The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-10-04
PLOT AGAINST TAFT
D|STURbS DENVER
Close Watch Kept on Chief
Executive During His
Stay There
DOORS AT BANQUET
CLOSED AND GUARDED
President in Automobile Goes
to Aid of Motorcycle
Policeman Injured
by Accident

bE-~ Ely, SOlA, oCI- o.-C nuSua4
vigilance was exerted by the police to-
day to guard President Taft during his
fifteen hours stay here.
The police were worked up over a
mysterious report that harm might
come to the President. and they did
not let him out of their sight from
the time of his arrival
What 1t was that caused the un-
easiness concerning the Presidents
safety was not divulged, but 1t was
evident all day long that the police
were working under high tension.
Chief of Police Armstrong assigned
every one Of his reserve detectives to
stick close to the President, and at
every place where Mr.. Taft went extra
police were on guard.
Strict lines were drawn at the curbs,
and the police would allow nobody to
pass who could not show credentials
emitting him inside the ropes.
The secret service men accompany
ing the President knew of the con-
Germ of the police, and they were on
Qui vive.
Doors Closed and Guarded.
AS the President passed through the
streets In an automobile at various
times OF the day the three secret ser
vice guards carefully kept their eyes
given at night to the President by the
commercial club at the FL Jebel Tenn
pie. the police and secret service men
did not relax their precautions. The
doors were closed and guarded.
1t was reported here tonight that
Chief Armstrong had received letter
conveying a threat against the Presi-
dent, but the chief would not admit
1t.
-
nary vigilance OF the police an acci-'
dent befell a motorcycle policeman
while the President was on an auto
mobile drive In the afternoon at Fort
Logan. The policeman. with seven
others, made up an escort that rode
at either side OF the Presidential auto.
In passing along a boulevard leading
out to the foot hills of the Rocky
Mountains, the policeman, In his anx-
tety to get a group of citizens back,
turned his motorcycle 700 abruptly, and
the wheels skidded and the machine
crashed into a tree.
President to Rescue.
The rrar~XaAs hurled violently to the
pavement. President Tart, witnessing
the accident ordered his automobile
stopped. while DR.. Rhoades. tho Pres
ident's physician jumped out The po-
liceman was badly shaken UP. but after
few moments got back his breath
and picked himself pp. When Presi-
dent Taft found that he was not sert-
ously hurt Ne ordered the automobile
to go on.
President Taft had an active day
and was received with many demon
STATIONS Of enthusiasm.
The Yale alumni at the County
Club gave the college cry when he
appeared there. and the Denver Uni
versity students, to whom he later
on talked Of discipline. yelled lus-
lilly.
AT the convention hall, where a
public lands convention was on, the
President was greeted by 10000 peo-
Pile. The convention hall put itself
on record as opposed to the Presi-
dents advocacy Of Federal control
Of the public domain and Its natural
resources, and the people who crowd
ed the hall. coming from Colorado
and surrounding cities, were eager
to hear what Mr.. Taft might have
TO say.
Confers With Leaders.
Mr.. Taft had a conference late in
the afternoon with dozen Repub-
lican leaders at the Brown Palace
Hotel.
After telling the leaders that Re-
publtcans tho country over agree upon
q protective tarin OF some kind, he
referred to the contemplated report
OF his tariff board. declaring that he
expected to recommend q measure
that would satisfy the party. He
went on; .,...-..,.,. ...l.'s.-.s.
Il am very hopeful that when tho
country shall see the sincerity Of our
promise that II will conclude that we
ought to be continued In power. The
fact ID that the detection from tho
Republican party at the last congress
sional election, or the defeat OF It,
was not due to an increase OF a
number in Democrats. It was due
to detection OF Republicans, who
insisted that We had not performed
our promises. Now, IL we 60 ahead
as I hope We may, and show to them
that Is just what we are doing, act
ing on the tariff boards report 1t
seems to me that we are not over
sanguine in expecting that these Re-
publicans. who did not leave US ex-
actly but who withheld their votes.
with now return to tho place where
they belong"
Mr. Toft 1oF% bnro - v,tarf~n4 e..