The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1911-07-27
President Expects Ar
bitration With Five
Powers
HAS A LIVELY DAY
Makes Automobile Journey
Through Water, Distanc-
ing All Others

Manassas, N,-Mud despatched,
after a trip from Washington by au-
tomobile over flooded roads and
swollen streams. President Taft, last
evening faced an audience made UP
IN part of veterans, who wore the
blue and the gray, within a few miles
OF the scene of the first grea. con-
t1lct OF the civil war, and was APP
niauded and cheered when he made
a plea for International peace.
The president declared that the
general arbitration treaty with Great
Btitian and France probably would
be signed within the next ten days.
He adder that he hoped within the
nest few days to announce that three
other great powers would enter into
similar agreements with the United
States. He did not &C so far as to
indicate the nations he had in mind,
but it is generally believed that he
referred to Germany, Italy and the
Netherlands.
Japan also may come into, the far
reaching peace pact, but the negotia-
tines with that empire as yet are
said to be merely tentative.
President Taft reached, Manassas
last evening after a tempestoEs trip.
1t Was so strenuous that the presi-
Dental party abandoned their motor
cars here, and returned to the capt.
tol by train.
Like Fifty Years Rgo.
Mr.. Taft laughingly likened his
troubles in getting to Bull Run, to
those that some folks had fifty years
ago in getting away. Il brought some
senator's and representatives down
from Washington" he said, and be-
cause OF t he storm, and strife of the
elements, We came far more slowly
than some senator's and representa-
tlves Who came down a half a CEN
tuly ago and went back"
The presidents trip to the battle
field would have thrilled the heart of
a moving picture man. He left a
train of stranded automobiles in his
wake, made perilous voyages across
streams out of their banks, stopped
on his way to rescue a part of ma
rooned Notwithstanding votes
for reciprocity as a reward-plowed
his way through transforms and mud
and finally whizzed into this little vii
lage at shutdown.
Secret Service Men Left.
The car containing the secret serv-
ice men, which started bravely be-
side the president as he left the
white house, held to the race gamely
until within a few miles of the bat
tlefield, and then gave a despairing
gasp, and stopped in the middle of
what was once a peaceful brook but
which today had become a muddy
torrent.
This stream had daunted the cour-
age of the presidents driver, who up
to this time had n~avigated t%hreeSoth-
ed fords. The secret service car was
sent ahead to test the depth of the
water and died in the attempt to
make the crossing. BY a detour, the
president managed to navigate the
stream at a more shallow point.
Several of the rescued senators,
slowed away with the secret service
men after their automobile ship
wrecked at an earlier ford, this time
We're left stranded, with the decla-
ration by the president that they
We're a "lot of ~standpatters."
One of the white house stenograph-
ers who has followed the president
from coast to coast, likewise was
abandoned in this stream, and Mr..
Taft, for the first time since assum-
ing the duties OF his Office. spoke
without an official record being made
of his remarks. y
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