Thirty-five States and Terri
tories Will Have Chance
to See Him.
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He Will Give the Country His
Views on Many Topics
of Importance.
By JAMES A. EDGERTON.
THE Taft tour will cover about
13,000 miles, or slightly less
"than that of President Roose
velt to the Pacific coast and
longer than any other presidential
jaunt in history. Starting on the pres
ident's fifty-second birthday, Sept. 15,
It ends on Nov. 10. although two later
side trips carry it up to Nov. 21. The
tour proper covers thirty-five states
and territories, and the ' only reason
that it does not cover more is that it
Is not a snake and cannot mate too
crooked a trail. There are now sched
uled seventy-five speeches in fifty-five
cities, and there will be as many more
rear platform talks in as many towns
as railroad stops will permit and a
lusty lunged populace can induce the
president to make. Taft will visit the
states of the insurgent Senators La
Follette, Cummins, Dolliver, Nelson,
Clapp, Brown, Burkett and Borah and
will talk more peace than The Hague
.conference. Also these gentlemen
should make sure that he does not
steal their states away from them dur
tag the powwow. He will also visit
the Rocky mountain region and the
northwest, where reclamation, con
servation and the- Ballinger-Pinchot
controversy have their lairs, and he
may be expected to be the great pacifi
cator again. He will stop off at the
Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition and
line, but congressmen are now so plen
tiful as to be no longer a curiosity, al
though it is said that lobbyists will
still pay money to see them.
In New Orleans President Taft. the
governors, congressmen and several
hundred other citizens will gather in
a deep waterways convention to con
sider ways and means to run ships
from Lake Michigan to the . gulf of
Mexico. The only kind of ship that
can go down there now is an airship,
and it would have to fly high or it
would bump into Chicago and the hills.
It is proposed to enlarge the Chicago
drainage canal, the Illinois river and
the Mississippi until they can float big
ocean freighters and passenger craft.
So the president's trip is not all pleas
ure. It helps dig future ditches and
draws water.
Winning the South.
After leaving New Orleans the pres
ident will make a general tour of the
south and will incidentally eat many
possum dinners. When Roosevelt went
south it was the bears that were in
dismay, but Taft throws a panic
among the possums. No president
since the war . has endeavored more
ardently or successfully than Mr. Taft
to wipe out the last trace of sectional
feeling and to erase Mason and Dix
on's line from the map, He has done
this by a . very nice zoological discrim
ination. He has not only cultivated
WHEN TAFT AND DIAZ SHAKE HANDS.
traverse tne Pay Streak. He will do
the cities of the coast, winding up
with the paradise around Los Angeles
and lingering several days in the Yo
semite. He will also spend some hours
amid the wonders of the Grand can
yon, as earlier in his journey he had
spent others as 'delightful about Colo
rado Springs and in the Royal gorge
near Pueblo.
He will meet President Diaz on the
1onndary, and the two will be whirled
tack and forth into each other's re
public regardless of tariffs or of speed
laws. Diaz's birthday Is the same as
that of Taft by the way, but he had
It sooner. He is seventy-nine and has
been president of Mexico most of that !
time any way a long while. He was ;
president when Taft was a "rah-rah"
Doy at Yale. What the American ex
ecutive lacks in years, however, he
makes up in other ways. In a weigh
ing match he would have Diaz jump
ing through the ceiling. The countries
over which the two men preside are
also slightly different.
Down, the Mississippi.
One of the Texas stations at which
the president's train will stop is Taft.
The name is already getting into geo
graphical fame, only in this case it
is that of his brother Charley." A big
Tanch and a fine house there belong to
Charles P., at which the president will
stop for several days .to .rest up from:
' his outing.
From St. Louis Mr. Taft "'will go to
New Orleans on a Mississippi , river
steamboat. It was- at one time report
ed that Mark Twain would pilot this,
- nut Mark thought it over and conclud
ed that ,- a boat . with , the president
- aboard would- be too heavily loaded
for a man of over seventy to handle,.
In ,the boat behind the president
will come about thirty governors all,
In fact, that can be coaxed out of the
: brush at one time. Governors are
. not always easy to catch, as witness
Taylor of Kentucky. . Something like
a hundreds congressmen will also trail
the procession- somewhere along the.
the possum, but by being friendly and
showing that he is a jolly good fellow
Taft has captured the heart of the
south. He will undoubtedly extend
the field of his conquest on the pres
ent trip. Incidentally.be will spend a
day or two at Augusta, where he play
ed golf and escaped anxious politicians
as president elect.
A-Trip to the Moon.
Some ingenious and supposedly vera
cious figurer has made the Interesting
discovery ' . that In the last ten years
Taft has, traveled a distance slightly
greater than that to the moon--or at
least he '.will have done so when he
completes ; this tour. Starting when
made governor general of the Philip
pines in 1900. he has been hitting the
road at a clip running all the way
from 15.000 to 50,000 mUes a year and
has incidentally promoted peace and
matrimony on the. way., This makes
him not only the most traveled of the
presidents, but lands him in a class by
himself as a globe trotter. Back and
forth to the Philippines, to. Cuba, to
Porto Rico, to Panama, to the Vatican
and finally around the world he has
gone, to say 'nothing of .the - trips he
has made over his own land in outrun
ning Bryan for the presidency. Wil
liam Jennings Is something of a trav
eler himself, and when the two of them
got on the road there were hot boxes
and smoking rights of way. The coun:
try , has' probably , never ; seen distance
eaten up as it was in the last cam
paign.'; As 'for ; Taft, he has the peri
patetic habit and may be expected to
outdo Roosevelt's record as a railroad
patron. It may be that before Taft is
out of .office the aeroplane will become
tner usual vehicle of travel, and if it
does and if a machine can be made big
enough for Taft there is no question
that he will take an aerial tour. If
there are any new ways of going he
will be in on them, as he has tried all
the ways there are in exlstence.now
all. at least except the submarine, and
this he-, has probably avoided for safe-
ty f If Mr, , Taft, were to,board,a,:sutH J yT!
it v. .. J i T f that to the
marine the unusual weight might force
the craft to the bottom and hold it .
there. The president will have to have
his submarines and aeroplanes made to
order, as he does his chairs and beds.
. Even the buying of a Taft horse
requires the scouring of . the country
in order that one may be found that
will stand the strain. One of the
reasons that the vvnite, House auto
mobile is a government machine is
that no mere privately owned one
would be sufficient. In the matter of
the v present tour, however, the roads
are now well ballasted and the cars
strongly built, so no fears need be en
tertained on that score.
Washington Toured In a Coach.
The presidential tour has been in
vogue ever since the days of G. Wash
ington, who .used to go about in a
coach and four, with children ahead
scattering flowers and citizens on the
roadside raising their cocked hats in
homage. Washington's mode of travel
made it impossible to cover much ter
ritory, but then there was not much
territory in those days to cover.' There
is also a record that James Monroe
made a coach tour of New England
and other parts of the country in days
when there was such an era of good
feeling that partisans had ceased to
call each other names. I am not sure
just what president was the . first to
make use of the railroad for touring
purposes, but It was some time before
the civil war. Lincoln did little trav
eling, leaving that to his generals, who
did quite a little going, both on the
advance and the retreat. Mr. Lincoln
visited the front quite often, however,
and rode a horse along the lines, with
his tall hat far aloft and his feet and
coattails close to the ground. Andrew
Johnson was a lively and violent trav
eler and started the term "swinging
around the circle:" He appealed to the
country, but congress nearly got him
in spite of the speed of his circle
swinging. . Grant traveled much and
was greeted everywhere as a hero. He
could not make a speech, but the coun
try did not seem, to mind. We have
so many orators around loose that it
matters little whether our presidents
can talk or not. (
There is no record of Hayes, Garfield
and Arthur having done much in the
touring line, but Cleveland went out
upon the road and was accused of us
ing an . encyclopedia in preparing his
speeches to the different towns he vis
ited. He wanted to throw in some lo
cal color, you know, and there is noth
ing like an encyclopedia for that, pro-,
vided. of course,' that one has no up to
date information. Benjamin "Harrison
traveled' much and was widely com
plimented on his happy little speeches.
McKinley did more vtouring than any
other president up to his time, . and
Roosevelt beat McKinley.
The( Koosevelt Tour de Force."
With the "rough rider" the presiden
tial tour became more than a mere
outing and : gratification of the" curt
osity of the people. It was a means of
spreading his principles, It was not
only his method of finding, out what
the country believed, but an avenue
through which to tell the country what
he believed. Travel with Roosevelt
was a stirring up time. If he was
not stirring up the people he was1 stir
ring up the bears and wildcats. Mean
while he was making it unpleasant for
the trusts, the nature fakers and sev
eral other classes of -undesirable citi
zens, No old time preacher went on
the circuit with more of the exhorter's
zeal, than did Roosevelt. It was not
enough to write books, magazine arti
cles, voluminous messages, .interviews
and letters galore. He also went out
to John Smith at Kokomo and Henry
Jones at Painted Post and told them
about it. Roosevelt not 'only believed
In publicity for the trusts, but In pub
licity for presidents, and he got all of
it there was. Whenever "T. R." hit
the trail the pressmen oiled their ma
chines and the linotype operators pre
pared for extra hours.
In this respect it is. fairly certain
that Taft will follow in the footsteps
of his predecessor. His tour will be a
means of telling the country what he
is going to do. . In his various speeches
he will lay down his policies and out
line the program of his administration
The vast number of addresses he will
be called upon to make will give am
ple opportunity for this. At one point
he can lay stress on one policy, and at
another he can enunciate his purposes
in another direction. Thus his utter
ances on the whole tour will .be found
to constitute a mosaic which, fitted to
gether, will give his complete program.
In the central west, and In the home of
the insurgents foe may. be expected to
offer a defense of the Payne bill, in the
northwest to outline his plans as to
conservation. In the south his policy
further to allay sectionalism and ev
erywhere his plans to regulate the cor
porations." his ideas as to monetary re--
form, his proposals for additional rail
road legislation and his opinions on
other questions agitating the particular
section in, which, he is speaking or the
country at large. These speeches the
newspapers will carry to the ends of
the nation. Here Is far and away the
most important feature of the Taft
tour. It Infinitely transcends the num
ber of miles he will cover, the partic
ular cities he will visit or the brand of
entertainment he will- -receive. The
tour is the president's; method of tak
ing .Uncle Sam,. into his .confidence.
From this, aspect it is an appropri
ate and. characteristically democratic
event.
It is estimated that despite the length
of this tour it will give only one per
son in eight an opportunity to see the
president. 'Truly it is an immense
country--how immense nobody realizes
better than the president himself. , To
visit it all he would have to duplicate
his journeys for the past ten years and
again cover a distance greater than
moon.
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