Arizona republican., 1914-05-20
Former President Is Given Housing Reception As His Ship Steams Into Harbor and He Starts for Oyster Bay
KNOWS NOTHING
 OF LATE POLITICS
Denies Has Made Any Statement Concerning a Presidential Possibility in 1916 and Won't Run for Governor of New York
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH l

NEW YORK, May 19.-Theodore Roosevelt returned home today from his visit of many months to South America He arrived from Para on board the liner Aidan. With d few crisp sentences puncuated by de- ciSiVe gestures, the colonel reaffirm- ed the verity of the River of Doubt" curtly denied ever having expressed himself as to the presidential possi- bilities for 1916, declared he would not run for governor of New York and made q few remarks about his critics
 With the harbor craft footing and flags fluttering he was taken on board a tug which proceeded to Oyster Bay Roosevelt was notice ably thinner and used a cane as he walked. but his face bore d healthy tan and apparently he had not lost an ounce of the vigor and energy which are characteristic of him. After stopping ten days in this country. the colonel will go again to Spain for the wedding of his son Kermit.
 As the tugs bearing Mrs. Roosevelt and other members of the family neared the Aidan. the familiar figure of the colonel was seen leaning far over the rail as he waved greet ing and his lips flexed into d fa- miliar smile
 Many eyes were wet as the collect or of the port, Dudley Field Ma lone. and crowd of newspaper men scrambled up the companionway. The colonel stood at the top and shook each man by the hand Roosevelt anticipated most of the things the people were anxious to know as he submitted to the fuslade of ques tions
 Not word about the political situation" he said T don't know anything about it, for haven't seen a newspaper. Any papers which have given my views on the MeNi- can situation have misquoted me. That applies to what has been said about my presidential intentions.
 Replying to another question he declared. as to the river. it is eN- traordinary. but my trip has put on the map q river as long as the Rhine, but there is no more doubt of it's existence than of the Rhine He confessed he lost D pounds, q part of which he has since regain ed. The colonel told friends he may make only one address before sail ing to Spain. and that would be be- fore the national Geographic So ciety, when "I will answer any ques- tions any reputable person wishes to ask me about my trip"
 He was informed that he Was re ported to have said that he would lnot run as a candidate on the re publican ticket and if he became q candidate it would be on the pro- gressive ticket.
 Not word of truth in this, the colonel said "I have not made d single declaration about the political situation in 1916.
 T have not been asked if I would run for governor of New York He rplied to another question:
 If asked, would say that l ! would not"
 Roosevelt was asked how he felt.
 'I don't look like a sick man. do I?' was his rejoinder q have been very ill with jungle fever, but I'm ail right now I feel fine
 He was accompanied by two nat uralists of his party. George K. Cherry and Leo E. Miller. It was learned from MT Cherry that the colonel still suffered from slight symptoms of fever He also had been troubled by bites of poisonous 1 insects.
 1 Malone asked him if he was both cred by the criticism made by the English explorer, Henry Savage | Landor.
 Mir. Roosevelt laughed deprecating I iy. Neither that. nor other similar criticisms worried him, he said. 1 In the baggage brought by the colonel were a number of alligator skins and other trophies, which none
 but the customshouse officers saw
 The only exception which the colone
 look to the procedure of these off
 cers was their handling of man.
 scripts which lay on the trunks.
 Please don't touch that he
 warned. 'I shouldn't want to bC separated from that He woult
 not say what it contained
 As MT Roosevelt talked, his illnes' | did not show either in his face ol his manner. His dominant feelint seemed to be one of tremndous glad
 ness at getting home.
 Half an hour after the Aidan en- | tered quarantine, Colonel Roosevel stepped down the companionway int
 the tug which took him to Oyste
 Bay
 Those who went down the bay t, 1 meet the colonel were Mrs Roose
 welt. Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Roose
 welt, Jr., pr and Mrs Richard Derby
 his son-in- law and daughter. am