The San Francisco call., 1910-06-20
my DEAR WILL
WRITES TO my
DEARTHEODORE'
Taft and Former President Ex=
change Letters of Purely
Personal Nature
Roosevelt Asks to Be Left Alone
in Privacy of Oyster
Bay Home
Especial Dispotch TO The Call

lSpecIol Dispatch TO The Call
WASHINGTON. June 1s.-It is stin
My dear VIII" and MY dear Theo-
dore." When President Taft got back
10 the White House last night he found
a personal letter from Colonel Roose-
velt written before he left Southamp-
ton
The letter from Taft to Roosevelt,
which was taken to the boat in New
York by Captain Butt. was not an
swered. 1t was a personal note and
did not require an answer. What oral
answer Roosevelt gave to Butt the
president alone knows. Taft went
horseback riding with Butt this after
noon.
The Southampton letter was a typical
Roosevelt letter. 1t was just like the
letters President Roosevelt used to
write TO Governor Taft al Manila and
Secretary Taft at the war department.
He told the president about his health.
about the fun he had had. about his
plans for coming home and all about
himself. He inquired about President
Taft, Mrs Taft and the younger Tafts.
Tafts letter was in much the same
vein Altogether the letters were too
DEAc AcDndl 10 De maze pubic. POLITICS
was not the theme of either
Roosevelt at Church
OYSTER BAY. Y Y. June I9.-This
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 ii is his desire to drop just
as far out of public sight as the public
VIII let him. IN the autumn he viii
ma l<e a<fnur ~ tho cO,r,frx-
Roosevelt went to Christ church in
oyster Bay this morning and took a
long walk in the afternoon. Senator
Lodge and Representative Longworth
were at Sycamore hill all day and later
ia the afternoon Secretary Meyer came
for visit.
The colonel viii take an early train
for New York tomorrow to attend the
wedding of Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and
Miss Eleanor Alexander. On Wednes-
day he viii visit his editorial office in
New York.
It was after o'clock tonight when
Roosevelt returned from walk of sew
eral miles with Mrs. Roosevelt He
spied group of interviewers waiting
for him and headed for them
PRIVACY Is DESIRED
Not one word to say" he began be-
fore question had been asked IF I
received you il would mean that every
one would come here and I should have
no peace nor privacy
i shall be at my editorial Office in
New York twice a week, and any
statement have to make will be given
out there"
What did you think of your well
come home yesterday he was asked.
You know very well what thought
of that"
What have you been doing today 2,
Just that kind of a question is w,at
] don't want TO answer" -
Roosevelt made it plain that the
daily pilgrimages of interviewers to
Sycamore hill must cease and that he
does not wish q single detail of his pri
Vate life made public.
In spite of the hard day he had on
Saturday, Roosevelt was I'D early this
morning After breakfasting he went
TO the veranda with Senator Lodge and
Representative Longworth
The three were seen walking ener-
geucally in circles, the colonel leading
and talking in his vigorous style.
Longworth said afterward that the
colonel was telling them his expert
ences in Africa and Europe
There was an innovation todav in
customs at Sycamore hill. All the
family except Kermit and Mrs. Long
worth rode to church in an automo-
bile with Miss Eleanor Alexander. the
A1LlAACC VI AACOQOIe roosevelt JT.. md
her mother, Mrs II. A. Alexander in
second car. Roosevelt does not like
automobiles and has always ridden to
church in the family carriage.
CORPORATE CONSCIENCE
This evening Percy Straford Olton
Of Greene, n. Y, who preached. made
no direct personal reference to Roosa-
welt although he did touch on things
IN which Roosevelt is very much in
terested. He said that with the rise
OF corporate power had been produced
a corporate conscience which was so
inferior as to be a serious menace 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 es-
tablishment Of righteousness and
truth
AS he spoke these words all ewes
were shifted TO Roosevelt, who sat i'm
movable in his pew.
After services the RooseveIts walked
quietly out of church to their automo-
biles. 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 Alexander left church
early and went to New York for a re-
hearsal Of the wedding
Roosevelt had not returned from his
tramp when Secretary Meyer puffed
I'D the hill. mopping the perspiration
from his face. He had come from New
York on the dispatch boat Dolphin.
sNo politics. he said II have come
simply 10 see Colonel Roosevelt as an
old friend
TO a request for his impressions of
the celebration yesterday he replied:
1T was the most wonderful thing /
ever saw. The spontaneity Of the dem
onstration was most remarkable