The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1911-09-07
Republican Organization Arfang.
ing Big Demonstration.
ENTHUSIASM LESS MARKED
Announcement of Presidential Visit
Creates No Great Stir in Po-
litical Circles.

st. Paul, Sept. 5-President Taft is |
is Joy unconfned in the Republican |
organization camp because of the fact |
washington dispatches brought the |
glad tidings several days ago, but
nothing has appeared in the press re-
garding much correspondence which
has passed between the president and
his advisers and the Republican
leaders in Minnesota regarding his
Northwest itinerary and the plea to
make it as extensive as possible.
Come to Minnesota and come quick
~" has been the burden of the letters
sent from here. National Committee
man Frank B. Kellogg even made it
the basis of a flying trip to the ma.
tional capital October has been the
his visit, with a day each given to St.
Paul, Minneapolis and Duluth, and
brief stops at Mankato, the governors
home, and other population centers.
The orders are to burn red fire all
along the route and to overlook moth
ing in making the presidents visit a
Notable one as far as demonstration
is concerned. And in order that there
may be no fall down" in the matter
of the program $4,000, it is reported,
has been assigned to Minnesota. This
amount is to be augmented locally, Of
course.
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My, what a furore information like
the above would have caused decade
ago. Just prod your memories, you
gray heads, and think. Marching
clubs, parades, torchlight professions
at night and a gathering of the faith.
full in such numbers as to strike dis
may in the hearts of the Democratic
hosts. All the state machine had to
do was to send out the word and moth
ing would be lacking in enthusiasm
All this does not seem hardly peril
nent to the presidents announced
coming, but I mention it for the rea-
son that the news from Washington
hardly caused ripple on the politi-
cal waters and the state leaders are
even in doubt at this writing as to
how the president will be received
and whether or not it will stay the
tide of unrest now so evident in the
Great Northwest. There must be en-
thusiasm at any cost, the leaders say
but how to get it is the rub. Presi
dent Taft is not a noisemaker, as his
administration and brief trips over
the country have shown, and there
fore it is up to the state leaders tc
furnish it,
But, after all, as pointed out by one
state leader who has seen the cam
paign changes which have taken place
in a decade, this threatened absence
of noise and merrymaking in connec
ton with the presidents contemplated
visit may be the one thing that ma.
reinstate him in the minds of tn
thousands who have seen fit to disa
gree with some Of his policies. Thi
leader is against any forced demon
stration. Such he contends, will onl:
serve to confuse instead of enlighte1
and it is the latter that the voter
want. Burning red fire in honor O
loyalty, he says, is thing of the past
Let the president meet the people an
let him talk to them unhampered b
selfish state and other official schemes
is his advice.
!.
Anent the national game and tn
plans now being made by the stat
Republican organization for the r.
ceotion to President Taft, yours trul
would be derelict in his duty if l di
no, mention the progressive gatherin
at the St. Paul hotel last week
Which Clifford Pinchot, the great col
selvationist, was the center of attra
tim. The crowd was not a large on
no., in the language of the reviewe
was it an enthusiastic one. By this
do not mean that it was lacking j
harmony as far as the views of il
ho1ored guest was concerned. It We
a gathering of thinkers and everyor
listened attentively. At the close M
Pinhot was roundly applauded an
his views fully endorsed. 1t was
progressive gathering throughout ar
IAO SSuL1I1CuCO SApl COoCu Wy u
speaker we're progressive.
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looking over the Pinchot asse1
blage the seasoned campaigner won
have remarked with disgust. mot
leader in the bunch. Lucky if the
are able to deliver their own vote
I thought the same as I picked the
out one by one. There was w. l. N
Ian Of Minneapolis. He used to ri
with the hounds, but the progressi7
game is more to his liking now. W.
Lee of Long Prairie did carry Il
Sixth district in the hollow of b
hands, but it does not get up al
move at his bidding any more Al
then there was Congressman Ande
son and L;ndberg, the latter from Il
Sixth district and the former fro
Jim Tawney's old stamping groun