The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-26
TOUR WITH TAFT.

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Congressman Jackson did not appear
on the scene, nor any of the score of
progressive leaders. But Senator Cur
1 gresham Campbell, and ex-COngress-
! man Scott, and Dave Mulvane. How
ever, the insurgents will join the presi-
dental party again today at Hutchin-
son.
The president was especially anxious
| to impress upon his audiences the
fact that he had a tariff board that will
report on the woollen and Cotton
| schedules next December, and he want
ed to impress upon Kansas people the
fact he will at that time recommend a,
| cut in these schedules This was the
| burden of his message to Kansas. Il
am moderate protectionist," he said.
; This is a brand new term and seems
| to fit the president very we'll He can
not follow the radicals on their journey
! to the stars, neither is he willing to
stand still with the reactiOnarieS- The
president at CoffeyviIle, for the second
! time, declared that the WOOlen Sched-
| ule was too high. He practically re-
.peated his Winona utterance on this
| subject. for which he had been taken
! to task by the insurgents after he had
vetoed the cut in the wooden schedule.
And this reference by the president
to the woolen schedule serves to illus
trate the purpose of his speeches in
Kansas. He brings up only the mat
ters for which his administration has
been criticised by the progressives
within the party. If there is a weak
ness or a mistake unpopular
| thing in connection with his work. that
is the matter he wishes to thresh out
with the Kansas people. He is fearless
in his choice and discussion of subject.
Possessing none of the arts of the
orator or politician, the big president
depends upon logic and practical COM
mon sense and simplicity.
A carlton, a little station in Neosho
county, some two hundred school chit
dren and men and women had gathered
at the station to see the president Mon
day afternoon. The train passed Earl
little folks waved their flags and
cheered Justify. Beyond carlton some
five miles is a, little school house. The
thirty children who attend school there
had gathered in the weeds by the side
of the railroad track near the school
house and stood in a thin, waverinS
line and waved their little flags and
piped a welcome to the big train and
the big president as they flashed by.
They had waited a long time in the
hot SUM- but their enthusiasm had not
wilted. Here was patriotism
At lola. Humboldt and Ottawa large
crowds thrOnged around the presidents
car and listened closely to his speeches.
short and filled with the meat of logic.
When the train moved away the crowd
walked behind the moving car t.
catch the last word The president
leaned over the railing. They were
trying to keep together, the president
and his Kansas constituency.
When the presidents train pulled out
of Olathe Monday evening on the last
lap to Kansas City an old darky car
rying carpet bag made a dash for a
car and climbed aboard Some one in
the vestibule told the old negro that he
could not ride on this train. ''Why
not?" demanded the old man. 'T's got
a ticket" and he showed the paste
board.
This is the presidents private
train,'' was the reply.
Good Lordi' ejaculated the negro, |
and he jumped off the moving train so |
quickly that he fell down the embank- |
ment and rolled oyer twice.
The Santa Fe boys with the Taft |
train on the southern Kansas trip are |
royal good fellows and did everything |
possible to see to the comfort of all /
aboard. Mr. Smith. the travelling pas |
senger agent, and Mr.. Stanley, train |
master, won home with the newspa- !
per boys
That is more than can be said for |
the presidents managers, or Mr.. Col /
ony, the men in charge of the train |
Kansas newspaper men entirely and I
failed utterly to provide for them in /
any matter. In fact, it can be said |
truthfully and without exaggeration !
that the two Topeka and two Kansas /
City papers represe nted by cores
pondents were not treated even de- /
Gently. The boys got the news any
way, but they had to sleep in the ten
der of the engine to get it. But the /
New York Sun, with a circulation in |
New England, enjoyed the best of ev-
in Kansas, and had car to
share with the other New Workers on
the trip. But it was all right, the Kan
sas boys laughed over their discom-
forts and got the news just the same. /
The Western Union had two superin
tendents aboard and a half dozen
crack operators who wiped away all
the wrinkles of trouble over sending
stuff by wire. Good service, and quick
service all along the way.
When Kansas newspaper man want
ed anything on the trip there was no
one to go to who was responsible.
Everyone he asked about the matter
had the same stereotyped replay, "See
If it was writing table, or
a meal, or an auto, or bed. or bis
cult, it was always the same, "See
But Colony was hard to see. He had +
a citadel in some car ahead and spent
all his time on the trip reading that
part of the scriptures that says: Van
ity, all is vanity No one ever saw
Colony. No one from Kansas got
pleasant look on the Taft special, that
Is none of the newspaper men,
1t is said that away in the night L
past the midnight hour, that Bill Ker- +