The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-07
TAFT SPELLBINDERS
 COMING ID ALABAMA
Mckinley and Knight Will Tour
 the State
TO MAKE AUTOMOBILE TRIP
Esery Billboard In Birmingham Win Show Taft's Picture Within Next Few Rays-Chairman La
 throp Returns.

The republicans are going to bring T.. o. Knight the man who nominated Taft. to Birmingham. Duncan (. Me Kinley. congressman from California. the silver tongued orator who addressed the republican convention here last summer will make a canvass of the state, speak ing in several places He will probably be attended by MT. Knight, the man who brought out the most enthusiasm for i Taft at the Chicago convention These two men will arrive within the next few days, and their Itinerary Will immediately be mapped out.
 Republican headquarters in Birmingham held an hours consultation with Frank Hitchcock over the telephone Monday night. and Mir Hitchcock was so pleased with the conditions here that he now requires a daily report of the doings m Alabama.
 Plans are on foot for a big meeting m the Hippodrome theatre when the con eressionaI and state candidates, as well as the national figures who may be in the state, will make addresses, and big statewide republican rally will be held.
 d and sherman will be smiling from the billboards and fences of Birmingham. The committee has a day and night shiit at work mailing out literature all over the state
 Chairman Frank H. Lathrop returned from Chicago yesterday full of encourage uaent. ."rnere is nothing in the reports of discord around headauarters' ne said. but they are working with might and main. and are the most confident set ever saw. The republicans are sup porttng the campaign with their money and it is being spent in flooding the couh- try with valuable literature which proves the importance of returning republican administration.
 q received first hand reports from the western states, and beyond doubt, most Of them are going republican. The sane vote of the whole country is rallying to Taft"
 An automobile campaign, something unique in republican campaigning VIII be made in Calhoun and Dekalp eouh- ties right away. The campaign being made by ]. O. Middleton for Congress in
 
 the Fourth district will be supported from the machines at 40 points by prominent speakers.
 The Fifth district, which has seldom ever been canvassed before, is the scene of a lively fight. w. w. Wadsworth has written a hot campaign document which the committee is scattering over the dls- trict and speeches will be made in ev- cry corner of the district.
 ]. o. Middleton was in Birmingham yes terday on his way into Crenshaw eoun- ty where he will make a speech. T am going to be elected he said. During the last week l have spoken to a half dozen crowded houses and l tell you the vote in Alabama boiled by the republic ans this year is going to be something enormous
 The stand to be taken by the republic ans in Alabama on the three amendments to the constitution is a matter of in- terest Chairman J. O.. Thompson of the state committee said yesterday that so far as his personal observation has gone, he thinks the republicans will vote. for the good roads amendment, and the Bes- semer county amendment but that they are opposed to the biennial sessions of the legislature.
 Republicans over the state are enthusi- astic in their support of the Overton good roads amendment" he said. We believe that money should be spent for this pur- pose immediately. State aid in building roads is positively necessary"