The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-09-16
(National News Association

(National News Association
BEVERLY, Mass, Sept. 16.-Presi
dent Taft started last night on hi
| swing around the circle for the win
ming of the West" 1t will be tn,
most important political trip the Presi
dent has taken since he entered tn,
White House and before he return,
to Washington on November 1, he viii
have travelled 12,943 miles, spent forty
six days on the road, visited IL;
towns and cities, delivered 200 speech
es and short talks and passed through
twenty-four states.
While the President will speak or
many topics on his long journey tariff,
revision will receive the most of his
attention and five long, important
speeches form the groundwork upor
which all others will be based.
President Taft will explain why he
vetoed the wool. cotton and Farmers
Free List bill and why he stood out
firmly for reciprocity.
There is no lack Of thunder in the
oratorical repertoire. For weeks Mr.
Taft has been working on speeches
until he now believes that he can
swing plain everyday citizens to his
way of thinking. He will make a Wig
orous attack upon the Democrats and
the Progressive Republicans.
The Taft trip will not be wholly one
Of explanation. The President in.
tends to hit back at some of his critics
and to say few words about motives
which inspire "the other fellow" as
well as himself.
National leaders believe that the
trip will have an important bearing up
on the national campaign next year
but they are waiting until it is over
before giving a verdict, for it is not
known exactly what Mr.. Taft intends
to say.
1t is understood that the Progressive
Republicans will be attacked in their
own strongholds while Ciceronian jabs
will be hurled at the Democrats wher.
ever the opportunity offers. The Pro-
gressives will be held up as traitors to
their party because they supported
the Democrats in the last session of
congress or tariff measures. Mr.. Taft
believes they should have had patience
and waited for a report from the tar.
if board
The Progressives' may again fall I'M
der the sting of Presidential oratory
when Mr.. Taft comes to discuss recip-
rocity. This presents a complicated
situation. Some of the Western In
surgents represented rural communi-
ties where reciprocity is not popu-
lar. Hence they opposed the Taft
measure. Mr.. Taft will attempt to
show that their stand was the result
of playing politics." whereas recipro.
city would be benefit instead of
q burden to the farmers.
President Taft will hardly complete
his transcontinental junket without
touching upon his favorite subject,
e., international peace and the arbi-
tration treaties. He will likely take
this opportunity to explain his atti-
tude toward the United States sen.
ate which felt delighted because it
were not called upon to ratify these
treaties before their adoption.
Conservation and currency reform
are two other topics which will re-
ceive consideration.
In fact, a pretty good line upon the
tenor of the Republican national plat
form in 1912 could be cleaned from
a study of the speeches which the
President will drop from auditorium
rostrums and railroad car platforms.
The President has been arranging
for this trip for six months and it
has been carefully discussed from
every angle by the shrewdest leaders
in the ranks of the organization There
are some things for which the Presi-
dent wants ito square" himself. Chief
Of these was his seeming advocacy of
certain measures favored by Demo
Gratis in the last congress.
The President and party left
Boston over the New York, New Haven
md Hartford railroad in special train
at 1885 last night. A special Gordon OF
U. S. secret service operatives had
been provided for the trip and they
saw that the national executive came
10 no harm. The first stop was at
Syracuse. N. Y. Saturday morning.
OF all the entertainments provided
'or Mr.. Taft along the way the most
spectacular will be that in Cheyenne,
Wyoming. It was Theodore Roose-
'elt's delight to see the cowboys and
oronchos in action and his cup of JOY
AN over the top when he would get
% Cheyenne on Frontier Day, an an
1ual exhibition to celebrate the days
II real rangers and COW punchers.
Therefore when it was learned that
he President would be in the Wy
,ming capital on October 4, during the
Frontier Day celebration. an invitation
vas sent to him to visit the exhibit
ion grounds and see the ranch hands