The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-06-19
Staid Old New York Fairly Outdoes Herself
in Giving Returning Ex-President Welcome
ROOSEVELT CANNOT RESTRAIN HIS ENTHUSIASM
AS Parade Passes Through Streets Former Executive An
swers the Cheers of His Compatriots With Happy
Remarks---Ten Thousand Hear Speech
Spends Night at Oyster Bay

New York June lS.-Theodore
Roosevelt set foot on home shores to-
day for the first time in nearly IL
months and received "a rousing recep-
ilon lie bore with his usual buoy
ancy day of heavy fatigues, public
duties and priavte receptions and
AT 4:i0 o'clock this afternoon,
after family reunion AT the home of
Theron Butler. grandfather of his pros
pectiye daughter in-law, Miss Eleanor
Bntler Armstrong, left the city he had
surveyed the same morning from
II float. reviewed In parade ashore and
greeted by explicit word of mouth, To
be welcomed more intimately by his
lifelong neighbors at oyster Bay. l..
l.. tonight. Tomorrow he will rest.
As "A private citizen he was the same
oiitspoken. vigorous man of words and
deeds the city of his birth has known
for 80 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 Ia the jungle and
monitor to those who sit In the seats
of the mighty.
A Smile for All.
lie had an expansive smile for every
body, CHEEKY word for the boys" his
old friends. the newspaper men, pet
anecdote for the politicians. special
greetings of affection for his old COM
mand. the Rough Riders. and Il quick
sye for absolutely everything Lyman
Abbott. he called partner. Jacob
Ria, was plain Jake; Assemblyman
paradise Jimmy" oliver was greeted
by his nickname; senator Thomas
Grady, his old antagonist in state poll
ties, he greeted jovially-and so II
went down the line
Roosevelt good luck" still followed
him. Though hot and sutry. the
weather held fair until the marine pa
rade. the exercises at the Battery and
the march up Broadway and Fifth ave.
nue. to Central park had been carried
through with punctuality and precision,
and then IT rained great guns.
II 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 no waved them II welcome.
Other Welcomes.
Within a generation the nation re-
me mbers three great welcomes before
the one of today-to General Grant In
san Francisco, after his triumphal tour
of the world, following the expiration
of his two terms as president. Admiral
Dewey on his return from the Philip
pines, and to William j. Bryan after a
tour of the world. The welcome to
Grant was the most tumultous. that to
Dewey the most elaborate and stately,
was shot through with IA dramatic ex-
pectancy which long ago found popu-
lar expression in the typhical phrase
the return from Elba."
Grant, on his return, was still a
political possibility, but as events
proved, foredoomed to defeat.
Admiral Dewey was hero, not "A
national leader. Bryan. prominent as
his part had been before the people,
had never been entrusted by them with
executive responsibility
Roosevelt had been something of all
srings all these men had been--states-
man and soldier and sailor. too" Born
in the east, he had made an especial
friend Of the west His welcome today
brought men from all parts of the
country. II was national
The first zest of curiosity satisfied,