Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-21
REVISING HIS SPEECH
Taft Going Over His Cincinnati
Address.
WILL COVER MANY POINTS
Delivery May Take an Hour and a
Half.
MANY CHANGES YET TO MAKE
II ns
WILL COVER MANY POINTS
MANY CHANGES YET TO MAKE
Frank Kellogg Assists in the Boiling
Down and Refining Process.
Virginia Conditions.

HOT SPRINGS, Va. July 21.-Thgee
DAYS more of diligent consideration and
careful revision will be given by William
H. Taft to the speech he is to deliver at
Cincinnati next Tuesday in acknowledge
ment of the official notification that he
Is the presidential nominee of the repub-
lican party Although the speech is to
be supplemented in September by an ex-
tended letter Of acceptance. it is the pur-
pose Of the candidate to take this earlier
opportunity to set forth precisely and as
concisely as may be possible his position
on the surprising multitude" Of questions
which must be dealt with in the cam
paign. The importance politically Of thus
announcing himself has been impressed
upon Mr.. Taft by the numerous political
advisers whom he has consulted. and he
has decided to take the risk of being
tedious in the delivery of a speech of an
hour and a half, which will be fully
Illuminating. in place of the thirty-min-
ute talk he had at first believed would
suffice.
Many Changes to Be Made.
But there is much consulting yet to be
done. and undoubtedly many changes of
expression will be made. For two nights
the early morning. and yesterday. instead
of indulging in his usual golf game, he
listened to the reading of the speech by
Frank B. Kellogg. Meanwhile he sat
gazing out on the links with a pleased
expression. while Antal Illes. an artist
of Budapest, who speaks no English. hur-
ried hfe-size likeness of the candidate
on to a high canvas. for the Hungarian
Republican Club of New York
Mr.. kellogg has consented to assist in
the revising process until Friday, when
Mr. Taft has promised himself that the
work shall be finished.
Virginia Political Conditions.
A delegation of prominent republicans
of Virginia arrived here today to confer
with Mr.. Taft concerning conditions in
this state. The delegation was headed
by Representative Semp of the ninth
district chairman of the republican state
executive committee. who told Mr. Taft
that the republicans of this state were
prepared to take advantage of conditions
to make a good showing In the coming
campaign. The republicans of the state.
he said. were more thoroughly united
than ever before. Mr.. Slemp also talked
concerning the proposed rally of republi-
cans here from all sections of the state
TO pledge their support of the ticket next
November. and said that from FIVE to ten
thousand people would come to see the
republican candidate on a day to be fixed
for meeting them
Representative Gaines of West Virginia
arrived here today to see Mr.. Taft.
Going After the South.
Virginia. Georgia and North Carolina
are to be battled for by the republicans II
Mr.. Taft has any influence with the ma
tional committee in directing the cam
paign He today said this much to the
delegation of Virginia republicans which
visited him. Mr.. Taft will name a day
in August after his Cincinnati speech has
been delivered when he will receive al
Hot Springs a representative gathering
! from all parts Of the state.
Going to See the President.
Announcement was made by Mr.. Taft
| this afternoon that he will leave here to.
! morrow night for Oyster Bay for the pur