The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-30
TAFT TO VISIT BIG
FAIR AT SEATTLE TODAY
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sweetheart at North Yakima. She is Mrs.
Betty Hodges, formerly Miss Betty Evans,
and Mr. Taft was best man at ner we'd
ding. The President told Of the meeting
in the course of his speech.
In his Yakima address the President
also took occasion to pay a tribute to
Senator Wesley /. Jones of Washington,
who joined the party at Spokane yester-
day. Governor Marion Z. Hay of Wash
ngtOn, in introducing the President, de
Clared that it was through him that the
Pacific coast had recognition in the ma
tional cabinet, and for vice president in
1872 he placed in nomination the Hon.
Wesley Jones'
In nominating Senator Jones for a
place on the ticket said the president, Il
dc not see why Governor Hay should not
name him for the presidency, for you are
not in the habit of taking a back seat
out here You only want the best. WheI-
ever put Senator Jones. he can be
counted upon to do the right thing at
brass band or fireworks to tell that he
is doing il. If you nominate him for the
presidency I shall be glad to go before
the country and testify to my knowledge
of his worth and ability, as I am doing
here / thought ! would go the governor
one better and 1 think I have"
In the thrOng that greeted the Pres
ident at the court house were a large
number of Grand Army veterans and
members Of the WOman's Relief corps.
Grand Army Men,
Ct am honored by the presence of the
Grand Army men, said the President,
and by the ladies, who, while they do
not wear uniforms, suggest the presence
of the WOmans Relief corps. I have had
the pleasure of meeting Grand Army men
at many places on this trip, and il is most
inspiring to have brought back the memo
ries of the time when 1t cost blood and
courage to meet the issues of the day and
save the country. And il is pleasant to
rOte that far out in the western COun-
thy, away from the battlefields where the
issue Of the nations life was contested.
we find the heroes Of that war who pushed
out here even after so heavy a struggle,
in order to build up a new country and
add to the strength, the expansion, the
wealth and the prosperity Of the country
which they saved.
Just in front Of me-" continued the
President, OF see a monument that brings
back many memories That I always like
to refer to and emphasize. The mOnu-
ment / understand TO be TO one Of those
who i'm effect gave up his life in the far
distant Philippines i'm order that the duty
which this government had there should
be performed and "a supervision extended
and aid given to a people who by the
providence of God we've put under our
guardianship.
"Only those who have been in the Phil
ippipes know the sacrifices and the hard
ships to which our boys in those islands
in the Philippines know and have a prop
er pride in what they did there, for they
were called upon not only to meet foe
most dangsrous, fighting in Oriental fash
ion, but after they mad conquered them
they were put i'm a position where they
had to exercise a seif-restTaint and
guardianship and an Independence of ac-
ton that only men in the American army
are capable of, and so whenever 1 meet
one who has been in the Philippines there
is a bond between him and me that makes
me happy, and 1 hope that in the audi
euce which I am addressing there are a
number of those Who went out there and
now retain in sweet recollection the hard
ships which hey had to undergo, and the
beauties of those far-Cistant gems Of the
Pacific ocean