The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-08
TAFT TO CLOSE 1T.
WIN Wind Up Campaign for Repub-
Hcans in Topeka.

Arrangements have been made by
the Republican state central commit
tee to have william H. Taft, secretary
of war of the United States, close the
Republican state campaign in Topeka
a short time before the election. Taft
will address his audience at the Audi
torium The exact date for the big
event has not been decided, as it is not
known when Secretary Taft will be
able to come.
Secretary Taft" said Chairman
drummer of the Republican state com
mittee today, has consented to make
two speeches in Kansas. One of the
speeches will be in Topeka, and the
other in some town yet to be selected
These speeches will both be made in
October. We do not expect to get our
speakers into the field much before the
middle of September, but it has been
decided to make things hum after we
do start We will have a very large
number of speakers, and in the six
weeks prece eding election, I think that
we can arrange to- have a speech in
nearly every town in the state. The
details of this work VIII be left to John
c. Brown, who will be the head of our
speakers bureau.
Il don't know how many speakers
we will use during the campaign. be-
cause there are dozens of energetic
young Republicans who want chance
to show their metLe, and We will give
all the promising ones a chance. We
will couple them up with some old
anPalgner, and let them get out and
get acquainted and see what they can
do. I believe that the state of Kansas
affords more first class speakers than
any other state in the Union of similar
size. There are hundreds Of men who
can make effective campaign speeches,
headed by such men as Hoch, Bailey.
McNeal and Benson. There will be
plenty of speech making before we are
through with the campaign"
Shawnee county Republicans have
arranged to have speeches from three
Republican orators of large caliber
They are Taft, Major William Warner
and W. T. Vernon, registrar of the
United States treasury.
In addition to these men of national
repute a big political picnic to open
the campaign is being arranged tc
take place at Willard on Saturday
September 1. This is a sort of joini
affair OF Wabaunsee and Shawnee
counties. Willard is only a few miles
this side of the Wabaunsee county
line This meeting on September
Will be addressed by Congressman
]. NJ. Miller, of the Fourth district
Congressman Charles Curtis of the
First district, and State Printer T. A.
McNeal. These three speakers will nc
doubt be able to dispense a large
amount OF RepuD1can HeUlclne IN the
day set apart for them.
Following the Willard meeting
there will be another big political pic
mic at Wakarusa, on the Usage county
line. which will be sort of a combina-
tion Shawnee -Osage affair. This pic
mic will have for its stellar attraction
an address by Senator William War
ner of Missouri who is immensely
popular in Kansas. and who was en-
dorsed for the office which he now
holds by the Republican legislature 81
Kansas during the hard political fghi
in Missouri two years ago.
It has been decided that W. T. Yer
non shall speak in the Topeka audi
torium, and when it comes to stumI
speaking, there is no one for whom
Vernon need take back seat He is
without doubt the greatest negro ora
tor in the country, and his reputation
promises to eclipse that of Booker
Washington. The Republicans figure
that they have made a ten strike with
the colored voters by. securing his ser
vices in the campaign. He wild put II
solid month of his time making
speeches in Kansas, and it is expected
that his work will allay any difficulty
which may exist among the negro Re
publicans of the state.