The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-15
DATES ALL FULL.
Colonel Roosevelt Announces
Speaking Tours Schedules.
Western Trip Extends From
Aug. % to Sept. 1.
GOES DOWN TO DIXIE
Oct. 6 and Speaks for Beveridge
ON the Way Home.
He Will Be at OsawatOmie Last
Day OF August.

Oyster Bay, July 15.-Theodore
Roosevelt has given out the itineraries
of the two speaking tours he is soon
to make-one into the west late IN
the summer, the other through the
south in the early fall.
The two tours will resemble cam
paign trip by a presidential candidate,
for Colonel Roosevelt will make not
only as many set speeches as his traV-
cling card permits, but probably ne
will deliver talks from the rear OF his
private car. For the first trip car
already has been chartered.
The western trip is to begin August
25, and will end on September IL. The
Southern trip will extend from Octo-
ber 6 to October 13. The itineraries
follow:
Western trip-August 25. leave
New York; August 81, arrive Chey-
enne; August 20, Denver; August 81,
Osawatomie, Kan; September 2,
Omaha; September 8. Sioux Falls. 8.
D.; September 5, Fargo. n. D., Sep
tember 6, st. Paul; September z, Mil
waukee: September 8, Freeport. Ill,
and Chicago; September 1, Pittsburg;
September IL, arrive New York.
Southern trip-October 6. leaves
New York; October s, Atlanta, Ca;
October 10, Hot Springs, Ark; Octo-
ber IL, Peoria, ILL.,; October 13, speech
in Indiana for Senator Beveridge at
a pldC6 nor yet cnOSeH
The itineraries were completed only
after much thought and labor. Col
onel Roosevelt's secretary has been
studying time tables for the last two
weeks, squeezing in as many speeches
as train connections would admit Of.
Urgent requests for few words
have come by hundreds from political
organizations, clubs, schools and per-
sonal friends. Most of these Colonel
Roosevelt has been obliged to decline
and in announcing his program he
said he wished to make it understood
further invitations. Already he, has
been compelled to refuse many that
he wished to accept.
At Chicago Colonel Roosevelt will
speak before the Hamilton club, a
politician organization with which his
relations for years have been cordial
and which is sure to give him an en-
thusiastic reception. At Milwaukee he
speaks before the Press club.
The first address of the southern
trip will be on Uncle Remus day,
named in memory of Joel Chandler
Harris, who in his lifetime was a
warm friend.
The Peoria speech will be before
the Knights of Columbus, a Roman
Catholic organization. The place for
the Indiana speech in support of Sem
ator Beveridge will depend upon the
exigencies of the political situation.
Thus far Colonel Roosevelt has only
considered his subject matter in a
general way. He knows that he will
deal with current questions which
form the basis of political discussion
but he knows that his speech for
Senator Beveridge will be politics
pure and simple, an. open plea for the
senator's success in his campaign.
Finds Room Full of Visitors.
New York, July 15.-Theodore Roose-
velt arrived in New York from Oyster
Bay by automobile this morning. When
he reached his editorial offices he found
the waiting room filled with visitors
to see him, eight of whom had come all
the way from Tennessee. They were
headed by Congressman r. ". Austin
of Knoxville. The delegation asked
Col. Roosevelt to go to Knoxville in
the middle of September, when the ex-
position opens and to speak there Col
Roosevelt agreed to stop off at Knox
vile on his southern trip on October
6, and speak at the exposition on Oc-
tober T. President Taft already has
agreed to speak at the exposition on
September Is. Congressman Austin said
after his interview with Col. Roose-
Welt that politics had not been touched
upon.
1.-THE delegation is compossa OF
both Democrats and Republicans, >
said he, "Col. Roosevelt was not asked
to take any hand in the campaign in
Tennessee"