The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-16
Republican Nominee for Presi-
dent at Topeka Auditorium.
VIII Also Speak at LeavenwOrth
and Atchison.
SHERMAN COMES, TOO
Vice Presidential Candidate Will
Tour the State.
Good Work Done at Chicago bv
Chairman DOlley.

William Howard Taft, Republican
nominee for the presidency, will speak
at Iopeka at the Auditorium on Satur-
day night, October g. He will also
speak at Leavenworth on October 5
Atchlson, October 6, and will make
speeches from the rear end of his train
clear across the state via the Sanra
Fe.
chairman j. N. Dolley returned at
noon today from Chicago where he
went last Sunday to attend a special
meeting of the Republican state chair
man of Indiana, Wisconsin, Colorado
the Dakotas, Colorado, Nebraska and
Kansas. Chairman Hitchcock of the
national committee presided at this
meeting, the object of which was to
arrange for speakers and dates for the
states mentioned.
1t was finally decided that Judge
Taft should start out on his speaking
tour OF the west in a special train Sep
tember 25, speaking first in Indiana,
then In Wisconsin, the Dakotas and
Colorado. He will take the Santa Fe
at Denver and enter Kansas from the
west. on October 3 ana make rear plat-
form speeches on tae route to To-
peka that day. He will stop here
and make a lengthy address at the
auditorium that night and proceed to
Kansas CITY, Mo-, to spend Sunday,
As of the two Kansas Cities Sunday
AFTERNOON. Monday, October 5, he will
re-enter Kansas and speak at Leaven-
worth and Atchison. Then he will go
10 st. Joseph, Mo-, and thence to St.
Louis Tor his last western speech.
Following Judge Taft into Kansas,
ten or fifteen days later, will come R.
s. Sherman, Republican candidate for
vice president, who also will enter the
state from the west via the Rock
Island or Union Pacific and speak first
at Wichita, and then likely at Inde-
pendence and Pittsburg Mr.. Sherman
will also make rear platform speeches,
but will not appear at Topeka.
After Mr.. Sherman will come Gov
ernor Hughes of New York, Senator
Iowa and Senator Beveridge of In
diana. A notable list of speakers, sure
ly, and of a size and caliber equal to
that outlined for Indiana or New York
The dates and places for the last four
speakers named have not been ar
ranged as yet.
Big Meeting OF Campaign.
The Taft speech at Topeka will be
made the great gathering of the cam
paign for Kansas. Chairman Dolley is
authority for this statement. The ef-
forts of the state committee will be
centered on this political celebration
and nothing will be left undone to
make 1t the feature assemblage of the
west during this or any recent cam
paign. Delegations from many large
cities outside of the state will be here
and the G.. o. P. elephant will trumpet
long and loud.
Speaking of the meeting of the state
chairmen at Chicago this week with
their chief. Chairman Dolley said: "It
was a most important and interesting
meeting for all of US. We worked all
night Monday night arranging a sche-
dule for the speakers and discussing
the issues and conditions of the cam
paign. 1t was decided that the slogan
of the Republicans this fall should be,
Taft, running on his record A rec
ord made during twenty years Of pub
lie service and everything we'll accom-
plished that his hand was turned to
do, while Bryan is running away from
his record of the past fifteen years.
Look at the contrast between the two
men. Taft rolled up his blanket and
went away to the Philippines where
he founded, out of insurrection. saw
agery and chaos the best colonial gov
ernment this world has ever known
and in a space of time that may be
numbered by days. What was Bryan
doing at this time? He was making
speeches. The Cubans were eating
each other up and Taft rolled his
blanket again and went to Cuba. He
took peace and good government with
him and there has been no word of
trouble since from Cuba. During this
time Bryan was making speeches to
the 'peepup at $3.50 per. When the
Panama canal work came to stand
still, and the French had spent hun
dreds of millions on this canal and
declared it impractical before the
Americans took hold of it Taft was
given charge of the work and he
pushed it forward and it is still pro-
crossing toward fulfillment in miracu-
lous fashion. Bryan was still engaged
in setting fire to the Chautauqua cir
cults.
You might say further in regard
to this Chicago meeting, that the spirit
of utmost confidence prevailed there.
shape for a Republican victory along
decisive lines, but nothing will be left
undone to clinch this victory.
During our deliberations Monday
a message was received from the New
York state convention asking these
western committee chairmen If they
could send an Endorsement in for
Hughes for a denomination for COVER
nor of the Empire state. We made
the endorsement asked for unani-
mously and sent it in Monday night.
1t was read the next day in the Sara
toga convention
Chairman Dolley is to be congratu-
lated on securing for Kansas this year
the largest and most imposing array
of speakers in the history of the state. |
Big Shipment of Horses.
Lexington, KY, Sept ia ship
ment IF horses from the Millstceam