The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-02-13
NEW ORLEANS
ENTERTAINS
NOTED GUEST
Banquet in Honor of President
Elect Taft a Pronounced
Success.
SPEECH TO NEGROES
IN MORNING HOURS
SEVERAL POLITICAL CONFER
ENcES WITH FRANK S. HITCH
COCK AND OTHERS.

New Orleans. La. Feb. 12.-Presi-
dent-elect Taft devoted this morning to
the negro race and this afternoon to
leisure. Tonight he was the guest of
honor at a creole banquet given at the
Grunewold hotel A thousand citizens
maid the assessment of SIS each for
places at the board, and considerably
over half Of these were present.
Although conferences during the day
were held between Mr.. Taft and Mr..
Hitchcock, his postmaster general, and
Treasurer Upham of the national Re
publican committee, nothing definite
was obtainable regarding the undecided
places in the cabinet. In his speech to
the negroes. who greeted him by thou
sands at the ball park today, Mr.. Taft
reiterated his heretofore well-defined
principles regarding the development
of the negro and the settlement of the
race question.
Select Luncheon Party.
The afternoon of the city's distiH-
guished guest was spent at the Coun-
try club, which not only afforded the
opportunity for a select luncheon party
in which Mrs. Taft was also a partici-
pant, but an opportunity for what will
doubtless be the last game of golf Mr..
Taft will indulge in for many months
Mr. and Mrs. Taft will leave here for
Cincinnati at $50 o'clock tomorrow
morning, arriving in the latter city at
las p. m. Sunday. Monday afternoon
the president-elect will start for WASH
ingtOn.
Governor J. Sanders, responding to
the toast, Louisiana" at the banquet
tonight, after extending 'ty well
come to Mr.. Taft, spoke of the
federal government assuming the main
tenance of the 1evee system of the Mis-
sissippi river and some of its tribu-
taTies.
Invocation by Cardinal.
Cardinal Gibbons, who pronounced
i-the invocation, said:
L beg to assure this large and dis
tinguished audience that 1 feel it a
great pleasure and privilege to partici-
pate in these festivities in honor of the
president-elect of the United States.
4 have known Mr.. Taft for several
years, and the more have known him
the better / have learned to admire and
esteem him.
The people of the United States
have chosen for president a man whose
devotion to his country is not restrict
ed by state lines or by sectional bias,
but who loves his fellow citizens,
whether they come from the east or
west, north or south, who will be presi-
dent Of the whole nation"
Nearly thirty years ago." said Car
dinal Gibbons, ION arriving at Queens
town from New York. I saw that the
people of Great Britain and Ireland
we're in a high state of enthusiasm
over the election TO parliament of Mr..
Gladstone, who once more became
minister of England. The people greet
ed him everywhere with the affection
ate title of our william
And l am sure that the gentlemen
assembled here tonight and the men
and women Of New Orleans, and the
citizeas at large throughout the United
states. viii take equal pride in calling
our hOnored guest by the familiar, but
endearing name, of Our William "
Jewel Presented.
As soon as the brilliantly lighted and
decorated hall had been filed. Mr.. Taft
was tremendously invested with the jewel
and title of the Prince of the Philip
pines" by the imperial ambassador of Rex.
Judge Larry O'Donneil. the compliment
being a forerurner Of the carnival season.
Mr. Taft accepted It in the same spirit
of fun saying he would take the token
with the understanding that il would not
involve him in the meshes Of the cOnsti-
tutionai provision against the acceptance
Of emOlumelt OF honor from a foreign
prince or potentate-
AIL'S WELL IN TOXIC.
Toxic. Feb. 12.-Lengthy cables. convey
ing from correspondents in America news