The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-11-30
WESTERN GOVERNORS REACH
DETROIT ON TOUR TO BOOM
THEIR STATES IN THE EAST
Seven Executives In Party, Es-
corted Through Michigan BY
Our Own Chase Osborn.
SPEAK IN THE CHURCHES.
Visitors Participate In Thanks
giving Services-Exhibits
Show Vests Resources.
SPEAK IN THE CHURCHES.

The western governors special,
carrying the governors of seven wes-
tern states, Lieut.-Gov. Stephen n.
Fitzgerald, of Colorado: Gov. Osborn,
OF Michigan, who Is accompanying the
party through the state, and about a
score of prominent westerners who
have come east TO boom their coun-
try and the Panama exposition. arriv.
ed in Detroit, ahead of schedule.
Thursday morning. The visitors were
received, shortly afterward, by a re-
ception committee from the Detroit
Board OF Commerce, headed by Pres
ident Milton A. McRae, and a commit
tee OF aldermen, and after breakfast
in the dining car, attached to the spe-
cial, the governors and other distin-
guished visitors were taken In tow
by members OF the reception commits
tees and whisked in pairs, TO the
,,Iaoes where they had been invited to
participate i'm Thanksgiving services.
Following the speeches In the De-
troit opera house and several
churches, the governors and other
guests will be entertained at dinner
In the Pontchartrain, and at 2 O'clock
the special will pull out for Toledo.
where the party will be entertained
TO night
The western gubernatorial party in
cludes the following: Gov. James III.
Hawiey, of Idaho; Gov. Adolph o.
Eberhart, of Minnesota; Gov. Edwin
l.. Norris, of Montana; Gov. John
Burke, of North Dakota: Gov. Oswald
West, OF Oregon; Gov. Robert s. Ves-
sey, of South Dakota; Gov. Joseph M.
Carey, of Wyoming and Lieut.-Gov.
Stephen r. Fitzgerald, OF Colorado.
II is expected that Gov. Lasker Oddie,
of Nevada, will join the party either
here or in Toledo.
Governors Are "Big", Men.
The western governors are all big
men in the sense that they are men
who do things, and one of the biggest
is Gov. Carey, of Wyoming. The adj
lective applies to him in a physical
sense, 100, for he is as broad as a car
door and stands almost six feet in his
stocking feet. In his features he
strongly suggests the late Gov. Pin
gree.
THE idea OF their asking me TO
preach" said the governor, as he sat
at breakfast In the diner, laying siege
to a stack of wheatcakes and getting
| away With lHem ia true WtSltIu ldou-
ion.
what am I going 10 talk about?
oh, I'll tell them about the general
prosperity of the country, / guess"
Between bites, Gov. Carey talked OF
variety of things.
"LaFollette did you say?" he re-
peated after a query. Yes, there Is
some LaFollette sentiment out west,
but IL is unorganized. President Taft
seems to be very well thought of in
my state, and was given most
cordial reception on his recent visit.
II looks TO us as though Taft will be
renominated. The Democrats in Wy
oming seem TO favor Wilson for the
presidential nomination. Harmon's
name has been mentioned, too. but
| they seem TO know more or Wilson
and think he would make the better
candidate
One of the most unique trains 10
run over steel rails is the western
governors special. IL consists of IL
cars and is composed OF dynamo-bag-
gage car, in which is generated cleo
trio power for lighting the entire
train; five exhibit cars, carrying the
exhibits of the mines, forests and
7 fields, of California. which has an en-
tire car to itself; Oregon and Idaho,
Washington and Montana, Minnesota
and North and South Dakota and
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