Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-08-22
TAFT To MAKE
LONG TOUR.
Will Make a Circuit of the
Globe Before Returning
to washington.
Is To Represent The Administration
At The Opening Of The Philippine
4 Congress On October 26.
Special to THE ARGUS.

Special to THE ARGUS.
Washington, D. c., Aug. 17.-Secre-
tary of War William HI. Taft, will to-
morrow set forth upon one of the trips
which have been so marked feature
of his political career. According to
his plans he will make circuit of the
globe before returning to Washington
the latter part Of November or early in
December.
Secretary Taft is to represent the Ad-
ministration at the opening Of the Phil
ippine Congress on October 26, and
from the Philippines he will return by
the Trans-Sibexian Railway to ST.
Petersburg, returning from there to the
United States by way of Paris and
London.
| The trip across the continent to Seat
| tie, from which port the Secretary of
War will sail for the Philippines, will
| be leisurely one, with stops at a num-
ber of points to deliver speeches. These
speeches will be of political character
and will mark the real opening of the
Taft campaign for the Presidential
nomination.
| The first of these speeches is to be
delivered at Columbus, Ohio, next
Monday night. He will speak at that
time under the auspices of the Buckeye
Republican Club of the ca pitai city of
Ohio. This speech is awaited with
keen interest in political circles and it
is expected to sound the keynote of the
Taft campaign. The Secretary of War
on this occasion is expected to answer
the attacks ON himself in connection
with the tariff revision question, to de-
fend the position Of the administration
with respect to the Brownsville affair,
and appeal to the voters the repre-
sentative of the Roosevelt policies.
The speech will be a direct reply to the
challenge recently issued by Senator
| Foraker.
After leaving Ohio Secretary Taft Is
scheduled for speeches in Kentucky.
Oklahoma, Missouri, and at Denver.
Portland and Seattle. He will arrive
at the last named place in time to sail
on the Manchuria on Septem Der 10.
The trip to Manila will be made by
way of Japan and China. The stay in
the Philippines will be short. The re-
turn from the Far East will be made by
the way of the Trans Siberian Railway
and Europe. It is stated that this
route has been adopted in order that
week or more may be saved in getting
back to Washington. But as the Sec
rotary travels up through China and
then over the battIefields of Manchu-
ria, he will be traversing region
whore at the present moment CONNER
cial and political problems of the first
magnitude are being worked out. Mr..
Taft will travel unofficially as soon as
nila, 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 Msntico
Taft, a Filipino, who adopted the Secre-
tary of War as his father year or SO
ago.
Apart from the political results of
his trip, Secretary Taft will have es-
tablished q record for a cabinet minis
ter's wanderings. Very few men of
his position have ever travelled around
the world while in office, and it is call
culated that when he sees this city
again he will have concluded O.OO0
miles of fjourneyings to and fro on the
face OF the earth since he became
membe of the Presidents official tam
lily.