The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-10-02
Number Does Not Include Those
Made From Rear End of Train
at Country Cross Roads.
VISITED THIRTY-sEvEN STATES
Took Exactly One Month to SWING
Across Country After Start
In Connecticut.
(By United Press.)

On DOard Roosevelt private car,
homeward bound, Oct with his
voice so frazzled that it cracked at
times, Colonel Roosevelt made the
last Of his speeches on his swing
around the circle at Ashville, N. c.
today.
He did not spare himself work
however, because he looked to a
days rest tomorrow at such seden-
tary pleasures as wood-chopping and
horseback riding when he reaches
Oyster Bay.
Roosevelt expressed himself today
as greatly pleased with the receptions
accorded him throughout his south
ern tour He believes he has blazed
the path for the Progressive move
ment in the south.
Up to the last the Bull Moose lead
er continued his attacks on the Dem
ocratic party and Governor Wilson.
Raleigh, N c., Oct 2.-Theodore
Roosevelt, erstwhile president and
willing to try the job again, entered
this city yesterday on the home
stretch of the most comprehensive
campaigning tour ever undertaken by
a presidential candidate
By the time he reaches New York
tomorrow, the Bull Moose leader will
have covered something over 5000
miles, and have made 800 speeches to
perhaps 100000 citizens, in adj
vocacy of the progressive principles
for which he is fighting. The 800
speeches do not count mere rear
end-of-the train talks, of which there
were scores. 1t does not give an idea
of the typically Roosevelt strenuosity
of the trip, of an enthusiasm that
never waned, keen insight into local
conditions, an alertness and versatile
ity that transformed what were about
eight basic topics for speechmaking
into almost new addresses in city af-
ter city.
Thirty-seven states have been
traversed by the Bull Moose leader.
One month ago today he began his
swing around the circle by an ex-
cursion into Connecticut. Thence he
swung westward, zigzagging up and
down to the coast, and then east
ward and through the south, return
ing along the Atlantic coast.
The Colonel had a physician along
with him, but he might just as well
has dispensed with his services, and
merely gargled his throat when ID
got tired from speaking, for he was
in the same splendid trim today as
when he left Oyster Bay-still sun
burned and vigorous in every move
ment.
what I'm anxious to do now,
said the Colonel today, s.is to ge
back to Oyster Bay, play few set
of tennis, take a ride or walk, an(
then I'm ready again.
Throughout the trip the Colone
has worn just one suit of clothes
Indeed, his wardrobe his sim
plicity was reflected in the fact tina
he carried only one big kit bag ant
two suitcases- contained thu
one business suit and a frock coat
That one gray suit was sadly wor1
and wrinkled and creased and dirty
as it's wearer ought to have been af
ter such trip, but the Colonel ism
much on style. His black felt som
brero was almost equally market
with wear and travel.
Here was the usual Rooseveltia1
program day by day:
Arise at O'Clock.
Shake hands with a crowd an,
make a two minute talk, perhaps il
the middle of his breakfast at
o'clock.
Talk politics with local Bull
Moosers,, interspersed with perhap
couple of set speeches.
Grab luncheon at 1 o'clock.
More speeches, and in betweel
times, rest (Rest, according to tn
Colonel's notion, consists of readin
such books as the history of the Sec
ond Empire. the French Revolution