The San Francisco call., 1909-10-24
PRESIDENT TAfT'S
VOICE FAILS HIM
Rest at Brothers Ranch ReIaxes
Vocal Chords, Making Speech
Most Difficult
MiIitiaman at Dallas Stabs Dep
uty County Clerk, Inflicting
Fatal Wound

l.
Taft arrived here from Houston at $50
O'Clock this afternoon. He was taken
Immediately to the state fair grounds,
where he spoke. He was SO hoarse that
he could be heard only short dis
tance, despite heroic efforts. He spoke
| Oriental hotel, and returned to his train
preparatory to leaving early tomorrow
morning for St Louis. From st. Louis,
Monday afternoon, the president will
begin pilgrimage of four days and
FIVE nights down the Mississippi river
| to New Orleans.
VOICE GIVES OUT
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 heard by crowd which
| filed four intersecting streets for two
blocks in either direction. According
to DR.. Richardson, the presidents ply
| sician, the hoarseness is due in large
! part to the letup in speech making
| which came during the presidents visit
! to his brothers ranch, and he predicted
that the vocal chords will round to in
a day or so. Up to this time the presf-
! dents voice has kept in splendid shape.
! On account of hoarseness the presi-
1 dent did not attempt to make a long
! speech. either at the fair grounds or
! the banquet. and confined himself in
each instance to an expression of his
| apprecia tion of the warmth of his re-
'ception in Texas. He completed. on ar
irving here, his eighth day in the state.
STABBED BY MILITIAMAN
An unfortunate incident of the presi-
dents trip to Dallas was the bayonet-
/ ing of Deputy County Clerk Louis
! Reichtenstein by one of the militiamen
on guard at the fair grounds. Reich
| tenstein is said to be fatally injured.
| He was operated tonight at ST
| PauPs sanatorium, and it was said he
could not live. The stabbing occurred
| just before the presidents train ar
rived at the fair grounds. and it is
presumed that Reichtensten was try
| ing to force way through the crowd.
| although it is said he was behind the
wire cable holding the crowd back
when the soldier used his bayonet. The
matter is in the hands of the authori-
| ties.
| President Taft during his stay in
| Texas has learned much of the rivalry
among the cities of Dallas, San Antonio
and Houston as to which is really the
| largest and foremost city in the state,
and he has had considerable fun in dis
1
mentioned. At the fair grounds this
afternoon the president spoke about
| this rivalry.
! Il spoke of it in Houston this morn
| ing," he said. and it seemed to arouse
a keen interest there. [ found a similar
spirit and feeling in San Antonio. and
venture to say that it was wise in
each city to suggest the subject and
not reach definite conclusion.
| SPIRIT on nt,rrErInzrZ arTnN
That spirit of determination on the
part of the citizens of Dallas that
Dallas is bound to be the largest city
in the state; that same determination
1 in Houston and in San Antonio is sure
| to result in making one or the other
the biggest and in making all import
ant in the development of this enor-
nous state.
TT seems to me I have travelled a
million miles in Texas and although
you have had a whitening drought
here. l do not find anywhere any dis
content, any kicking or dissatisfaction,
| but in its place a determination not
/ to sorrow over anything that is past,
but to make the next crop the biggest
in the history of the state"
AT Beville, Tex, while the president
was discussing postal savings banks,
there came voice from the crowd:
Where do you put your money
BiI?"
We'll laughed the president in re-
sponse, Il haven't much to put any
where. When you have been in politics
and public otnce as longN as 1 have,
| you won't have much either
To the students of the Agricultural
and Mechanical college today the presi-
| cent said
1--WE 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. To 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 we'll to accept
! the opportunity to go into engineering,
into farming, into those things that we
are going to do all the time. Now,
| that is what you are doing, and / am
sure you are improving every minute.
If you are engaged in farming you
don't have to go far to try it. have
| been through your state during the
last week and If you will put the new
processes with respec, TO irrigation and
reclamation into force you will make
state that will be so big you won't
know what to do with it..
To the colored students of the
Prairie view school the president said:
| II congratulate you on the opportuni-
ties for useful education on which you
are receiving under the auspices of the
state of Texas and / congratulate the
state that it makes no distinction in
| furnfshine those educational facilities