The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1911-09-22
PRESIDENT STARTED
:. : "TRIP THROUGH THE
WEST YESTERDAY
JouRstEY WILL HAVE A DEEP
POLITICAL SIGNlFI-
CANOE,
TWENTY -FOUR $IATt9 lkCLUl !
viii Include the Tariff and Tariff
Board as Two of His Subjects in
His List Of Subjects for Set AID.
dresses in Enepys Country.


BEVERLY, Mass, Sept z6.-Pres-
ident Taft will leave Beverly today
on his second swing around the cir
Gle. In the opinion OF many Of his
friends the trip promises to be one
OF the most important ever taken by
a Chief Executive He himself has
said that he will indulge in but little
political discussion, but it is admit
ted that opportunity toI such discus
sion will not be merely offered, but
probably viii be thrust upon him.
That he wo1ld accept the guage Of
battle if some "heckler" in his audi
ence threw it on the platform, is
hardly douGted. That the Presidents
political fortunes may depend to
some extent on this journey is
agreed by many men Close to the 40
ministratio4
Two yeaaB ago tomorrow the Pres
ident started from Beverly on his
first cross-eontinent trip. He had
been six months III Office and the
Payne-Aldrich tariff law hat been Eve
weeks on the statute books On That
trip he delivered his famous address
at Winonas MINI, q dHfense of that
law on which most tof the criticism Of
the administrations policy has been
based. On the last for the present
Journey the President has set dewn
"the taNf' and 'the tariff board as
two of the subjects for~set addresses.
His veGoes of the wool bill, the
cetton biz and the farmers free list
bill have mot been set aside for sspa-
rate speeches, but they will be dealt
with in two general addresses is
highly probable. The tariff may
prove after all the leading topic, al
though that is mot the PresiGRnt's
plan.
Other subjects 10 be given comsid-
Grafton include reciprocity, conserva-
ton, the peace CREATES, marriage
and divorce, the trust preblem, .nan-
oal reform, the Panama Canal, re-
form IN judicial procedure, Alaska
and the governm departments.
The President contemplates spending
most of his speaking hears in talk
ing of the lesser political subjects.
Doubt that he win be able to fellow
such a program hiss been expressed
In some quarters aareauy-
The ."swIng" begun yesterday will
be about $4,000 miles in length.
Twenty-four States will be visited
and in eighteen the President will
speak. In Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa,
Missouri, Montana, idaho, California,
Oregon, Washington, South Dakota,
Minnesota and Wisconsin he will
spena many Of his busiest days.
These States are labeled 'iiAsurgenf"
by those who keep the political
books The trip begins in Boston to-
night. Syracuse, N. Y, is the first
stop. Washington will see the wind
up Nov l. In addition 10 the Presi-
dent, Secretary G. D. Hilles, Maj. A.
w. Butt, Dr. Thomas L. Rhoades, the
Presidents physician, two stenogra-
piers, three seeret service men and
nine newspaper men win accompany
the President.
The train will run special much of
the time. It viii consist of three
Pullman sleepers, dining cag', bag
gage car and day coach. The Pres
dent will do little more work prepsr-
,ug for the trip. Today is his fifty
fourth birthday, and he plans -
spend the day quietly on the links at
Niopia and at Parramatta. He will
START for Boston by motor about 6
o'clock Mrs. Taft probably will go
with him to Boston, but will retarn
to Beverly She expects to remain in
Beverly through October.
On the eve of the Presidents de-
parture, John Barrett, director gener-
al Of the Pan-American Union, who
attended the mountaineering cere-
monies of the Panama Exposition at
SEN Diego, and travelled up the Pa
,H. coast. brought him cheerful
news Mr.. Barrett told the Presi-
lent the Pacific coast was intensely
Interested in his visit; that it did not
consider it a political pilgrimage and
hat everywhere he had stopped the
people were anxious to see Mr.. TAFT