Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1909-08-14
PRESIDENT WON'T SEE
MUCH OF TERRITORY
BY DAYLIGHT
He Will Spend Most OF His
Time In New Mexico
Asleep In a Berth
in His Car.
WILL ARRIVE HERE
tvtNING OF OCT. IS
Secretary Wires Governor Curry
That the President VIII AT
rive On the East Bound
Limited and Go South
That Night.


will pass through the best part of it
by night. All he will see from the
car window is the stretch from Gal
lup to Albuquerque. The president
will arrive at Albuquerque at $3.50 p.
will leave for El Paso twenty minutes
after midnight. thus passing through
the Rio Grande valley by night and
giving Albuquerque a stay Of six and
half hours. This is the news con-
veyed to Governor Curry by Frank
S. Carpenter, secretary to the presi-
dent, in a telegram received today.
Using every possible political lever
age, the people of Tucson, Phoenix
Prescott and Douglass, Ariz,, are en-
deavoring to have President Taft
change his itinerary to one which will
take in those towns. The Tucson
Citizen says that "If President Taft
holds to his itinerary and stops only
at the Grand Canyon in Arizona, the
Republican party might as well go out
of business in the new state, so dis
appointed are the people in the larger
cities over his sighting of Arizona s
Importance"
The Chambers Of Commerce of the
four towns named above have sent the
president invitations to visit each of
them for an hour or longer if possible.
The prominent people of each place
have been exceptionally busy the past
few days using all the influence they
can muster to bring about the change.
To what purpose remains to be seen,
but if they should succeed, will the
remainder of the itinerary hold good,
especially that part which includes
Albuquerque?
The invitation of President Tight,
of the territorial fair association, was
a very informal missive. But the
president responded, and Albuquerque
is one of the few cities in the south
west that appears boldly on the itin-
erary.
Governor Sloan of Arizona has sent
a message to President Taft to at
least visit Tucson, Prescott and
Phoenix, explaining that these three
towns could be visited by the prest-
dent with little trouble while en- route
to the Grand Canyon. Tucson and
Douglas are urging that the presiden-
tial train go through Arizona and to
Albuquerque by way of Deming. This
would cause the presidential train to
double hack both at the Grand Can
yon and over the Rio Grande divi'
sion. The itinerary does not provide
sufficient time for such a trip. If the
president should do as Arizona would
have him do, he would not have time
to reach FL Paso according to the
itinerary If he should change his
itinerary for such trip, he will have
to drop Albuquerque.
However, W. H. Andrews, delegate
to congress, who has just returned
from Washington, says 1t is not hkelS
the itinerary will be changed. The
trip the president is to make has beer
carefully planned, railroad men join
ing his secretaries in laying out tho
route and making the schedules.
Senator Andrews says the presiden
doesn't want to be in Ell Paso in the
dav time and he does not care mucf
about Arizona. He is coming to SCI
New Mexico and the senator does no
believe that he can be Influenced t'
change his route. New Mexico ha
100000 people and Arizona has hal
as many, and New Mexico has shoWi
that IL is a Republican lerrltoIy,
But the senator says there is NJ
doubt about Delegate Hugh cam
eron being busy in Washington do
ing what ne can to change things
Cameron is close to Hitchcock ant
is in the secretary's office every da!
getting things changed.
The Douglas Chamber of Commerc'
has sent the president an oXidiZe'
block of copper bearing the following
invitation engraved on its smoot
surface.
con behalf Of the people OF Doug
las. Arizona, the Douglas Chamber o
Commerce and Mines extends I
William Howard Taft, President o
the United states, cordial invita-
ton to visit the city of Douglas, Ar
izona. on the occasion Of his forth
coming western trip