The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-05
President Taft VIII Turn His
Face HOmeward.
When He Leaves Savannah
Where He Is Today.
PASSES UP THE JULEP
Prepared Especially for Him
While at Macon.
Great Crowds Turn Out Where
ever He Appears.

Savannah, Ga, Nov. 5.-President
Taft arrived here at 7:45 o'clock last
night and began his Is hours stay
with banquet at the De Soto hotel.
Savannah is the farthest south the
president will go and when he leaves
he will turn at last toward Wash
ington, where he is due to arrive We'd
nesday evening. Georgia has proved
no exception to the other southern
states President Taft has visited in ex-
tending a welcome. In Macon it SEEM
ed as though the country for miles
around had been depopulated to max q
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 an opportunity to utter.
Last night the president was met by
another great crowd. During his stay
in Savannah, Mr.. Taft is the guest Of
General William w. Gordon, an old
family friend.
Governor Joseph Brown met the
president at Macon and made the trip
with him to this city. Representative
Bartlett also came with the president
along with committee of citizens
from this city who went to Dover to
extend Savannah's welcome. The
presfdnet ate breakfast at the Bartlett
nouns III macon. he W1InSCOOd the
temptation of a mint julep that had
been prepared with consummate skill.
Waffles, quail, fried chicken. sausage,
steak. broiled ham, broiled chicken
and "gr1ts" were a part of the break
fast set before the president. The Ma
con fair speech was Mr.. Tafts princi-
pal utterance of the day and in it he
sought to define more exactly than he
has in the past the limitations placed
upon the executive and the RESPONSE
biifty that should rest upon congress.
The president also took occasion to
state the belief that the best way to
accomplish reforms was not in the
disregard by the executive of the linn
dtatfons that stand in their way. The
president said Georgia had been in
nocent in choosing him as chief exc
cutive.
but we got you," called a 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 as I can
His Macon Speech.
Speaking of the homeogeniety of
the people he has met, the president
said:
I'VE have been trained a thousand
years through our English ancestry in
the self restraint that is necessary to
the success of popular government
and in that quality of being good los
ers. that enables us to live happily and
contentedly until government select
ed by a majority of which we are a
part. And the same self restraint
teaches the majority the rules that
limitations of the constitution and not
only the limitations of law and the
constitution, but limitation of decency,
limitations of patriotism are as strong
on the majority as it is possible that
they should be.
'In other words, the power that is
enjoyed is the power to be exercised
only for the benefit of the people and
the country, and not for the people
exalting the person who temporarily
is vested with the power to exercise it.
II always hear, because it is pleas
ant and because the man who says it