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Show I TtfT WILL VISIT I yji THIS YEAR HI A special to The Herald-Republican m from Washington says: H President Taft today gave to Scna- H tor Smoot a conditional promlso that 1 he will attend the old folks gathermg H in Salt Lake next September H The acceptance of the invitation M was only conditional upon whether congress" adjourns In lime to permit M the President to carry out the 'western M trip he has in mind. If circumstances I allow, he wll be glad to go to Salt H lake and make an address to the M thousands of old people from all parts M of th state who will be gathered there in this novel reunion. Hl Senator Smoot today called at tho H White House and extended to the H President a very cordial invitation to H visit Salt Lake upon his tour of the H west. He explained to the President H the old folks' reunion ancr told how H the affair Is managed and how the H celebration is one of respect to old H age, a very pretty and worthy sentl- H Ttient. H The senator pointed out that while H this reunion is managed under the di- H reotion of the Mormon church, it is H really non-sectarian, that no creed H line or color line is drawn, that 'all H people over seventy are made wel H come, their expenses paid, their ontor- H tainment provided and their comfort H looked after Ho told the President H how they are class tiled in their dlvl- H slons, those between seventy and H i eighty years old, those between eighty H and ninety, and those over ninety, H each class wearing a different colored H bad.e. H The President was urged to come B old people who will be gathered to- M and witness this interesting event and H to make an address to 12,000 or 15,000 H gcther this fall M President Taft manifested a deep H Interest in the subject and he frankly M told Senator Smoot he would come if B congress adjourned in time. H The western tour he has planned is Hl contingent upon the time of the ad- 1 journment of the special session and H upon other public matters, hut if ho M is able to make It he surely will in- M elude Salt Lake and the old. folks' H gathering in his itinerary |