Washington State journal and Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1906-1907, 1907-08-21
TAFT HAS STARTED
ON HIS TOUR
OF THE WORLD

VI I'LL VVNlU.
Secretary of War William H. Taft
has 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 toWashing-
ton 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 26,
and from the Philippines he will
return by the Trans-Siberian 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 secretary of war will sail for the
Philippines, will be leisurely one,
with stops at number of points to
deliver speeches. These speeches
will be of a political character and
will mark the real opening of the Taft
campaign for the presidential nomi-
nation.
The first of these speeches is to be
delivered at Columbus, Ohio. next
Monday night. He will speak at the
time under the auspices of the Buck
eye Republican club of the capital city
of Ohio. This speech is awaited
with keen interest in political circles,
as 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 defend the position of the
administration with respect to the
Brownsville affair, and appeal to the
voters as the representative of the
Roosevelt policies. The speech will
be direct reply to the challenge
recently issued by Senator Foraker.
After leaving Ohio Secretary Taft
is scheduled for speeches in Kentukey,
Oklahoma, Missouri and at Denver.
Portland and Seattle. He will arrive
at the last named place in time to
sail on the Manchuria on Seutember
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 Siberian
railway and Europe. 1t 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 secretary travels up through China
and then over the battlefelds of Man
churia, he will be traversing a region
where 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 he has discharged his mission in
Manila, but the tour through the Far
East of a man so high in the admins
tration will be watched with interes
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 he Month
co Taft, Filipino, who adopted the
secretary of war as his father year
or so ago. Apart from the political
results of his trip, Secretary Taft will
have established record for a cabinet
minister's wan lerIngs. Very few
men of his position have ever travelled
around the world while in Office, and
it is calculated that when, he sees the
city again he will have concluded
$50, 900 miles of journeyings to and
fro on the face of the earth since he
I became a mmber of the president s