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Show MEETING OF TWO PRESIDENTS ATTENDED BY MUCH POMP AND DISPLAY Bot Men Very Democratic in Their Actions, However, Each Striving to Outdo the Other in Exchange of Courteous Compliments. El Paso, Texas. The meeting between be-tween President William H. Taft and President Diaz of Mexico, on Saturday, Satur-day, outwardly was attended with a display of soldiery, a flare of trumpets, trump-ets, a boom of cannon and a pomp of ceremony suggestive of supreme authority. au-thority. But in the actual handclasp of the two executives and in the exchange ex-change of courteous words which passed from lip to lip, there was simple, but cordial informality. President Taft was the first lo speak. He assured President Diaz of his warm personal regard. President Diaz assured President Taft of his high esteem of the man who had accomplished ac-complished so much in the Philippines, Philip-pines, in Cuba and elsewhere and who had now the honor to he the chief executive of so great a nation as the United States. Both presidents dwelt upon the cordiality cor-diality of the relations existing between be-tween the United States and Mexico. There were less than a score of persons permitted to witness the meeting of the two executives. Even these were excluded later, when President Taft and President Diaz withdrew into an inner room of the chamber of commerce building, wnere the historic meeting occurred, and were only attended by Governor Greel of the state of Chihuahua, former for-mer embassador to the United States, who acted as interpreter. In the evening, at the typical little Mexican settlement of Chudad Juarez, the president and his party were entertained en-tertained at a' banquet given by President Diaz. |