The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-28


One Great Ovation
From the time Colonel ROOSEVELT
party left New York Tuesday morning
till the big show was over today 1t
has been one great ovation. Whether
the ovation was given by mass CO
people or by a few 1t was always fur
measure.
The greetings to Colonel Roosevelt
somehow seem to be different from those
given to other public men. In the demon
STATIONS for Colonel Roosevelt arms and
elbows are much in evidence, throat and
lungs give forth tones that are unmis-
taxable. The folks of the country seem
to consider him entirely different though
he considers them all the same-"sound
citizens"
When he scanned the audiences In
northern New York and said:
II like the stock of which you folks
are made" there was no doubt In the
minds of his hearers that he meant what
he said and as the echoes died down one
was convinced that he stood better with
them than tho bosses, and that If Vice
President Sherman, Barnes and Wood
ruff were all to weigh in against him
they would fare badly.
Theodore Roosevelt seems to be inspired
by the local color in which he finds him
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business men, as was the case at the pub
lie breakfast rendered him In Buffalo, he
talks on matters pertaining to business
but in different way.
Advice at Buffalo
For instance, at Buffalo he told his au-
dience that 1t was their duty to keep the
waters Of the great lakes pure; that men
must not pour their sewerage into their
drinking water"
All through Ohio and the middle west
the crowds were frantic to see at close
range the man who had stirred up 30
much in only few years. He seems to
look like he were plucked from the au-
dience before him.
When he told the mass of trainmen at
one stop that he was a member of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen he
looked like one Of them and they took
him at his word.
At Chicago he was typical Chicagoan.
but west of there he seemed to fit even
more closely into the environment In
which he found himself.
AS the country fiatted and the prairies
commenced to tinge with wilder life. the
colonel took on the changes as grace
fully as q ptarmigan does at the begin
ming of winter. This faculty he has of
being Just the man for the place Is what
pleaSes the masses SO. CONFRONTED by B
mixed mass he then stands alone as one,
Theodore Roosevelt, the man, and that
never fails to please the people. That he
possesses the personality with the power
| of a Napoleon is certain.
! An DID, old woman, totter1ng under the
weight Of IS years. said to her grandchild
at Cleveland:
well, I saw him perfectly. Now I am
satisfied. as ! did not calculate on hear
| Ing a word"
Only Passing Incidents
| These were only passing Incidents no.
ticed In the throngs that cheered the man
whom the little and big bosses of New
York state tried to rope and tie by the
aid of the vice president of the United
States, who, by the way. seems now to be
irving to find the present address Of DR..
| Cook.
There was one noticeable question yelled
| from every frantic crowd:
| How about 1927
! The colonel gave way to laughter al
most all Of these blunt questions ant
| turned them Off as q joke. But with then
It was serious. and finally he replied tha
| II was too serious for his consideration
| at the present moment One of the note
worthy changes as the trip progressed
was the difference In the tone OF applause
the further west we go. The nearer W.
got to wyoming the sharper the shouts
1 became, untn here they range like yelp'
instead Of cheers. The natural voice o.