The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-11-05
TAFT SETS RECORD
FOR LONG JOURNEYS
President Has Travelled Nearly
100000 Miles in the Past
Eleven Years.
BALTIMORE IS FAVORlTE
Democratic National Conven-
ZION Probably Will Be Held
in Monument City.
BALTIMORE IS FAVORlTE
BY RALPH NJ. WHITESIDE.
4 Wire ia The Tribune.

1'afr is rcrtaIniy some traveller No, only
has N, left all presidential records 20
far behind as 30 make them ridiculous
by comparison, out 1t is doubtful u any
other man nov living who is not n pro
lessIonal travrier has accumulated thc !
mileage he has I'm the past eleven years
Since he became Philippine commits
IN TO date he has travelled since ihat /
arsi trip TO tho Philippines pretty nearly |
200 600 mics. tho exact mileage is 23s,-
7oS Before he gets back To Washing |
ton The 100000 mark will have ocen
passed. ,,.
crsg slnTS pretsy e oTSsi!I nSaTiy 5000 mids
Here j. tho score OF tG!s greatest OF !
ali American travellers: 1901. 20 Philip |
pines and back TO Washington 10 teSuty
iao2. TO Rome and 10 the Philippines:
- 10 miles; 1909, practically a year o,
pines. 5000; 1905 returned TO become
secretary o; war and took a trip 70 ran J.
anna. 1l.72i; 1906. visited the philippines
with a party OF congrsssmen: trip mat
Roosevelt and Representative Nicholas
T,oneworth 1850; l?o6. went 10 Cnea 10
1907. journeyed to Panama and the Phil
ippines :S.05o. 1905 the year he was
prcsdcntioI candidate 1870; 1909. inc
first year OF his presidency, 2l.2so l?l,.
Tie second year Of his presidency, S2:27i;
this year Was 2S.2iS.
On TWO oil ms ElHEpNnt NIJp0
dent Taf, swung around the circle
that is he came back the longest way,
travelling through Siberia and Russia
,ooknE ,n, IN Tm "ror i%d rav sirh,s ih Of Paris
and inhaIing the fog Of London before
crossing the Atlantic to mis- starting
point
This computation is based the sim
ole steamship nrd railroad travel. and
does moi take into consideration the
thousands Of miles the president has
l,,. L.. N
the inuumerablc four corners OF Inc
world he has visited.
Will Name Harlan's S Successor.
Ono of the first OF the many important
on his return TO Washington VIII be the
appointment Of successor TO Justice
Harlan. There are all sorts Of rnmors
as To who the lucky man VIII be- but
as yet this Is all guesswork.
II is generally believed that Attorney
General Wickcrsham could have the
| he prefers TO finish out his term as at
torney general and then return 10 the
practice OF the law.
There is some talk that the president
| may name another Democrat TO the
bench. but this is not taken very seri-
| ously
| joking him over an incident in the su-
| prcme court recently Senator BAILEY
| arose TO introduce two lawyers from his
| state, As the senator began his intro
duction tho justices leaned forward in> an
| effort 20 hear The famed Bailey voice
seemed out Of key and his words were
| unint eligible.
senator Bailey suped rather confused
| Is, hesiiated q moment and then drew
upon his reserve lung power. The !us-
tices OF tho supreme court had no fur
| th"r difficulty In hearing.
| II is customary for young attorneys
| who are PLEADING their first cases before
the most august tribunal on earth to
| falter and become confused before the
|
! first time a veteran like Senator Bailey
has been told to use tho loud pedal
| Nhercat Senator Bailey was a bit con-
| fused and evidently bit displcased.
Oregon Politics in Chaotic State.
Politics In Oregon, so far as IT re-
lates 10 the iusursent movement. is in
A state or choas, according In Colonel
! Philip Schuyler Malcolm OF Portland. Or.
Scottish Rite Masons Colonel Malcolm
is a prominent leader in the Oregon Re-
publican ranks.
1T is difficult even TO approximate
where this insurgent movement will I'm
ally lead to-" said Colonel Malcolm. The
question OF the initiative and referendum
arc hardly sufficiently acquainted with
them in this country to either approve
or reject tncm.
President Taft. fully believe. will
elected The people Of Oregon are fully
In accord with President Tafts arbItra =
| ton. and reciprocity views.
Baltimore May Get Convention.
From the present outlook. when the
democratic national committee meets here
January 10 select the time and pace
for the national! convention. Baltimore
Will be chosen. OF course, this is not
certain. but Baltimore certainly seems
10 be tho farorttc right now.
Aside from fixing The time and place
| for the convention. there arc two or three
questions which will come before the :
q, 10 Ill IL. l.,
troublesome and perpleHirg to settle. AZ
,h" Denver convention. under pressure
from MIR. Bryan. the regular delegation
from Philadelphia was thrown out snf
this resulted In the turning down O.
Colonel James NJ Gutfcy of Pittsburg
who had been national committeeman fol
| long time and was At one time on,
OF SIR. Bryan's warmest friends. Formel
Representative James NJ. Kerr WAS Sc
lected in his place.
which was controlled by Colonel Guffey
rcinstated him In his old place as ma
uonal committeeman
Then followed the fssco in Pernsyl-
yania. when: last year at the request OF
Colonel Guney. the Democrats nomi-
governor and thus divided the opposi.
tion to the Republican candidate, Gov
ernor Tener. and invited defeat.
Both viii Claim Seat.
| Thereupon the nine Democratic rep
rcsentauvcs from Pennsylvania started Il
movement 10 reorganize the party, In
Guiding In" state committee and pro.
; c"cdcd 10 Gust Colonel Gufrev as ma
tional committeeman and 10 select Rep
resentative 4. Mitchell Palmer In his
stead. The regulars or Guffeyites claim
that the meeting was irregular and no,
official. that Gurcv IS national commit
t"cman and that Representative Paine,
has no standing before the national com
mittce. This Is one OF the question,
which the national committee must de-
eide
Again. there o. trouble coming up from
I Tennessee. There the PennsylVania sit.
uation Is practically reversed Colone
Il. u. Lee Montcast!e is the natIona
committeeman now carried on the list
Last year. however nc broke a,yay from
the old regular Patterson organization
In the state aud Joined In the fusion
movement. which resulted in -he elec.