The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1910-06-24
ROOSEVELT
ARRIVES Home.
Honored by Great Recep-
tion in New York.
Former President Remains Re-
ticent and will Discuss
Politics Later.

New York, June 1S.-Col. Theodore
Roosevelt, on his arrival home to-day
sf.er an absence of Fifteen months,
resolved rousimg welcome. He bore
with his usual buoyancy a day of
heavy fatigue, public duties and pri-
wfe emotions commtngled, and at
4:40 O'Clock this afternoon, after a
family reunion at the home of Their
On Butler, grandfather OF his pros
pactive daugh,er-in-law, Miss Eleanor
Butaer Alexander left the city he had
surveyed the same morning from
afhoat, reviewed in parade ashore and
greeted by explicit word of mouth 20
be welcomed more intimately by his
lifelong Neighbours at Oyster Bay, L..
1. tp-night. Tomorrow he will rest
That che enthusiastic welcome Civ
EN- him by his own coumrymenpleas-
ed him far more than any reception,
however magnificent, in his tour of
Europe, was evident by words and
expression. In his firsls address he
aabd:
81 have been a year and quarter
from America, and have sean
strange and interesting things, alike
in the heart of the frowping wilder
mass and in THE capitals CT the might
lest and most highly polished of civil
4iped nations.
II have thoroughly enjoyed myself,
and now l ann mere glad THAT can
nay to get home, to be back in my
own counry, back among the people |
love, and ready and eager to do my
part, so far as | am able, in helping
folve the problems which must be
solved If we, of this greatest demo-
cracy upon which the sun has ever
shown, are to see its distinc. rise
10 the high level of our hopes and its
opportunities.
AS a private citizen he, was the
same outspoken, vigorous man Of
words and deed that The city of his
birth has known for thirty years as
assemblyman police commissioner, as
Hastant secretary of the navy, colonel
OF the rough riders, goveerror of the
state, vice presidnet ard president
of THE nation, and more latterly am
baseador to che jungle and monitor
10 those who sit in the seats of the
mighty.
He had an expansive smile for
everybody "a CHEEKY word for the
boys" his old friends the newspaper
men, a pat anecdote for the polati-
clans, especial greetings of affection
for his old command the rough riders,
a quick eye for absolutely everything
Lyman Abbot, he called partner; :"
Jacob Riis was plain Jake" Assem-
tlyman Paradise Jimmy" Oliver was
greeted by his nickname. Senator
Thomas Grady, his old antagonist in
state politics he rallied eXpertly-
snd SO he Wen: down the line.
Roosevelt good luck" still follow
ed him. Though hot and sultry, the
weather held fair until marine parade,
The exercises at the Battery and the
march up Broadway and Fifth evenue
10 Central Park had been carried
through with punctuality and preci-
zion. Then Ut rained great guns. A
torrential thunder shower accompan-
led by a high wind that did much
damage, sweep suddenly down On the
bomeward-bound visitors; but cleared
again shortly before O'Clock in plen-
~ of time to give his eager fellow
Diti7ens of Long Island a good chance
70 see him standing on the near plai-
form of his special train as he wav
I'D them welcome.
In a generation the nation renem
bars three gneat welcomes beforethis
OF to-day-Gen. Grant al. Sam Fran
CISCO, after his tiiumphal tour of the
world, following the expiration of -his
two terms as president; to Admiral
Dewey on his return from The the
ospoure of the Philippines, and to
|. William jennings Bryan, ALSO after
. tour of the world.
The welcome TO Grant was the most
tumultuons, that to Dewey the most
elaborate and stately; but the well
some TO Roosevelt to-day was shot
thrpugh with a dramatic expectancy