The Detroit times., 1914-05-27
Washington Gives Him Greatest
| Ovation Ever Accorded To
Former President
REPUBLICANS HOPEFUL
/ OF RECONCILIATION
4Riyer of Doubt" Divides In
terest With Political
Issues

ttonal capital was taking stock TO-DAY
with Colonel Roosevelt back in New
York, politicians of every party were
dtscussing what the result was 10 De.
The former president received an
aviation eclipsing any ever gwen
6ormer executive in this city with the
possible exception OF General Grant
Il VAS a non-partisan demonstration
There was no question OF the cor
oners personal popularity
All agreed that SO soon as he re-
tnrns from hrs sons wedding IN
Spain. Colonel Roosevelt Will take
artfre part in the coming fall cam
r,alRn when the entire membership OF
The house and one-third OF the senate
vlll be elected.
Those Progressiyes who remained
Within the Republican party, ana the
radical element OF that organization
are hopeful OF an amalgamatlon. Ihey
point 10 the fact that at all times
While here the colonel spoke In high
est terms OF the rank and nle OF tie
publicanism. ProgressiYes VINO lsit
the Republican party insisted that
while Roosevelt would accept RepuD-
llcan help In the coming congression'
at and subsequent campaigns he
would never permit the Repub.
Hcans to swallow the Progress
siye party. Old line anti-Roosevelt
Republicans smiled and said nothing,
Keen interest was manifested in
H.. utn M SDnTh a
lean explorations.
The colonel had appeared before a
Washington audience on previous
occasion as an explorer, but never as
d.scoverer and he was cheered TO
the echo, as he declared that The
photographers and geographers or all
nations. were wrong in their maps or
the wilds OF Brazil, wherein he found
and traced the "Duvida River" or, as
new more Familiarity known, the
River OF Doubt"
Scientists, the colonel declared, had
attempted to dispute his discovery.
Tracing on a blackboard with a piece
OF chalk the river OF his finding, he
declared emphatically:
II say we put IL on the map and
mean what say. No map has ever
yet shown this river. Scientists have
said We might have traversed the
river Tapajoz, or the River Madeira,
but the fact Is that some OF our party
wen. down the others, while we went
down a river, in between them, which
no map, maker ever saw. / can direct
any man where to find this river, and
rivers stay, so that the discovery we
have made may be verified"
Tne colonel described In detail the
hardships OF his trip into the Brazilian
uilds.
we were forced TO eat monkeys
TO exc out our rations," declared the
colonel. Don't shudder, for | assure
you that after this experience, you
might leave me in the monkey house
without my making any mistake"
There were many Indians in the
upper reaches of the Duvida, the
colonel said.
"1hey were seemingly very timid,
and In some cases hostile" he added
II Relieve they were hostile, only be.
cause they were timid, but II is al
most because he Is afraid OF you as
II Re killed you because he disliked
you"
At the close OF his statement Col.
oael Roosevelt offered 10 answer any
questions which anyone In the audi.
ence might ask. After a pause, dur
ing which no questions were pro-
pounded he said:
"No questions are asked me to my
face"
Mr.. Roosevelt then read a letter
which he had written to DR.. Muller
Brazilian minister OF foreign affairs
describing his explorations and dis.
covery.
After reviewing the statements
made In his letter to Mr.. Miller. Col
onel Roosevelt turned TO the black
beard chart, and drew In the rive
which he said he had put on IN,
map"
When | say we put Il on tn,
map" the colonel declared with EN-
phasis, Il am speaking with scien
tifc precision, and mean what | say
1t has never been on any map-Enl
fish. German, French. Brazilian an
American photographers know moth
ing about this river az all, but W
have traced II and put II on the ma
for good.
IF a man says he has climbed u
snow mountain, IL months late
there will be no signs OF his hayin
Deen there. But river stays pu
and can direct any man how TO z,
70 Il. We went down that river an
discovered that parts OF II had bee
Known 70 rubber men, bu. no 9th,
had ever heard OF II. Later v
traced IL where no human beir
eveG had been before.
III any organization will send
man TO or down that river, will gi,
him letters OF introduction and 1
structions that will enable him TO
up the river and map and sketch
thoroughly, which we OF course cou
20. do In detail
The colonel further said that IN
River OF Doubt" or the "Duvi,
River" was about as large as u
Elbe or the Rhine. He further sa
that Mr. Fiala. OF his party. we
through the Madeira river. and N
Miller went down the Tapajoz- riv
While I'VE went down another riv
Ia between, and Il was neither n
MADEIRA nor the Tapajoz"