Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-24
DALLAS GREETS
PRESIDENT TAFT
CHIEF EXECUTIVE VICTIM OF
SORE THROAT
LETUP IN TALKING CAUSE OF
HoARSENESS
Nations Chief Ruler Makes Brief Adj
dress at Banquet-He Receives
ovations All Along Route
from Houston
rBv Associated Press.l


Taft arrived here from Houston at $50
o'clock this afternoon. He was taken
Immediately to the state fair grounds,
where he spoke.
Mr.. Taft was so hoarse he could be
heard only a shqt distance despite
heroic efforts.
He spoke briefly tonight at banquet
rendered him at the Oriental hotel, and
returned to his train preparatory to
leaving early tomorrow morning for st.
Louis.
From st. Louis on Monday afternoon
the president will begin a pilgrimage of
four days and five nights down the
Mississippi river to New Orleans.
The presidents voice began to grow
husky after his speech at Corpus
Christi yesterday, and broke down al
most completely during his address at
Houston this morning, when he tried
to make himself heardsby crowd that
filed four intersecting streets for two
blocks in either direction.
According to DR.. Richardson, the
presidents physician, the hoarseness is
due in large part to the let-up in speech
making which came during the presi-
dents visit to his brothers ranch, and
he predicted that the vocal cords will
be all right in day or so.
Hoarseness Bothers Him
On account of hoarseness the presi-
dent did not attempt to make long
speech, either at the fair grounds or the
banquet, and confined himself in each
instance to an expression of his appre-
citation of the warmth of his reception
in Texas. He completed on arriving
here his eighth day in the state.
II was asked today" said the presi-
dent at the fair grounds, 'if I had any
doubt by this time about Texas being
a part of the Union. I replied that the
Union was not part of Texas"
On his way from Houston today the
president Travelled in the most popu-
lous section of the state and the sue
cession of prosperous looking towns
and cities was in striking contrast to
the long stretches of barren cactus
and mesquite bush plains of the west.
At each station through which the
train passed there was large crowd
to cheer the president.
He made several brief car-end talks
and at those places where no stop was
scheduled he appeared on the platform
to wave a response to the cheers sent
up in his honor
At Hampstead the president spoke to
several hundred pupils of the Prairie
View Colored State Normal school and
at College station addressed the stu
dents from the Agricultural and Me-
chanical college.
Unfortunate Incident
An unfortunate incident of the trip
to Dallas was the bayoneting of Dep
uty County Clerk Louis Reichstenstein
by one of the militiamen on guard at
the fair grounds. Reichtenstein is said
to be fatally injured. He was operated
on tonight at st. Pauls sanitarium and
1t was said he could not live.
The stabbing occurred just before
the presidents train arrived at the fair
grounds and 1t is presumed that Reich
tenstein was trying to force his way
through the crowd, although 1t is said
he was behind the wire cable holding
the crowd back when the soldier used
his bayonet
President Taft during his stay in
Texas has learned much Of the rivalry
among the cities of Dallas, San Anto-
MO and Houston as to which is really
the foremost city in the state.
The throng in the grandstand was
restless and noisy. Those in the more
remote sections of the structure were
endeavoring constantly to get better
view Of the president and this resulted
In continuous confusion.
The president has discussed postal
savings banks in several recent
speeches and has again expressed the
hope that the banking interests will
withdraw their objections to the bill
tions, paying per cent, would inter-
fere in no way with the great savings
banks paying and 4 per cent. At
Beville, Tex, while the president was
discussing postal savings banks, there
came voice from the crowd:
Hasn't Very Much?
Where do you put your money,
Bnl?"
We'll" laughed the president in re-
sponse, 81 haven't much to put any
where When you have been in poll
tics and public office as long as 1 have,
you won't have much, either"
To the students of the Agricultural
and Mechanical college today, the
president said:
I'VE have gone long steps ahead in
the matter of education and especially
under state auspices, in teaching the
young men something that is useful for
them in after life; so that they can
begin right away.
ITO those who have time to indulge in
a classical education it is all right but
there are many of us not So situated,
and many of us will learn well to ac-
oept the opportunity to go into en-
cheering, into farming, into those
things that we are going to do all the
time Now that is what you are doing,
and I am sure you are improving every
minute.
IF you are engaged in farming you
don't have to go far to try it. l have
been through your state during the last
week, and if you will put the new pro-
cesses with respect to irrigation and
reclamation into force you will make a
state that will be so big you won't
know what to do with it."
To the negro students Of the Prairie
View schools the president said;
Il congratulate you on the oppor-
tunities for useful education which
you are receiving under the auspices of
the state of Texas, and l congratulate
the state that 1t makes no distinction
in furnishing those educational facili-
ties to all it's citizens"
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