The Carlisle independent., 1909-10-28
PRESIDENT TAFT
 BRINGS MESSAGE
 OF GOOD CHEER
CHIEF EXECUTIVE MAKES AD. DRESSES AT ARkADELPHIA, BENTON AND LITTLE ROCK.
Nearly Twenty Thousand People Crowded the Plaza at the New Iron Mountain Depot in the Capital City and Cheered Themselves Almost as Hoarse as the Speaker.

-ain route, President Taft made brief speeches at Philadelphia, Benton and Little Rock, thousands of citizens be- ing congregated at each point to ex- tend a cordial welcome to the dis tinguished guest and hear his mes. sage of good cheer to the people of | Arkansas.
 At TeXarkana the presidential par ty was met by the Little Rock board | of trade in a special car, and, al though there were large crowds at 1 Hope, Prescott and Gurdon, the first stop was made at Philadelphia, where | the cadets and the co-eds from Qua chita and Henderson colleges were at the station, together with Q crowd that must have included all the in- habitants of the town.
 At Benton the second stop on the run from Texarkana to Little Rock was made. At the station was crowd of 4000 people, including one | thousand persons from Hot Springs. MT. Taft's Little Rock Speech.
 After a happy introduction by Hon. H. L. Remmel, President Taft said: Ladies and Gentlemen:
 'I have a voice like a crow. But 1 it is the only one I have and I have l got to use it. Perhaps, after you have heard me, you will have the opinion in respect to the voice that the man who ate crow had with ,a- i spect to the flesh. He said he could b11r hn lnf f. ar | it. Applause and laughter.)
 q am delighted to meet the good 1 people of Arkansas, and I am greatly touched by the cordiality and sheer | ity of their welcome. I am indebted to the governor of your state, to Sen ator Clarke, to Marshal Remmel and to the prominent citizens of Little Rock who have done me the honor to accompany me from Texarkana TO Little Rock, and who had to stand the croaking accents with which 1 tried to communicate to the people of Texarkana and the other populous cities along the way my feeling of gratitude for their cordial reception. T know that you have turned out to see the president of the United States; I hope you have turned out to see your president of the United States. (Applause) 1 know I am addressing gentlemen who perhaps had little to do with my election Gap plause and laughter), but I am not here as the president of the Repub- lican party-I am here as the presi- dent of the united people (applause), and I recognize no difference in my obligation as chief magistrate to pre- serve the rights and look after and protect the interests nf all the pep pie of the United States, north or south, east or west. (Applause)
 q have tomorrow to greet the peo- pie of St. Louis, and unless I limit the use of my voice tonight it will not only not be me,odious instru- ment, but it will be no instrument at all, and I therefore ask you ,o excuse me from making a longer speech, in which, had I the power. I should be delighted to take up some of the issues of the day upon which you and I agree. And I have no doubt, in spite of the fact that you are, many of you, Democrats and am a Republican, there are a great many issues upon which we can agree, (Applause) But I must obey my doctor and common sense, and e'ose my remarks with wish that the prosperity of Little Rock and Ar kansas shall meet and compare well with the energy, the enterprise and the good character of their citizens, and I could not state it in a stronger superlative than that.
 "Now, my friends, I have been all over the United States, and the one thing that has impressed me is thal we have in this country bred type and that magnificent type-of Americanism. We are not English, we are not German; we are not Irish; we have bred an anna gamat d type of Americanism that speaks for itself in the enormous prosperity that we have worked out in this country and the elevation of the individual and the equality of opportunity tha, we have given him. (Applause)
 Your United States marshal, who introduced me, said that I was com ing to Little Rock again. Well, l am. (Applause.) I have promised your chamber of commerce that when I visit my cd judicial district, which includes Tennessee and I reach the town of Memphis, 1 shall come across to Little Rock and see again the peo- pie who now do me the honor to re- ceive me, and I hope I shall be i'll better voice and be better able to justify my coming.
 Good night-God bless you"
 Few Could Hear Speaker.
 President Taft was in such poor voice that few of the many thousands assembled could hear his speech, but all were in good-natured humor and seemed satisfied to catch an occa- sional glimpse of the chief executive over the heads of those in front of