The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-03-15
PRESIDENTS ON TOUR.
ARTHUR AND CLEVELAND WERE
NOT GOOD TRAVELLERS.
Latter Did Not Like crowds-HarrL
son Was Impatient-once Had
Train Sidetraeked In Woods
So He Could Rest.

"If anybody travelling needs rest
over Sunday 1t is q president on a
Jcunt," said a man who has been out
with several presidents, Fortunate.
ly for Mr.. Taft, he likes this sort of
thing, but notice that he has ordered
rests over Sunday in his itinerary.
Il have travelled with Arthur. Nc
Kinley. Cleveland and Harrison on
their jaunts Arthur, In spite of his
talent for mixing with 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 1t 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.
W ntn ne iOll OnlCd6O lOA MS NUM-
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-
nies would make some arrangement
by which log cabin could be attach
ed to train instead of Pullman
sleeper
Cleveland never liked a crowd. He
fretted under handshaking and always
grunted when he had to make rear
platform speech. When he visited Chi
cago with his bride he got the great
est reception ever seen in that city.
The fact that Mrs Cleveland broke
down rrder the strain of the excite.
ment may have had something to do
with making Cleveland impatient but
the way he raved over the jam and
mismanagement OF the affair woud
have melted the type OF any newspa-
per that tried to quote him. When he
left the city for fadison, where he
was a guest of Colonel Villas, he ex-
presseu himself as delighted over the
rest to which he was bound saw
him at an inaugural ball in Washing
ton. wouldn't like to repeat what
! heard him say about the mob on the
floor.
Harrison was the most impatient
presidential traveller Of all | ever
jaunted with. One night the crowd
in Burlington became unmanageable.
1t was the worst ever saw. The po-
lice were as useless az a lot of wood
Ell soldiers. When the meeting was
over and Harrison and his party went
to the presidential train, Harrison
asked when the train was dus 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 rest
1T was SO ordered, and tho train
was run out of Burlington about 40
miles and placed on a siding in the
woods. There it remained until aft.
er breakfast For the first time In
any presidential jaunt that ever
heard O. the president was lost to the
people of the country for te nhours
There was no wireless apparatus
then.
The next day. when Harrison and
his party 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 hi, Pres
byterian pledge then than he ever
did befor New .ork Sun