Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1909 — TAFT HAS WHIRL THROUGH INDIANA [ARTICLE]

TAFT HAS WHIRL THROUGH INDIANA

Crowd Assembled at Elkhart i See the President HE REFRAINS FROM SPEAKING

Joined In Hoosier State by Minister Crane, the Man He Selected to Care For the Interests of the United States In China—Has With Him Flag of the Commanoer-ln-Chief of the Army Which Banner Will Be Shown When the Executive Has Part In Any Military Display. Laporte, Ind., Sept. 17. —Speeding toward Chicago, President Taft arose early on his private car, the Mayflower, and sending for assistant secretary Mischler at 7 a. m., started In before breakfast to dictate a rough draft of his Orchestral hall speech in Chicago. The president made his first public appearance of the day at Elkhart, where he stepped out on the rear platform just long enough to thank the crowd gathered at the station for its cordial greeting. Taft begged to be excused from malting a speech. Charles R. Crane of Chicago, the new minister to China, boarded the train at Elkhart and rode into Chicago with the president. President Taft had with him for use on occasions when he has a military escort the presidential army flag. The flag is a counterpart of the president’s navy flag except in color. On a scarlet field is worked the national coat-of-arms surrounded by a star for each state of the Union. The forty-sixth star, for Oklahoma, was recently ad ded, and in its completed form the flag is now being used for the first time. The president was aroused from his sleep at Kendallville and had a conference with government secret service men.