Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-24
President Taft New Speeding
Toward St. Louis.
WEARS SOUTHERN COLORS
Daughter of the Confederacy Pins
Badge to His Coat.
BUMPS HIS HEAD IN HOUSTON
Meets With Slight Accident While
Leaving Hotel Balcony-Turn-
ing Loose His Gift Possums.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

! Special Dispatch to The Star.
| DALLAS. Tex. October 23.-President
Taft's week in Texas ended here tonight
| and he is now on his way to st. Louis.
| where he will board United States reve-
nue. cutter Monday and start down the
Mississippi river for New Orleans.
The President arrived here at $40 o'cloels
this afternoon after a fast run by special
train from Houston, where he spent three
hours this morning. He was taken i'm
medfately to the state fair grounds, where
he made an open-air speech to a throng
| which filled the big racetrack stand, and
spread far out in every direction Mr.
Taft was so hoarse that he could be heard
| only a short distance, despite heroic eff
forts on his part. He spoke again brief
| ly tonight at a banquet rendered to him
| at the Oriental Hotel and returned to
his train preparatory to leaving for ST.
Louis.
Fatally Wounded by Militiaman.
An unfortunate incident of the Presi-
dents trip to Dallas was the bayoneting
of Deputy Clerk Louis Reichtensten by
one of the militiamen on guard at the
fair grounds. Reichtenstein was operated
on tonight at ST.. Paul's sanitarium and it
was said he could not live. The stabbing
occurred just before the Presidents train
arrived at the fair grounds and It is pre-
sumed that ReiQbtenstein was trying to
force way through the crowd. although
1t is said he was behind the wire cable
holding the crowd back, when the soldier
used his bayOnet. The knife-like weapon
went entirely through Reichtenstein's
body in the vicinity of the abdomen.
~ E,;I
Regiment, Texas National Guard. of Dali
las, was arrested tonight and held with
out bail on the charge of having bay
oneted Reichtenstein.
honorary membership in the Dallas Press
Club was given President Taft this even
ing.
Dickinson Quits Party.
Secretary of War Dickinson. who has
been a member of the Presidents party
ever since the meeting with President
Diaz at Ell Paso last Saturday, left here
for Nashville tonight in response to
message calling him there on important
business. The Secretary said he would
rejoin the Presidents party at Memphis,
October u, to continue from there the
trip down the Mississippi to New Orleans.
The Secretary expects to make the re-
mainder OF the trip with the President
from New Orleans to Washington.
The most striking feature of the Presi-
dents long stay in Texas has been the ac-
tive part taken in the receptions by Con-
federate veterans and by Confederate or
ganizatiOns generally.
In San Antonio the President found the
wearers of the blue and gray drawn up
shoulder to shoulder before the speakers
stand at the historic Alamo. In Corpus
Christi the President himself brought the
old soldiers Of the north and the south to-
gether. when he asked those in the front
rows to give up their seats SO that the
veterans might have the place of honor.
In Dallas also the veterans of both armies
took part in the program, but the climax
came earlier in the day at Houston. when
the Confederate colors were pinned to the
lapel of the Presidents coat by a Daugh-
ter of the Confederacy while an audience
of 10000 cheered. The President went
through the most of the day wearing the
insignia, and everywhere he was greeted
with warmth that bespoke a feeling
deeper than mere reverence for the Office
or regard for the man. Miss Kate Daffan,
president Of the United Daughters of the
Confederacy, was the woman selected to
decorate the President at Houston. The
President was standing on the first floor
balcony of the Rice Hotel, looking down
into the faces Of thousands. Mayor Rice
introduced Miss Daffan, and as she step
The Daughter" welcomed Mr.. Taft on
behalf of the women of Houston and as
sured him Of their confidence.
Now a United Country.
ITO have the welcome of men of Hous-
but to be assured a confidence and the
cordial reception of those who really
govern Houston is worth very much
more.
I'VE are. my friends, a united coun-
fry bo loI ~;
recognition kindly offered by the Daugh-
ters OF the Confedera,y. an association
organized to perpetuate the memory of
the heroism of the men who died and
suffered in a cause in which they sin
common heritage the heroism of both
sides. conscious that each side could have
overcome any other opponent in much
less time than the war lasted"
Later on in his Houston speech the
President said, with a good deal of feel
Ing.
Men of the south, I thank you for
your cordial welcome. l don't care what
Mr.. Roosevelt when he came down here
that he had more friends and got fewer
votes in Texas than In any other state.
Well. IL we can preserve the friendship,
We can wait for the votes. We don't
require them, provided politics are for
gotten and we are all united as we are,
and as l know we are from such dem
onstrations as this repeated all over the
state-united in one sentiment for 4
common country and common flag"
The President admitted frankly to his
Houston audience that he is Catching
on to the ways of the successful poll
tician and campaigner. He had just con-
graduated Houston on being the great
est inland cotton exchange In the world.
But he adoed when l get to Mem
phis i am going to forget that l ever
said that
The Advantages Of Travel.
II tell YOU" he confessed, when you
| go around this country you learn a few
| things. One of them is that when you are
| in a city that is determined to be first
| you don't want to intim tie In any way
that there is any doubt about that pros
| pect."
The President likened himself to Joe of
| Bleak House.. Il am always moving
| on said he.
| Mr.. Taft taxed his Imagination to pic
ture the Texas of the future 'T con-
| fess." he said. that as l look forward
/ to the construction of the Panama canal
and the settlement Of Texas by people of
| the east and north, the size of this state
| its growth. its products its power become
| stuDendOus In the ina ginatiOn, and / can't