The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-05-20
Colonel Gets Into Thick of Poll
tics Twelve Hours After
His Return
WILL VISIT MANY STATES
Tour will Take Him From Coast
to Coast; Opposes Repeal
of Free Tolls

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after Roosevelt returned from South
America he was back today in tire
thick of politics. Roosevelt, it was
learned, looks forward to one OF the
hardest political campaigns of his ca
reer, and except for the time occupied
10y his trip TO Spain. for the wedding OF
his son. Kermit he expects to devote
To politics most OF his time until No
vember. He has in mind one of the
longest campaign trips he has ever
made, taking him from the Atlantic TO
the Pacific, and several shorter trips 20
nearby states.
BY 3 o'clock he was in his library.
He paced the floor and dictated letters
and kilograms at top speed to his stem
ographer. on his desk were piled high
messages from all parts OF the world.
inquiring as to his health and inform
ing him of political conditions.
His present desire is to get back in
touch as soon as possible with the af-
fairs of the Progressive party in all
parts OF the country and help start the
machinery of the coming campaign.
Opposes Free Tolls Repeal.
Roosevelt expressed himself as
strongly opposed To the repeal of the
law for the exemption Of American
coastwise ships from the payment of
Panama tolls. He said he thought IL
perfectly right to arbitrate the ques-
ton If the rights of the country to
grant exemption were questioned. but
he declared to yield unequivocally
without arbitration was indefensible as
he is convinced that the United States
is within its rights in freeing coast
wise ships from the payment of tolls.
The Wilson administrations attitude
i'm the controversy with Colombia over
the Panama canal was criticised by
Roosevelt He objected strongly to the
payment of twenty-five millions to
Colombia, terming il "black mail"
Will Prove River Discovery.
When he goes to Washington next
week, Roosevelt said he would be
ready to refute the statement of Hen
ry Landor. of England, and others who
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cred a great river in the wilds of South
America.
The river is still there and nobody
is going to roll it up and carry it off.
Anybody can go there and see it," the
Colonel said with a laugh.
Speaking of his trip the Colonel said
il was pretty hard going for a few
weeks. Their rations ran short and
they got down to eating monkeys,
However he said about that time he
was hardly well enough to eat any
thing.
GraveIy III Ten Days.
New York, May POI have been
very i'll with jungle fever" said
Roosevelt on his arrival yesterday. but
/ am all right now. l feel fine"
From April to April 18th, Roose-
welt was gravely III. other members
of the party. including Kermit, were
i'll at that time. The Colonel himself
was so sick aIAl weak for three days
that one hundred yards travel marked
the measure of his endurance. For
sAe days, Roosevelt was delrious with
a l05 fever. Under it, he begged his
it is stated, to go and
leave him where he lay i'm the jungle.
Actual starvation menaced the party
i'm the last sixty dysa that was taken
up by the journey down the Duvida.
Roosevelt on his arrival here was
noticeably thinner and he used a cane.
but his face wore a healthy tan and he
had not lost an ounce of
The energy and vigor which have been
OF him.
After stopping ten days i'm this
MIR Roosevelt will go to Spain
to attend the wedding Of his son, Ker-
init.
AS the tugs which carried several
members of the Roosevelt family
approached the steamer Aidan, the ia
miliar figure the Colonel could be
seen leaning over the rail as he waved
4 greeting. Not "a few eyes were wet
rs the collector of the port. Dudley
Field Malone and a host OF newspaper
men scrambled up the companionway
The Colonel shook each man by the
hand.
The River Of Doubt.
AS to the river, IL is extraordinary
20 have put on the map a river as
ong as the Rhine but there is no
more doubt Of its existence than there
IS of the Rhine" he said i'm speaking
If his discovery OF the River OF
Doubt"
Mr.. Roosevelt was asked how he
'elt.
Il don't look like sick man, do 1? |
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