The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-10-21
CITIES AND TOWNS
MAKE PREPARATIONS
All Cities on Schedule Will Be Hon
ored and Hammond and Gary Will
Get the Closing Meetings of the
Whirlwind Trip Through This
State.

Indianapolis. Oct. 21.-Great prepare
lions are being made by many Indiana
cities and towns for the Taft meetings
TO be held tomorrow and Friday and
saturday I'm connection with the tour
OF the state by the presidential nominee
In special train. Forty-three sched-
uled stops are to be made hut more
than forty-three cities and towns are
looming their holiday clothes and PLAN
ming to greet the distinguished visitor.
Many places not on the official scbed
uie Will try to hold up the train All
Indiana wishes to see and hear Taft
and the managers of the tour are in
ciined to accommodate the largest DOS
sible number.
II is positively stated at republican
headquarters that Mr. Taft will apepar
at all the places for which meetings
have been booked even though he finds
1t impossible to make all his promised
speeches. He is suffering from throat
affection and it may be necessary for
him to refrain from speaking in the
mornings and evenings when the air
is dank and raw. He will be seen by
all, however, even if he is not heard
First Stop Mt Lawrenceburg.
Cincinnati bright and early tomorrow
morning and the first stop will be at
Lawrenceburg at 7:35. Brief stops of
five. ten or twelve minutes will then
be made at Aurora, Osgood. North
Vernon. Seymour, Brownstown Nit
chell, Bedford, Bloomington and Bloom
| field and then will come the first real
stop of the day at Linton, which will
be reached at 2:15 in the afternoon
| Twenty five minutes will be spent there
and then a half hour will be spent
at Terre Haute Sullivan and Vim
cennes will have short speeches after
which the special will enter Evansville
for big night meeting
Reports from Evansville indicate that
the meeting Thursday night will be one
of the biggest in the history of the
city.
Leave Evansville at Midnight.
The special will leave Evansville at
midnight and the second day will open
with a short stop at Brazil. Ten min
utes at Greencastle and then the same
length of time at Charlottesville will
bring the special to Lafayette at 1905.
After twenty five minutes stop. the
special will continue on up the state
with short stops at Frankfort. Kokomo
and Greentown, Marion will get an
hour in the afternoon and Muncie and
Anderson will get twenty-five minutes
each after which the special will head
for eastern Indiana with brief stops
at Knightstown, Rushville and Shelby
Vile
The night meeting Friday will be
held here in Indianapolis and arrange
ments are being perfected for mann
ninth tiop
rade, outdoor speaking, etc.
The third and last day will open at
Greenfield and then will come a twenty
minutes stop at Richmond. Shooting
north the special will stop at Winches-
ter. Portland Decatur and FIT. Wayne,
where thirty minutes is scheduled.
Columbia City. Warsaw. Goshen, Elk
hart and then South Bend. where a full
hour will be spent Laporte. Michigan
City and Hammond will wind up the
the last afternoon and then the special
will steam into Gary for the final
/ celebration In Indiana.
VIII BE Tremendous Affair.
This will be tremendous affair with
Taft dividing honors with Senator Bey-
eridge who will be on the point Of
: invading his home state The senior
senator will start bright and early
Monday morning on a special to tour
7 Indiana for five days. He will visit
a practically every county and make
stop in every city and town Of any
considerable size. His tour will be the
e most complete of any other speaker
$ touring the state.
= Both the national and state COM
a mittees are depending on Beveridge to
efset the Bryan gain in Indiana.
Q Other speakers will be on the stump,
! notably Vice President Fairbanks and
John l. Griff1ths. consul general to
; Liverpool. but the task of answerin g
Bryan has fallen to Beverage.
Many speakers have been sent out by
. the state committee to entertain the
crowds at the Taft points pending the
arrival of the special These will be
!. expected to hold the crowds and keep
= good feeling uppermost. Charles ".
Miller will be at TT. Wayne. Addison
c. Harris at Warsaw, and Monteville
Flowers at South Bend.