Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-05
CITY sAnY DEcoRATTr FUR HIN
Executive Reviews s. - urth Pa
nde in Monumn
RECEPTIoN AT MAI
Spends Some Time Watch =
Athletic Contests. %>.
TRAMMEE BECOME HIS
Esesvt Him 90 state Fair Grounds 60
watch Headon CeIIision Of Two
LOesmStiveS-Leave city
for washington.

INDIANAPOL1H. July AFTER few
hours rest AZ the home OF former Vice
President Charles W. Fairbanks, 1921
North Meridian street. President TAFT
arose this morning with the most strenu-
Gus day of ris western trip before him.
Prom the time scheduled for him to leave
the Fairbanks 1ome. the president did not
have an Idle moment
indianapolis was gaily decorated with the
presidential and American flags and bunt-
lng. The residents Of the city were bestir
early along the line OF march Of the big
sane Fourth" parade. one OF the features
Of the CELEBRATION MIR. Taft reviewed the
parade in Monument place.
Following the parade. the presidential
party went TO the Marion club for an in
formal reception TO the members and at
noon the president was the guest of the
Columbia club at luncheon
A. i:& p. m. he was escorted 20 the
American Association ball park for the
athletic contests and awarded the prizes
20 the winners In the morning parade.
Railway trainmen became the hosts OF
the president after the ball park exercises
and escorted hiin TO the state fair grounds
TO witness the head-on collision between
two locomotives The president returned
10 the Fairbanks home at 5 o'clock and
ANaANA hNth q WHef Ht 6tAtHutn tut MAElOn
club banquet and made the principal speech
OF the trip.
President raft chose Reciprocity" as the
subject OF his banquet address In the ad-
dress the president defended his repub-
licanlHm In making the agreement with
Canada.
Going direct from the banquet where COO
plates were placed and which was at
tended BY leaders OF the republican party
from all over the state. the president and
his party boarded Pennsylvania train for
Washington at lO:4S o'clock tonight.
Basy Time ON Way.
With the temperature In his private car
above 100 for hours at time. President
Taft hurried through Ohio and Indiana
yesterday. He began speaking from the
rear platform at Cleveland after break
faat and did not get through lnth 6
c't1onlts .sltsl lfgfttANs
lie closed with two addresses at the ma.
tional home for disabled volunteer soldiers
here The president spoke of war. but
more OF peace and arbitration to the vet
Grams. To the bankers and editors of the
Eleventh congressional district he talked
about the Aldrich plan of currency reform.
ON the way over from Cleveland the
president made nine rear platform talks.
goulehliuCb NC lhihtu dbouN lue hcdNt ~
others he argued for a safe and sane
Fourth and several times turned 10
prosperity and Canadian reciprocity which,
ne said. would bring more prosperity.
Two wars Excepted.
In the speech TO the old soldiers the
president declared that all of the former
wars wRged by this country. except the
war OF the revolution and possibly the
.N..lr
bloodshed, through arbitration. No fewei
than five times. said the president. has
the United States intervened between
South and Central American countries and
peaceful persuasions averted war.
II am not a wild enthusiast or blind
optimist." said the president. IL do MOI
look forward to complete restoration OF
peace which cannot be disturbed In tht
world. even II these arbitration treaties
are adopted. Morality Of nations improves
only step by step and so the making ant
confirming Of these treaties must be re
garded only as a step but as a long steI
toward the securing OF peace In the world.
The speech TO the bankers and editor
was In the nature of reiteration OF hi
address to the New York state bankers a
Manhattan beach
Il do not know any function" said tn
president. "of greater Importance, exer
cised by the government, after the pres
eTyation Of law and order and the main
tensDce Of liberty and rights of property
than the duty OF the government TO fur
nish the people = currency system whicl
shall give them q constant and unvaryinl
medium for the measurement Of value
and the interchange Of products that shal
enable business to proceed in a norma
way"
Mr TAFT Is the first president to visi
Marion after his assumption OF office an,
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