The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-19
TAFT COMES
N0RTHWARD
Was in Nashua For Brief Stop
This Forenoon
THEN CAME TO MANCHESTER
Before Returning To Boston Late In The
Day He Will Visit Concord
He Gave Many Addresses
During The Day.

/ Manchester, n H., March l9.-Presi-
dent Taft to-day gave New Hampshire
his views on the recall Of judges and
| judicial decisions and defined a Pro
gressiye." The president spoke at Nash
ua and in this city at length and made
short ear-platform speeches in several
small towns. In Nashua he spoke twice,
once in the Colonial theatre on the re-
call and later on the public square. The
crowds were large and the cheering was
frequent.
Coming from Boston by special train,
the president was accompanied by for
mer Governors Rollins and Quinby and
f. W. Estabrook, the New Hampshire
member of the Republican national com
mittee.
President Taft's speeches in Nashua
were along the line of those delivered
last week in Toledo and Chicago He
declared that the recall of decisions
would make government of special in
terests, the most erratic form OF gov
ernment.
Ideal spring weather prevailed, and so
that the president was able to speak
without his hat and he was perspring
freely when he finished the address. A
special train whirled him up from
Nashua with pause at Reed Ferry,
whore little gathering Of mill hands
cheered him. He reached this city at
noon
Boston, March 10 President Taft left
Boston early to-day on tour of the
New Hampshire cities of NashusS Man
chester and Concord. He is due back
in Boston late this afternoon and he
will return to Washington tonight.
Last night President Taft ended his
part in the celebration OF Evacuation
day and St Patrick's day with an ad
dress to the Charitable Irish society
and look in" on the dinners OF the
Bank Officers association, the Boston
Paper Trade association and the Yale
club of Boston.
In many ways it was the busiest and
most demonstrative day the president
has spent since he entered the White
House. Members OF his party were
unanimous in declaring that no recep-
ton ever accorded Mr.. Taft in his trav
els from coast to coast exceeded in cor
diality that which Boston gave him yes
terday. From the time his train hustled
into the South station at O'Clock, /
until he retired last night, Bostonians
Wed with each other to eX
press their friendly feeling for the chief |
executive.
The presidents reception by the gen
eral court of Massachusetts, in the aft /
pf ba plsul Ia
in point of enthusiasm that most OF |
those present ever witnessed. For more I
than two minutes after he entered the 1
hall escorted by special committee OF /
of the legislature, the president I
was cheered to the echo. Speaker Cush I
ing raped for order in vain and the /
galleries joined in the applause.
From the State House, the president
out into South Boston and for
mere than two hours listened to the
cheering of thousands of Bostonans.
saw thousands of American flags waved
in his honor, and reviewed the larg
,st parades ever arranged in honor OF
Ireland's patron saint and Evacuation
lay.
In his address to the Charitable Irish
,ceiety last night, the president praised
he Irish for their adaptabilty to be-
coming Americans and added word
about the evident belief of that race in
he stability of American institutions
In this connection the president said:
THE thing of which | wish to speak
o-nght. however, is the we'll known
act that socialism and anarchy have
ound no lodgment among Irishmen.
They believe in constituted authority;
hey believe in the institutions of mod
,rn society; they believe in upholding
,ur national and our state governments:
hecks and balances of our constitutions
i structure. Not from them do we
lear proposals to change the fundament-
j law, to take away the independence
# the judiciary or to minimize in any
way the influence and power of con
tituted authority. They welcome prog
ess; they are enterprising and active
0 further prosperity. They are not full
( diatribes against the existing order
"They struggle for equality of oppor- ,
unity and recognize the value of liberty .
rdered by law. They are not reaching
ut for the gods of government. They
re not seeking to invent a new society ,
nd turn the present one topsy turvy :
hey are on the side of law and order
hey are partaking of the civilization
he good fortune, the prosperity and the
appiness that is possible under our
.merican government; they are crate
Al for it, they value it; they will !
ght to preserve it,