Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-02-13
TAFT IN HOsPnABlE
ARMS OF NEW ORLEANS
Continued from FirH Page).

the opportunity TOT stiect iu"S"
con party at which Mrs. Taft was a
| participant, but an opportunity for
what will doubtless be the last gamc
OF golf that Mr.. Taft will indulge in
for many months
After his extended sea trip and a
confinement on the Isthmus OF Pana-
ma without exercise. the opportunity
was one most pleasing.
! Mrs. Taft took advantage Of the
J opportunity to do some shopping
during, the day.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Taft will leave here
for Cincinnati at 9:2O o'clock tomor.
row morning. arriving in the later
J city at l0:45 a. IN. Sunday.
Monday afternoon Mr.. Taft Will
start for Washington.
Governor Sanders. responding 10
| the toast: Louisiana" after extend
Ing hearty welcome to Mr.. TAR,
spoke in favor CT the Federal gov
eminent assuming the maintenance
| OF the levee system of the. Missis-
sippi river and some OF its tribu-
taries.
In this connection Governor San
ders. said:
The thought has occurred to US
that II it be right and just. and we
believe that 1t is to use the revenues
of the nation to put water on the
arid lands of the West. why should
not the same government use IT'S
revenues to keep the waters OF
continent OF OF our already fertile
and inhabited lands
"stand-Pat Governor. =.
Governor Sanders took up the pos
sibility of inimical legislation to the
rice and sugar interests OF the South
and appealed to Mr.. Taft to protect
the interests of the "Americans who
are engaged in this farming indus
try" and said that the eyes of those
who 81, In the seats Of the mighty
should rest uron US for while ana
not be turned exclusively to those
who toll beyond the seas"
Reception by Negroes.
The reception to the President-elect
Wv the negroes Of the city today was
marked Dy eHtuustasm
Thousands OF the members OF that
race assembled ia the local baseball
park, filling the grand stand. bleach
ers and large portion nj the grounds
| Hundreds of negro school children
were banked on the benches. each
bearing an American flag. songs
were sung and speeche' made by
members of the race and Philip Wer-
lein of the Progressive Union. and
Mayor. Behrman.
Gives Advice to Hearers.
Mr.. Taft, declaring his desires to
re 1.-The Pres dent Of all the people.
and adding that he wanted to make
a plain, common sense. non-pontical
talk. told his hearers that their past
history had been remarkable in show
ing their capacity to develop. thar
their future depended not ON emo
tionalism, but upon individual char.
acter building, which meant hard
, work and thrift.
| To make themselves indispensable
to the people of the community In
which they lived. was. he declared
with emphasis, the only final solution
Of the problem which they faced. He
ridiculed the idea of TRANSPORTING the
negro to anv other country, asking
where was the place the ten m lnon
members Of that race now here could
| be placed.
Emphasizes Individual Endeavor.
Education. industrial and rudimen'
tai for the great masses and higher
and special for the leaders he ad-
vocated. f,t his one emphatic and
repeated incentive was that individ-
+ ual endeavor should be made the
governing rule of character.
| As to the dealing with crime he
! said that II the negro wanted
square deal in that respect. he must
be willing to give a square deaf and
be as earnest and jealous in the pun
ishment Of te crimes Of the negro
as any others.
President-elect Tan today gave ou,
the kilograms eIchsRed between
|! Senator Knox I. and himself which
seem to furnish solution to the
constitutional difnculty which has
arisen In connection with Senate.
Knoxs eligibility for place in Judge
4 Taft's cabinet
| Senator Knox wired Judge TAFT an
follows:
"A bill has been introduced in the
Senate to remove the constitutional
bar to my eligibility to the. cabinet
by repeating the &C, providing for
ar increase in salary for the secre'
tary Of state. am In NO way pro
noting or having anything to d will
the measure.
Leaves u win Tan.
ct Is a matter fer you as the ap
poin,ive power to first determine
whether the proposed action g de-
sirable or would be effective. Our