From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Sept. 20, 1911:

“If there are any anarchists in Lawrence or other parties with questionable tendencies, these will all be watched on Sunday morning, September 24, when President Taft stops at Lawrence. In order to protect the president from cranks who may mingle with the throngs, every precaution is taken to see that ever suspicious person is kept under surveillance during Mr. Taft’s stay in each place, and in some instances, a list of men of questionable tendencies — especially with anarchistic proclivities — is obtained and these men are either held in restraint until the President has concluded his visit or are constantly watched by detectives.”

“Lawrence people will not see any pictures displayed of Beulah Binford, the young woman who played so conspicuous a part in the Henry Clay Beattie case in Virginia. The pictures will not be allowed to be thrown up the screens of any of the three moving pictures houses in Lawrence. The movement is in accord with that action which is being taken all over the United States ever since it was learned that the Binford girl had decided to pose for moving pictures. Her only asset was the fact that she had played so notorious a part in one of the most sordid murder cases known in the United States for some time…. Not only is it the right thing that such pictures should not be shown, but that it is a lesson to this girl and others of a similar class that the public will not stand for such a thing.”