Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1911 — THE PRESIDENTIAL TRIP. [ARTICLE]

THE PRESIDENTIAL TRIP.

Mr. Taft should have stayed at home. His trip has done him no good. It doesn’t matter where he goes, he is confronted with factional feeling. When a progressive gets his ear. the insurgent boils and when the insurgent basks in the Taft smile, the standpatter growls ominously. The writer has met many republicans in Missouri, Kansas and lowa lately who deprecate the presidential /ftfuket. They like Mr. Taft, but they regret that he felt it necessary to leave Washington. What the president has to say on these grave questions of public import would sound much better if they came from Washington instead of Coon Hollow, Kansas, or Punkin Corners, Mo. It rather strips the office of dignity, which old-fashioned people like to see there, when the chief executive of the nation has to hop-skip over the land at. breathless speed to make speech- . ' Mr. Taft’s enemies are ready to take a crack at everything he says. All his actions are dis-' torted. People are actually beginning to make fun of Mr. Taft. The president was to speak at a convention some time ago, but until a few minutes before he entered’the hall he had thought of no subject. His eye fell upon the sign at the door—Push—and he determined to make that his theme. “Young men,” he finished, “let your motto always be that word which is on the door. Let that raise you to a position of trust, and that only!” As all eyes were turned to the place designated a rapidly growing chuckle could be heard over the room. The sign on the insidg read “Pull.”—Lake County Times. (Rep.)