Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-06-23
ROOSEVELT IN NEW YORK.
City Wild With Enthusiasm-Heavy
Storm Holds OFF.

New York-Theodore Roosevelt set
foot on home shores Saturday, June 18,
for the first time in nearly Is months.
and received rousing welcome.
He bore with his usual buoyancy a
day of heavy fatigues, public duties
and private emotions commingled, and
at 4 40 o'clock in the afternoon, after
a family reunion at the home of
Theron Butler, grandfather Of his pros
peetiye daughter-in-law, Miss Eleanor
Butler Alexander, left the city he sur
veyed the same morning from afoat,
reviewed in parade ashore and greeted
by explicit word of mouth, to be well
coined more intimately by his lifelong
neighbors at Oyster Bay, L. /. AS
private citizen he was the same out
spoken, vigorous man of words and
deeds the city of his birth has known
for 30 years as assemblyman, police
commissioner, assistant secretary of
the navy, colonel of the Rough Riders,
governor of the state, vice president
and president of the nation, and more
latterly, ambassador to the jungle and
monitor to those who sit in the seats
of the mighty.
He had an expansive smile for every
body, CHEEKY word for the boys"
his old friends, the newspapermen, pat
anecdotes for the politicians, greetings
of affection for his old command, the
Rough Riders, and quick eye for
absolutely everything.
Lyman Abbott he called partner,
Jacob Riis was plain "Jake;" Assem-
blyman Paradise" Jimmy Oliver was
greeted by his nickname; Thomas
Grady, his old antagonist in state pol
itics, he greeted jovially, and SO it
went down the line.
"Rooseelt good luck" still followed
him. Though hot and sultry, the
weather held fair until the marine
parade. the exercises at the Battery
and the march up Broadway and Fifth
avenue to Central Park had been car
ried through with punctuality and pre-
cision-and then it rained great guns.
1t cleared again shortly before
O'Clock in plenty of time to give his
eager fellow citizens of Long Island
ample chance to see him standing on
the rear platform of his special train
as he waved them welcome.
Within a generation the nation re-
members three great welcomes before
The one of Saturday-to General Grant
in San Francisco after his triumphal
tour of the world, following the expir-
alton of his two terms as president; to
Dewey on his return from the
Philippines, and to William Jennings
Bryan, also after a tour of the world.
The welcome to Grant was the most
that to Dewey was the
most elaborate and stately, but the
to Roosevelt was shot through
with dramatic expectancy which long
ago found popular expression in the
typical phrase: 'The return from !
Elba."
Grant on his return was still polit- {
cal possibility, but as events proved, {
to defeat. Admiral Dew '
~ was hero, not national leader. '
Bryan, prominent as his part had been '
before the people, had never been en-
.rusted by them with executive re- {
possibility.
Roosevelt had been something of all c
.hese things-statesman, and "soldier {
and sailor, too" Born in the East, he c
lad made an especial friend of the '
West. His welcome brought men from g
al parts of the country. It was ma t
.ional. I
The first zest of public curiosity hav- c
ng been satisfied, speculation now 8
surns on what share Roosevelt will
AXE in an acute political situation
within his own party, of which he had
already been advised abroad by old '
who had carried him tidings. Y
But on that score, speculation must rest t
The Colonel had positive I
Y declared his intentions by wireless o
he night before. e
81 shall have nothing to say what a
,ver in the immediate future about il
politics" and he kept his word. a
Therefore, there was nothing in the
'nly speech he made here that could be Y
construed as applying specifically to a
his or that phase of immediate state a
II national issues. fl