Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-22

| meeting at White Plains. n Y. last
! night having started yesterday upon
final tour of New York state which
will occupy the time remaining before
election. His first address was at
| noon meeting in lower Broadway, New
York city, before a large gathering of
hat manufacturers. There the candi-
dates vigorous championship of Gov.
Hughes administration and urgent plea
| for his reelection was greeted with
prolonged cheering.
BIG PROHIBITION MEETING
| Eugene W. Chain, prohibition candi-
| date for President: Aaron S. Watkins,
| nominee for governor in New York
We're the principal speakers at a pro-
hibition party mass meeting in Cooper
Union in New York city last night. The
large meeting hall was comfortably
| filed about one third of the audience
being women.
BEVERIDGE TO BUSINESS MEN,
| Senator A. J. Beveridge of Indiana
was the principal speaker last night
at the meeting of the Chicago Business
Mems Taft and Sherman Club. Senator
Beveridge confined his remarks to a
discussion of the labor and the tariff
question.
BONAPARTE CAMPAIGNING-
Attorney General Charles ]. Bonaparte
in an address last night at Havre de
Grace, Md, devoted himself chiefly to
the democratic proposal looking to the
governmental guarantee of bank de-
posits. He declared that "a depositor is
simply creditor of a bank who has the
right, under his contract, to demand pay
ment of his debt in whole or in part,
at any moment.' and argued that if de-
positors in banks are to be given a guar
antee there is no reason why the same
should not be given also to all sorts of
creditors Of all sorts of debtors.
MURPHY Is NoN-COMMITTAI-
Charles F. Murphy, leader of Tammany
Hall. was asked whether the New York
state democratic committee will stand by
State Senator McCarren's proposal to re-
peal the AgnewHart anti-gambling bills
| If the democratic party wins the election
in that state.
Senator McCarren speaks for himself"
was the reply.
One of the reporters told Mr.. Murphy
there was a rumor about the city that
the gamblers of New York had collected
fund of 100000 to defeat Hughes. and
asked ii he knew anything about it,
1t hasn't shown up here" replied Mr..
Murphy.
DEBS IN KENTUCKY
Eugene V. Debs. socialist candidate for
President. last night wound up day of
rapid-fire campaigning through Indiana
and Kentucky with an address in Louis
vile before an audience that packed the
Seelbach winter garden. Mr.. Debs de-
livered a scathing arraignment .of the
two older parties. which he charged with
being either tacitly or explicitly pledged
to maintain what he termed the present
inhuman qualities in the distribution of
wealth.
STRAUS ON LABOR
Oscar S. Straus, Secretary of Com
merce and Labor, addressed a large au
dience last night at st. Louis in advocacy
of the election Of William H. Taft. The
speech of Mr.. Straus was largely devoted
to discussion Of the relations Of Mr..
Taft and William J. Bryan to labor After
reading an attack on the courts made
by Samuel Gompers in a recent appeal to
union men Mr.. Straus said:
III Mr.. Bryan is a man of honor he
should be the first to resent this attack
on the judicial system by his ally, Sam
uel Gompers."
COCHRAN ON TARIFF
Representative Bourke Cochran of New
York last night addressed a large crowd
in Springfield. Ill.,. on the issues of the
campaign. He severely criticised Roose
welt, Taft and the republican protective
tariff, condemning the latter as system
Of plumber. He declared that Bryan and
the democratic party had forced Taft and
the republican party to make concessions
on the tariff issue, and that now they
were all for revision. ''even Joe Cannon
whose soul thiTsts for it and whose heart
pants for it, Cochran devoted -,,,lch
time to Endorsement of the guarantee Of
the bank deposits policy.
HISdEN DRAWS CROWD
An immense crowd at Petersburg. Ind,
heard Thomas L. Hisgen, independence
candidate for President and William R.
Hearst yesterday afternoon. Hisgen has
many relatives and friends still living
near Petersburg. Mr.. Hearst and Mr.
Hisgen later went to Indianapolis, whence
Mr.. Hearst Immediately started for New
York.