Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-27
The President
In Wisconsin

Green Bay, Wis, oct. 26.-on this.
his 43rd day out of Washington Pres
ident Taft in fact entered the enc
myis country" Wisconsin. the home
of Senator La Toilette. who will be
his opponent for the Presidential Lom-
inatien in 1912.
The President left 81. Paul, last
night. ut 10 80 o'clock, and arrived
here early this morning. Hhe stops on
the way To Milwaukee, where he is due
to arrive tonight, include in addition
to Green Bay. Appleton. Oshkosh and
Fond Du Lac The last named city
will be reached about p. NJ, accord
ing to the revised schedule. There
Will be the usual number of interme-
diate stops and speeches from the
private ear during the day. The Pres
:dent will speak in the Auditorium at
Milwaukee. tonight. and viii spend
the greater part of tomorrow there.
Green Bay, Wis. Oct 2e.-There
were a lot of disappointed would-be
farmers on board President Taft's
special train when il passed through
here Among them were White House
stenegrap pliers, Presidential secreta-
ries military aides. official physicians,
Secret Service men. messengers, news
paper correspondents and Pullman
porters. Visions Of ranch life. OF till
ing the soil, of independence. wealth.
automobiles ard all that go to make
up the happy estate Of the modern
farmer, had been rudely brushed away
and the dlsconsolate party Was on its
way back To Washington, where its
members will resume the vocations
they have followed these many years.
Many men in the party lad never
been in the real West before. Wheth
er as result of their own invrstiga-
tions or what they beheld from their
car windows, or the wonderful tales
poured into their credulous cars b.
he boosters of the great Western
country all the way TO California and
back again. nearly all of them had
BECOME impressed with the fact that
ranch somewhere west OF the Mis-
sissippi or Missouri river would be
Just about ideal Secretary Hilles had
prepared TO leave politics forever and
To settle down to the calm, care=frce
life of the alfalfa fields
Major Archie Butt, presidential aide,
was surprised to learn that be could
become millionaire and quit living on
army rations in little or no time.
Major Thomas l.. Rhodes. the Pres
idents physician. thought that in ad-
dition to becoming a wealthy farmer
he could soon build up a country prac-
| tice that would make his army pay
look like a widows mite. So it was
all along the line. Everybody on board
/ tFain
that the thing to do was to give up
real work and go back to the soil
President Taft helped matters along
occasionally by preaching the doctrine
of scientific agriculture and intensified
| farming as recommended by Uncle
Jimmie" Wilson, at Washington.
This was the state of mind of the
Taft encourage when the train slowly
puffed it's way into Rapid City, ;. d.,
| last Saturday night President Taft
made a good impression on the people
of Rapid City, but nothing like the
! impression that was made upon the
members of his party by sign right
across the street from his speaking
stand.
! II. S. Registration Office" it read.
Then the word was passed around
that the government was giving away
hundreds upon hundreds of acres of
valuable land in the Rosebud and Pine
Ridge reservations of South Dakota.
| All YOU had to do was to register
YOUR name. pay 25 cents to notary
public and swear that you did not own
lone hundred and sixty acres of land
anywhere else.
| Everybody on the train registered
with the exception of the President.
He was being entertained at dinner
and couldn't slip away with all the
lrest.
| After registering and swearing and
having the % cents the party was told
that the applications they made for
l1ao acres of land apiece would be for
warded to Gregory. There they would
be mingled with only about fifty thou
sand other applications for the three
thousand tracts available for distribu-
ltion. Then a little girl would pick out
1.-THE fortunate ones. The land lottery
Ibegan at Gregory Tuesday.
Yesterday and today the Presidential
lparty scanned the newspapers to see
which ones of them would get the
more desirable sections. There were
lonly $50 drawings published and not
a Presidential follower was in the list
The sad blow came on top OF the In
formation, impaired just before leav-
ing Rapid City, that only the hfst Two
hundred sections really would make it
worth while for a man who aspired
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