Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-22
ROOSEVELT TO SPEAK
IN WEST JUST BEFORE
CONVENTION OF G. 0. P.
Colonel Will Be Heard in
Kansas City Week Prior
to Meeting in
Chicago
MAY DIRECT OWN FIGHT

OYSTER BAY, ~ Y, April 22,-coio-
mel Theodore Roosevelt, according to pres
ent plans, viii speak In the big convention
hall at Kansas City, Mo, on Memorial
Day Just seven days before the Repub-
lican and Progressive National Conven-
tions are scheduled to convene at Chicago
The Colonel received formal invitation
yesterday by telegraph from representa-
tives of several patriotic and business
organizations Of Kansas City. It is not
at all improbable that. should conditions
prove favorable the Colonel will, after
the Kansas City address, make a short
and strenuous tour Of the Middle West,
touching Omaha, Neb.; Des Moines, Ia.
and Denver; Col
Such tour would keep the Colonel In
that section of the country until conven-
tion time, and make II possible for him
to reach Chicago on Tuesday, June Z. the
day set for the opening of the conventions.
If this course Is followed out, and 1t now
seems highly probable, It would plunge
the Colonel in the, thick of the fight to
arouse the country Just as the men who
will control the Republican National Con-
ventlon are preparing to decide the course
to be followed. Roosevelt advisers are now
satisfied that, with the Colonel on the
stump in the Middle West, such an over
.whelmng sentiment for his nomination
would be aroused that there could be no
doubt of the result in the convention.
The Roosevelt Republicans and Pro-
gresslves, 1t Is known, are making extern
sve preparations for the reception Of tho
Colonel in Chicago when the convention
meets, despite the fact that the Colonel
has not said positively that he would go
there. Marching clubs are being formed.
IL is said, to greet the Colonel and give
him the greatest ovation Chicago has
witnessed.
Tentative arrangements have been
made also for his accommodations In the
same quarters he occupied during the Re-
publican Convention of 1919. Hundreds
have urged the Colonel to be on hand.
and while he has refused to talk about
the subject at all. there are many who
believe that he will be there and that he
will not return to Oyster Bay after de-
livering the Kansas City address until the
Republican and Progressive Conventions
have taken action and adjourned.
The talk of the Colonel running on a
third ticket again II the Republicans NOM
mate a man whom the Progressives feel
that they cannot support has been revived
in view of the report that he Is contem-
plating Middle Western tour. The Colo
mel has said not a word on this topic,
even to his most confidential advisers His
fight, he has said all along and reiterates
now, is to arouse the people of the country
to a full realization of the need of ade-
quate preparedness and a revival of patri-
otic instincts.
Colonel koosevelt's advisers in the Re-
publican party, as well as the Progressive
leaders, have been urging upon him the
necessity of again getting in touch with
the people In several centres of the popu-
lation. There have been a few that OPP
posed the tour, but the majority feel that
nothing could so well serve to bring the
people to a real understanding of what
the Wilson administration has not ac-
compl'Shed," as they express It, as q
heart-to-heart talk by the Colonei.