Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-06-15

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 l recall because of certain mat
rimonial complications, thinks Roose
welt will become not only president. but
virtual emperor. that be will end the
republic and that he will be the begin
ming of 1.-The new dark ages" Thus
the thing is seer 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 a 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 it
would bring him home too late for his
sons wedding. But be 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 be informs himself of what
has taken place during his fifteen
months absence, and whatever be
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 a political
outlet at that. Of Late the advices
have linked his name with an ambi-
tiOus our of twenty-fOur states. with
an address at one big mas meeting in
each. This tour is to be made in con-
nectfon 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,
DINA. North Carolina. Virginia. Penn
%sylvania. Maryland. Delaware and
New jersey.
Walter WPllman, who has been with
him on the European tour. intimateS
that if the country demands it ROoSe-
welt will again run for president By
the way. Wellman in me of his letters
has a 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 hin that man is now re-
turning from a year or the equator!
They tell me he has been out day after
day eight. ten. twelve hours in the scorcn-
ing sun. He has waded marshes up to
his neck. He has fought his way through
papyrus and reeds and ooze and mud. He
touch of dysentery. Look at him and
look at me. as l have been down here 100
miles from the equator only one year.
l have tried to take care of myself. /
have been in no swamps. done no hunt-
ing, save of mosquitoes. l am a wreck
have had fever, nave had d~ysentery, have
taken barrels of medicine. have been IN
hospitals and am now going home. / am
4 shadow of my former self. That is the
way with most of those who come down
Into this country, which is no place for a
white man We go bad. We waste away
But look at this Mr.. Roosevelt. Isn't he
a wonder?
Here at home we who haveAknown
him all his life and who are of all
shades of political opinion concerning
him must echo that sentiment-isn't
he a wonder?