Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-23

! Although it was expected, no reply was
made by Mr.. Bryan yesterday to Pres
| ident Roosevelt's attack on him and Mr..
Gompers in a letter to Senator Knox.
| Bryan promised to reply today. Mr.
| Taft after his day of rest at Cincinnati.
returned to the stump and yesterday In
Indiana appeared to be in fine form. The
| campaign for the governorship In New
York state did not bring out anything
| new.
TAFT BACK IN RING
During yesterday. the first of the three
| days he is to speak in Indiana, William
H. Taft talked to more persons than on
any previous day of his campaign. In
each of his sixteen speeches the listeners
and applauders numbered thousands
Rejuvenated in voice, energy and en-
| thusiasm by his one-day rest. the candl-
| date handled the campaign with even
greater degree Of positiveness than here
tofore. In the very first speech he made
he ridiculed Mr.. Bryan's charge of "brib.
ery'' in connection with the promises OF
employers to their employees of more work
| with republican success and the orders OF
| business for goods. said to be made con-
| tingent on the same result. These were
| not brides. he said, but business. They
| did not represent false conditions, but
| facts.
BRYAN Is FATIGUED-
| Obviously fatigued to an unusual de-
gree from his hard day of campaigning
| In Ohio Wednesday, which was not con-
cluded until nearly 1 o'clock this morn
ing, William ]. Bryan did not display his
accustomed vigor on his tour of West
Virginia yesterday. Although he made
sixteen speeches during the day, begin
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concluding at nearly 10 last night, he
| talked without apparent spirit or keen In"
terest. His crowds were large and respon-
sive to his climaxes. but notable feature
of the applause was the frequency with
which 1t was punctuated by loud cheers
for Judge Taft. his republican opponent
for President. who preceded the dem
ocratic leader over most of the territory
traversed only a few days before.
CHAMBER PREACHEs ECONOMY.
The hostile spellbinding armies in the
state gubernatorial campaign came to-
gether last night and both Gov. Hughes
and Lieut.. Gov. Chanler rested under the
same roof at the Iroquois Hotel in Buff
falo.
Mr.. Chanler addressed crowds in Dun
kirk, Chautauqua county, and In Batavia,
Genesee county, Niagara Falls and North
Tonawanda, in Niagara county. and IN
each of the four towns there was a mark
ed demonstration. and the nominee count
ed 1t as red letter day.
At Niagara Falls Mr.. Chanler denounced
the present cost of the state government,
saying: II think If a governor would
spend little more Of his time in attend
ing to the plain. ordinary duties of his
office, and a little less time in trying to
enforce upon the people his own pet
theories Of life. we should not have such
an extraordinary increase in expenses"
HUGHES CHARGES A "GRAB"-
Yesterday was Hughes day in Buffalo.
The city last night gave to Gov. Hughes
the most demonstrative reception he has
encountered during tho campaign. Ten
thousand people TANNED the old arsenal
and cheered him to the echo for ten con-
secutive minutes when he charged Charles
b. Murphy, w. ]. Corners and State
Senator Patrick II. McCarren, all in the
supporting ranks of his democratic guber-
Material rival with trying to grab control
Of the public service commission in the
interest. as the executive asserted, of the
New York city TRACTION band
TEACHERS WANT CHANLER-
Disregarding warnings from the board
of education and William H. Maxwell,
city superintendent of schools. Miss Grace
| o. Tn for ,,ct,