The Sentinel=record., 1914-05-20
DECLINES TO EXPRESS HIMSELF REGARDING THE POLITICAL
 SITUATION IN 1916
TELLS OF RIVER DISCOVERY
Will Make One Speech Before He Leaves for Spain to Attend the Mar riage of His Son and WiB Answer Any Questions Asked.

New York, May 19.-Theodore Roosevelt today returned home from his visit of many months to South America. Accompanied by the two naturarsts of his party, George K, Cherry and Leo F. Miller, he arrived from Para at Quarantine shortly be- fore o'clock on board the Booth liner Aidan.
 With a few crisp sentences Colonel Roosevelt reaffirmed the yerity of the "Riyer of Doubt; curtly denied hav- ing expressed himself as to presiden- tial probabilities for 1916, declared he would not run for governor of New York, made a few deprecatory re- marks about his critics and with har- bor craft footing and flags flutter- ling was taken on board tug which proceeded to Oyster Bay.
 Friends who had been alarmed by reports of Colonel Rooseyelts severe lness were greatly surprised when they saw him. He was noticeably thinner and he used a cane. but his face wore a healthy tan and he ap- parently had not lost an ouIce of his yigor and energy After stopping ten days in this country Mir Roosevelt will go 10 Spain to attend the we'd ding of his son, Kermit
 As the tugs which carried several members of the Roosevelt party. in- cluding Mrs. Roosevelt F. Elm in Roosevelt, Archie and Theodore, Jr. approached the Aidan the familiar figure of the Colonel could be seel leaning far over the rail As he waved greeting his lips fleXed into the familiar smile. Not a few eyes were wet as the collector of the port, Dudley Field Malone, and a host of newspaper men scrambled mp the companionWay The Colonel stood al the top and shook each man by the hand. Anthony Fiala, who went part of the way with Mir. Roosevelt in his explorations, was the first man to greet the Co ouel after Mr. Malone.
 Mir. Roosevelt anticipated most of the things people were anxious to know as he submitted to a fusllade .of questions
 Not a word about the political sit 'uation,' said Mr Roosevelt 'I don { know anything about it, for I haven't seen newspaper Any papers which have given my views on the Mexican situation have misquoted me"
 That applies to what has been said about my presidential intentions" ne added
 The Colonel was informed by news paper men that he was reported to have said that he wou not run as Ia candidate on the republican ticket and that if he became a candidate it would be on the progressive ticket.
 Not a word of truth in this" said the colonel 'I nave not made a sin gle declaration about the political sit nation in 1916
 q haven't been asked if I would run for governor of New York. he replied in answer to another ques- ton. 'Tf asked, I would say that l wou not.
 As to the river, it is extraordinary not to have put on tS> map a river as long as the Rhine, but there is no more doubt of it's existence than there is of the Rhine
 Mir. Roosevelt was asked how he felt
 T don't look like a sick man, do I?' was his reioinder. "I have been very i'll with jungle fever; it is all right now l feel fine
 It was learned, however from Mr. Cherry that the Colonel still suf- fered from sight symptoms of fever He had had a chill earlier in the day Mir Roosevelt confessed that he had lost 55 pounds, part of which he had reganed. He had been troubled a.sc by the bites of poisonous insects.
 Mir. Malone asked him if he were bothered by the criticism made by the
 English explorer, Henry Savage Lan dor Mir. Roosevelt laughed depre catingly. Neither that nor other sim liar criticism worried him great deal, he said.
 The colonel tod friends and news paper men that he would make only lone address before sailing for Spain.