The Washington herald., 1909-10-25
LOYALTY TO The FLAG
Continued from Page One.

In four years 1 viii step down ana
out. and then I won't be entitled TO
your respect any more than any otheP
citizen. but FOR the time being 1 am at
the head Of the nation and regard YOU
as loyal Texans and loyal Americans.
anxious 20 see me on that account Z
doubt if your fathers had much 70 90
with my selection, but sometimes in a re-
public, you know, you have TO submit 10
things you cannot help and you have 10
get along the best way you can with a
bad job"
The Presidents statement that IN four
years he would Step down and out
I later occasloned d good deal OF COM
ment among MS friends on the train. Il
Is likely, however, that Mr.. Taft was re-
ferring only in general way 10 the end
ing OF MS first term, and did not mean 20
l nave MS statement taken as any declara-
ton in regard 70 a reelection
The President told the boys and girls
that ne hoped sincerely that they were
not growing up with the idea that they
must leave the country and go into the
cities.
Another Great Hay Town.
AZ Forney the President expressed his
regret at having called the people away
| from their Sunday rest merely ID see the
President Of the United States. 7 IN
/ derstand,' ne added. that this is the
greatest hay town IN the United states.
/ Well. I have been in another town up
/ on the Pacific that claimed 20 be that.
/ but I have 10 doubt that this IS the
largest"
/ At Wills Point. Tex, a man shouted:
we raise 'possums here the same as in.
/ Georgia.
''wen do you eat them?" asked tho
President
( Yes. sir, came the answer
| 7 hope you are al as happy as you
/ look 70 be- was the Presidents next
/ remark
The President stopped Tor FIVE minutes
! az Longview. Tex, az the request Of Tom
Campbell the Democratic governor.
! At TeXarkaua. the first stop in Ar
kansas, a local committee from this state
I boarded the train. The line was so long
that they had 10 break II OF and let
only part Of il into the Presidents
car at a time
Reaches st. Louis To-day.
The President passed through this city
/ at s o'clock tonight He viii reach St
\ Louis at o'clock tomorrow morning
/ and Will speak before the waterways con-
vention. In the afternoon he viii board
a Mississippi River steamer and start
! for New Orleans. accompanied by a feee
I bearing the governors OF most Of thu
States and many Congressman.
/ Nearly all the members OF the PresI~
/ dents party have been arrested or de-
tanned by the police or the soldiers at
I one time or other since they started out
/ from Boston.
I Col Cecil Lyon, the Republican boss
/ Of Texas had about as narrow an es-
l cape as anybody. In one OF the Texas
1 cities the President asked the colonel
! TO get a silver bottle filed with water
/ for him The colonel was running to-
ward the speakers stand with the bottle
when he found himself looking into a
rifle barrel with policeman closing I'D
/ from the rear. be was nabbed on the
suspicion OF carrying a bomb. and had
TO open the bottle and pour some OF the
water out before the guards would let
him 60
Secretary Of War Dickinson was held
up by some soldiers at Fort Houston,
and il was five minutes before he could
convince them Of HIS identity.