The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-03-08
PRESIDENTS ON TOUR
ARTHUR AND CLEVELAND WERE
NOT GOOD TRAVELLERS.
Latter Did Not Like crowds-HarrL
son Was impatient-once Had
Train sidetrseked IN Woods
SO He Could fest.

If anybody travelling needs rest
over Sunday it Is a president on a
jcunt. said man who has been out
with several presidents Fortunate
ly Tor Mr. Taft, he likes this sorl OF
thing. but notice that he has ordered
rests over Sunday in his Itinerary
Il have travelled with Arthur, de
Kinley, Cleveland and Harrison on
their jaunts Arthur. in spite of his
taient for mixing with a New York
crowd. was never equal to the job in
the country. If any town in this
country is up on the art of catering
to any exclusive taste it is Louisville.
KY. Arthur was the first Republican
president to go south, and Louisville
spread herself to make him feel at
home. Political lines were obliterat,,
ed on the occasion of his visit when
he went there to open the cotton ex
position. The Pendennis club gave
him banquet fit for a king. but he
was glad when it was over.
When he left Chicago for his hunt
in Yellowstone he told Phil Sheridan.
who had charge of the party, that he
was glad he was going where he could
have uninterrupted rest.
Mckinley was not as gooG traV
eler as Taft, but he never showed
that he was tired heard him say
once that he wished railroad compa-
MES would make some arrangement
by which log cabin could be attach
ed to train instead of a Pullman
sleeper
Cleveland never liked crowd. He
fretted under handshaking and always
grunted when he had to make a rear
platform speech When he visited Chi
cago with his bride be got the great
est reception ever seen in that city
The fact that Mrs Cleveland broke
down rrder thefstrain of the excite.
ment may have had something to do
with making Cleveland impatient. but
the way he raved over the jam and
mismanagemen Of the affair woud
have melted the type of any newspa-
per ;hat tried to quote him. When he
left the city for Iadison, where he
was guest of Colonel Villas, he ex-
pressed himself as delighted over the
rest to which he was bound. | saw
him at an inaugural bali in Washing.
ton. | wouldn't like to repeat what
heard him say about tile mob on the
floor.
Harrison was the most impatient
presidential traveller of all ever
jaunted with. One night the crowd
in Burlington became unmaEageable.
1t was the worst | ever saw The. po.
lice wero as useless al a lot of wood
el soldiers When the meeting was
over and Harrison anC his party went
to the presidential train. Harrison
asked when the train was duo at the
next stop, Oskaloosa. Ia. where he
was to open the Corn Palace the next
day. When he was told that the
schedule was for noon the following
day he requested that the train be
sidetracked somewhere for the re-
mainder of the night in order that he |
might get resi-.
1T was so ordered. and the train
was run out of Burlington about 40 |
miles and placed on siding in the |
woods. There 1t remained until aft
er breakfast. For the first time in |
any presidential iaunt that | ever
heard o. the president was lost TO the |
people of the country for te nhours
There waa no wireless apparatus
then
The next day. when Harrison and
his part7 reached st. Joseph. Mo-. he
was routed out of bed at sunrise 10 |
take breakfast at the railroad station
and talk to the people think Har.
rison came nearer forgetting IL Pres
byterian pledge then than he ever /