New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-24
WelcOmed'a at Station
and on Streets by
Big Crowds.
GETS OVATION
IN COURTROOM
Colonel Bans Politics on
Trip as Witness in
Riggs Bank Case.
fB, telegraph 10 Tn, Tnbun. ]


and Washington made the occasion nl-
most a festival. fit had been tri-
umphal entry it could hardly have
aroused greater enthusiasm.
! Although the Colonel came on purely
personal business-to testify as a char
ecter witness for Charles c. Glover,
president OF the Riggs National Bank
Roosevelt supporters see in his recep-
/ tion something OF a political augury.
/ In significance they rank it with the
Detroit meeting.
/ The capital wished no doubts TO be
left as to its attitude. At the Union
/ Station there were crowds to greet
/ the Colonel. Crowds also overfowed
+ the courthouse, seeking an entrance 70
Judge Siddon's courtroom. The Colonel
| had difficulty making his way through
/ them.
"Proprieties" Swept Aside.
/ As Colonel Roosevelt entered III.
courtroom all the usually severe pro
prieties we're swept aside. Spontane-
ously the whole audience, the jury in
/ cluGed, arose while the Colonel walked
to his seat, shook hands with a few
| friends. and sat down. After he had
/ testified. Colonel Roosevelt shook
hands with the jury, breaking another
propriety.
Speaking to newspaper men on his
arrival at the courthouse Colonel Roose-
welt said he would make no statement
81 haven't a word TO say on politics."
| he declared 81 just came down to tes-
/ tify in this bank case. ] have seen no
one in a political way since arriving
4 here. ! went from my train and took
+ breakfast with my son-in-law and
| daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Longworth. !
shall return to New York as soon as
have testified. Not word on politics
/ day"
But the capital is intent on politics.
! News of the Colonel's reception spread
rapidly. Even members of the "old
guard" felt the presence of the veteran
Campaigner and secretly longed for an
| injection of little of his punch" into
the fight this fall.
The effect Of Colonel Roosevelts
/ speech at Oyster Bay in response to the
/ call of the Roosevelt Republican Com
mittee delegation was still in the air,
As a result, there was a decidedly
| friendlier feeling toward him in GER
tain quarters than there has been for
months past.
"O!d Guard" Not So Sure.
There was less OF the cocksureness
among the "old guard" today that they
had the Colonel stopped Instead Of
| disposng Of him in a word, as has
I been their custom, there was at least
/ the precaution Of wait and see" The
change is significant.
There is still "A feeling, however.
among the politicians here whom Col
onel Roosevelt has often outgeneralled
that the Colonel has got into the
; fight so late that his efforts will gen
crate merely moral enthusiasm instead
/ OF cornering the delegates necessary
for the nomination.
Others believe that the movement
toward the bandwagon has already be-
gun. Some of the "od guard" leaders
already have started 10 qualify" and
use a great many Ifs" and "ands." in
/ order TO have their record clear if the
Colonel is nominated.
/ At the Longworths' Colonel Roosevelt
/ received only few friends. the bosom
of-the-family kind. Henry White. ex
Ambassador to France, was one OF those
admitted.
Answers Amuses Crowd.
During the ex-President's testimony
some OF his answers aroused consider
able amusement, particularly when he
declared he had never had any political
dealings with Mr.. Glover, and knew
that the banker had supported Taft or
Wilson in 1912.
Colonel Roosevelt declared he had
known Mr.. Glover since 1889; that he
had had business and social relations
with the banker while Civil Service
Commissioner, Assistant Secretary of
the Navy, Vice President and President.
/ Mr.. Glover's general character and
standing in the District of Columbia,
/ he said, were o. the highest.
When the Colonel left the courtroom
the first person to greet him was Fed
eral Trade Commissioner Rublee, whose
nomination was finally rejected by the
Senate to-day because of the opposi
tion of Senator Gallinger. Mr.. Rublee
is an old friend of the Colonel's, and
was enthusiastically received.
Did you see my statement of May
II about your nomination." inquired
Colonel Roosevelt well | want TO
itlNcIhNc H. uoU lNluh a DtlltE man
could be found for the place"
Colonel Roosevelt said on the wit
ness stand that while he first knew
Mr. Glover in 1889, intimacy between
them started five or six years later. !
Mr.. Glover was often guest at the
White House, he added, and the Roose
welt children were often guests at the
bankers summer home.
Acquaintance Not Political.
II knew him very well socially" con-
tinued the Colonel. especially in con-
nection with the philanthropic work he
did in the District. didn't have much
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