Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-15
TAFT ENDS OHIO TRIP
Candidate Spends Another Day in
Eastern Part Of State.
HIS IMPRESSION OF TRIP
Says Attitude Of Labor Toward Party
is Misrepresented.
DIVISION ALONG USUAL LINES
Republicans Will Get Large Proper.
ton Of it as Usual.
SITIIATI0N TC
DIVISION ALONG USUAL LINES
SITUATION IS SATISFACTORY
Republican Majority I'm Buclsev.
state win He Substantial One
Night Meeting at
Wheeling.

WHEELING. W. Va, Oct 14.-Judse Taft
tonight concluded his three-day campaign
IA ONO What he thinks of the tour is set
sissued tonight:
have now spent thre DAYS in the st.te
or ohio' much OF the time In industrial and
iaoor centers among men who fl was re-
ported were disaffected and opposed 10 the
IcPuoncan party and its candidates. Where
ever appeared I was cordially received
ana only an occasional interruption ind-
Gated that misrepresentation OF the sttitude
OF the party and the candidates had made
only casual impression. 1t is my opinion
that the attitude of labor toward the re-
publican party has been misrepresented
quite as freely as that Of the party and
the candidate toward labor, find no rea-
son for the belief that labor will divide
other than on the lines that have hereto
fore divided it. In my opinion the normal
republican labor vote will be cast as hereto
fore
I'm the agricultural regions II Is quite
apparent that the farmers are opposed to a
change that will limperll their present pros
perity.
''The situation In Ohio is entirely satisfac-
tory and no one has any reasonable doubt
that the republican majority would be a
substantial one. certainly have no doubt
on the subject myself"
Accident Delays Train.
Again toaday the Taft special was de-
layed by accident In trying to negotiate
spur track from Cadiz Junction to cadiz.
o.. It was found first that the train was
too heavy for the grade Notwithstanding
two engines were used. The train was run
back to the junction and three cars cut off.
| On the second attempt, while speed OF
about ten miles an hour being made,
| two wheels OF the second engine jumped
the track. Before stop could be made the
| train had run two lengths, The wheels
which were on the ties cut them In two.
| on either side OF the track the bank sloped
down for twenty feet and that the engine
| did not go over was said to be due to the
\ raiot No one was injured and. like yes
| terday's deiailment but half hout was
| lost through the accident.
steubenville and wheeling furnished the
big audiences OF the day, although at each
| of the the nine stops there were crowds
and enthusiasm. steubenvile made much
| of the candidate. He constituted the chief
attraction in a lengthy parade An open
air meeting drew many thousands.
Might Meeting mt Wheeling.
The central market house was cleared at
| Wheeling and there tonight the candidate
addressed an immense audience represent
! ing labor and 20 whom he made his labor
speech in full. Mr.. Taft was later taken to
the old Baltimore & Ohio station which had
been temporarily abandoned by the rail-
road Here a business mems meeting was
participated in by several thousand. At
| Cadiz an address was made in the center
Of the wool growing district 1t was just
dusk when Mr.. Taft left his home state
and pulled across the Ohio river into West
Virginia.
That the candidate enjoyed his work is
indicated from the following sentences
with which he began his Steubenvile ad-
dress where the crowd was entirely too
large to be reached by his voice, which
is in fairly good condition.
1T is impossible for me to make myself
heard This audience is a fairly good in
dication that republicans are awake, that
the Sd Of November next will mark the
fact that the electorate of this country
know what they are about and that having
had seven years of Theodore Roosevelt and
the republican party they don't want a
change.
II wish 1 had lungs sufficient to talk
to each one Of this audience. bat l am so
inspired by it's number and encouraged
by the thought that theseare real repub-
lican votess that are going in on the Sd
of November that am willing to lose my
voice in an effort to say So have got
to divide my voice between SteubenvillA
and Wheeling. 1 don't know what they
are going to do in Wheeling, but II seems
to me that you have all southern Ohio
here today. Cvoices: 1--WE are all for raft.'O
All right don't forget me in November"
speech at CadiE.
To his Cadz audience, after he had heon
tied up by the wreck, Mr.. TAFT began with
strain of humor:
1--WE have been climbing the hill Of Zion
for an hour and l glad 10 have the
assurance OF your presiding officer that
we have made our calling and election
sure. It was a tiresome Journey-that Is
for the locomotive-but It is worth all It
cost
II am delighted to meet you here; de-
lighted to look into the eyes and faces
of an audience OF such intelligence and
therefore OF such republicanism. l am ad-
vised that a very considerable part Of your
population Is colored ard want to say
that no part OF the population has deeper
1 sympathy on my part than they Coming
to this country through their ancestry,
against their will, there is imposed upon
us whose ancestry brought them here tho
obligation TO see that in every way they
have a square deal. This is their only
! country; this is the only flag they love
and this the standard for which they have
shown themselves willing and anxious TO
lay down their lives when tho exisencies
OF the country required They are Ameri-
can citizens like the rest of us and entitled
10 the same consideration"
Ten or twelve speeches have been mapped
r out for the candidate tomorrow on his
way 10 Louisville, Ky, where he goes for
the evening meeting.
BRYAN CONTINUES HIS TRIP
NebrasIEan Makes Appeal for Election