Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-10-29
PRESIDENT MAY NOT Vote
MAY LOSE SUFFRAGE RIGHT
OVER FAILURE TO PROPERLY
REGISTER BN MAIL.
ATTACKS JUDICIARY recall
Wound Up a Busy Day by Defeating
Naval Training School In North
Chicago.

CHICAGO, oct. 2S-Presldent Taft.
who frequently refers to himself as
the "titular head of the Republican
party" was in "A quandry tonight. The
president does not know whether he
Is qualified voter any more. He
doesn't know whether the election
authorities In Cincinnati. his home
city, intend to let him cast ballot
in the city elections next Tuesday
More than two weeks ago, Mr.. Taft
made out his registration papers, ana
mailed them from the Pacific coast,
and thought no more about tho mat
ter A few days later the president
was notified by the city election board
that he had failed to have the proper
affidavit made out TO accompany the
papers. At Newcastle, Wyo, where
he was the guest of Congressman
Mondell, the president worked late at
night making out new papers and the
necessary ayfidavits The mails from
Newcastle that night carried the pa
pers to Cincinnati.
Today Secretary lIilles was not'
fled, evidently on good authority. that
the president had failed to register
properly in time, and Mr.. Taft took
up his day in Chicago, convinced thai
while he might visit Cincinpau on
election day, he could not vote.
Up 10 State Secretary.
Later in the day word came from
Cincinnati that the whore matter had
been put up to Secretary OF state
Graves of Ohio, but that 1t was not
definitely settled as TO whether the
president Of the United States had n
right to cast ballot. Mr.. Taft Is
going to Cincinnati, anyhow, but he
would like to vote If possible,
A Busy Day for "Bill.'
President Taft spent a busy day In
Chicago. He spoke to the American
Mining Congress In the morning, en-
dorsing the speech made by Secretary
of the Interior Fisher here last night;
told the members of the Chicago Bar
association that he was, and expects
always to be, opposed to the recall
of the judiciary; rode sixty miles by
special train to dedicate the new
naval training school at North Chi
cago, and tonight addressed the Chi
cago Association of Commerce on
peace arbitration. Tonight he was the
guest of the city at local hotel. hnd
tomorrow and Monday he Will try 10
keep UP with fairly strenuous pro-
gram.
Chicago today made the presiden'
think of Washington in the midst ol
a session Of congress.
Politics to the Rear.
with the exception OF short talks
with n few Illinois politicians the
president did not toJ\h on politics
He came near politics once when ne
spoke to the Chicago Bar association
without using his name, Mr. Taft re
ferred to the remarks OF Senator
Clapp of Minnesota in this city re-
Gently, In which the presidents veto
of the Arizona New Mexico statehood
bill was called "the blackest act OF
tyranny ever committed of free
people"
REPTILES to senator Clapp.
KNOW MhH BhiAf VI - 49,
deal" the president said, but | never
knew I was guilty Of conduct tina
could be described by such lurit
terms. was determined that wher
new state entered the United States
4. should start with knowledge OF
some things. was convinced tina
IT should start with a proper anticl'
patton Of the independence of the 1u'
dietary. The people Of that state may
not be convinced yet but at least theJ
know what think. Congress has ap'
proved my action, for once, and has
gone further.
II has passed Law directing, and
this is really more like an act oi
blackest tyranny, the people TO take
back their ideas about the judiciary
"When the territory IL a state II
may change It's constitution to con-
form with it's own ideas about Judges
but when It obtains the resources, It's
people can't say that we didn't give
them warning, and didn't jolt them
The president told the lawyers that
he did not think criticism Of the
countrys judges and the judiciary was
! justified.
II sometimes think" he said, thai
the Socialists and anarchists and the
dlscontented ought TO hire a lawyer
to pick out flaws in the system to at
tack"
Dciicates Training School
At the naval training station the
president watched for half an hour
several hundred student sailors.
Mr Taft dedicated the station af-
( Tor Congressman Foss Of Illinois and
sf-. ..-iai Ross, aud +. A. De-
laney. president Of the Chicago Com