Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-09-26
President Tells Crowds in
Insurgent States He is not.
There to Apologize for
Actions, However.
IMPORTANT SPEECH
TO BE GIVEN TONIGHT
Although Subject is not An
nounced, it is Said Conser-
walton Congress Will
Hear Straight Talk.

Independence, Kan, Sept Is. Presi.
dent Taft received most friendly
greeting during his tour Of southern
Kansas today. Both Cofeyville where
he spent two of the forenoon hours
and at this place, Mr.. Taft was greeted
by great crowds.
The president chose the vetoes OF
the tariff bills for his theme today and
received an attentive hearing. He
declared he did not come to Kansas
to apologize for having exercised ex-
ecutive disapproval OF the w0olen, the
Tree list and the cotton tariff bills,
list merely to explain to the people
zee to face Mr.. Taft said his vetoes
\ ere the result Of deep-seated convic-
On that he had duty to perform
{ explained anew that the tariff
ard should have an opportunity to
port before any of the schedules OF
le existing law are touched and he
ic missed that the board would be
lpady to report on the wool and one
X 1.-TWO other important schedules dur
ing the coming session of congress.
Mr.. Taft's day in Kansas began pic
resquely. At Coffeyville he was met
an escort of two hundred uniform
horsemen. They were the repre-
ltative business and professional
en- Of the city. The president spoke
81 the plaza In Coffeyville on the site
the bank that Was held up by the
torious Dalton brothers many years
>. In the presidents escort was
3. Sck Kloehr, q determined looking
nan with curly black hair and a drOop-
ing moustache. He killed two Of the
Dalton brothers in the roundup that
followed their escape.
The president will make eleven
speeches before reaching Kansas City
tonight to address the national con-
servation congress. Tuesday and We'd
nesday will also be spent in Kansas.
Then will follow two days swing
through Iowa.
chanute Closes For Taft.
Chanute, Kan, Sept. President
Taft arrived In this city at 1925. All
business houses in the city were clos
ed for an hour Several thousand
persons gathered at the train to hear
the president. He will remain twenty
minutes before departing for Ottawa,
Kan.
Talks Tariff at coffeyvllle.
Coffeyville, Kas., Sept. 25.Presi-
dent Taft arrived here at $50 this
morning and was given a rousing re-
ception.
Senator Curtis and Congressman
Campbell came with the president to
Coffeyville. Senator Bristow and Gov,
Stubbs, who welcomed him to the
state, will rejain the party later.
The presidential train pulled into
Coffeyville early this morning but
hundreds of people lined the streets
when the president passed through
on the way to breakfast.
It was Coffeyville's first, visit Of a
president and the town turned out.
The president faced crowd of sew
eral thousand at the plaza and told
them of his tariff vetoes.
Senator Curtis and Representative
Campbell arranged for the president
to make number of additional stops
during the day and it was figured that
Mr.. Taft would make eleven speeches
before reaching Kansas City tonight.
TAFT to Carry Kansas.
Baldwin Station, Kan, Sept. 25.--
The warning republican factions OF
Kansas buried the hatchet Sunday and
walked side by side to pay honor to
President Taft. Governor Stubbs.
Who is generally conceded to belong
to the "insurgent" faction, welcomed
Mr.. Taft with the hope that the state,
without regard to church or party or
faction would extend the most royal
reception ever given president Of the
United States Republican State
Chairman Dolley, who holds office In
the state under Governor Stubbs, and
Republican National Committeeman
Mulvane united in telling Mr.. Taft
that the Kansas delegation to the next
republican national convention would
be solidly for him and United States
Senator's Curtis and Bristow, the one
regular, the other leader of the
progressives, rode side by side in the
tonneau of the same automobile over
the Kansas countryside and sat on
the same platform to pay honor to the
chief executive. The predictions OF
Mr.. Mulyane and Mr.. Dolley, who are
close to political conditions in state
supposedly "insurgent," followed close
on the heels of the declaration Of
Governor Hadley of Missouri to PresisI
dent Taft that that state would in
f1uence it's delegates for him and the
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