The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-11-25
Il GOVERNORS TO
TOUR EASTERN j. 5.
Educational Jaunt for States
Executives. Politics
Not Permissible.
National News Associatlon)

National News AssociatIon)
ST. PAUL. Mimi. Nov. 25.-The pre-
partitions for the tour of the East by
the party Of eleven governors Of as
many western and northwestern
states. scheduled to start from here
next Monday. are practically complet-
Cd. Tho "Governors' Special" train
has been "made up" and fully equipp-
cd and stands ready to start on its long
Journey when the signal for departure
70 given. The train Is quite long and
consists of several sleeping cars.
enough to accommodate the governors
and members OF their respective part
l0S, dining car. baggage car and
i've cars containing well arranged ex-
hibits Of the agricultural. horticul-
tural and mineral resources of the
Western states represented by their
executives in the party.
The governors included in the party
will be A. L. Eberhart, OF Minnesota;
John Shafroth, of Colorado; Joseph e.
Carey, Of Wyoming; r. l.. Wesley, OF
South Dakota; John Burke, Of North
Dakota; James Hawley, OF Idaho; En-.
win Morris, of Montana, NJ. E. Hay.
Of Washington; Oswald West. of Ore
gon: Tasker Oddie. Of Nevada; and
H. w. johnson, of California. The
governors will be accompanied by
their secretaries and members of their
staffs. The party will be in charge OF
former Governor James H. Brady, OF
Idaho, with whom the idea of the
trip originated. and Riley Atkinson,
secretary of the Chamber of Commerce
OF Boise. Idaho.
The tour of the Western governors,
the total cost Of which will be about
$4,000, will extend over a period OF
twenty-one days during which time
twenty-one cities will be visited. The
train will start from here on Monday
evening and will make the following
stops: Nov. %, Chicago: Nov. 30,
Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids; Nov
30. Detroit and Toledo: Dec. 1, Cleve-
land; Dec. 2. Buffalo; Dec. 4, Roches-
ter; Dec. s. Syracuse and Utica; Dec.
8, Albany; Dec. 7, Washington; Dec.
Q. Baltimore: Dec. 9. Philadelphia;
Dec. II. New York; Dec. ~. Harris
burg: Dec. 13, Pittsburg; Dec. IA, Col
umbus; Dec. Is. Indianapolis; Dec.
10, st. Louis: Dec. 10. st. Paul.
At all cities where the Governors
Special" will stop there will be recep-
lions and banquets in honor of the
visiting executives. The cars con-
tanning the exhibits will be thrown
open to the public and there will be
some official In every car to answer
questions and to distribute literature
setting forth the advantages to settlers
Of the large fertile areas of the West.
The exhibits contain specimens of
displays Of the various kinds of tim
Der growing In the West and speci-
mems of minerals mined in the various
Western States. In addition there are
hundreds Of maps and photographs
showing the results Of conservation
through irrigation, dry farming. drain
age and other methods employed to
conquer adverse natural conditions in
the so-called arid belt"
One Of the special missions of the
touring governors will be to attend the
national river and harbor congress at
Washington. They will also meet the
governors of the Southwestern states
assembled In Baltimore. At Buffalo
the date Of the monetary banquet of
the Chamber OF Commerce. at which
Senator Vreeland is to speak. has been
changed to December 2, SO as to coin
eide with the arrival of the visiting
Western governors. In nearly every
one Of the large cities visited on their
tour the governors will be welcomed
and received by the governors Of the
respective states. During their stay
in Washington the governors will for
mally call upon President Taft at tho
White House. where they will be en-
tortained az guests of honor.
The object Of the tour, as conceived
BY former Governor James H. Brady,
Of Idaho, IL mainly educational. Poll.
tics Ia to be strictly barred and for
that reason the urgent invitations Of
the woman's suffrage advocates, ask
ing the governors to address suffrage
meetings in various cities during their
trip. have been politely but firmly de-
elined. The governors undertake the
trip not only with view of learning
something by observing the conditions
Of the East. but they hope to convey
. valuable lesson to the people of the
over.crowded East, by bringing before
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