The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-08-17
Entertainment in Salt Lake
Will Be One of the Greatest
Of It's Kind That the State
Of Utah Has Ever Known.
PLANS WILL BE BEGUN
AT A MEETING TODAY
Visit of the President viii Be
Made the Occasion of Gath
ering of Republican League,
Headers of the West.
AN HONOR FOR THE STATE.
"a RESIDENT WILLIAM H. TAFT,
with John Hays Hammond and

"a RESIDENT WILLIAM H. TAFT
with John Hays Hammond and
their party will be deliberately
entertained during their visit in
Utah, and the three or four
days they will spend in Utah viii
be made one of the biggest celebrations
Of its kind that Utah has ever known.
Mr.. Hammond, who is TO accompany
President Taft on his western trip, is
president Of the National League Of Re
publican clubs and the entertainment Of
President Taft in Utah VIII be arranged
By and under the direction of the Utah
League of Republicans clubs, which IS
affiliated with the National league, with
headquarters in Washington.
The visit Of President Taft and Mr..
Hammond to Utah viii be the occasion.
for. a general meeting Of leaders in the.
Republican League movement in the
west, and prominent men IN the league.
work from Idaho, Montana and Wyo-.
milg viii attend the meetings in salt
Lake, as well as representatives Of the
score Of local Republican clubs Of Utah.
which were organized last spring
through the efforts Of Jessie z. Turner
assistant national organizer, and promi-l
ne1t party workers Of the state.
Arrangements for Visit.
The arrangements for a visit Of thres
days in Utah 20 be made by the presi-.
dent and his party had their beginning
with the organization Of the league in.
Utah months ago, when it was planned
to hold the convention in Salt Lake
/ instead of at Seattle or at San Fran
cisco, and with that end in view the
organization of the Utah league was
made a model for the western states.
TIE success Of this plan means that the
/ president viii make the longest stay
| in Utah of any Of the western states.
and after his stay Of three days here
| he viii remain in Seattle at the Alaska
YGkOn-Pacihc exposition only one day
before continuing his trip through to the
sOIth.
Jesse F. Turner, assistant national or
ganiZer for the League of Republican
clubs, has been in Salt Lake for some
time and is now in communication with
john Hays Hammond and J. Smell
Smith, president and secretary Of the
| league, regarding the arrangements to
be made for entertaining President
Taft in Utah. Mr.. Smith will arrive
from Washington next week to act with
the local officers Of the Utah league in
perfecting these plans, and Will remain
I in. Salt Lake until after the president
and Mr.. Hammond leave.
So far as outlined at the present time
the president and Mr.. Hammond Will
speak at a monster mass meeting in
salt Lake, probably on the evening of.
their arrival in Salt Lake. September
"a The next day there will be a gem
eraI meeting Of the officers and workers
in the Republican league Of Utah, held
probably in Salt Lake, and in the even
ing there viii be a banquet given by
NJ Hammond, national president OF
the league. to the league workers OF
Utah and the western states.
There are at present between twenty
and thirty local Republican clubs in
Utah which are affiliated with the Utah
State league and the National league
ard each one Of the Utah clubs viii be
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