Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-09-15
PRESIDENT TAFT, on BIRTHDAY
LEAVES on $4,000 NILE TRIP

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Boston, Mass, Sept. 15.-Six weeks
and thirteen thousand miles represent
the time and space to be covered by
President Taft during the campaign
tour on which he will leave this even
ing. Today the president celebrated
his fifty-fourth birthday by abandoning
the cool comfort of his summer cot
tage at Beverly and making the final
preparations for one of the most rlgor-
Gus speaking and Misunderstanding tours
ever undertaken by any chief exec
utive. Beginning tomorrow with a
visit to the New York State Fair at
Syracuse, Mr.. Taft will be kept ION
the jump" until the first of November,
and will be the stellar attraction at
many fairs and expositions in the,
North, South, East and West He will
cover twenty-four states and visit 115
cities between the Atlantic and the
Pacific.
His principal speeches will deal with
the tariff, currency legislation, reci-
procity, peace treaties, postal matters
and conservation, and he will deal with
many. minor topics in his shorter
speeches. All of his chief addresses
are now in manuscript
That the president will make fight
for denomination next year, and that
this trip is intended to further that
ambition, there Is now no doubt. II Is
also practically certain that the presi-
dent will make the tariff the main is
sue and that he will make an agrees
sive stand on this subject.
! The president has prepared an array
of facts, figures and statistics to de-
fend himself for having vetoed the
wool, cotton and farmers free list
bills. He will attack the progressives
who aided the democrats to put
through those measures and will carry
the war into the insurgents own coun-
| try. The nature of the attack, 1t may
| be stated on authority, will be that
the progressives who voted for a tar
| if board should have been willing to
wait for its report, and that the re-
vision bills pushed by the democrats
and progressive republicans at the
special session were i'll considered and
badly drawn. The great industries of
the country, the president will insist,
should not be jeopardized by such leg
| islation when revision, If recommend
ed by the tariff board, might be ex-
pected a few months later The presi-
dent will commit himself to tariff re-
form and will use his best efforts to
bring it about at the coming session
Of congress.
A majority of the presidents
speeches will be delivered in the cities
OF the Western agricultural district,
where anti-reciprocity sentiment was
most widespread and profound. He
will face the farmers and will explain
to them by word of mouth why he
thinks reciprocity will help, rather
than hinder, the agricultural interests
The presidents complete itinerary
| is as follows:
September 16-New York State Fair
Syracuse; Erie, Pa.
September 17-Erie Pa.
September 1S-Erie, Pa; Detroit
Pontiac, Saginaw, Bay City. Mich.
September 19-Bay City, Sault Ste.
Marie, Mich.
September 20-Marquette. Mich.
September 21-Grand Rapids, Battle
Creek, Kalamazoo, Mich.
September 22-Peoria, ILL.,
September 23-Peoria, ILL.,; st. Louis,
Mo.
| September 24-Kansas City. Mo-;
Baldwin, Kan.
September 25-Baldwin, Cherryvale,
Coffeyvile, independence, Chanute,
| Ottawa, Kan
September 26-Kansas State Fair,
| Hutchinson
September 27-Hutchison, Topeka,
Atchison, Leavenworth, Kan.
September 2S-Council Bluffs. Den
| ison Fort dodge Webster CITY Iowa
Falls, Waterloo, la.
September 20 = Waterloo, Des
Moines, Knoxville, Abba, Ottumwa, la.
September 30-Moberly, Sedalia,
Kansas City, Mo.
October Omaha Neb.
| October Omaha, Lincoln, Hast