New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-09-12
TAFT EAGER FOR TRIPS
MAY Make THREE TOURS.
Committee arranging Schedule
Candidate to address Negroes.
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of this month and the early part OF next, ana
il is even probable that had he not aiready ap-
proved a number OF dates for delegations 10
visit him In Cincinnati between now and Sep
TENDER % he would begin his trip earlier fnan
the 23d.
In order to facilitate the completion OF MS
itinerary. on which the national committee is
engaged Mr. Taft to-day sent Arthur l. Vorys
TO New York to confer with Chairman Hitch
cock and others at the national committee head
quarters and the candidate hopes that Mr.
Vorys will be able to return to Cincinnati Win
at least a tentative schedule by next TUESDAY.
Mr. Vorys has gone East with thorough
knowledge of the candidates views and with
summary of the information which has reached
the Headquarters here and which has any bear
ing on the prospective trips.
The acceptance of the Deep Waterways Com
missions invitation to address its convention
at Chicago on October practically settles at
least one date OF the Western trip, which will
be arranged with reference to that engagement.
1t is probable that Mr.. Taft will speak at least
once in Missouri and St Louis, october being
considered for place and time The indications
are now that the Western limit OF the trip will
be somewhere in Nebraska Kansas. both OF
which states will be visited. There is strong
pressure from every section of the country to
induce the candidate to visit ii, and the neces-
sary declination Of numerous invitations makes
the completion Of the itinerary a difficult
matter.
MAY MAKE THREE TRIPS.
The indications are that there will be three
separate trips, with breathing spaces, to be
spent in Cincinnati, sandwiched between This
will afford an opportunity TO receive the dele
cations desiring TO call on the candidate at his
home city. with a Western trip definitely de-
cided upon, the other two will embrace centres
in the East and South. It is not unlikely that
Mr. Taft will accept the invitation of the Ken
lucky Bankers Association TO address 1t at
Lexington on the sd inst. and should he do so
he would probably continue through Kentucky
and Tennessee where he is anxious to speak,
swinging around to West Virginia and then on
East.
Another purpose of Mr.. Voryss trip East is
a conference with John Hays Hammond regard
ing the coming convention OF the League Of Re
publican Clubs, TO be held in Cincinnati in the
near future
The greater part of Mr.. Tafts day has been
devoted TO receiving visitors, among whom were
Bishop R. T Hartzell, of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church; the Rev. James G. Robinson, of the
Baker Street African Methodist Episcopal
Church. Of Dayton. and the Rev. c. S. Gee, of
Greenfield, Ohio, who. as presiding elder Of the
African Methodist Episcopal Church of this
district, came to ask the candidate to address
the African Methodist Episcopal Conference.
to be held here next week, with Bishop w. B.
Derrick of Chicago, presiding. Mr.. Taft ac-
cepted the invitation, and Will make non
partisan address.
NEARLY ALL NEGROES FOR TAFT.
The Rev Mr. Gee said Ninety nine per cent
of the negro vote Of the nation will be cast for
Taft 7 hay rr3y
parts of PENNSYLVANIA and Virginia, and know
whereof speak" The Rev Mr. Robinson, who
is director of the first negro Taft club organ
lied and incorporated in this country, was ac-
companied by w. H. Jones, president Of the
club. Mr.. Jones was emphatic as Mr.. Gee IN
his assertion that Mr.. Taft would receive prac-
tically the entire negro vote.
Another caller at the Taft headquarters was
O. K Shirnansky chairman of the publicity bu-
reau Of the Republican State Committee OF this
state. Mr.. Shimansky said
THE most encouraging news received about
state headquarters at Columbus was from the
fifty Republican editors who met in that city
Yesterday to discuss the campaign Nearly a
majority of the fifty representatives had been
labelled by the opposition anti-Taft men,
Without a single exception. every man an
nounced his determination TO stand for the en-
tire ticket. These editors come from all sections
of the state and it developed that the Repub-
lican troubles were aggravated more in the
minds of candidates and leaders than among the
voters themselves. The fact that the admins
tration of Republican state officials has been
absolutely honest and that no criticism could
he made 10 lie against them, and the further
fact that even without a state tax except for
school purposes, the treasury is overlooking with
funds, is condition difficult to meet. even by
Democrats who are resorting TO untruthful and
malicious statements in the interest OF their
campaign There is now no doubt of Governor
Harris's election by a large majority. There
never was any doubt about Judge Taft carry
ing Ohio"
FORETELLS DEATH OF DEMOCRACY.
The Democratic party is doomed to annihila-
ton, according to an enthusiastic admirer OF
Mr. Taft in California, who writes:
have Just been all over Arizona and New
Mexico and if they had vote the Republican
ticket would carry both territories two TO one.
Great old Texas will give the smallest Demo-
cratic vote next November she ever gave. Ne
braska will swell up the largest Republican ma
ioritv in November she ever has given. Kansas
will come back to her eighty thousand Republic
can Missouri will repeat her vote of 1904.
Illinois will give you one hundred and twenty
thousand plurality You and the Republican
ticket will carry every mountain and Western
state and you will make the biggest inroad yet
made on the so-called solid South. ] am now
resident of California, and going TO in
crease your majority, and then we going to
elect YOU in 1912, and Theodore Roosevelt will
be our President from March 4, 1917 to March 4,
1921, so by that time there will be no Demo-
cratic party
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