Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-01
REVIEWS Bic PARADE
Taft Addresses Enthusiastic
Gathering in Rochester.
CONFIDENT OF NEW YORK
Says That His Majority Will Nearly
Equal Roosevelt's.
DISCUSSES HIS OPP
Says Bryan's Policies Are Plausible,
But Will Not Bear Logical
Analysis by the Voters.

ROCHESTER. n. Y. October 31.-After
weeks campaigning in New York city
and state which ended here tonight with
a duplicate Of the rousing demonstra-
tions he has inspired wherever he went,
William II, Taft. the republican presi-
Dental candidate. made this statement to
! the Associated Press:
The state of New York is the most
republican part of the United States: even
more republican than the state of Penn
sylvania
There is every indication through that
part of the state above the Bronx that
there will be a majority for the republi-
can ticket nearly equal to that of Mr..
Roosevelt four years ago.
The democratic majority of the city OF
New York will probably not exceed 10000
votes. This will be overcome by the re-
publican vote above the Bronx with such
overwhelming force as to give the re-
publican ticket In the Empire state a
| clear majority of from 100000 upward
This roseate view of the candidate has
been reflected in each of the ten speeches
he made today. Judge Taft had cordial
| receptions in Elmira, Waverly. Owego.
Lestershire. Binghamton. Whitney's Point
Marathon, Cortland and Ithaca.
Greeted With Enthusiasm.
In this city tonight his presence in
spired A monster parade which he re-
viewed before going to Convention Hall.
where thousands paid their tribute to his
presence in a demonstration of enthusi-
asm equaling that Of any audience the
candidate has addressed.
ipo T,,l To 1aft
on his special train for Buffalo, where he
will spend Sunday with Mrs. Taft, who
will join him there and accompany him
Monday to Ohio, where he will speak in
Cleveland at noon and at Youngstown in
the evening, going from there direct to
Cincinnati.
After the election Judge and Mrs. Taft
will go to Hot Springs. Va, where the
candidate expects to gain few days of
absolute rest that he may recuperate
His future plans beyond this have not
been determined.
Bryan's Policies Discussed.
'Mr. Bryan has always won in August
and September" said Judge Taft in one
of his speeches today. This grows out
of the character of the policies he advo-
Gates They are always plausible; they
are always useful for the first two months
of their use on the stump, and then the
power of logical analysis that the Amer
lean voters bring to bear in the long edu-
cational campaign that precedes presi-
Dental election scatters his policies to
the wind as they ought to be scattered.
1t does not happen by accident. 1t hap
pens because of the character of the
man and the character of the platform
and principles advocated by the demo-
cratic party.
Il cannot conceive how wage earners
or business man that understand the diff
ference between the two parties as to
the circumstances. OF course. they
might vote for him on the theory that
he could not do any harm. that he would
have a republican Senate, and SO he could
our curiosity lii knowing what he would
do when he got into the White House.
toward which he has been struggling so
many years.
Power Of the Executive.
But 1t is not wise to make the error
of supposing that the President of the
United States has not an enormous influ-
ence in respect to the business interests
of this country even without regard to
his power over legislation and over the
Congress.
Mr.. Bryan for three presidential terms
he urged it with all the vigor of which
he was capable. The third time even the
democratic party refused to follow him.
But we have no reason to believe that he
has departed from the faith.
Suppose he were to get into the White
House and we had monetary stringency
which might be likely to follow his ac-
cession to power, and suppose there
should be drain on our gold: suppose
then the question arose whether the
executive order now in force in the Treas
ury Department. by which gold is paid
out for silver, and for other obligations
Of the government on demand, should be
reversed and such payment refused as it
might be under the orders of the Secre-
tary of the Treasury. and of course the
Secretary of the Treasury, being nothing
but the finger of the President. would
obey what the President told him to do.
Under those conditions the executive
could put us on silver basis.
Bryan Not Sound, Taft Says.
NOW, / say that to vote for Mr.. Bryan
on the theory that he has no power to
injure us by being President, by putting
into force his peculiar economic theories,
is to assume condition that is not true.
Then in the course of an administration
of four years a great number of business
questions arise that require settlement
by a man with business sense and con-
servative foresight, and l regret to say
that Mr.. Bryan in his history before this
country has shown a capacity for not
recognizing a sound business principle
when he meets it on the street.
Before reviewing the parade tonight
Judge Taft addressed an exclusively
labor meeting making his labor speech.
GAVE UP s1s TO STRANGER.