Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-09-03
STAFT AND FORAKER
CHEERED BY CROWD
sPOLITICAL RIVALS SHAKE HANDS
I AS THEY MEET IN FRONT OF
Id REVIEWING STAND AND THE
HATcHET is BURIED.

ia IOleQO, u, Sept. 2.-W1Cn naSS ny
Ng. bands playing and crowds cheer
ing and bright sky overhead, the
veterans of the Grand Army of the
Republic, for the forty-second time,
marched through the streets in the
encampment city today. Through
TWO miles Of streets guarded by a
younger generation of soldiers, the
Seventh regiment o. N. g.. who re-
strained the throngs of sightseers at
the ropes, the old campaigners of
Grant and Sherman moved to the
blare Of bands and the pipe and roll
of the fife and drum.
Taft Views Parade.
At the official reviewing stand,
where stood William H. Taft, the
lRepublican candidate for president,
Governor Harris, Senator Foraker,
Mayor Brand Whitlock, and many
other notables, the colors were dip
bed and eacL. department commander
u Joined Commander in Chief Burton, In
the stand.
The parade being the Neading
feature Of the encampment, many
posts timed their arrival to that event
and the crowd Of visitors was
augmented by thousands during the
night.
Human Flag Is Greeted.
VI The day had been proclaimed q
holiday by the mayor, and the majori
ty of business places as well as all
\ the public Offices were closed. AS the
veterans marched past the reviewing
stand they were saluted with bonn
80 fo1 ~
an immense human flag made up Of
nearly three thousand children, who
in dresses Of red, white and blue
swayed their bodies SO the emblem
seemed to sway as in breeze. The
soldiers saluted the picture with many
wave of hand and hummed as they
marched to the patriotic songs the
children sang.
Judge Taft on Over onfidence.
Middle Bass, O.. Sept. Before
leaving for Toledo this morning where
he was scheduled to review the Crane
Army parade and attend reception
at the Lincoln club, Judge Taft said
if he talked at all, he should indicate
to the Lincoln club his ideas as to the
value of political organization ant
also the danger to any political cause
). of over confidence of the members 0
the party. Taft plans to return herr
as soon as the demands upon his tim'
in Toledo have been fulfilled.
m Governor Harris and Senate
Foraker, IN carriages, repeatedly ack
/, nowledged the cheers of the crowds
Taft in the reviewing stand wa
cheered to echo by the veterans a
they passed. He was kept on hi
feet continually, returning the salute
of the old soldiers.
William H. Taft and Senate
Foraker, meeting for the first tim
since the Republican convention
created a hurricane of cheers toda
other in the official reviewing stan
as the G. A. R. parade was passing
How Taft and Foraker Met.
The scene Of the meeting betwee
the erstwhiIe political rivals was
fitting one In the most prominen
seat in the reviewing stand stood tn
Republican nominee, flanked on eithe
side by prominent citizens Of the cit.
while below him there marched tn
veterans of the civil war, salut:ng an
Iningling their cheers with the musi,
Taft bowed again and again as th
carriages passed and in one Of thos
carriages sat Foraker, himself, a.
knowledging the cheers from thos
! who recognized him. At the stan
Foraker with Senator Dick and Co
ernor Harris alighted and joined tn
line of men passing before Taft O
ppy f0 seats
Peace OFFICIALLY Restored.
AS Foraker approached and tn
crowd recognized him there was
second huzzah and then might
cheer as the senator and former Sc
retary of war shook hands.
Hello there said Taft, extendin
his hand as he saw Foraker approac
ing. Both men smiled and the crow
now fully cognizant that the antie
pated reconciliation between the fo
mer political foes was now an offici
fact, increased the volume OF the
cheers to an extent that it made it 9
most impossible for the two primo
pals in the scene to tell what one We
saying to the other.