The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1910-06-24
WILD Wei COME
TO ROOSEVELT
Ex-PreSident Both Laughs and
Weeps From Sheer Joy
HIS POPULARITY UNDOUBTED

Solid Yell From More Than a Million
Threats Travels With Him as He
Rides Through Five Miles of Closely
Packed PeopIe-Dramatic Closing
Scene, When He Shakes Hands With
Every Rough Rider In Parade
New York, June 18.-Mr. Roosevelt
IS home, the happiest man alive His
reception in the gateway of his coun-
try went straight to his heart. He
laughed like boy. He wept I'M
ashamed.
Nothing in all his career-he said 1t
with clinched jaws and a bang of his
fist-so affected him as the fervency
of the greeting he got on land and wa
ter. New York, which was all Amer
lca for the day, just reached out,
gripped him by the hand, slapped him
on the back in the way he liked and
said: Teddy, you're mighty welcome
home"
From his year and a quarter of
hunting and sightseeing and speech
making, he returned with no policies
in his mouth. Afloat and ashore,
stand -patters and insurgents coveted
his smile, plucked at his sleeve and
prayed for aldeclaratioE He laughed
them aside. In the wonder of his well
come he was in no mood, he told them
all, for political discussion.
1t is the simple truth that no Ameri-
can was ever so nightly acclaimed as
ex-President Roosevelt, no prince or
princelet was ever so received. Within
the eight, hours of his stay in New
York boundaries, he was offered every
mark of honor that time and his own
comfort permitted.
Forts and warships roared the presi-
Dental salute of twenty-one guns and
more than a million people lined the
water side and the streets and cheered
him every foot of his way.
His welcome began when the Kais-
erin Auguste Victoria doomed at GAS
a. m. through the mists off Sandy |
Hook and it ended, so far as this city |
is concerned, only when he went |
aboard his train for Oyster Bay at
1870 p. m. At o'clock off quarantine |
he was received by representatives OF
President Taft and Governor Hughes
and senators and governors and legis-
lators and private citizens of distinc-
ton were waiting to grasp his hand.
The fervency of his welcome grew
as he approached the land. When he
touched foot on Manhattan island at
1886 a. m. there were 100 900 peo-
pie around Battery park to roar a well
come. On the stand Mayor Gaynor
greeted him with the briefest of
speeches, and Roosevelt with almost
equal brevity assured the mayor and |
his fellow citizens that he was glad to
be home.
Presently he was on his way up |
Broadway through greater crowds than
ever gathered in that canyon in any
ones memory. There was no doubt
ing his popularity. Interesting and
spectacular as the Dewey parade was
it fell far short of Roosevelt's progress
the bdllCls W Tic ld1Id at It IL
ty-ninth street.
A solid yell Travelled with him. The
bandsmen might have ceased from
footing, for none heard their toots as
the colonel passed. Here was two
hours of uninterrupted cheering from
five miles Of people.
The final scene of this welcome was
as dramatic as any lover of sensation
may hope for. The Rough Riders
were drawn up facing down Fifth ave-
nue. and the first thing he did was to
stride from horse to horse and shake
hands with every rider of them. The
Spanish war veterans of the whole
country presented him an album OF
complimentary resolutions, in accept
ance of which Mr.. Roosevelt spoke a
dozen earnest words. 1t was all over
in Whit and at 1885 he was speed
ing down Fifth avenue In a motor car
to lunch at the home of Theron Alex
ander, grandfather of his son Theo-
dore's fiancee.
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