The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1911-08-10

next few days:
Social Psychology The Psychology OF
the VIII; The Psychology of Thinking,
The Birth of the Individual; The Social
Individually The Individual and the
Family; The Individual and the State.
Travel-London; Paris: The Rhine;
| Venice.
Engllsh-The Elizabethan Era of
/ English Literature; The Victorian Era
of English Literature; Present Day
Literature; The Future of the English
Language and Literature.
Sociology - General Subject; The
Family. Subtopics The Child in In
dustry; Is it Necessary? The Child in
| School, etc.
Hygiene Water borne Diseases; Dis
posal of Sewage; DIsinfection; Per
| sonal Hygiene; Infection, Susceptibility,
Immunity.
TAFT DAY.
To the very last there were reports
abroad that the President was not COM
ing. 1t is hard to tell whether this was
because of the two former changes in
program made by Mr., Taft, or whether
it was attributable to our we'll known
''gosSipy spirit. Even Monday morn
] lllE, ~ @clIC do - ~ OIOCh d IGDOII IGdCucu
the Office from one or two sources that
the President had at the last minute de-
clded not to come and the audiences
would be disappointed. A messenger
was hurried off to the railway station
and it was found that the President had
been on the way for over an hour and
was making great progress in our di-
rectlon on his special train. The special
from the East was very disappointing
in the numbers it carried. An announce
ment had been made that the President
would speak from the platform in Cum
berland, and good many down there
thought they would be satisfied with
that brief Introduction to our Chief En-
ecutiye. Then the time was so short
that 1t was impossible to DO the amount
OF work in the way of publicity that
would have been necessary TO bring the
crowds. The two trains from the West.
however, were well filled and long be
fore noon Western MARYLAND. West Viz
ginia and Pennsylvania began to arrive
by team and automobile The morning
program, The Melting Pot, ~ by Miss
Hobbs, was well attended.
The Presidents tram reached our sta
ton at exactly / As, and the local party
consisting Of the Board Of Directors,
the Annual Committee, and some fifteen
or twenty of our citizens We're taken to
the train by about a dozen automobiles
Senator Harvey SpeIcher had the honor
OF leading the procession on the Presi-
dents brief tour around the Park and
through Oakland. In the first car were
the President, Major Butt, his military
aide. DR.. Baldwin, President of the As
ISOLATION, and Senator Speicher. who
drove his own car. The rest of the
Presidential party was distributed
throughout the local company and all
enjoyed the visit and the drive very
much. Lieut.. +. S. West acted in an
informal way as marshall. An amusing
incident of the drive suggestive of the
physical proportions of our Chief was
the necessity of stopping Senator
Speicher' car and removing one of the
seats in order that the President might
have room. The crowd assembled in
the Amphitheatre was one of the largest
1t has ever known. The bands of Oak
land and keyser rendered a most de
Hghtful Introductory concert listened to
by perhaps thousand or twelve hun
dred, and when the gates were thrown
open to the public people poured in lit
orally by the thousand. No estimate of
the size of the crowd is under five thou
| sand, and many have placed in as high
| as seven thousand. When the Presi-
dent entered the vast throng arose at
once and greeted him with tumultous
cheering. A patriotic quartette was
sung by Mines. Lumsden and Mardorf
and MeSsrs. Clark and McCutchan. The
service was opened by DR.. Charles w.
| Baldwin, of Baltimore, President of the
Association, who IN a few words intro
duced Senator Spelcher who most tact
fully refralned from making any speech
| but immediately presented and intro
| duced Mr. Taft to the audience The
| President $ speech was not what was
| expected by many of the audience, who
| looked Tor either the ordinary type of
| platform address or something that
savored of political oratory, but it was
a great speech in every sense Of the
| term. The feeling was evident that
| the President was not talking to the
| people before him alone, but to the
| United States Senate, the whole people
Of the United States and in a very literal
sense to the world at large His appeal
! to the Methodist church to help in the
forwarding Of the cause Of world peace
was received with a storm of applause
The address occupied hardly more than
thirty minutes, ard then Young Mr.
Ailer because his car was somewhat
| more roomy, enjoyed the privilege of
taking the President back to the train.
! 1t was the plan that the special train
| should leave at once upon the return Of
| the President, but strange as it may APP
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