Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1910-09-08
I. R. REFUSES
TO meet CANNON
AND LORlMER
Ex-President Declines Invitation
to Banquet of Hamilton
Club, Chicago.

FREEPORT Ill, Sept s.-Colonel
| Roosevelt refused fatty today to at
| tend the banquet to be given tonight
| by the Hamilton Club in Chicago un-
| less Senator Lorimer is excluded. he
demanded that a telegram to that
effect be sent to the senator,
A committee of sixteen members OF
the Hamilton Club, headed by former
Judge John-H. Batten, came to Free
port from Chicago in a special car to-
day and met Colonel Roosevelt, who Is
here to attend the county fair They
came to make arrangements for the
dinner tonight. The committee met him
at the fair grounds, and the colonel at
once asked who was to attend the
| dinner.
asked.
| YES" Judge Batten replied.
How about Senator Lorimer?'
Senator Lorimer is a member of the
| club. He has accepted an invitation to
| the dinner"
Then l must decline to co. said the
colonel
CHICAGO, Sept. 8.-Extensive prepa-
rations have been made for the enter
tainment of Theodore Roosevelt upon
his arrival in Chicago from Freeport
ILL.,, late this afternoon
From the time that he arrives over
the Northwestern railroad at :55 p. M,
until he departs for Cincinnati at 1:30
o'clock tomorrow morning, Colonel
Roosevelt will be the central figure
in a series of social affairs managed
by members of the Hamilton Club.
Following a brief informal reception
and preceding late formal reception,
the distinguished visitor will be the
chief guest at a large banquet to be
given at the Congress Hotel. There will
be 100 diners at the banquet, including
several United States senators, the gov
ernors of nearby States and other nota-
bles.
Governor Deneen, of Illinois, and
Mayor Busse, of Chicago, will deliver
brief addresses of welcome at the ban
ouet Among those seated at the
speakers table will be United States
Senators William Lorimer. Robert J.
Gamble. Albert B. Cummins and Albert
J. Beveridge. Speaker Joseph G. Can
non and Charles w. Fairbanks, former
Vice President, also will be at the
speakers table.
The arrangement committee has
planned public ovation for Colonel
Roosevelt when he reaches the rail-
road station this afternoon. A large
portion of the membership of the
Hamilton Club and many school chill
dren will be at the station to voice
yells and songs written in honor of the
guest.
Preceded by motorcycle police and
! fanked by a squad of mounted officers.
Colonel Roosevelt win be taken to his
hotel by a large reception committee
| in automobiles. The banquet is set for
s o'clock, and the club committee in
charge says that 1t will start on time.
Three of the large banquet halls at
the hotel have been decorated at con-
siderable expense for the occasion.
Two of these will be used for the
banquet proper and the third will be
the scene of the reception following
the banquet. This latter room, the
English room, has been transformed
into a representation of jungle.
Among other things, the chef of the
hotel has constructed candy piece
four feet high representing ColoneI
Roosevelt seated upon an elephant with
two negro gunbearers in the midst OF
| palm trees.
| Fifteen members of the Hamilton
i Club reception committee went to Free
port by special train this afternoon to
meet their guest there and escort him
on the afternoon run into Chicago.