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Show 8 ' ' ROOSEVELT HAS A DAY0F RESTj OYSTKR, HAY. N. V., Sept. 11 . j After an absence of three weeks, Col- onel Roosevelt Is home again, weary lrom his wcKteru trip, but well sali- , lied with the result. Ho enjoyed ev- I cry minute of It, he said. The colonel reached New York iu li o'clock this morning from Titla-burg. Titla-burg. His firm orders wen that no ono tdiould be permitted to Invade the privacy oi Sagamore Hill, and for tl;c day he relapsed Into the comforts and seclusion of his family Hie. Tomorrow To-morrow ho will plunge Into a mass of correspondence. It Is likely that thlo will occupy , his entire day and that whatever consultations con-sultations are to come with those who , have In hand the fight tr force his flection as tempoVary chairman of the coming Republican state conven-, conven-, lion will be postponed until Thursday, Thurs-day, when he will visit his office again. Hefore he started on his trip Colonel Col-onel Roosevelt had said little on public pub-lic matters, but to the people of the-middle the-middle west ho declared himself on almost all the questions now befcre the nation. His utterance wore accepted ac-cepted as his political creed and were. Yecched with satisfaction by many insurgents, although Colonel Roosevelt Roose-velt himself lu a speech at Kansas CitC.- classed himself as a progies-tivc. progies-tivc. The itinerary to which he had committed com-mitted himself and its attendant obligations ob-ligations were Plough to have dismayed dis-mayed a less conilJcnt and energetic man, but Uie Qolonol not only executed execut-ed It he overlapped it at "very st.ize-1 st.ize-1 i.t his journey. In all he delivered about 100 speeches, including both Ma ; i to whom .Vice President Sherman ha' I been reported hostile, he declared war on the old guard in the Republic! party of New York state. , CoiilinuitiK hie hnrTbjd..91Urd rush to Che)onne, he made a hhmbcr of speeches, attacking the Interests' and corporations, poor mcu and rich tneu. Swinging back around the circle, through Denver, and. passing from Colorado into Kansas, the .'most Important Im-portant enunciation of his trip earn;. at Osawatomle, Kan. There he de-I de-I dared that the nation was facing a j crisis as grave aa that which preced-' preced-' ed the civil war, and there he out- lined at great length his theory of what ought to be done about It, These led to blJ p'ea for a "new nationalism" to deal more effectively effective-ly with such questions as control of corporations and the conservation of i.attiral ' resources. In Kansas City he urged a federal act to regulate the compensation of -working men. In Iowa he turned for the first time to the tariff. At Sioux City, in that Mate, he first mention-j mention-j ed the Tuft admlnlBtration, commend-I commend-I Ing the president's stand for a tariff commission. At Fargo, X. D., he de-I de-I clared himself In hearty sympathy with organized labor and at the same time warned the unions that they must opiose lawless violence. The following day. In St. Paul, ho urged' even more emphatially than before th control of the country':", naiurnl resources by the federal government gov-ernment instead of by the .states. Early In October. Colonel Roosevelt will launch out again on a nhorter lour through the south, during which he will make a campaign speech for i Senator Heverldgc in Indiana. He also has promised to speak for Senator Sena-tor Iy:dge in Massachusetts. NEW YORK. Sept. 11. With the return of Theodore Roo-eelt from bis western trip, the strugcle be-! be-! tween (he "Old Guard'' and the Pro-I Pro-I gresslves for the, control of the Re- publican state convention looms larg-I larg-I er upon the political horizon. Both ! sides have been conducting a cam-i cam-i paign to capture delegates and he result of Tuesday's primaries In 73uf-i 73uf-i falo and Rochester In a large meas-: meas-: tire will determine whether the selection selec-tion by the state committee on Vice-president Vice-president Sherman as temporary chairman will he ratified or rejected in favor of Colonel Roosevelt. leaders of both factions profess confidence in their ability to win the support of a majority of 1.0I" dele-gales dele-gales to the convention. Of the twen-I twen-I ty odd counties In which delegates i have already been chosen. 132 are ! said to favor Sherman, while 100 are credited to Roosevelt. Second and third class cities will hold their primaries pri-maries on September 20. |