Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-10-24
TAFT AGAIN ON
'|NSURCENT GROUND
HURON ALLOWS THE PRESIDENT
TO RIDE THROUGH STREETS
WITHOUT A CHEER.
STILL APOLOGIZING
Senator Crawford, Insurgent, Says La
Toilette VIII Get Delegates to
National Convention,

went President Taft today making
his defense of the tariff measure We.
toes. The southern part of South
Dakota with its expensive agricul.
tural interests. is weary of the
Standpat Middle Of Their conser-
vatism of the President and he found
it out as he passed along the line
on his way here. The President 60
ing into Huron, the home town oil
Senator Crawford who, with A. O.
Orchards, devised the leadership OF
the LaFollette movement, swung
into his tariff vetoes apology with
vigor.. Here tonight he repeated
what he had said at Huron, that he
was forced because of his campaign
to give his tariff board time to look
into the tariff situation and that he
proposed to stick to that policy. 1t
was queer mix-up of political at
mosphere in which the President
rode through the state today. On his
train was Senator Gamble, a Stand
patter, who is desperately fighting
the LaFollette movement; Governor
Wesley, Progressive who wants to-
see LaFollette delegation sent to
the national convention; Senator
Crawford, avowedly the most bitter
enemy of the Taft administration in.
the state, and various congressman
whose sympathies, according to
their districts, lie with or against,
the President Senator Gamblg. al
though hopefully predicting that
President Taft will get the majority
of the ten delegates to be elected to
the national convention, is himself
in something fof a fix. Gamble has to
go before fihe primaries next year for
an expPession of preference as to
senas.torship and he is afraid of the
Growing sentiment of Insurgency.
CANDLES supporters are hoping
that President Taft will be able to
pull the senator through and yet
they, like Gamble, are apprehensive
of the outcome on account of the
Presidents appreciate loss Of
ground in this state.
Thomas Thorston, Republican ma
tional committeeman of South Da-
kota, who was along on the train.
socially informed interviewers that
he expected LaFollette to get the
majority of the delegates. He was
willing to ccncede no more than
three for Taft. Thorston, seeing how
the Insurgent winds blew in South
Dakota, is pronounced LaFollette
man. The President did not talk
politics with the group of statesmen.
Mr.. Taft left Pierre early today
and made speeches from the rear
platform of his private car to small
crowds at Blunt, Highmore, Miller
and Washington He spoke to
crowds of agriculturists and let the
tariff vetoes take care of themselves
until he got into Crawford's town
of Huron.
Before going to the public square
of Huren to make his speech, the
President rode in an automobile pro-
cession through town and while the
streets were lined with townspeople
not cheer went up. And on the
occa sion a flutter of handkerchief
from one of Huron's fair daughters
was the only recognition the Presi-
dent got President Taft stopped at
the Huron College and spoke to the
girls and boys. Senator Crawford,
leaning against an umbrella, looked
on with a grin.
Some three thousand people were
clustered about the grandstand from
which the President spoke. When
he stepped to the platform bunch
of college boys yelled and that was
the extent of the crowds welcome.
The throng allowed Mr.. Taft to talk
Of his tariff vetoes amid silence
as that of the South Dakota prairies.
The Presidents allusion to his tar
iff board and the Importance of
waiting for its intelligent report"
made no impression. Until We have
based upon the whole
business situation of the country
upon which to act, We cannot deter
mine what tariff We ought to have,'
insisted the President, as the crowd
intensely surveyed him. Until we
have such a scientific report we must
work in the dark and We may fall
into pitfalls that we knew nothing
Of"
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