The Washington times., 1908-10-28
Republican Candidate Is
Greatly Cheered by Re-
cephon Given Him.
MAKES 4 SPEECHES
IN AN HOURS TIME
Reaches Manhattan at H. 80, and
Talks First to LOns sshoremen
on Bethune Street.
By JAMES HAY, j.

NEW YORK Oct. 28.-WiIIiam How
ard Taft. smiling and more confident
than ever after his hattering upstate
reception, came back 10 Broadway to-
day, and Immediately began one Of the
hardest days he has had.
lie made four speeches an hour, and
then went 20 his brothers residence to
rest. before going 10 the upper part of
Manhattan island ana working his way
back 10 Madison Square Garden, where
The big mass meeting will be held to-
night. His audiences in this city today
were as enthusiastic as they were up
State, and although 1t is admitted that
Bryan viii carry the city, it was dem
onstrated that Taft has more than the
usual Republican strength here.
The candidate reached New York az
1870 o'clock and Immediately took an
automobile and went to make his speech
TO the longshoremen at the foot OF Be
thune street. He reached there at ll.45
and found an immense crowd.
Cheered in Auto
on the way from the station the Taft
automobile. followed by a long parade
of other automobiles hlled with news
paper men and members of the party,
aroused great interest and many bursts
of cheers.
From Bethune street. the candidate
went to 238 Lafayette street. where he
spoke at l2:l5, and at 12.30 he spoke al
81 Union Square. His fourth speech
was at 1915 o'clock to a big crowd OF
commercial travellers at Broadway ana
Astor place. In spite of the threaten
ing weather, he had big crowds at both
the indoor and the outdoor meetings.
and his arguments on the labor issue
and the prosperity question were cheered
10 the echo.
Taft and Bryan Close.
Taft and Bryan were in arms reach
OF each other this morning. The TAFT
tram pulled out of Troy at 7:45 O'CLOCK
Tor a through run to New York, ard
early In the morning Bryan had started
up the state from this city. Ills train
was coming 10 a halt in Hastings and
he was on Ihe rear platform waving his
hand 90 the crowd wheE the Taft spe-
ciaI coming in this direction, pulled
slowly by. TaIt was not on the rear
platform. bait members Of the party
sgvIe. and one OF them tossed a TAR
button &c Bryan's platform, He did not
pick il up while in sight Of the Tart
Train. but he aNed graciCUsly to the
men ON the Taft train.
Al Tarryt0Wu, where TafJ spoke yes
tgr6ay, the Bryan meeting was just
over as the Taft train came Through
and was cheered by those who had
H5dId Bryan
I'm all. Judge Taft, will make ten
speeches here today. This work is only
a hitting climax 10 what has been done
by the national committee and the Re
publican speakers 10 Cs-tIsr enthu-
siasm in greater New York. Both the
Republicans and the Democrats have
broken all records in the zeal and nov
city OF their work.
Gets Lots of Politics
over in Brooklyn. up in the Bronx,
throughout Harlem and along the Gay
White Way, the issues Of the campaign
are being hurled into the minds Of these
people with feverish energy. This after
noon a man climbed to the top Of one
OF the slIyscrapers near Forty-second
street, and tonight a searChlight Will
play on the portrait of Taft three
blocks away on Broadway. This morn
Ing a bill poster was busy with his
bucket OF paste. and IN a few minutes
red. flaming posters, asking the people
10 look at the portraits OF Bryan and
Taft and then vote for Bryan il they
dared, caught the eyes of the hurry
ing thousands.
Go After the Men.
carts, and automobiles appear at a
street corner and go to other corners,
after the men In them have made po-
liticaI speeches 10 anybody who stopped
TO hear them You pass along Broad
way and hear a strident voice through
en- open doorway. You look in and find
that the Democrats Of the Republicans
have hired the hall for the rest of the
campaign, and that the speeches by
men Of great or little prominence are
continuous. You see other halls some
OF them with an audience of fifty, some
with a crowd Of 5000 people.
on level with the street or high in
the air, are displayed banners pen
nants, and glaTinE signs bearing mot
toes and the portraits of the candi-
dates Every mechanical device from
the phOnOgraph to the seaTchiight, and
every form of persuasion from PAM
phleIS 10 mass meetings are being used
IN the struggle for supremacy.