The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-21
TAFT ENDS VISIT ID 1 UPPER MICHIGAN; | RETRACES STEPS Young Makes Good Old Fashioned Republican
 Speech IS PLEASED WITH WELCOME EXTENDED President Taft Makes Brief Speech in Which He Refers To Treaties
 With Other Countries-Speaks
 in Grand Rapids Today

| Marquette, Mich, September 2o.--Presi- l dent Taft, the first President of the
 United States to set foot on the shores of
 Lake Superior, ended hls two days visit l to the upper peninsula Of Michigan today, and tonight is retracing his line Of travel from the north. He is due in Grand Rap 1 ids early tomorrow morning and while there will deliver one of the most impor- tant speeches of the trip. defense of the yetoes of the wooden free list and cotton tariir bills.
 The President plainly was pleased with the warmth of his reception here. The upper peninsula is about as soidly repub- liean as any part of the country. and the
 President found cheering throngs where ever he went. The atmosphere was sur charged with politics, but Mr. Taft steered clear Of the object. His princi- pal address was on arbitration with Great Britain and France MT. Taft listened however, to good old fashioned repub- liean campaign speech from Representa- tive Young, in which the congressman took occasion to make a few pointed re-
 marks about different brands of progress siveness.
 Senator Townsend who has accom- panied the President ever since he en- tered Michigan, also drifted into politics
 during the day and denounced MT. Tafts
 critics as belonging generally to class
 of selfish politicians
 Does Not Touch Wisconsin While in this city Mr. Taft was but
 90 miles from the Wisconsin border He
 will not touch that state. however, until on his return. 1t was in introducing Pres ident Taft to an immense throng in three ring circus tent brought from Chi cago for the occasion that Representative Young made his political address. He referred to Mir. Tatf as having taken or | flee at a time when constructive work was needed and not a tearing down "He has been wisely, prudently and con- l sistently progressive, said MT. Young.
 He Is the greatest living republican Of
 genuine constructive progressiveness at which cynics laugh and angels weep.
 l Mr Young praised tlae President for his lyeto of the statehood bills. becuase of 1 the judiciary recall. declaring It was an l act Of courage and wisdom equal to
 Grants veto of the imitation bill and that | 1t placed MT. Taft in the very first rank
 of American statesment and patriots. 1 Then the statesman turned again to denuncla.ion of MT. Tafts critics. He referred to the muck raking magazines that sell slander and yituperation at lo cents copy" and to class or slip- pery disloyal politicians The Presi- cent, he sail. was opposed by every
 demagogue and every. sfittins pon.a- oian.'' This fact he declared, caused the President 10 be loved for the enemies h. mad made"
 American People Sound .sBut the great American people are sound at the eore,'' concluded the con gressman amid the cheers or his coh- stituents And while the shifty, slippery politicians and the demagogues may dls- trust the Judgement of the people Tor q time. they will see right at last anu President Taft will stand in the glory or | tho monday sas the leading American statesman of his time
 l When MT Taft arose to respond man 1 In the rear called out, You're all right. l ..I am glad to be assured laughed the President Mr. Taft did not follow MT. Young's lead He said he was some-
 what embarrassed by the situation, that
 he had intended to tell Mir. Young's con
 stituents what a good congressman he was, but was afraid to do so lest some | enc charge that there had been a con spiracy of fiattering exchange in advance. The President said he had been urged 10
 st eak of the tariff, but as he had reserved that subject for Grand Rapids tomor-
 row, he would ask permission to say a few words regarding universal peace MT Taft then launched into an expian- alton of the arbitration treaties. his ad- dress following the lines of those made at Erie. Pa, and Pontiac, Mich. sen ator Townsend listened intently to what inc President said. and when he spoke a few minutes later pledged his support to the, ratification of the pacts. To Explain Treaties | Mir. Taft said one of his important mls- s!uns on this trip was to make the l peace treaties more generally under stood In Erie he received a pledge l from Senator Oliver to vote for the 1 treaties. so Senator townsend was the l second to fall into line. Mir Taft be- l lieves that while a majority of the foreign | eIatons committee Is against the l treaties, a majority of the Senate proper | Is not.
 He is very we'll satisfied with the | fruits of his early missionary work and with the interest his hearers have ex- | pressed on the subject.
 | < Senator Townsend praised the Pres ] ident for the work of his administra- | ton and declared that MT. Taft was 1 statesman, not politician.
 President Taft also referred while
 here to the pending Nicaraguan and | Honduran treaties and urged their rati- | fioation by the Senate. The United | States he said, has certain guardian
 ship over the republics of Central Amer
 ica which 1t must not shirk. In this | connection he referred to the Santo
 Domingo treaty. negotiated by Pres l ident Roosevelt. It was the first men, 1 tion of revolutionists' names during the | trip but came in such a casual way as
 to be entirely overlooked by the au- | dience.
 The success of tho siscal arrange Iments made in Santo Domingo, Mir. Taft "a ob oh t,t "a poudipqr treatiaS with Honduras and Nicaragua We are great nation and have been made prosperous by the blessing of God" concluded the President. and we | owe it to our less fortunate neighbors I that come under our guardianship the lsame degree of neighborly feeling and IAid that a successful man in commun- | ity owes his less fortunate fellow cit lixens. Therefore, | think the senate
 ought to o'confirm these treaties. Lst us I go on doing good.''i f
 | but short time They declared their action in assisting their sister" out