Show CHEERS AND OVERSIGHTS One of the newspaper men traveling with the Presidents train said raid I no notice notice tice your people break forth into any uproarious cheers as Taft got off th the Rio Grande train and walked to his auto And I noticed the crowds all the way to the fort were so orderly I Ith thought th maybe they had mistaken the affair for a funeral A friend of ot the President not direct directly ly a member of the party said I know your people are devotedly loyal loral to Taft and would do anything in the tho world by byway byway byway way of ot honoring him And yet et there have been some defects In the arrange arrangement arrangement arrangement ment And the explanation 06 off both probably is found In the fact of inexperience Some may wince a little at that word But it should cause them no embar embarrassment ra In the east parades the visit of fa famous famous famous people the exhibition of popular sentiment In welcoming a guest the expressions sometimes extravagant by the crowds lining the streets are matters of common experience They are frequent And out of ot that same fact comes preparation the command of little de details details details tails which make up so much of the general success We of ot Utah need not blush that the silence of ot our people comes from the rarity of ot like visits We need not feel humiliated that some details of the great affair connected with the Presidents Presidents Presidents dents sojourn In Salt Lake have lacked somewhat of ot perfection Utah Is far In advance of many states In many things It Is so far tar removed from the activities of ot the populous p east that it lacks lack and in tho the course of oC na nature nature nature ture will for Cor years ears continue to lack the noisy expression of welcome along the streets the management of many little things But these are not essentials In the tIie hearts of the people hut about the Rio Grande trains were thousands who glo gloried gloried gloried ried at the arrival of the President of the United States thousands who felt eU the thrill of pride that their city had been so favored as to receive a three days visit from him jubilant at the idea of being one of a community in which he was was a guest If they had lived in the east side of ot New York they th y would have been trained to one continuous con continuous continuous roar of ot shouting as as long as the procession remained in iJ sight If they had bad been of upper New York they would have known to the last d detail tall tail just what to do at every eve turn in the celebration and would have perfected the day before the rising of the sun But they have hae given ghen the President the hearty understanding and sincere welcome that was felt teU by b these the e Utah people when the President came And the difference is that a lapse of formality in one detail of ot the day In New York or other eastern city would have been fatal tatal to the entire scheme Here trivialities of ot entertain entertainment entertainment ment Mont or details of ot arrangement are passed and instantly forgotten in the larger assurance as of human love for tor the theman theman theman man and patriotic love loye of the country of which he Is the officer As to shouting a welcome their pres presence presence presence ence and their conduct at the park Sat Saturday Saturday Saturday afternoon proved they could utter their sentiments And as ns to details of arrangement not a thing has bas happened which casts a shadow over over the happi happiness happiness ness nese of any anyone one The Presidents entertainment has bas been very well managed and the peo people people pie are profoundly rejoiced to have had him here In Utah This of course does not contemplate the purposed labor made by some to silence the applause and to complicate the plans plane of the various committees That however Is a matter which can be taken up and discussed after the guest of Utah shall have departed For the present one need only say the whole affair has been enjoyable that the persons chiefly concerned have un understood understood understood and that they have been made very happy And that every loyal citi citizen citizen citizen zen of Utah is glad this day in the con consciousness consciousness that all the people hay have been honored by the visit Not an Incident of ot it will ever be forgotten And much good will come came of ot the Presidents enter entertainment entertainment for many a year |