Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1912 — TAFT IN TRIBUTE TO BUTT [ARTICLE]

TAFT IN TRIBUTE TO BUTT

President Delivers Address at Memorial Service in Honor of His Late Military Aid. Atlanta, Ga., May 3. —With quivering voice and tears in his eyes. President Taft paid tribute to Archie Butt, who went down with the Titanic. Archie Butt’s home was here, and great crowds attended the memorial services in his honor. “If Archie could have selected his time to die,” said the president, ‘‘he would have taken the one God gave him. Self sacrifice had become a part of his nature. He loved the south and the people of the south, and he loved his church. ' “Never did I know how much he was to me until he. was dead,” continued the president. “It has always seemed to me that Archie never married because he loved his mother so. The greatest sorrow of his life was when she left him. “When he became one of my family he was as a son or brother.” Many were sobbing when the president concluded.