Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-30
THE PRESIDENTS TRIP
His Reception Will Be Watched
by Politicians.
MAY MARK HIS POPULARITY
Spending Restful Vacation at Oyster
Bay.
VISITORS KEPT AT A DISTANCE
Benefit Resulting to the Chief Exc
cutive-In a Rundown Condition
When He Left Here.

The coming trip of the President will be
watched with deep interest by politicians.
TO some extent 1t viii determine whether
the President IS as popular in parts Of the
west as is claimed
The President will have anot her month at
Oyster Bay before his vacation is broken
up. According to the present schedule he
Will leave his summer home the 10Th of
september and reach Canton, Ohio, the Both
Of that month, about noon. In the after
noon OF that day he will participate in the
dedication Of the magnificent monument to
the late President Mckinley. making the
principal address Of that occasion. The
same evening he will leave Canton for
keokuk, Iowa. which will be reached Oc-
tober L. After looking over the Mississippi
at Keokuk the President. accompanied by
the members of the inland waterways COM
mission. will take a steamer for an In
spection trip down the great river. He will
make three or four stops. among them
Tennessee city will be reached about the
9Th Of October and after a short stay there
the President will leave for Washington,
getting here on the 9Th OF the month.
A Restful Summer.
Private reports from Oyster Bay are
that the President Ia really In the pink Of
condition and that he has spent the most
restful summer at the little New York
town he has had since he became chief
executive. It 1t as least certain that In
no summer in the past has the President
seen so few people. It has been as hard
to make an engagement with him as to
discover . paying gold mine in Texas. Sec
rotary Loeb received positive instructions
from the President that he was to keep
everybody of. making very few exceptions,
and the latter has obeyed instructions
oUoo tn, tho 10 al
the list he already had The President,
however. has benefited. He has had a
GOOD rest and that Is what his friends and
physicians told him he must have when
he left here. The truth is that the Presi-
dent left Washington In a rundown con-
6tion. He was not exactly a sick man,
but his hard work had begun to tell upon
his nerves. Many people saw 1t. too, and
It Is surprising that stories of his con-
dftion did not get out. The robustness
and strength Of former years were slowly
giving way under the additional years and
the strain of planning and carrying out
big political moves.
Other Reasons for Quiet.
There were other reasons, too. for wanting
a long holiday at Oyster Bay. The Presi-
dent had given his word that he would not
be candidate for another term. If he
had been active at Oyster Bay and held
conferences with politicians he would have
been charged with scheming for his re-
nomination. The fact that he is freely
charged with doing that because he Is
keeping quiet 1t Is said. does not worry
him much. -... ,.'
The western trip Of the President will be
the last one he will make before he ends
his term as President, unless Secretary Taft
should be nominated, in which case 1t Is a
practical certainty that the President will
make a number Of speeches In his favor.
The Presidents reasons for making no
more trips is that he might be accused of
pushing himself for another term. BY re-
manning in the White House and pushing
along legislation Of q reform nature he will
have his hands full and at the same time
will be in daily touch with the people Of
the country.