The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1909-09-18
PRESIDENT rArr's
$4,000 MILE TOUR

in duration, starting September Is
from Boston and ending with the
president = arrival in Washington for
the winter, on November 81.
II IL the longest journey through
the length and breadth Of the United
ever undertaken by an American exc
cutive while in office, and the trip Is
notable in presidential annals.
White G President Roosevelt is
smashing presidents aud setting new
ones in Africa by riding on the cow.
catchers of engines, etc, his successor
is getting close to the soil in his own
native land.
Riding with the engineer, getting his
picture leaning from the cab of the
engine, stretching over the observation
platform TO shake hands with country.
men nt towns where two minute stops
are billed, shouting "Howdy' as the
special train pulls out of the small town
station, "Big Bill" Taft is racing from
coast TO coast and back again.
lie is scheduled TO touch the extreme
northern boundary of the country and
upon the occasion, October l6, when
il is prearranged that he should shake
hands with President Diaz of Mexico,
aud thereby cement relations between
these national neighbors, he i slated
to set foot ON the south boundary.
lie started from Beverly, Mass, which
IN on the east coast Of the United States
aud his program calls for several days
at Seattle and other points on the
Pacific coast which is the west bound
airy of the Union. Thus 1t was pre-.
destined that the executive should set
foot ON the four extreme lines which
enclose the union which has selected
him as its head.
The personnel of the president =
travelling party besides the president
= consists of John Hays Hammond, pres
ident Of the league Of republican clubs
Capt. Archibald W. Butt, military aide;
Wendell ". Mischler, assistant secre
tary; DR.. j.. j. Richard aud sou OF
Washington, ID. c.; James Sloan Jr.,
and l.. C.. Wheeler of the secret ser
vice aud Major Arthur Brooks, the
presidents confidential messenger. Six
newspaper men accompany the prcsi
dent throughout the entire trip. The
company travels In tive private ears
attached for the greater part Of the
, time TO regular trains. Besides the
regular executive affairs, President
Taft is preparing his message to con
gress and a small part of each day
is spent in either making memoranda
or mental notes on points upon which
he will elucidate in the regular com
muuication due in December.
: Secretary Carpenter, the mar wis
handles much Of the presidents bust
ness Of national importance, has pack
ed away in his grips several hundred
pounds Of programs which are TO be
carried out at the various points n
, which the president is scheduled q
stop and make a few remarks.
There Is scarcely a state in tn
union In which the president does no
pass. Every big city in the %countr,
. with only n few exceptions, will be in
vaded in accordance with the presiden
tial program.
, Leaving Boston, after motoring int
: the city Of highbrows, Mr.. Taft an,
his two special trains departed ives
ward for Chicago, arriving in the wind
J. city the following day Party chief
J there received him with the sort o
glad hand that Chicago knows how I
y extend. Taft g hand turned upward !
= p to the cordial greeting, afte
which he was down OIL the booking
20 edo" Madison, Portage and Nj
waukee, Wisconsin, in a single day o
his way to Minneapolis and st. Pau
MINI.
Thence the program called for
southern trip TO Desmoines, Iowa, an
Omaha, Neb., with a long jump to Del
yer, Col, which city a year ago wash
big enough to hold all the democrs
who wanted William Jennings Brya
toy the job Mr.. Taft now has.
: Thence to wolhurst, Pueblo, Gle
wood Springs, and Montrose, Col. Fro
there the president is routed to sa
Lake City, Utah, Poeatella, Idaho, But
70 and Helena, Mont, Spokane, North Y
kima aud Seattle, Wash.
% The line of travel then extends sout
= ward along the pacific coast, the sout
ern states being next to receive &
president. At III Paso, Texas, one
the most notable events Of the TO
~ will occur when on the sixteenth d.
10 of October President Disz Of Mexi
and President Taft Of the Unit
States, will shake hands in q mutu
US harmony carnival.
er Secretary Of the Interior Balling
:, will accompany the president throuI
=, the Pacific northwest. Secretary
81 War Dickinson will join the party
III Paao, Texas, and make the renal
3. ing trip back to Washington. Seci
tary Nagel Of tho department Of col
~, merce and labor will be a member
at the party on the trip down the Mi
u issippi river. During his stay in e'
m tain of the states the president "
yet probably have as guests on