The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-20
WANTS TO BE LET ALONE.
Colonel Roosevelt Refuses to Be In
terviewed at Home.

Oyster Bay. June 2O.-Sunday was
Theodore Roosevelt's first day of rest
in months. The return to privacy is
a delight to him and he made it known
that it is his desire to drop just as far
out of public sight as the public will
let him. In the autumn he will make
q tour of the country.
Colonel Roosevelt went to Christ
church in Oyster Bay and took long
walk in the afternoon. Senator Lodge
and Representative Longworth were at
Sycamore Hill all day, and later in
the afternoon Secretary Meyer came
for visit.
The colonel took an early train for
New York today to attend the we'd
ding of Theodore Roosevelt, jr., and
Miss Eleanor Alexander. On Wednes-
day he is to visit his editorial office in
1t was after 6 O'Clock last night
when Colonel Roosevelt returned from
a walk of several miles with Mrs.
Roosevelt. He spied group OF IN
reviewers waiting for him and head
ed for them.
Not one word to say" he began,
before question had been asked.
IF 1 received you it would mean
that every one would come mere ana
1 should have no peace or privacy. l
shall be at my editorial dice in New
York twice a week, and any statement
/ have to make will be given out
there"
grassy slopes that stretch as far as
the eve can reach from his home on
the crown of Sycamore Hill. There
was not a sound to be heard except
the laughter of his children on the
Veranda and the spluttering of a motor
boat on the bay. The contrast with
the tunult of the last few months
seems to please him, and he said he
hoped to screen his private life wholly
that he might have a true rest for the
what did you think of your well
come home ?"
you know very well what thought
what have you been doing today?"
Just that kind of a question is
what 1 don't want to answer"
Colonel Roosevelt made 1t plain that
the daily pilgrimages of interViewers
70 Sycamore Hill must cease and that
he does not wish a single detail of his
private life made public.
In spite of the hard day he had Sat
urday, Colonel Roosevelt was up early.
After breakfast he went to the veranda
with Senator Lodge and Representative
Longworth. The three were seen walk
ing theoretically in circles, the colonel
leading and talking in his vigorous
style. MIR. Longworth said afterward
that the colonel was telling them his
experiences in Africa and Europe.
There was an innovation in customs
at Sycamore Hill All the family ex-
cept Kermit and Mrs. Longworth rode
to church in an automobile with Miss
Eleanor Alexander, the fiancee of The
odore Roosevelt, Jr., and her mother,
Mrs H. A. Alexander, in a second car.
Colonel Roosevelt does not like auto
mobiles and has always ridden to
church in the family carry-all. Percy
STAFFORD Olton of Greene, N. Y, who
preached in the evening, made no di-
lect personal reference to Colonel
Roosevelt. although he did touch on
things in which Colonel Roosevelt is
very much interested. He said with
the rise of corporate power had been
produced a corporate conscience which
was SO inferior as to be serious men
ace to the country"
THE leader of men, he said else
where, has the vision of the kingdom
of God, and pledges his life for the
establishment of righteousness and
truth" 3i%~
AS he spoke these words all eyes
" ere shifted to Mr.. Roosevelt, who sat
immova.ble in his pew. After services
the Roosevelts walked quickly out of
church to their automobiles. From the
tonneau the colonel told his neighbors
as they crowded out to see him that
he was glad to be back again and then
was whisked away.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., Mrs Alex
ander and Miss Alexandet left church
early and went to New York for a
rehearsal of the wedding.
Mr.. Roosevelt had not returned from
his tramp when Secretary Meyer puffed
up the hill, hopping the perspiration
from his face. He had come from New
York on the dispatch boat Dolphin.
mo politics., he said. Il have come
simply to see Colonel Roosevelt as an
old friend"
To a request for his impressions of
the celebration he replied:
TT was the most wonderful thing I
ever saw. The spontaneity of the dem
cnstration was most remarkable"
RETURN TO OYSTER BAY.
Colonel Roosevelt Is Given a Hearty