Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-10-28
TAFT IN NEW YORK STATE.

Troy. N. T., Oct. Zt.-1ne industries
of the cities and towns which. line the
banks Of the picturesque Hudson from
Greater New York to Troy We're made
the text of the speeches of William II
Taft today to the people of the ciries
and towns. Yonkers greeted the bie
Ohioan IN the midst of a heavy show
er. He talked at length to as many
as could get into the largest theatre
and then addressed those VINO had
stood waiting in the rain, whose num-
Der was even greater.
Mr. Bryan spoke in YOnkers ycster-
day. Saying he understood his distin-
snished opponent had charged that The
Republican party had done nothing
for labor, Mr. Taft first asserted that
the policies of the Republican party
had been chiefly devoted to the inter-
ests of labor and then pointed cut that
the protective policy made possible the
sugar refining industry, the chief en-
terprise of the city. Certainly Mr..
Bryan was bold man to advocate
such views in 4 town like Yonk.rs,' -
continued Mr. Taft. (which l believe
is one of the greatest manufacturing
towns in proportion to it's size in the
state of New York and is depenGt mt
upon the protective system" AS q sam
PIE. Mr.. Taft said. of the utterly i'm
practical or destructive character of
Mr.. Bryan's recommendation with ref
erence to economic reforms he would
cite what Mr.. Bryan would do with the
Ionkers sugar refinery. assuming for
argumen, that the refinery was in a
trust" Mr.. Taft continued:
He would take off the difrcrential
On Sugar--that protection which is
necessary to enable US to have ally ST.
gar re fintrieS in this country 1t would
cause the establishment of refineries
in Germany. and all of your popula-
ton he:N dependent on this refinery
would be affected. And not only would
If destroy the trust. but with it the in
dependent refineries."
The Republican party is Just as
much opposed to monopoly as the
Democratic party" announced Mr.
Taft later 1T passed and enforced The
antitrust law. 1t believes in going di-
rectly at the evil of monopoly by pun
lshing men for continuing it rather
than by destroying the industries and
the great combinations of capital that
nave SO much utility and are of such
benefit to the wage earners. 1t believes
IN stamping out the evil and not
stamping out the corporation. larry
town. Peekskill and Fishkill Landing
listened in the rain to short speeches
delivered by the candidate from the
rear of his car. At Poughkeepsie the
sun came out brightly
Mr.. Taft spoke to crowd that fill
ed the Collingwood Opera house. A
class of girls from Vassar College tried
to get" his speech in shorthand. The
Republican candidate reverted TO Mr.
Bryans issue, "Shall the people
ruler"
Shall the people rule has strand
ed he declared. 1.-The truth is that the
proposition that the people had not
ruled up to this date met with SO much
ridicule that it has faded out as an is
sue
Mr.. Taft made second speech at
Poughkeepsie from the steps of the
Republican headquarters building. An
other brief speech was made at Hud-
son and three at Schenectady, all of
them predominant with labor issues
The employees of the American Loco
motive Works at Schenectady received
the candidate with much enthusiasm.
Mr. Taft told his hearers of his own
labor record, of the labor legislation
which the Republican party had en-
acted as compared with blank" rec
ord of the Democratic party
At the shops of the General Electric
Y nnlyS- 1,,,, dc. Of rIy
told in detail the Taft position on la
Dor from the time the candidate was
a judge on the bench to the present
time. At the third meeting at the Van
Curler theatre, Judge Taft devoted
himself to discussion of the labor sit
iation and brought to the fore the gen
cral prosperity issue which he declared
the voters of the country.
Yonkers, n. Y, Oct. 27.-Mr. Taft