Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-05
President Taft Glad 70 RI
In Georgia Again,
Will Start This Afternoon On
Journey Back TO Capital,
Puts In Busy Day Thursday, Ban.
quoting and Speaking.

Travelled through central and SOM
eastern Georgia this Indian summsr
afternoon through woods rich with Tho
warm reds, Colds and browns of An.
tumn. He spent the forenoon at Macon
where ne declared he was glad to be
back in Georgia again. The president
arrived here at 7.40 o'clock tonight and
began his 1s-hours stay in the CITY
with an elaborate banquet at the Do
Soto hotel. Tomorrow the President
will be taken for a sail about the har.
Dor, will have a spin around the ia.
mouse automobile course over which
the grand prize races were run last
fall and will have lunch at the THIN
derbolt Casino.
Savannah is the farthest south the
President will go and when he leaves
here at o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
he will return at least toward WASH
irgtcn, where he is due next Wednes-
dav evening.
Georgia has proved no exception TO
the other Southern states President
Taft has visited, giving him a series Of
welcomes equal to those he has re.
cieved in any other section of the
country. The President was met to-
night by another great crowd. During
his stay in Savannah Mr. Taft is the
guest of Gen William L. Gordon, an
old family friend.
The President breakfasted this morn
ing at Representative Bartlett's home
in Macon, partaking of meal pre-
pared under the direction of Mrs. Bart
lett herself.
Mr. Taft withstood the temptation,
however, of mint julep that had been
brewed with consummate skill and
which reposed apparently harmless in
green topped glass that had perfect
barnacle of frosting on the outside. He
took the JULIEN in his hand for mo-
ment, but that was as far as he got.
Waff1es, quail, fried chicken, sausage,
steak, broiled ham, broiled chicken
and ''Grits' were part of the break
fast set before the President.
The speech at the Macon fair was
Mr.. Taft's principal utterance of the
day and in it he sought to define more
exactly than he has in the past the
limitations which are placed upon the
Executive and the responsibility which
should rest upon Congress. The Presl-
dent also took occasion to state the be-
lief that the best way to accomplish
reforms was not in the disregard by
the Executive of the limitations whclh
stand in their way.
Speaking of the homegenity of the
people he has met throughout the
country, the President said:
ha1
years through our English ancestry in
the self-restraint that is absolutely nee
essary to the success of popular govern
ment and in that quality of being good
losers that enables us TO live happily and
contentedly under a government selected
by majority of which we are not part.
And the same self-restraint that teachesa
the majority, that rules that the limita-s
tions of the Constitution and not only
the limitations of law and the Constitu-
ton. but limitations of decency, limita-
tions of patriotism. are as strong on the
majority as it is possible they should be.
In other words, the power that Is en-
ioyed is the power to be exercised only
for the benefit of the people and the coun-
try and not for the purpose of exalfing
the person who temporarily is vested with
the power to exercise it.
Il am not in favor, even if it seems 10
me that a particular provision ought 10
be omitted, of changing the Constitution
every time you run against the sharp
edge of something that indicates that you
are only mortal and that the forefathers
in making the Constitution distrnsted
your human nature.
Some times in the Zest and enthusiasm
of reform there is an impotence with
legal limitations and statutes that seem
to be directed against that reform or TO
prevent its immediate Accomplishment
such as to lead us to disregard it or 10
ignore it. I do not think and l am sure
YOU will agree with me. that that IS the
best way of getting rid of legal imita-
ton that interferes with progress. the
best way is to have the people under
stand that that limitation ought to be re-
moved and that the statutes of our gov
eminent ought to conform so far as may
be to our highest ideals and ambition;
but that the first thing that We have col
to do after arousing the people to the
necessity of change, is to change the law
and not rely upon the Executive hlmseh
to ignore the statutes and follow law