The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-08-19
TAFT'S LONG TRIP
GIRDLING EARTH
Will Complete One Hundred,
Fifty Thousand.
Goes To Open Philippine Congress
and Journey Through Man.
churia.
WILL SPEAK AT COLUMBUS

Washington. Aug. 19.-Secretary
Iof War william II. Taft has set forth
upon one of the trips. which have
been so marked a feature of his po-
iitical career According to his plans
he will make a circuit of the globe be-
fore returning to Washington the
latter part of November or early in
December.
Secretary Taft Is to represent the
administration at the opening OF the
Philippine congress on October PC,
and from the Philippines he will re-
turn by the Trans-Slberian railway to
st. Petersburg. returning from there
to the United States by way of Paris
and London.
The trip across the continent TO
Seattle. from which port the secre-
tary OF war will sail for the Philip
pines, will be a leisureiy one. with
stops at a number OF points to deliy-
err speeches. These speeches VIII be
of a political character and will mark
the real opening Of the Taft cam
paign for the presidential nomina-
ton.
The first of these speeches Is to be
delivered at Columbus. o.. tonight.
He will speak at that time under the
auspices OF the Buckeye Republican
club of the capital city Of Ohio. This
speech Is awaited with keen interest
in political circles as II IS expected to
cn,,ua fb. loxpota 90 tho Taft ann
paign. The secretary Of war on this
occasion Is expected 10 answer the
attacks on himself in connection with
the tariff revision question. to de-
fend the position OF the admlnistra-
ton with respect to the Brownsville
AFFAIR, and appeal to the voters MS the
representative of the Roosevelt poll
Giles. The speech VIII be direct re-
ply to the challenge recently issued
by Senator Foraker.
After leaving Ohio Secretary Taft
is scheduled for speeches in Ken
lucky. Oklahoma, Missouri, and at
Denver, Portland and Seattle. He
will arrive a. the last named place In
time TO sail on the Manchuria on
September 10.
The trip to Manila will be made by
way OF Japan and China. The stay In
the Philippines will be short. The
return from the Far East will be
made by way OF the Trans-Slberian
railway and Europe. II Is stated
that this route has been adopted in
order that a week or more may be
saved in getting back to Washing
ton. But as the secretary travels up
through China and then over the
battlefelds OF Manchuria. he will be
traversing a region where at the pres
ent moment commercial and political
problems Of the first magnitude are
being worked out. Mr.. Taft will trav-
ell unoficially as soon as ne has dis
charged his mission In Manila. but
the tour through the Far East OF
man so high in the administration
will be watched with interest by the
competitors OF the United states.
On his journey around the world
Mr.. Taft will be accompanied by his
wife. his son. and his secretary. A
fourth member OF the party Will be
Montico Taft, a Filipino. who adopt
ed the secretary OF war as his father,
a year or so ago.
Apart from the political results Of
his trip. Secretary Taft will have es-
tablished a record for a cabinet min
ister's wanderlngs. Very few men OF
his position have ever Travelled
around the world while in Office. and
It is calculated that when he sees this
city again he will have concluded
$50, 900 miles of journeyings TO and
fro on the face OF the earth since he
became a member OF the presidents
official family.