The Sentinel=record., 1911-07-22
TAFT TALKS
 FOR PEACE
AFTER A STRENUOUS AuToMo- BILE TRIP ARRIVES AT BULL
 RUN BATTLE FIELD.
Pleads With Veterans to Aid in the Establishment of Universal Peace-Ssys France Will
 Sign Treaty.

Manassas, Va. July 21.-Mud be- ,spattered after a strenuous trip from Washington by automobile over the flooded roads and swollen creeks, president Taft today faced an audience made up in part Of veterans who wore the blue anG tae gray within a few miles of the scens of the first lgreat conflict of the Civil war and was applauded and cheered when he made a plea for international peace.
 The president declared a general arhitIN ion treaty both with Great Britain and with France probably lw4ould be signed within the next ten ldays. He added that he hoped with | in the next few days to announce that the three other great powers would enter into similar agreements with the United States. He did not go so far as to indicate the nations he had in mind, but it was generally beliey- led that he referred to Germany, Italy land the Netherlands. Japan ultima ltely may come into the far reaching lpact, but the negotiations with that empire as yet are said to be merely Tentative.
 President Taft reached Manassas hate this evening after tempestuous "trip. It was so strenuous that the
 presidential party abandoned their motors here and returned to the cap itol by train MT. Taft laughing likened his troubles In getting to Bull Run to those that some folks fifty
 years ago had Tn getting away.
 q brought some senators and rep resentatives down with me from Washington he said, "and because of the exigencies of the road and the storm and strife of the elements. we came far more slowly than some sen- ators and representatives who came down half century ago went back. !"
 The presidents trip from Washing to aMnassas would have thrilled the heart of a moving picture man. He left a trail of stranded automo- piles in his wake, made perlious voy- ages across streams out of their banks, stopped on his way to rescue la party of marooned senators--de- Imanding votes for reciprocity as a. reward-plowed his way uhrougn irain storms and mud and finally he |wheezed into this historic little vil- llage at sundown.
 The car containing the secret ser Ivice men which started bravely be- side the president as he left the White House held to the race gamely until within a few miles of the battlefield and then gave a despairing gasp and stepped in the middle of what once was a peaceful brook, but which had become today muddy torrent. This stream had daunted the courage o- the presidents chauffeur. who up to this time, had successfully navigated three other lords. So the secret ser- vice car was sent ahead to test the depth of the water and the machine died in the attempt to make the cross ing. By detoul the president man laged to negotiate the stream at a more shallow point.
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 stowed away with the secret service men after their automobile shipwreck lat an earlier ford. this time were left stranded with the declaration by the president that they were lot of 'standpatters. One of the White House stenographers, who had fol- lowed the president from coast to coast and from Puget Sound to the gulf of Mexico, likewise was aband- oned in mid stream and MT. Taft for the first time since he became chief of the nation, spoke without official record being made of his utterances. When the presidential party started from Washington, the sun was shin lng brightly. They had not left far lon their way. however. when the lstorm clouds began to gather. Before lthe deluge care the president had time to stop at Fairfax Court house Ito take look at George Washing |ton's last will and testament, and to Iget luncheon.
 rive miles out of Fairfax the pres Iident's car dipped down into a val Hey and discovered big touring car lstalled in the miedle of stream that lon ordinary days is two feet wide, but which today was broadened in-