The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-20
PEOPLE TURN OUT FREELY
 ID HEAR TAFT SPEECHES
Taft Takes Credit For His Party For All the Good That Has Ever Been
 Done By the United
 States Government.

Baltimore, Md October Uplifting straight at his opponent MT. Bryan, with even more force than in the northwest or south, MT. Taft today carried his campaign to the very doors of New York city, and gave clear in dication of the character of speeches he will make in the Empire state next week. MT. Taft spent three hours in Newark, an hour in Elizabeth, an hour and 20 minutes in Trenton, an hour in Wilmington, and the entire evening 1n Baltimore. He encountered tremen- dous crowds and enthusiasm spon- taneous and ample. His extended ef- forts of the day were at Newark, Elizabeth and Baltimore. At Newark he gave attention. to all the issues save labor. In his Elizabeth speech he dwelt solely on the labor question, and tonight he combined the Newark and Elizabeth speeches.
 The zest with which Delaware re- ceived the candidate resulted in cur tailing the Wilmington speech to but few lines The crowd in the square op- posite the public building where the speaker stood was so jammed with people that it was with the greatest difficulty that MT. Taft was gotten through And when he reached the stand the pressure in the throns was so great that many women and schll- dren were removed in distress. MT. Taft realized, and stated that his voice was such that he could not be heard by the crowd
 Gratified With Reception.
 ..I can only say to you" he remarked, "that from what l have. seen in New Jersey today, and what l have seen In Delaware today, and what saw Tn the south and west in the last three weeks, I am going to be elected, and it would give me the greatest pride if in that electoral vote I could have the three from Delaware.
 ssrhe real issue of the campaign is, he said. whether you hink the repub- lican party, by what it has done In the last 12 years is entitled to your con fidence Even if it has done something to displease you, is it not much to be preferred to the democratic party un- der any circumstances, considering the history of that party, and considering the peculiarities-toi use no more of fensivo expression-of the leadership of that party?"
 The acts O11ne TepuDliCdh party Ntit then recounted: Establishing the gold standard: repeating the Wilson-G German tariff bill and enacting the Dngley tariff: fighting the Spanish war-"We fought 1t promptly and wel,' said the speaker
 We put the Cubans on their feet as we supposed. They stayed there for three years then they fell on their knees and we had to again go and help then to tn cir feet.
 ''In Porto Rico we have made mill lion people rejoice every night and day and thank God that they are under the prosperity that the stars and stripes have given
 Philippine Problem.
 'srhen we took up the Philippines the hardest problem that we had to solve-as the result of the war. Today half d million Filipino school children are reading, writing and reciting in English; we have given them practf- cal control over the central govern ment and full control over the provin- icial and municipal governments.
 .There were problems that had not been solved in the platforms of party. The republican party has sense of governmental responsibility. The dem ocratic party has no cohesion except that of opposition to the republican party.
 ..We took up the Panama canal which for 400 years, since the time of Charles the Fifth has been the subject of dis cussion Under the present administra- tion there had been an organization of the brains, the machinery and the hands in such a way that in the course of five or six years any one who knows about the work can promise you it's completion so that your navy will sail from the Caribbean to the Atlantic
 Mr. Taft next took up what he termed the moral awakening respecting the conduct of large bushes enterprises. re- sulting in a "quickening of the American conscience"
 You would think from the statements of Mr. Bryan" he added that no pro- gress has been made but the progress is truly remarkable through the passage of the rate bill, the railroads them selves have abandoned rebates, have abandoned unlawful discriminations and Fave taken away the chief instrumental ity by which unlawful trusts and monop- plies have been maintained.
 Combination of Capital.
 Judge Taft followed this with his in- dorsement of the combination of capi- tai for legitimate purposes. He said:
 "The combination of capital is just as essential to our progress as the com bination of the parts of machine and the fact that the capital is great and the number of plants needed are many, is no reason for denouncing them as H. legal unless they are used for an i- legal purpose. The normal, legal pur- pose of such combination is to reduce the cost of production by inducing econ omy in the management of the capital. It is only when undue means are taken to stifle competition that they cross the line of legality and that they ought to be restrained and punished. There fore, MT. Roosevelt and the republican administration have directed their atten- tions to prosecuting the exact evil which is the attempt to monopolze. MT. Bryan, on the other hand, proposes to take steps which shall destroy the entire business. He proposes that we shall abolish the tariff trust-made articles. If you are going to take off the tariff on trust