Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1908-10-07
TAFT CRUSH
IN ST. LOUIS
Big Crowd Greets the Presidential
Candidate.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Oct, with
12-hour demonstration of cordiality,
political and personal. this city last
night furnished an appropriate cli-
max to the western campaign trip |
OF William II. Taft. which ended !
here yesterday.
The candidate spoke to an Inn
mense audience In the nearly finished
Coliseum, from which as many were
turned away as were admitted. He
followed this with an open-air adj
dress at Clayton. a suburb and county
seat OF st. Louis county. and then
rushed to East st. Louis. where he
addressed a large gathering of en-
ployes at the stockyards. The local
afternoon papers estimate that fully
so 900 strangers came to the city just
to say Hello, Bill" to the ohloan,
Certain It was that wherever he went
or stayed Judge Taft was the center
of immense crowds. The line of
march from the station TO the Plant
er's hotel was through two crowds
of people who blocked either side OF
the sidewalk and the street. A local
reception committee OF 400. In white
caps and badges, headed by a detail
OF mounted police and a band, pre-
ceded the carriage OF the candidate,
He was compelled to stand with his
hat In his hand the entire distance,
acknowledging the salutations of his
admirers.
The plans for the reception to the
public at the Planters hotel were
upset by the crush of men and wo-
men who swept aside the guards
at the door and pushed their way into
the lobby and up the big staircase.
Taft was to have stood at the head
OF the stairs, and receive, single file
those who wished to shake hands
But as soon as he stepped into the
corridor he was beset BY the throng
and despite his weight and the efforts
of his personal assistants, he wal
swept down the corridor a hundred
feet. II was seen at once that moth
Ing could be done with the crowd ant
a passage way was cleared for tn,
candidate to get away. On reaching
the first landing he turned and said
with a smile:
las remember by mytholog!
! there was a gentleman named Bria
= reus, who had a hundred hands
wish / had them all for my friends
: the people of st. Louis"
Once in his room. Mr.. Taft wa
furnished with two pitchers of mill
and allowed to rest.
He was escorted to the Coliseum
by a committee in a long line O
carriages. OF which his was the last
: The speech he delivered 10 the aud
! ence was comprehensive. but the pc
I sition of the candidate on the trus
[ regulation was made the importau
: feature.
B How about labor unions?" he wa
0 asked.
n Il have done more for union labo
than Mr.. Gompers." was the quic
retort, and then Mr. Taft explaine
that the decisions he had rendere
as a 5udge on the bench and whic
= were now being misrepresented Q
placing him against unionism. wer
l. really being used at present IN III
n courts by union labor as the bas
> Of their rights.
y After the three speeches had bee
+ made Mr.. Taft was escorted to n
IL hotel, from where he reviewed u
l. parade Of the Yelled Prophet, who
+ carnival is being held in the cit
le The ball Of the Yelled Prophet. whi'
r. is the great society event of Il
= carnival. was made decidedly mo
popular last night by the announe
ment that the candidate would
there for an hour. Mr.. Taft visit
A. the ball for a few minutes, but d
- not participate in the festivities.
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