Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-10-28
TAFT ON LAST
LEG OF JOURNEY
PRESIDENT SPENDS DAY IN MIL
WAukEE AND THEN GOES ON
TO cHIcAGo.
STANDS TRIP WELL
Looks Almost az Fresh 40 When h
Started at Boston on September
IS on Trip Across the
Continent.

Milwaukee, Wis, Oct, 27.-With hi.
departure from Milwaukee for Chicago
today President Taft practically
brought to an end the last leg of his
swing around the circle as 1t was origi
nally planned at Washington and
Beverly. Tomorrow the president will
start in a strenuous three day pro
gram at Chicago and on Tuesday he
will wind up the original trip at Pitts
burg, the engagements that he has
made following that being quite dis
tinct from those Of the present journey
On the forty-one days that Mr.. Tar
has been on the road he has made, &C.
cording to the official stenographers
more than $50 speeches and has dis
cussed all sorts Of subjects. Most OF
the speeches have been short not more
than three or four hundred words in
length, but there have been more than
score of set addresses that have
reached length Of $500 to 5000
words. The tariff, the yetoes of wool,
farmers free list and cotton bills, the
tariff board and its composition, the
relation of government to business,
reciprocity in the early stages Of the
trip-peace and arbitration have been
the main topics that the president has
used, but in many occasions he has
turned to farming, to the operations of
the government departments. conserva-
ton, the public domain and other
questions in the public eye. Mr.. Taft
has spoken to all sorts of crowds.
Some of them have run over the 10O,-
900 mark, others have been closer to
one hundred. He has utilized pulpits,
platform, court and state departments,
schools, universities and the rear plat
form of his private car, the Ideal.
Through it all the president has kept
In fine voice and only once or twice has
it become even husky, in spite Of the
strain upon 1t.
Fresh After Long Journey.
Today Mr.. Taft looks almost as
fresh as when he stepped out on the
platform OF the Ideal to say goodby to
Boston on September Is. With five
days rest at Hot Springs, Va, ahead Of
him he is expected to get back to the
capital in practically as fit condition
as when he started on this trip. The
presidents day in Milwaukee was not
planned as a strenuous one, but the pro-
gram included breakfast at the hotel
where he stopped over night, a long
automobile ride through the city,
luncheon with $500 employers and en-
ployes of Milwaukee factories and an
address. Leaving here Mr.. Taft goes
to Chicago Where he will spend
Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
Temporary Capital at Chicago.
Chicago, Oct. 27.-Two members Of
President Taft's cabinet, score Of
senators and several scores Of con-
gressmen, as we'll as a number OF
m embers of the federal bench were
ready today to welcome the president
to the temporary capital Of the United
States which will be located here for
four days. beginning today. A special
train load of entertainment committee
men and personal friends OF Mr.. Taft
will arrange to meet him In Kenosha,
Wisconsin and accompany him to
Chicago.
-Four days OF speech-making, corner
stone laying, and trip to North Chi
cago for the dedication OF the naval
training school followed the presi-
dents arrival
The cabinet members here are
Secretaries Walter L. Fisher, OF the
interior and George Won L. Meyer Of
the navy.
Correspondents Don't Get Farms.
Green Bay, Wis, Oct. 27.-There
were a lot OF disappointed would-be
farmers on board President Taft's
special train when 1t passed through
here yesterday. Among them were
white house stenographers presidential
secretaries, military aides, official
physicians, secret service men, mes
sengers, newspaper correspondents