Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1909-11-06
TAFT and DIAz met
IN BORDER Line BETEEN TWO
The TWO COUNTRIES.
Meeting Was Most Cordial-Both
Praised Each Other Highly-Held
Short Meeting in Private Room
Grand Military Display-President
Taft First to Speak.

Ell Paso, Texas, Oct. 16.-The long
expected meeting between President
Taft of the United States and Presi
dent Diaz of Mexico occurred here to-
day. Outwardly it was attended with
a display of soldiery, a blare of
trumpets, booming of cannon and a
pomp of ceremony suggesting supreme
authority, but in the actual handclasp
of the two executives and in the ex-
change of courteous words that passed
from lip to lip there was simple but
cordial informality.
President Taft was the first to speak.
President Diaz assured President Taft
Of his high esteem of the American who
had accomplished so much in the Philip
pines, in Cuba and elsewhere, and who
had now the honor to be the chief exec
utive Of so great a nation as the United
States.
President Taft, in simple, American
fashion, declared he was glad to meet
President Diaz. He was glad to know
the president of such a great nation;
especially glad to know the president
who had made the nation great. Both
presidents dwelt upon the cordiality
of the relations existing between the
United States and Mexico.
President Taft declared that today s
meeting was not necessary to make
stronger the bonds Of friendship; it
merely typifed the strength Of the
bonds as they already exist. Less than
a score of persons were present TO
witness the meeting Of the two execu-
tives.
Even these were excluded later
when President Taft and President
Diaz withdrew into an inner room Of
the Chamber of Commerce building,
where the historic meeting occurred
and where they were attended only by
Governor Creel Of the state Of Chihua-
hua, a former ambassador from Mexico
TO the United States, who acted as in.
terpreter.
Crossing the Border.
The scene OF the days ceremonies
shifted from time 10 time from tho
little American city across the shallow
wandering Rio Grande river TO tho
Mexican town of Ciudad Jaurez.
In the custom house there President
Diaz received return call from Presi
dent Taft and again late this even
ing entertained the American presi
dent aud O large dinner party al q
state banquet, which, la All its sur
roundings Of lavish decoration, Of bril-
liant color, of wealth of silver plate
handed down from the time Of tl'
Emperor MaXimilian, probably wa
the most notable feast ever served oi
the American continent.
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gard between fhe two executfes IA
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