The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-18
Entertained at a Breakfast With
so Newspaper Men.
CITY IN HOLIDAY GARB
Welcome President Taft-Rec-
iprOcity-World Wide Peace
inscribed on Banner at Entrance
to Highland Park.

Detroit, Sept 1s.-President Taft
arrived here at a. m. He was es-
corted to the Detroit club, where he
was entertained at breakfast by Mil
ton A. McRae and fifty Michigan
newspaper men. He was scheduled to
speak at Pontiac and the Detroit
state fair grounds before 1 o'clock.
Detroit was in holiday garb to greet
President Taft on his arrival this
morning from Erie. Business houses
and private residences along the
streets through which the president
was scheduled to pass were decorated
with flags and bunting, while at the
entrance to the village of Highland
Park, a northern suburb, there hung
a large banner, bearing the words:
Welcome President Taft-reciprocity
and worldwide peace
The president found a busy day out
lined for him when he reached the
city. Every minute of the nine and
a half hours which his visit will cover
was accounted for. Following a
breakfast at the Detroit club, the
tiac. After a 26 mile trolley ride a
speech at the opening of the Michigan
state fair, luncheon and address at
the Wayne pavilion, an automobile
ride about the city and an informal
talk to the delegates to the conven-
ton of the national association of in
ternal revenue officers at the hotel
Cadillac. The presidents train will
leave for Saginaw at 4:25 p. m.
Four Days in Michigan
President Taft inaugurated his four
days stay in Michigan with four
speeches in and around Detroit. The
more important of these he reserved
for the Chamber of Commerce lunch
con at Wayne pavilion in this city
where he had announced he would
discuss the trust Question in gem
eral and the recent decisions of the
United States supreme court in the
Standard Oil and tobacco trust cases
in particular. Mr.. Taft reached De-
trOit after all-night ride from
Erie, Pa, he left his train in a down
pour but while breakfasting at the De-
troit club the clouds began to give way
and there was a promise of sunshine
for the outdoor events on the pre-
ident's program. A crowd of several
hundred gathered in the rain at the
station and there was a cheer as the
presidential autOm bile WhiSked bv
At breakfast where the president was
entertained by Milton A. McRae and
met fifty or more newspaper editors
and prOprietOrS he spoke briefly of
his former connection with newspaper
work in Cincinnati.
4 was assigned to the courts" said
the president in describing his re-
pOrtOrial career, land the first big
SCOOP that I got was an advance story
which was exactly the opposite of the
decision which the judges handed down
next day"
Amid laughter, the president added
that that was the nearest he had ever
come to contempt of court.
Mr.. Taft said he had listened during
the morning to a number of editors
discussing the difficulty of nearly al
ways having to defend some one. Some
of the editors boasted that they were
not troubled that way.
Il haven't got a newspaper said the
president, with a smile. But I am d
sort of brother-in-law to a newspaper.
SO while it may be embarrassing to a
newspaper at times to be related to a
statesman, it sometimes may be en-
barra ssing to statesman to be re-
lated to a newspaper
Asks Their Prayers.
Il am starting on a long trip, gen.
tlemen, and ask your prayers both for
my mental and physical well-being.
This trip. may say, was not entered
into with malice aforethought. Some
times when I contemplate it I hold my
breath. But. being in, am going
through with it,
Senator VIM. Alden Smith Joined the