Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-09-26
Is an open question SO tar as any III
dications today could foretell.

Is an open question SO far as any III
dications today could foreten.
Nh. Taft asked his audiences to
think over his Tariff vetoes. and the
Republican leaders, standpatters. who
Went along with him, analyzed the sill
ent attitude of the crowds at every
Tariff reference that they had already
started thinking.
If President Taft can get Congress
during the next winter to pass the
Kind of Tariff measures he wants-a
contingency that is considered in Kan
sas to be extremely doubtful-there
Us no telling how sentiment will
stand The most that can be said.
with any degree of certainty, Is that
Taft has disappointed Kansas and
that his policy of waiting has caused
him to lose ground Mr.. Taft was Wis
IDLY disappointed over the chilly re-
eeption il Coffeyville. The public
SQUARE was TANNED with $500 peo-
pie and some sat In windows and We're
p tched on housetops. It was ty-
pieal, hard thinking Kansas audience
that the President faced.
i am holding TO the position that
there ought to be no definite legis-
lation until the Tariff Board has had
an opportunity to make it's report"
exclaimed the President.
I am here to protect the American
industries, to see that the foreign
goods do not come into this country
so cheap that they crowd out our
own manufacturers. 7 vetoed the
Tariff bills because l did not con-
slider that they protected our indus
tries. If I had not done that I would
have been false to the convention
which nominated ME and the people
who elected, If I were a President
who lacked the courage to veto bills
I considered against the interests of
the country. I would not be the sort
OF President you want"
Seeing that he was unable to
work the crowd up to any pitch of
lively enthusiasm over his veto de-
Tense the President exclaimed, bit
impatiently: Il am not here to
apologize to you for my Vetoes.
am here to explain them. ;" He was
allowed to go on explaining" amid
dense silence.
At Independence, the President,
standing under two stately elm trees,
named, for Harrison and Morton, and
planted during their campaign, in
formed the crowd of ten thousand
that he happened to be present for
the moment" The President got
into the Insurgent domain when he
struck Cherryvale. Three thousand
people crowded around the rear plat
form of the train and cheered him
when he hurled challenge to Will
liam Jennings Bryan to show one
instance in which any trust that
ought to be condemned would not
fall under the decision of the United
States Supreme Court in the Standard
Oil and Tobacco cases, which Bryan
had condemned.
The Presidents other stops on the
way to Insurgent territory, at all of
which crowds turned out and sur
rounded the platform Of his car, were
Chanute, Thayer, Humboldt, lola,
Barnett, Colony, Ottawa, Edgerton
and lathe Big crowds at every
stop cheered him as the train pulled
into the station. Flags flew and
bands played everywhere.
The President, avoidant of the
Tariff vetoes in the Insurgent strong
hold, was taken to mean that he was
afraid of the attitude of his audiences.
His experience at Coffeyville showed
him the temper of the people on that
issue. The President reached Kansas
City at $50 o'clock.