The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-24
Candidate Is Overwhelmed With
 Reception In Indiana
INDIANAPOLIS IS ENTHUSED
Taft Addresses Three Meetings, at One of Which Vice President Fairbanks Presides-Many Cities ln-
 cluded In the Tour.

Indianapolis October 23.-Today's exhi- bition of political enthusiasm attending William H. Tafts tour in Indiana was such as to eclipse all previous campaigns, according to the national state leaders who have been with the Taft special. So great were the crowds everywhere that even the arrangements of the local com mittees were overridden.
 MT. Taft talked less and "exhibited' more than heretofore in the campaign, owing to the vastncss of the crowds. This one note dominated his thoughts expressed in his speeches today: Indiana is surely alive to her political responsibility and the character of her enthusiasm means the success of the republican party
 A drzzlng rain for part of the day and bad railroad service which made the train more than an hour late seemed to make no impression on the demand for look at the candidate.
 Beginning at Brazil, with a largely at tended meeting at o'clock this morning, MT. Taft made a 50-mile circuit clear around Indianapolis, which was reached at o'clock tonight. Crawfordsviile, La fayette. Frankfort and Kokomo- were visited turn and at each place there turned out a populace teeming with en- thusiasm. Marion's crowd was so dense that Senator Hemenway, who followed close on the heels of Judge Taft to the court house steps, lost his pocketbook without realizing it for some time
 Crowd Is Immense.
 Muncie the next stop, presented insur- mountaple obstacles in the way of peo- ple and the candidate simply rode in the line of march and abandoned all att temps to reach the speakers stand lie made a few remarks from the rear Of his car after returning to it, and the crowd that followed him to the station was amply repaid in oratory, as a freight train was in the signal block ahead, causing the Taft special to wait an hour.
 During this time Senator Hemenway and half dozen speakers, which the Taft train carried, furnished entertainment for the big crowd which persisted in remain ing despite the drizzling rain
 At Kokomo a tin roof which had been used as a grandstand by nearly 200 boys and men, fell in while Taft was talking from the car platform. He asked about
  been hurt well, that is the biggest luck I have had on the entire trip" he calculated with much feeling.
 One of the candidates brief and char acteristic speeches was delivered at An derson after dark, and in the rain, put to a large and enthusiastic audience. lie paid a tribute to former President Har- rison, saying;
 Tribute to Harrison. "It is to me an intense pleasure to have received from the people of Indiana such a cordial welcome as we have hao yes terdav and today Indiana giving to the nation Gen. Benjamin Harrison makes me always feel grateful, because he, more than any other public man, first gave to me the assistance, the sympathy and the cordial support that made me aspire to judicial office. General Harrison was great lawyer and great man, and ln- diana may well celebrate as she is about to do, his memory, by the erection or a monument in Indianapolis
 Your coming here in such numbers testifies to your interest in the election in November; testifies the fact that h. diana is republican, that you appreciate the importance of continuing the pros- perity that we have by rejecting MT. Bryan again and continuing the republic an party in power. What we need to put
  loved for 10 years is restoration of con- fidence and you will never bring that about if you put into the executive chair a man who has so many half-baked, un- founded economic theories as the leader of the democracy. The interest of the laboring man, of the farmer, and of the business man are identical, and in order to bring back good times you must not put in a man who is constantly advocating experiments, and experiments that hereto fore have always failed"
 It was reserved for Indianapolis to furnish the climax of the day of crowd and noise A tremendous parade awated his arrival, with the accessories multi piled and enhanced. Three meetings were addressed by the candidate, his extended effort of the day being before an immense audience at the Virginia Avenue Audi torium, where Vice President Fairbanks presided Senator Hemenway and Repre- sentative Overstreet officiated at the two other meetings, which were held in the open.