The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-03

Enough diversion of the serio comic
order brightens and lightens the hard
ship of the presidential tour from coast
TO coast and to the gulf. Most Impress
I've in this line is the scramble for tae
honor of introducing the President TO
an audience and the local variations in
the act. A correspondent of Lesiie's
Weekly, travelling with the President.
sketched the imposing introductlons
and other incidents OF the tour as
follows:
Mr.. Taft will be doubly fortunate II
.ae pulls through his entire itinerary
OF introductions. The Introductory
speech is the nightmare, as well as
the rearing, bucking, stamping, Gay
light horse, of the presidential trip.
The Introductory speech is as full OF
trouble as the Observation-Disclosures
President question. Generally, to set
tie all the local squabbles over the
matter, it is arranged that every
prominent man in town shall have
hand in it. So the meeting is opened
by the chairman of the 'steenth ward
Republican committee, who makes
speech about our glo-reeus land, our
free institooshuns and our noble, pa
triotic, high-minded, lovable, popular
and distinguished guest, the President
of the United States Perhaps you
delude yourself into thinking that the
President is going to speak now.
Wrong! The chairman of the Steenth
Ward Republican club introduces the
chairman of the county Republican
committee, who thanks the great audi
ence for it's splendid reception to that
most loved, most honored, most splen-
did, most everything else citizen of
the republic. William Howard Taft
Ha, ha! You think that the President
comes in here, don't you? Wrong
again! The chairman of the city Re-
publican committee is introduced
who thanks the audience again for its
splendid outpouring, its tremendous
enthusiasm, its loyalty to country and
its confidence in that highest type of
| freecitizenry, the man whom we all
love from the bottom of our hearts,
| William Howard Taft. Now we must
have the President! Wrong for the
third time! The mayor gets up. You
had probably forgotten all about the
1 mayor. Well he fishes his speech
from his pocket-there are twelve
pages of it-and reads all about how
1 this fair city has grown from the viii
derness, how our sainted fathers ut
1 the Injuns, how our twice-sainted
mothers accompanied our fataers hand
| in hand down through the years and
how now, when we have reached the
zenith of our prosperity, our fair City
even Pittsburg would be called
blond city on an occasion ike this
our fair city opens wide her hospitable
arms to welcome the President of the
United States, William Howard Taft
i"Allow me, Mr.. President, to hand you
the key to our city" The key is ac
j cepted by the President. But don'1
get excited over the belief that the
President is to have his innings al
last Nothing of tae sort, Tor, as
live, here is the governor! It's all Of
now for another quarter of an hour
because the governor is going to run
again next election and he has
speech that he must get off his ches
for home consumption. He finds tn
manuscript, starts in with the reclta
of all his state ever did and expect
ever to do, saws the air in front
, 1.-THE Presidents face, proclaims MIN
for the hundredth time, the creates
grandest, most intelligent, most ps
) triotic and most broad-minded citizel
of the greatest, grandest and most pa
, triotic Republican beloved Pres
: dent, William Howard Taft. AT las
) the President is introduced.
0 Glad Hand and Bands.
In spite of the monotony OF tae tray
ell the tunes and the handshakln
e stunts. President Taft is standing tn
continent-circling trip remarkably vel
BY tae time he finishes the tour n
will probably find some difficulty ]
sleeninp nm he'd that Is hitched {