleased over the coming maj
riage OF his son Theodore, Jr. 10 Mis-
Alexander Of New York, which, he M
derstands, win take place shortly afts
his return TO New York