Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-20
It Will Be One Of Smallest Ever Ac-
companying an Executive.
ANY LETTERS TO PRESIDENT
Friends Fear He May Meet with Auto
Accident.
MAN FROM MISSOURI CALLS
Senator warner Discusses Political
Conditions in the "shOw Me"
state with the Presi-
dent.

BEVERLY, Mass, Aug. ls.-Presdent
Taft is giving some thought to the many
speeches to be made on his long western
and southern trip, and also TO his annual
message to congress, The president has
thought out the general plan of his mes
sage; he has several cabinet officers at
work on the details of certain phases OF it
and he will not take up the work OF assem-
bling the document until a week or 50 be.
fore congress is to gather
The personnel of the presidents travel
ing party has been completed. While the
trip promises to develop into the longest
ever made by the president, the party un.
auestionably will be the smallest Besides
the president there will be John Hays
Hammond, Captain Archibald w. Butt
military aide; Wendell w. Mischler, assist
ant secretary; DR.. ]. j. Richardson OF
Washington, d. c.. James Sloan, jr,, and
L. c. Wheeler of the secret service and
Major Arthur Brooks, the presidents con-
fidential messenger. Six newspaper men
will accompany the president.
Secretary Meyer Arrives.
President Taft combined a little Of the
business with his golf today. He met the
secretary of the navy Mr.. Meyer, at the
Myopia club this morning and talked de-
partmental matters over with him, both
before and after he had played around the
eighteen hole course and had lost a two
ball match to Captain Butt his military
aide, by / up.
Tomorrow the president will have MI
Meyer for an opponent at Myopia He
poets Attorney General Wickersham for
conference on matters relating to the rail-
roads and interstate corporations during
the afternoon.
Stories that have gone abroad about the
great speed at which President Taft's
chauffeur takes the president along the
smooth oiled roadways about Beverly have
prompted many letters from timid ad-,
mirers of Mr.. Taft, urging that Robinson,
who drives the presidents car the greater
part of the time. be directed to exercise
more caution. Some of the writer's have
enclosed clippings from newspapers telling
of fatal automobile accidents both in this
country and abroad.
The president does like to 20 fast wnsn
out in a machine and the day is fine, but
to reassure those who have taken the in
! terest to write it was officially announced
today that Robinson has specific instruc-
| tions not to exceed twenty miles per hour
| at any time and that the needle on the
| speedometer which remains at the maAi-
mum speed until reset, never nowaday
| shows a fraction above the twenty emile
mark. The presidents car is passed by
nearly every other car on the road.
Mrs. Taft is fond of fast riding but the
! late afternoon trips are modest affairs -
far as speed is concerned
Senator Warner Calls.
Senator William Warner of Missouri, VINO
is spending the summer at Nahant had an
| hours talk with the president this after
noon. Mr. Taft was with him, and while
the call was largely social, Senator Warner
| found time to discuss bit OF politics The
president is anxious that Missouri, having
been won twice in successive presidential
years, shall be kept in the republican
column.
Charles p. Taft. the presidents brother,
who, with Mrs Taft, has been visiting al
the Bosrdmans at Beverly farms. will leave
Monday next. Charles Taft will go down
to his big ranch near Corpus Crisu, Tex,
before many days, TO prepare for the well
! come to be extended the president when
he visits there in October Mr.. Taft will
spend four days on the ranch, the longest
stop he will make at any place during his
| 1S 600 mile trip.