The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-05
Is Greeted At Every Turn By
Crowds Of Enthusiastic
Admirers
is SPENDING TODAY IN
THE CITY OF SAVANNAH
At Macon the President Takes Op-
portunity To Discuss Some of Re-
sponsbilities of His HIGH Office.
Claims Georgia Citizenship.

Savannah. November 4.-President Taft
Travelled through central and southeastern
Georgia this Indian summer afternoon
through woods rich in the warm reds,
colds and browns of autumn. He spent the
forenoon at Macon, where he declared he
was glad to be back in Georgia again,
and felt thoroughly at home in the state
whence he went to Washington last
March to assume the oath of office The
President arrived here at 7:45 o'clock to-
night and began his 1S-hours stay in
the city with an elaborate banquet at the
DeSoto hotel. Tomorrow the President
will be taken for a sail over the harbor,
will have a spin around the famous auto
mobile course over which the grand prize
races were run last fall and will have
lunch at the Thunderbolt casino.
Savannah is the farthest south the
President will go, and when he leaves
here at O'Clock tomorrow afternoon he
will return at last toward Washington,
where he is due to arrive next Wednes-
day evening.
Georgia has proved no exception to the
other southern states President Taft has
visited in extending to him series of well
comes equal to those he has received in
any section of the country. In Macon
this morning 1t seemed as though the
country for miles around had been de-
populated to make up the throngs that
gathered in that city. At every one of the
numerous stops between Macon and this
city there were large depot throngs out to
greet the President and cheer the few
words he had opportunity to utter be-
fore the train moved away. Here tonight
the President was met by another great
crowd. During his stay in Savannah Mr..
Taft is the guest of Gen. William w. Cor
don. an old family friend i
Brown Meets President.
Gov. Joseph NJ. Brpwn met lho Presi-
dent at Macon and made the trip with
MIN to this city. Representative Bart
lett also came with the President. along
with a committee of citizens from this
city who went to Dover to extend Savan-
nah's welcome. The President break
tasted this morning at the Bartlett home
in Macon. partaking Of a spread prepared
under the direction of Mrs. Bartlett her
self, and comprising list of southern del
Veaotes that caused the President to
declare that If all wel-to-do Georgia peo-
pie breakfasted like that. he wondered
that such good old institutions as dinner
and supper had any vogue at all In this
section.
Mr.. Taft withstood the temptation, how
ever Of mint julep that had been
brewed with consummate skill, and which
reposed apparently harmless in a green
topped glass that had perfect barnacles
of frosting ON the outside. He took the
julep in his hand for a moment, but that
was as far as he would go. Waffles.
quail, fried chicken, sausage, steak.
broiled ham, broiled chicken and "srits'
We're part of the breakfast set before
the President.
Butt Is Happy.
Capt. Archie Butt, the Presidents aide
an old Georgia boy, was on his native
heath today and happy as could be- He
had been travelling more than II, 900 miles
TO reach here with the President. He
enthusiastically asked Mr. Taft TODAY ,f'
he did not think 1t was we'll worth the
journey to be in Georgia at last The
President graciously agreed, and In his
speech at the state fair grounds in
Macon referred to the fact that he knew
Georgia people were all right, for he had
one for an aide
The Macon fair grounds speech was
Mr. Jaft's principal utterance of the
day and in 1t he sought to define more
exactly than he has In the past the linn
itations that placed upon the execu-
tive and the responsibility that should
rest upon Congress. The President also
took occasion to state the belief that
the best way to accomplish reform was
not in the disregard by the executive OF
the limitations that stand in their way
He said: II am glad to be back In
Georgia. I was a Georgian when was
elected President of the United States.
They went through a preliminary canter
just year ago today at the polls, but
the real election under the constitution,
as your jurist senator will tell you was
when was within the precipcts of Geor-
gia and, therefore, for the time being
subject to the Georgia laws, with an al
legiance to Georgia, and / am glad to
say was Georgian in spirit and in
heart"
Georgia Is Innocent.
The President said Georgia had been
innocent in choosing him as chief execu-
tive But we got YOU" came voice.
Yes" said the. President, land you have
to carry me for about three years more,
and I want to make the load as light az
can.
MY friends, the note that will come
,lp in my voice, and which / cannot re-
strain, Is one of congratulation to the
people of Georgia upon the condition in
which they find themselves this year. and
this decade under the providence of God.
1t Is enough to make one stop and think
when you realize that out of your cot
ton crop alone you will receive in gold
more than double all the gold that will
be mined in the United tSates during
year"
Speaking of the homogeniety of the
people he has met throughout the coun-
try, the President said:
1--WE have been trained a thousand
years through our English ancestory in
the seIf-restraint that Is absolutely neces-
sary to the success Of popular govern
ment, and in that quality of being good
losers that enables us to live happily and
contentedly upder government selected
by a majority of which we are not
part. And the same self-restraint that
teaches the majority that rules that the
litimations of the constitution and mt
only he limitations of law and the con-
stitlltion. but limitations of decency, limi-
tations OF patriotism, are as strong on the
majority as it is possible that such should
be- In other words the power that is
enjoyed Is the power to be exercised only
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