The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-20
TAFT TOURS
 NEW JERSEY He Encounters Tremend-
 ous Crowds. SPENDS NIGHT IN BALTIMORE Attacks Bryan With More Force
 Than Usual. Character of Speeches Taft VIII Make In New York Next week
 Was Indicated In Yester-
 day's Campaign.
SPENDS NIGHT IN BALTIMORE

Baltimore, Oct. fs--Hitting straight
 at his opponent MT. Bryan. with even
 more force than in the north. west or
 south. MT. Taft today carried his cam
 paign to the very doors of New York
 City and gave a clear indication Of the
 character of speeches he will make tu
 tho Empire state next week.
 Mir. Taft spent three hours in Newark. an hour in Elizabeth. an hour
 and twenty minutes In Trenton an hour in Wilmingham and the entire evening ] in Baltimroc. He encountered tremeH- dous crowds and enthusiasm spontan- eous and ample. Ills extended efforts of the day were at Newark. Elizabeth and Baltimore. At Newark. he gave attention tc 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 rec | ceived the candidate resulted in eur l tailing the Wilmington speech to but l a few lines. The crowd in the square opposite the public building where the speaker Gtood. was so damned with people that 1t was with the greatest difficulty that Mir. Taft was gotten | through And when he reached the
 stand the pressure in the throng was
 so great that many women and child
 ren were removed in distress. Mfr I Taft realized and so stated, that his voice was such that he could not pc heard by the crowd.
 "I can only. say to you.' he remark 1 ed, that from what have seen in New l Jersey today and what have seen In Delaware today and what I saw in the
 South snd West in the last three
 weeks. am going to be elected. and
 it would give me the greatest pride if in that electoral vote, could have the three from Delaware"
 The Real Issue.
 1 ssThe real issue of the campatf tss' 1 said Mir. Taft in his rcmarks flight l "whether you think the republica par 1 ty. by what it has done in the last l twelve years. is entitled to your con. I fidanco Even if it has done xomethin1 T 70 displease you. is # not much to Dc preferred to the Democratic party under any circumstances consider'uS l the history of that party and consider 1 ing the pecuiiarities--to use no more
 offensive expressien--of the leadership
 of that party7"
 rho acts of the Republican party were then recounted. Establishing the
 gold standard repeailng the Wilson German tariff bill and enaeting ths | DingIey karIff: fighting the Spanish
 war--we fought 1t promptly and we'll. We nut the cubans on their feet as we i supposed They stayed there for three years. then they fell on their knees and
 we had to again go and help them to l their feet.
 ''Yn Porto Rico we have made 6 mil lion people reioice every night and day | and thank God that they are under the
 prosperity that tho stars and stripes l have given.
 "Then we took up the Philippines the hardest problem that We had to | solve--as the result of the war. To- dav half million Filipino school child ren are reading writing and reciting ! in English; we have given them prac~ l ticaI control over the central govern" ment and full control over the brown l cial and municipal governments. seThese were problems that had not haen solved in the platforms Of the marty. The Republican party has sense of governmental responsibility. The Democratic party has no cohesion | except that of opposition to the Re- l nublican party. We took up the Fan anna canal which for 400 years since | subject of discussion. Under the pres ent administration. there had been an organization of the brains. the ma | chinery and the hands in such way that In the course of five or six years. | any one who knows about the work can promise you its completion so | that your navy will sal from the | Caribbean to the Atlantse."
 Mir. Taft next took up what he termed the Moral awakening re- specting the conduct of large business enterprises resulting in "quickening | of the American conscience" You would think from the state- ments of Mir. Bryan" he added. that no progress has. been made. but the progress is truly remarkable through | the passage of the rate bill. the rafi- | roads themselves have abandoned re- l bates. have abandoned unlawful dis>
 crimlnatlons and have taken away the 1 chief instrumentality by which un- | lawful trusts and monopolles nave | been maintained"