The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-27
He AVOIDS POLITICS.
President Taft Meets Cordial Recep
ton in Wisconsin.

AfiIwa ukee, Oct. 27.-President Taft
received as cordial a welcome into
Wisconsin as he has found in any of
the score or more states he has
traversed during the last six weeks.
Mr. Taft did not attempt to anaIyze
his reception nor to make political
capital out of it. AS a matter of fact.
he steered as far away from politics as
he could. At Oshkosh he drifted into
a discussion of his tariff vetoes. but
he did so with the explanation that he
felt the people at large had a right to
hear from a president his reasons fer
an important executive action.
Governor McGovern met the presi-
Diet at Oshkosh with the declaration
that Wisconsin was glad to welcome
him and felt honored by his presence.
Senator Stephenson also met the presi-
dent and accompanied him to Milwau-
kee.
Not the least interesting event of the
day was the presidents visit to Fond
du Lac. That city had once withdrawn
It's invitation to the president when it
was announced that his time there
would have to be somewhat curtailed.
Mayor Wolff sent the telegram can
ceiling the invitation and suggesting
rather sharply that the president
might as we'll give all his time to APP
pleton and Oshkosh. Then the invita-
ton was renewed and again accepted
The controversy evidently heightened
interest in the presidents coming, for
the entire city turned out to bid him
welcome.
Big Crowd Out.
Business houses and residences were
profuseIy decorated and the crowd the
president addressed in front of the
court house was one of the largest he
has ever faced Mr.. Taft made no
reference to the invitation incident,
but there may have been more or less
Significance in his selection of topic
peace and the treaties of arbitration.
Mayor Wolff rode in the presidential
automobile.
Mr.. Taft,s first speech of the day
was at Green Bay, where a great
throng turned out to hear. him. His
subject there. as at Fond du Lac. was
peace. Next came Appleton and there,
In the heart of a big paper manufac-
turing district. the president frankly
answered a series of questions put 70
him in writing by the local CONNER
ciaf club. asking an explanation OF MS
course in favoring the print paper
and pulp agreements in the Canaolal
reciprocity act. The paper clause be-
came law with the passage OF the act
by the American congress and did not
require ratification by the Canadian
parliament. The president defenoed
his course with some spirit.
At Oshkosh the president was enter
tanned at an elaborate luncheon ana
made two addresses, one in the opera
house and another to an Overflow OUT
door gathering iff-Efont of hotel
Senator Stephenson announced him
self as in favor Of the arbitration
treaties.
Word of the beginning Of the gov
ernment's suit for the dissolution OF
the steel trust was received on
board the presidents train at Fond du
Lac. Mr. Taft, however. made no
comment.
The presidents constant speaking
out of door in a cold. damp atrnos-
phere had a serious effect upon his
voice and when nc faced an audiencs
that filled the vast Milwaukee audit
forum to its limit he spoke With the
greatest difficulty