Show l n fi I D ift n f FAVORS Ul 1 W U UI I I President Tells People of o Arizona tIe lie Will vill WillAid Aid Them Phoenix Arl Oct l Taft arrived here at 10 1010 10 a m in today two hours ahead of time While the President wan sleeping peacefully last night ho he was being whIrled across the alkali deserts of southeastern California and Arizona at the rate of 50 or GO 60 mIles an hour houland and the two hours the ArIzona corn com had desired the tho railroads to gain for them had boon beon accomplished when Yuma was reached before day daylight light The rho fast schedule was tip up throughout the tho forenoon nud tho prest traIn was va filled Il 11 h dust It Il IlIs Itis Is Raid that thal a slow run would have made mado the tho dust b bitt L this was hard to believe beHove The PresIdent made his first public appearance toda today at Tempe sp speak speaking k ing from the rear end of his car He promised that ho he would do hIs utmost utmos to secure for the territories ot of ArIzona and New Mexico He said saJdI 11 I am YOI much obliged to you ou for comIng out this somewhat warm morn lug to greet me This Is tile tho first time in rny my journey that I have come into InLo exclusively federal and I find before me an audience that I pre presume sume is quIte willing to have t that federal jurisdiction ended l I assume that tile the desire does docs not notarise notarise arise rein an any hostility to the tho federal government but It comes from that spIrit of oC and enterprise n and Ind p that seeks a method or of showIng bat fl can do when you are shoved off from the shore and made mado to yourself Now the Republican platform upon which I 1 had the honor to be elected promIsed statehood rOl br New eico and Arizona and so far as L Lam I Iam am con concerned corned I propose to do the beat I can to carry carn out the promise I want to sa say to y n however that I Iun Iam un am not net tile the whole show There Ther are arc others who have to do rith that but butI I think you can count on our doing tile the best we can Postmaster HItchcock who has been In the southwest for several I weeks joIned the Presidents party at today Upon hIs arrival in PhoenIx the President was taken en at once to the tho where lie he held Il a reception or of delegates of cities In tile territory Following thIs there was a aride ride to tile tho city hail where the Prest Gent dent made a 1 brief address He again declared that ho he would do all In ills hIs power to have the Republican plat platform platform form e for fol statehood for Arl An I zona nn and ld Now cw Mexico carried into ef efI I feet feel Separate statehood Is the great desIre of ArizonIans and they reedy ed the tho Presidents sentiment wIth joyous cheers Mr Taft told lila hIs audIence here that perhaps time the people were lookIng for to statehood without proper ap predation or of the responsibility that wont went with It He urged them to take time to over oer a and to profit b by what he regarded as the mistake of Oklahoma The President referred to the Oklahoma constitution of cranks ns as a zoologIcal garden sarden Ho added that he dId not mean to sa say that there were not noL some good bood Idean deao In the Oklahoma constitution but too many lItany were placed b by It the The con constitution oi of a state the thc President said E should be in Its way us as and and deal with only time tho fun fundamentals as does docs the constitution of the United States After at the city hail the nt was ns taken on an automobile ride through the tho valley aHo where has reclaImed thou thousands thousands sands of acres of land once given glon over oer overto to tile tho sage brush hrush and cacti of the desert Mr lr Taft spoke briefly to the tho school children at ono point In the tho theline line of march vIsited the Indian school and aud boarded his traIn just bo be before fore foro 1 for the run to Lo Pros |