The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-08-19
TAFT STARTS ON
EXTENDED TOUR
SCHEDULED FOR SPEECHES IN
SEVERAL OF THE BIG WEST
ERIN CITIES.
FIRST SPEECH TONIGHT
AL Columbus In Which He is Expected
to Outline Administration
PoIicy--WiI Travel
10000 Miles.

Washington, Aug. 1S.--Secretary O
War William II. Taft will tomorrow
set forth upon one of the trips. whicl
have been so marked feature of his
political career According to his
plans he will make a circuit Of the
globe before returning to Washington
the latter part ut 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 hiippines he will re-
turn by the Trans Siberian railway to
St. Petersburg returning from there
to the United States BY way CT Paris
and London
The trip across the continent to
Seattle from which port the seere-
tary of war will sail for the Philip
pines, will be liesuely one, with
stors at number 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, Monday
night He viii 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 1t
is expected to sound the keynote of
Ifr1f .N.,...
war on this occasion is expected to
answer the attacks on himself in con-
nection with the tariff revision ques-
tion, to defend the position Of the ad-
ministration with respect to the
Brownsville affair, aud appeal to the
voters as the representative of the
Roosevelt policies. The speech will
he a direct reply to the challenge re-
Gently issued by Senator Foraker.
Affer leaving Ohio Secretary Taft
Is scheduled for speeches In Ken-
lucky. 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- |
ber 10.
The trip to Manila will be ade by |
way Of Japan and China The stay |
in the Philippines will be short, The |
return from the Far East win be |
made by way af the Trans Siberian |
railway and Europe. 1t is stated that |
this route has been adopted in order |
that a week or more may be saved in |
getting back to Washington. But as
the secretary travels up through |
China and then over the battleflelds |
of Manchuria, he will be traversing a
region where at the present moment /
commercial and political problems of |
the first magnitude are being worked /
cut Mr. Taft will travel unofficially !
as soon as he has discharged his mis-
sion in Manila hut the tour through
the Far East of man so high In the
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 1 /
Nontico Taft, a Filipino, who adopted
he secretary OF war as his father a
year or so ago.
Apart from the political results of
his trip Secretary Taft will have es-
a record for cabinet min
sters wanderings. Very few men of !
lis position have ever travelled around |
he world while in office. and It is cal |
'ulated that when he sees this city L
lgain he will have concluded 100000 I
niles Of iourneyings to and fro on the II
ace of the earth since he became a :
member Of the presidents official I
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