Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-06-25

Roosevelt eyeglasses and teeth gives
them the shivers.
What will he do after his return?
That is a question the answer Of which
is fraught with some moment to this
country. Certain gentlemen Of the
press and of the conservation move
ment, popularity known as the return
from Elba" crowd, believe he will
be a candidate for president in 1912.
Certain other gentlemen of the press
and of official station. known of all
men as friends of the administration,
are Just as certain that he will get be-
hind Taft. A man of the name of
Herron-George d. Herron-expatriat-
ed as | recall because Of certain mat
rimonial complications, thinks Roose-
welt will become not only president, but
virtual emperor, that he will end the
republic and that he will be the begin
ming of 'the new dark ages" Thus
the thing is seen to be not without
an element of the fantastic, especially
when dealt with by a fantastic mind
1t is perhaps as well to keep ourselves
within the bounds of sanity when deal
ing with Roosevelt or with other things.
Will Go to Cheyenne.
As to whether he will or will not be-
come a presidential candidate he alone
can answer. OF only two things are
we sure-that he will have the great
est reception ever given an American
citizen on his Homecoming and that
he will go to Cheyenne In August and
presumably will greet certain bevies
and swarms of delighted citizens on
the way and back. This much will
come Of the suggestion of western
editor that the colonel return by way
of San Francisco and tear up the vocal
apparatus of the country on his way
east That he could not do because 1t
would bring him home too late for his
sons wedding. But he yielded to the
suggestion to the extent of taking a
later round trip to Cheyenne. Be
yond these meager details it is given
out that he will lecture, write books
and help to edit the Outlook. What
else the future holds for him and for
us the American people and Theodore
Roosevelt himself alone can tell.
Certain it is that he will have plenty
to do after he informs himself of what
has taken place during his fifteen
months absence, and whatever he
does it will keep the country on the
Jump. 1t is impossible that his per-
ennial energies should be bottled.
They will find an outlet. and n political
outlet at that. OF late the advices
have linked his name with an ambi-
tious tour of twcntyfour states. with
an address at one big mass meeting In
each. This tour is to be made in con-
nection with the Cheyenne trip. and
the fortunate cOmmonwealths included
are as follows:
New York. Ohio, Indiana. Illinois.
Wisconsin. Minnesota. South Dakota.
Nebraska. Wyoming. Colorado. Kan
sas, Oklahoma. Texas, Louisiana. Ala
bama, Georgia, Tennessee, South Car
olina, North Carolina. Virginia, Penn.
sylvania. Maryland, Delaware and
New Jersey.
Walter Wellman, who has been with
him on the European tour, intimates
that If the country demands 1t Roose-
welt will again run for president. By
the way. Wellman in one of his letters
has touch that Is too good to be lost.
1t recounts how a young Englishman
came down to the wharf in Egypt to
see the former president. He gazed
long and earnestly at that picture Of
health. Then he turned and said:
And just to think that man is now re-
turning from a year on the equator!
They tell me he has been out day after
day eight, ten. twelve hours In the scorch-
ing sun. He has waded marshes up to
his neck. He has fought his way through
papyrus and reeds and ooze and mud. He
has never had day of fever or met a
touch of dysentery. Look at him and
look at me. as have been down here 700
miles from the equator only one year.
| have tried to take care of myself. IL
have been in no swamps. done no hunt
ing, save of mosquitoes | am a wreck
have had fever, have had dysentery. have
taken barrels of medicine. have been in
hospitals and am now going home. l am