The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-10-04
Dwyer Tells Of Tour Of Oklahoma
financiers; Sits at Festal Board
With Former President
Taft
FINDS OKLAHOMA
CONDITIONS BEST
Best Place to Live and Make
Money" Declares Wonderer
to Distant Lands; Many
Joys on Journey

! glad to be once more on Oklahoma
soil, Thomas II. Dwyer, president Of
the Oklahoma Bankers association. ar
| rived home Friday evening from a
pleasant visit to the San Francisco ex-
position. and an extended preceding
trip throughout the northwest and
west.
Mr.. Dwyer boarded the Oklahoma
Bankers special which left Oklahoma
City the latter part OF August for a
roundabout trip to the city OF the
Golden Gate.
Mr.. Dwyer stated this morning that
the trip was an ideal one He said that
from the time they left Oklahoma City
on the first leg of their journey until
they arrived back there and home
again" they were entertained and win
ed and dined" to the surfeiting of all.
The first day in which the corks
popped and the hot birds flanked the
bottles while wit and humor bubbled
from welcoming speeches, was Kansas
City. Here, Mr.. Dwyer said, the bank
ers OF the CITY OF the Kaw" made
special effort to play the part of tho
hosts to the coming hero and later
big contingent OF those hosts joined the
party and became members Of the ex-
cursion.
Crossing the boundary into the fast
nesses of King Georges Canadian do
minion, the bankers of Winnipeg and
Calgary came across with all the deli
cacies of which magazine writer's tell
together with liquid refreshments from
good old smokey 0Dwyer's Scotch
and Irish Installations, down to the
tabled ALI and 'Alf and old fashioned
bubble water made in America and
branded in France. These refresh
ments appealed to some of the party
but not to Mr.. Dwyer
AT Seattle the bankers we're again
entertained most royalty. Here they
stayed as guests OF the Seattle bank
ers for four days From Seattle the
excursion wended onward to Portland
where the party left the train and con
tinued by boat TO San Francisco
At Portland Former President Taft
became a member of the party and
added much to the enjoyment of the
remaining portion of the trip into San
Francisco.
Mr.. Dwyer said that Mr.. Taft still
wore that aldermanic bay window
while the some old winning smile lift
ed the corners of his mustache and Tilt
ed the spread of his nostrils as it
squinted his eyes with wrinkles of
pleasure.
Mr.. Taft responded to toast at Q
spread on shipboard in which he stat
ed that Mr. Dwyer could lay claim to
all kinds of honor in being a Republi-
can. He said that while he-Mr. Taft
was born and reared in Ohio. where
Republicans were thicker than tradi-
tional fiddlers, "in a land which we
hope may be traditional, but fear
not" Mr.. Dwyer was Republican out
put of Texas, with quarter of a mil
lion Democratic plurality. horn of good,
old Irish-parentage and nurtured in the
very cradle of democracy Like the
Irishman was about the giraffe. Mr..
Taft said that even though he knew
Tom Dwyer to be an Irish-Texas Re
publican, vet he could not but believe
that there amt no such animal"
Mr.. Dwyer said that the San Fran
cisco exposition is a big success and
while it may not pay big dividend to
its promoters, yet will pay out and
leave modicum of profit.
In speaking of conditions throughout
the country generally. Mr.. Dwyer said
that he could not but feel satisfied that
the crop. the necessarily coincident
financial conditions of Oklahoma werc
better than those in any state visited.
The Pacific coast is good country
to visit and unload your money in"
said Mr.. Dwyer, but Oklahoma is the
place to make money and live