Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1911 — TAFT IS PEERED BY OLD MORMONS [ARTICLE]

TAFT IS PEERED BY OLD MORMONS

Greets Utah Pioneers in Salt Lake City Tabernacle. “OLD FOLKS’ UNION’’ WEEK President Talks to Audience of 12,000 About Arbitration and Treaties —Is in Pocatello, Idaho, Today. Salt Lake City, Utah, Oct. 6. —More cheers of welcome for President Taft were heard at the Mormon tabernacle here than he has ever had from any audience during his occupancy of the White, House. It was “old folks’ union" week in Utah and they made Mr. Taft the central feature of interest for the old folks. A hundred of them met him at the New Mormon hotel, where he breakfasted, and when breakfast was over he was taken to the tabernacle. The tabernacle seats some 12,000 people. It was filled to the top of the galleries when the president entered. Bishop Nibley of the Mormon Church introduced the president and, to give Mr. Taft an idea of the age of his .u----dience, he asked all of those present who had crossed the prairie in the Mormon migration of 1846-7 to rise. The greater portion of the congregation rose in a body. The president spoke to them on peace. In discusing the two sides of the question of the policy of submitting international disputes to arbitration, he admitted that it was practically a question which could not be argued, because a man’s opinion depended so entirely upon his point of view. The president dwelt upon the burden to the poor and the peaceful which war and the preparation for war brings, and the old people cheered him loudly. 1 Senator Smoot of Utah, who sat next to the president on the high tabernacle pulpit, told Mr. Taft after the speech that he would support the arbitration treaties in the amended form to which the president has given his consent, that is, that the senate shall be given the power of confirmation over the appointments to the

Joint high commission. In the afternoon the president addressed a large outdoor audience at the Utah state fair. The president was assured that Utah would be for him solidly in the convention and at the election. The Commercial club of Salt Lake gave the president s banquet in the evening. Today he is in Pocatello, Idaho.