New-York tribune., 1918-03-29

Progressives to join in rehabilitated
party was also made in resolution.
Colonel Roosevelt's day in Portland
was strenuous. He arrived in town at
1890 o'clock and was met at the sta
tlon by large delegation. headed by
Mayor Charles B. Clark, State Chair
man Frank J. Ham and band. In the
forefront of the crowd was slender
old man, with a pointed beard, keen
and alert in his movements. He was the
| Colonel's old friend of ranching days,
Bill" Sewell, of Island Falls, Aroostook
4 County eX-ranchman, guide and lum-
herman.
Made "Bill" Delegate
When "Bill's" neighbors read few
days ago that Colonel Roosevelt surely
would be at the state convention they
made him delegate.
Hello, BILL said the Colonel, reach
see you" and with that the two got
their heads together as the crowd
swung out into the street to the strains
Of Hail to the Chief"
The Colonel was escorted to the Fall
mouth Hotel, and there, shaking hands
! and bowling right and left. he walked
to the elevator and repaired to his
room on the third floor. Lunch was
served in the State of Maine room in
the hotel. The walls of the room are
hung thick with portraits of the illus
trlous sons of Maine.
At the lunch were United States SEN
ators Frederick Hale and Bert NJ. Fer
nald, Major Edward Phibrook. ex-
Governor William T. Haines, Mayor
Charles B. Clark, ex-Mayors James B.
Baxter Charles H. Randall. Wilford
G. Chapman and Augustus f. Strout,
| all Of Portland; Edgar E. Rounds, Ar
thur NJ. Sewell, Representatives Ira G..
Jersey. John A. Peters, Wallace II.
| White and Louis L. Goodall and ex-
Representative Frank f. Guernsey,
Charles II: Hichborn Alton C. Wheeler
| and Joseph Alsop, of Connecticut.
During the afternoon there were as
many callers on Colonel Roosevelt as
re could find time to see. Among them
were Frank l.. Dingley. editor of ,"The
Lewiston Journal" and his son, B. II.
Dngev.
Another caller was Food Conserva-
ton Commissioned Hamlin, of Maine.
Visited by Two Marines
Colonel Roosevelt was "stumped"
when the cards>of Sergeant Kayan and
Private King, of the United States
Marines, temporarily in Boston, were
handed in.
TEL him I was with him in Cuba"
Before they went away they pre-
vailed upon the Colonel to have his
picture taken with them, and they were
the happiest pair Of marines in New
England as they left the hotel
There IS story back CT it all. When
hayan was in the service--the Colonel
didn't tell it, but Kayan did--he had a
pronounced propensity for getting into
trouble. He was in it up to his neck
soon after Colonel Roosevelt became
President. To cut the story down to
a wartime basis. Colonel Roosevelt
helped him out of his trouble" gave
hlm some sound advice, and Kayan
went back into the service Since then
he has distinguished himself with
nne record. That was why he and his
pal. klng, happened along to-day and
begged for photograph.
Inc Colonel also had his picture
taken with Senators Hale and Fernald,
Governor Carl f. Miliken and Mayor
Clark OF Portland.
But perhaps the choicest event Of
all and one that will be talked about
up III Aroostook County for long time
was the private dinner that Colonel
Roosevelt gave last evening at the Fal-
mouth for Mr.. and Mrs. Bill Sewell
and Mr.. and Mrs Fleetwood Pride. The
guests have been friends since the days
when Colonel Roosevelt was ranching
it in Dakota, and the Sewells and the
Prides were with him. AT the hotel it
was said that the Sewells brought along
basket of brook trout for the feast.
but in view Of the game laws not much
was said about the brook trout.
Party Loyal to Government
Addressing the convention this after
noon, Governor Carl L. Milliken de-
clareti that the Republican party was
BORN in the throes Of national peril
and was bound by every tradition of
It's history to support the government
loyalty in this time of trial The ieht
for liberty, he said, stood ahead of all
questions OF party success or personal
ambition.
whether the people desire the pres
cnt administration to remain in con-
troll Of the affairs Of the state for an
other term," he said, will be for the
voters themselves to decide. Beyond
making from time to time such reports
10 the people as may seem proper, |
shall have no time, nor have | the dis
position. to devote myself to parti-
san contest
Nv hat has pressed hardest upon me
constantly has been the fear that we
might fail in some possible service that
might make the difference between
comfort and suffering, or even between
i'fe and death, 10 some Of our soldier
and sailor boys. The war rightly
dwarfs all personal ambitions and