The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-07-31
ROOSEVELT WILL
 SOON START TRIP Important Subjects Will Be / Handled in Speeches WILL VISIT ATLANTA
Al Peoria Roosevelt Will Discuss the Vatican Incident Before a Con- vention of Knights of
 Columbus

New York, July .--(Special.) )-Some of the speeches that win be delivered by Col Theodore Roosevelt upon his west ern and southern trips will attract world wide attention. Col. Roosevelt Is now engaged in preparing the speeches. Like the address which he delivered in Flu rope and which created such universal stirs, Col Roosevelt will talk upon topics of vital magnitude.
 Col Roosevelt will leave the east know ing that he will be called to the plat form of his private car for numberless short talks but all of these will be im- promptu. Assurances have been given that one, maybe two, of the colonePs speeches will be of a political nature. At St. Paul he will deliver a stirring eulogy on Irrigation and conservation and, 1t has been reported. politics will creep in here although some doubt this.
 Gel. Roosevelt will leave New York city for the west in a special car on August 25, go to the front in Cheyenne. He will visit Denver. Ossawotomie, Omaha, Sioux Falls, Fargo, St, Paul, Milwaukee, etc., and return to Oyster Bay on September 12 via Chicago and Pittsburg He will immediately begin preparations for his southern trip. [ It will be noted that Col. Roosevelt and President Taft will be in the south almost simultaneously and at many points the Colonel will speak Just a few days in advance of the President.
 Probably the most important speech on his southern trip will be made at Peoria, H., on October 12, where he will ad- dress a convention of the Knights of Co., lumbus Former President Roosevelt will here explain his side of the vatican incident. The Colonel Is expected to throw a new light upon the controversy which arose when he declined to call upon Pope Plus while in Rome.
 Col. Roosevelt will begin his second trip on October '. when he will go from New York city to Atlanta, Ga, where he will deliver the principal address on Joel Chandler Harris, Uncle Remus). This celebration in honor of the memory of the southern writer was planned some time ago and Atlanta for the time being will be the mecca for literary people. Col. Roosevelt was a close personal friend of the late MT. Harris and enjoyed his stories very much.
 From Atlanta Col Roosevelt will go to Hot Springs, Ark, where he Is to speak on October 10. From there he will 20 to Peoria. On October IS Col. Roose- welt will speak at some point in Indiana, indorsing Senator A. j. Beyeridge's can didaoy to return to the United States Senate from the Hossier state.
 1t was thought at first that the Colo nels trip would take him to Texas and California. Bids were made for his pres ence by cities in every state in the union, but the itinerary was shortened at Mir. Roosevelt5s own request.
 Congressman Ransdell and others in- terested in river and harbor improve ment invited Col. Roosevelt to attend the rivers and harbors congress and make speech in December but the Colonel found by consulting his book that the days the congress will be in session are all filled.