New-York tribune., 1908-10-19
BUSY WEEK Fur TAFT
Full Plans Made for Big Garden
RaZLu on October 2S.

Judge Taft has busy weeks work in store for
him when he reaches New York Mr.. Hutchin-
SON. the head of the speakers bureau of the state
committee has planned a trip which will take the
Presidential candidate all over the state stopping
at the important cities and towns
The biggest Republican rally of the campaign
will take place Wednesday. October Is. at Madi-
Square Garden. where over fourteen thousand
persons will hear William H. Taft and Charles
E Hughes General Horace Porter will preside.
and Senator William Alden Smith. of Michigan.
and George a. Knight. of California, will also
speak Both Mr.. Taft and Mr.. Hughes will make
several speeches during the evening in various
parts of the city before addressing the Madison
Square Garden audience.
A large chorus will sing campaign songs and will
be supported by two brass bands. The decorations
will he unusually elaborate. while the display OF
fireworks in the square will be we'll worth seeing.
On the platform will be a group of men. all of
whom voted for John c. Fremont, the first Republi-
candidate for President Among them will be
Frederick W. Seward. the son of William H. Sew
ard. and William Barnes The Fremont campaign
banner will be placed in prominent place on the
platform.
Another interesting delegation will be composed
of generals and other officers who served during
Civil War.
James s Sherman will review large parade of
Republican clubs on their way to the Garden. The
Americas Club of Pttsburg; the Conkling Club of
Utica n. Y. and the Unconditional ard the Capital
City clubs. of Albany. will be among the visiting
delegations to the rally that will swell the ranks
of the paraders. Several universities will have
Republican clubs which will take part in the pro-
cession. among them are Yale Princeton. Har-
ward, Brown. Columbia. Cornell New York Uni
Nersity. Stevens Institute and the College OF the
City of New York
Major Brdgeman of Squadron will be the
grand marshal and will form the parade and lead
1t TO Madison Square Garden. There will be a
brass band with each corps and tra1 sparencies
tanners. torches and lanterns galore.
Benjamin G. Hall. the chairman of the commit
lee which has charge of arranging the rally has
called meeting OF the committee for iris after
noon at o'clock in she assembly room on the
eleventh floor of the Metropolitan Life Building
MI Iaft Will attend dinner be given by
Timothy l. Woodruff at the Montauk Club in
Brooklyn On October Is He will then deliver
speeches al Arion Hail. Congress Hall Browns
VILE the Academy OF Music and the CIermont
Avenue Rink
The next day Mr.. Taft will go up the Hudson
on special train making several stops on the
way. In the evening he will speak at Schenec-
tady Cohoes and Troy before returning to this city
FOR the big rally at Madison Square Garden on the
2Sth.
On the 10Th Judge Taft will deliver speechss a,
important towns in the following counties. ca
yusa wayne. Monroe, Ontario and Seneca In the
evening he will address large meeting in syra
cuse.
Mr. Taft will speak at Canastota. Oneida Rome
Utica, Batavia and Buffalo on the soth The last
day OF his tour will be Saturday October 81 when
he VIII talk to rallies al Elmira waverlv C,weSo
Binshamton. Marathon Cortland and Ithaca In
the evening he will finish his campaigning In the
East with speech at Rochester.