Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-31
Roosevelt took ship for home, arriving
in New York June 49,
Jumps Into Politics


OF the great popular enthusiasm that
attended the ex-President's home-com-
ing it is unnecessary to speak
There was a widespread feeling that his
return might emphasize fractional differ,
ences in his party. The political situa-
ton in his own state of New York had
undergone considerable change.
He found Gov. Hughes under appoint
ment to take seat on the Supreme
Court bench at Washington in the au-
tumn. He found a democrat, William
J. Gaynor, governing the city of New
York with remarkable efficiency. He also
found his former secretary, William
Loeb, as collector of customs, administer
ing the port Of New York with an energy
that was sending crookedness scurrying
to cover.
He had made up his mind not to be
drawn into the campaign in his own state.
but he shortly yielded to the earnest re-
quest of Gov. Hughes and expressed him
self in favor of a direct primary. election
law and other Hughes reforms. Then he
came to the conclusion that his party in
the state of New York must come under
new leadership or be showed under in the
coming election. With that conviction, he
speedily ASSOCIATED himself from the ex-
listing organization and went into the
fight as a champion of the progressive
wing OF his party.
Tour of the West.
Later in the season Mr. Roosevelt went
on an extended western tour, making
many speeches and receiving great ova-
lions. At Cheyenne he attended the
frontier celebration, in Kansas he spoke
OH broad national policies, defining the
new nationalism,' and in Denver oh
the problems of land, forests and national
fln Ton,
which assembled in st. Paul on Septem-
Der 3 he spoke the day after President
Taft had discussed the advantage and
disadvantage of national and state con-
fatfOOted for federal control, a circum-
stance that undoubtedly determined the
congress to adopt next day a platform
strongly favoring national control.
Mr. Roosevelt was away from New
York city from August % to September
II, and visited many cities and towns
and spoke many times. Then he plunged
into the thick Of the republican pre-
convention muddle in his state, at the
convention won the temporary chairman
ship from Vice President Sherman, who
had been selected for that honor by the
''old guard Of the party. and the next
day, September -, brought about the
nomination Of Henry l.. Stimson for
governor.
Trip Into Southwest.
In October Mr. Roosevelt made still
another tour. going first to Tennessee,
where he visited the Appalachian expo
sition at Knoxville and afterward he
spoke at Memphis and elsewhere. In
Georgia he received ovations at Atlanta
and Rome, made speeches in crossing
Alabama and Mississippi. and on October
10 addressed big crowd at Hot Springs,
Ark.
In ST. Louis he favored the deep water
way from the lakes to the gulf project.
There. also. he took a brief fight in an
aeroplane. Three days later he arrived
in Indiana and made one long address
and several short ones in behalf Of his
friend Senator Beverage.
On October IA Mr.. Roosevelt entered
upon active campaign work in his own
state. In this he continued. with a brief
incursion into New England and another
into Iowa, Indiana and Ohio, up to the
eve of election.