The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-07-24
Accident Occurs While He
 Is Playing Golf
INJURY IS. VERY PAINFUL
President Talks to People at Ellsworth But at Night His Ankle Becomes Swollen and Causes Consid-
 erable Suffering

Ellsworth, Me, July 23.-President Taft 1 is suffering from severely strained right
 ankle that amounts almost to sprain.
 Despite the pain which was evidenced by
 decided limp and grimaces on his face
 each time he climbed in and out of his | vehicle, the President carried out the
 rather exacting programme which had
 been arranged for him today with con-
 siderable fortitude.
 His itinerary included a speech. a long l ride and reception here after his visit to
 Bangor.
 MT. Taft and the members of his party are the guests of Senator Tale at his Ells- worth home.
 | Tomorrow afternon the party will board
 the yacht Mayf1ower again at Mt. Desert
 ferry and will spend Monday and Tues
 day cruising In Casco bay with stops ar
 ranged at Islesboro and Rockland. l The President injured his ankle while
 he was playing golf on the links of the
 Kebo Valley club at Bar Harbor yestsr-
 day. He was climbing steep grade lead
 ing to one of the greens when his right
 foot turned beneath his weight. There
 was much pain experienced at the time.
 MT. Taft continued his game and thought
 nothing of it. He suffered little discom-
 fort during the afternoon. This after
 noon there was considerable inlamma-
 tion.
 l No General Sprain Surgeon Grayson of the Mayhower
 dressed the injured ankle and made a l thorough examination. He declared there was no general sprain. Some of the ten
 dons were strained, the doctor said, and 1 he advised the President to stay off his
 feet, but MT. Taft said he could not cancel his engagements for today. The
 last details of the programme were car
 r1ed out
 l Tonight the ankle was much swollen.
 There is no thought of interfering with the plans of the cruise on the account | ascribed to the sprain.
 | According to statement made in one of his speeches the President said he was
 anxious that Mrs. Taft shall get the full benefit of the outing.
 Mr. Taft left the Mayflower in his
 sailor costume of white trousers, blue serge coat and white cap soon after
 breakfast. He had Professor Emery
 chairman of the tariff commission, as a
 guest at the morning meal, and received from him preliminary and entirely in formal report of the work of the commits
 sion up to this time.
 MT. Taft said his clothes, as the trade
 mark showed, were of domestic textile, and he held a receipt for paying Tailor fba,, attaching to 1t that they were tariff pres- ents to President.
 Crowd Hears EuIogy An enthusiastic crowd at Bangor heard eulogy of the great men of the state
 of Maine. and the possibilities of its ag- ricultural development in store for it from the President
 The President said his visit to Maine had strengthened his belief, like Theo- dorse Roosevelt, that 1t was good thing to move around among the people. Anyway, I like to do it, said he, land I know they like to see the man who occupies the office of the highest gift of the people It is not the man who at
 tracts so much as it is the exalted office
 that has been constructed for the men. And the man receives lot of abuse
 After all, maybe they deserve it. In his Bangor speech the President
 said in part:
 Tt gives me great pleasure to meet you and thank you for the cordial recep- ton. took advantage of the adjourn ment of Congress and vacation time to skirt along the coast of Maine and see the beauties of these islands and bays that have attracted so many people from other parts of the country. My reception was so cordial that did not feel that I was doing quite the proper thing in courtesy in coming into Maine without saying in the retort polite bow appre- ciate their welcome and how glad in the course of human events . big, fat man is to meet the ottisens. Great Men ef Maine You have produced great men. Ban gor produced Chief Justice Peters, one of the greasest of Judicial minds. and your former congressman. Boutel1e. The latter's energy was incomparabIe and a trade mark he remains to tho true Yankee. The American navy owes much to Maine Through your great men, my | friends you have exerted a great deal
 more influence in Congress than many other larger states. This Is Infinitely better than the scourage system of revo- lutionary tactics adopted by other com lmonwealths who do not send men from their commonwealths as opponents of conservative policies
 Among the men were such as William Pitt Fessenden, James G. Blaine, Thomas B. Reed, Nelson Dingley and score of others now dead I have in mind. Then you have the living Senators Frye and
 Hale, who have placed their mark in the
 history of the country within the last 30 years.
 AS came from Mount Desert ferry this morning and looked out of the win dow of the car in which rode a thought | or two came to me with reference to these grand old eastern states. The ques- tion has been raised as to what your future is. Have you attained all the prosperity possible here? Certainly you
 all look happy and under the constitution
 the chief right is the pursuit of happi-
 ness It seems to me that you, as much
 as any people of the republic. are inter- ested in that subpect which has so many definitiens-so many various definitions
 the conservation of our resources. In the 1 first place, early in the development of
 the west, everybody wanted to be suc- |