The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1907-10-24
THE PRESIDENTS GROWING
POPULARITY.

Under the Presidents Wise Policy
This Country VIII Get the Trade
Of South America-The People
and the President Agree on the
Man to Succeed Him-The Only
Danger to Roosevelt's Policies Lies
Inside His Own Party and With
Some of His Own Oficeholders.
Washington, ID. c., Oct. %, 1907.
Special 10 The Caucasian.
The president is scheduled to re-
tlm to Washington at 4 O'Clock to-
morrow attcrnoon. This will mark
r.r ur.uiu- Of the official season in
Washington, and the resuming of the
president : strenuous campaign for
his Great reform policies, which will
r,- only continue through all the next
session of Congress but until the polls
ARE closed III November, 1908.
Deep Water From the Lakes to the
Gulf.
The president s trip down the Mis-
-.--.upI river was a most notable one
E,n is the first president to take the
trip down the Great Mississippi since
Andrew Jackson. His declaration in
favor Of improving the Mississippi
river So az to make a great deep wa
ter channel connecting the Gulf of
Nrzlro and the Great Lakes of the
aHrtH has met with a responsive
chord over the whole country and has
aroused the greatest enthusiasm up
and down the Mississippi Valley and
along all Of its tributaries.
Such 4 project is not only a proper
and necessary public improvement,
but at he same time is one Of the
presidents great effective steps to-
wards regulating transportation rates
by rail. Indeed, it is of even greater
-i@niiicancc, because with the build
in- Of the Panama Canal and the
opening Of the Deep Waterway from
the Lakes TO the Gulf, it will put the
commercial interests Of the great
central section of the United States
IN close touch with all Of the Pacific
coast Of both continents. It MEANS
that the United States will send its
products down the Mississippi river
and through the canal and monopo-
hZe the trade of the Pacific coast, not
only Of our own country but of all
Of South America. Heretofore most
of~thc trade Of South American has
been commanded by England and
Germany.
The President Increasing Popularity
This trip Of the presidents has
also demonstrated afresh his great
and growing popularity, and it has
given fresh impetus to the demand OF
people of all parties that he consent
to serve the country another term in
the White House.
Next to the president, no man has
gained more rapidly in the esteem
and confidence of the people as his
great War Secretary, William H.
taft The concensus of opinion with
The great majority today is that if
the president will not consent to serve
the people again that Taft is their
second choice.
The People and the President Agreed
on a Second Choice.
\ prominent business man from the
West, and also a close observer of
political conditions, a few days ago,
III speaking of Secretary Taft, said:
When one stops to consider the
great achievements of the American
government for the last eight or ten
Years, he will at once realize that
nearly all Of the great untried Srob-
lens that were to be faced and
solved, and especially those requiring
the most delicate treatment, have
been placed upon the shoulders of
Mr.. Taft, and that the ease, skill and
wisdom with which he has success
fully handled them all is little less
Than marvellous"
as Congressman Kennedy said In a
speech at Pittsburg the other night,
the people admire and respect Taft
Tor his character and ability and that
they are delighted that the president
himself has the same high OPTION
Of him.