The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-05-20
Chief Executive Cordially
Received and His Three
Hundred Auditors Were
Good Listeners.
SORRY RICHMOND is
AROOSEVELT TOWN
MIR. Taft Wore His Proverb-
ial Smile and Was Extreme
ly Sarcastic in Speaking of
His Opponent.

Coming into Indiana only as a con-
venient means of making the journey
from Eaton, O.. to Greenville. Presi-
dent Taft this morning was greeted at
the Pennsylvania station by a crowd
of three hundred persons who were
apparently much gratified at not only
catching a good glimpse of the execu-
tive, but also of listening to q seven
minute speech.
President Taft spoke at o'clock
this morning at Eaton and his special
reached Richmond little before IL
o'clock. and was transferred to the
Columbus division and sent on to
Greenville.
The crowd that had assembled here
was necessarily small for there had
been no definite information before
hand as to the exact time OF the arrival
of the train and the impression pre-
vailed that there would be no time
here for an exchange of greetings.
The presidents car was kept in
the east yards while the other coaches
of his train were first run into the sta
ton, but after a wait of five minutes
the executives car was backed down
| into the sheds and the President him
self, with golfing cap on his head and
drawn well down over his eyes. was
on the platform.
The crowd drew up about the plat
form in respectful attention and with
only hand-clapping demonstration as
the car stopped.
| His ProverbiaI Smile.
President Taft with his proverbial
willingness to talk TO Richmondites
even though, as he himself said. they
had not given him their approval
when it came to selecting delegates
to the national convention. The presi-
dent also took occasion to thank In
diana while on Indiana soil for its part
/ played in the struggle for Republican
delegates to the National conven
ton and he said that III Ohio tomorrow
should do as well as Indiana already
has done. il would be pleasant indeed.
/ The president found a good opening to
land an upper cut on William Dudley
Foulke, referring to him az "fanatical
and Wild" but he pursued this topic
no further. and devoted the entire re-
mainder of his speech to an effort 20
show that Colonel Roosevelt's nomi-
nation and election would be danger
GUS proceeding. As the train pulled
out Charles Stivers, editor OF the Lib
erty Herald and former proprietor OF
the defunct Richmond Times, shouted
to the President that Indiana was for
him.
The President said:
Ladies and Gentlemen of Richmond
and Indiana: I consider II extremely
fortunate to meet and greet you to-
day and thank you for your cordial re-
ception.
| II am not hunting in Indiana pre-
serves today.
81 am not going to deliver a political
address. but I will say that II Ohio.
my home state, does as well by me as
Indiana has done I will not have one
word of complaint. think. possibly.
that / might improve on the vote in
Richmond and Wayne county. perhaps.
IL you would try IL over again. You
might do better.
OisIikes His Task
81 am sorry to be obliged to come
out as president of the United States
and engage in personalities with an
ex-president I refused to be drawn In
to a personal encounter with Mr..
Roosevelt at first. and for a month and
a half prayed that might be spared
the necessity of SO doing.
Il am opposed to the character Of
the campaign which Theodore Roose-
welt as carrying on and rather than
help that cause by keeping silent came
out to enter the campaign against him.
I am opposed to Tehodore Roosevelt
upon three grounds First, because OF