The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-26
Real FigI1I '.f Campaign Will
 Be In New York State
BRYAN AND TAFT ID FRONT
Both Candidates Will Speak Several Days in New York-Tan1many Hall Plans for Greatest Den.-
 onstration of Campaign.

New York, October 25.--The political campaign, which is about to enter upon it's last week, is to have a real whirl- wind finish. From the highest to the lowest, all the spellbinders of all the parties will be out in force during the next six days In practically every state of the Union rallies and mass meetings almost without number have been arranged, but it is in New York, with it's large number of electoral votes at stake, that the real battle will be waged. There practically all the leading candidates will concentrate their efforts, assisted by a large nun Der. of the country's most forceful campaigners. Ohio and Indiana also will be given considerable attention. Among the speakers who will urge the voters of Ohio to support Mr Taft will be several members of President Roosevelt's cabinet-Secretaries Root and Garfield, and Postmaster General Meyer--and the republican presidential candidate himself will deliver two for maj addresses at Cleveland and Youngstown on Monday November ~2. Vice President Fairbanks will head the republican forces in Indiana, which will include Senators Beveridge and Hemenway, Edward Hozmun, consul general of the United States at Con stantinople; John l.. Griffith, United States consul at Liverpool, and Rep resentative Gardner of Michigan. Will liam J. Bryan, after four days in New faf xrsI | campaign by a series of speeches in Ohio, Illinois and Indiana
 Both MT. Taft and Mir. Bryan were in .this city tonight All the forces the democratic national committee can summon will be brought to bear to se- cure the electoral vote of New York state for w. J. Bryan. Led by the presidential candidate himself who will speak four days in this state, an army } of speakers will p.t sent into -everr, county and town to spread the doc Urine and appeal for votes for the ticket. MT. Bryan went to the cities and towns in the southern tier yester- day, and after two days campaiAa .-. the greater city, he will stump cities and towns that fringe the east shore of the Hudson river. The democratic campaign in the state, it is planned by the party managers, will receive it's impetus from the meetings here to- morrow night at Madison Square Gar den and in Brooklyn Tuesday.
 Besides these meetings. many others at which MT Bryan will speak have been arranged in different parts of the city. Tammany Hall has planned to make the Madison Square meeting the greatest demonstration given the candidate in this campaign, and red fire will burn and bands will play in every assembly dis trict on Manhattan Island tomorrow night.
 Monday forenoon will find MT Bryan visiting cities and towns in the near vii cinity of New York, after a flying visit to Paterson, N. J. Tuesday will be spent in Brooklyn and on Wednesday the Ne braskan will turn upstate. Following a meeting in Syracuse Thursday night, Mir Bryan will devote the closing days to Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. Meanwhile, all the prominent campaigners the dem ocratic state and national committees can enlist have been sent to the 61 counties Of New York state, and to the doubtful states of the middle west. Among the leading speakers in New York state for the week will be Judge Parker John Sharp Williams, Senator Bacon of Geor- gia, Gov. Hoke Smith of Georgia Gov. J. Fl. Higgins of Rhode Island and Gov ernor Ansell of South Carolina.
 The republican wind-up of the cam paign in New York city calls for 22 mass meetings to be addressed by speakers of national reputation parade of the re- publican clubs of Greater New York and a big parade of the Business Mems Re- publican association.
 The big republican event of the week will be the Madison Square Garden meet ing on Wednesday night, October 2S. at which MT. Taft and Governor Hughes will be the principal speakers. Gen Hor- acc Porter will preside.
 Mir. Taft and Governor Hughes will ad- dress four noon-day meetings on the 2Sth.
 Other republican meetings of the week will bc addressed by Secretary of State Root, Secretary of the Treasury Cortcl- you. Secretary of Commerce and Labor Straus, Attorney General Bonaparte, James S. sherman, the republican vice presidential candidate. and others.