The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-09-13
Republican Nominee Sweeps
Aside All Precedents of
@. O. P. Candidates.
PLANS HASTY TRIP
AROUND CIRCUIT
He Will Tell the People What His
Plans Are for Giving Then
Good Government.
BY JAMES HAY, Jr.

CINCINNATI. Ohio, Sept. l2.-By a
decision Judge Taft reached today, this
campaign will be one of the hottest,
dercest political fights IT the history OF
american politics.
TaTI himself wiz assume the mastery
of the Republican side OF the conflict
He will be In the foreground OF the
battle and his lips viii frame the watch
word and the slogan from day 10 day.
The plan Cor aggressive campaigning,
which has been mentioned before in
these dispatches, has been enlarged on,
and there Will be dir -cted ceaseless at
tucks against the Democratic candi-
dates and platform. -hese attacks will
be in the speeches delivered by Taft
himself. In the addresses of other cam
paigners, and in interviews given out
by any man of Importance who visits
the candidate either here or while he Is
on the road.
There have come TO Judge Taft's desk
since he arrived here numberless com
plants that, although the chances Of
Republican victory are excellent, those
chances are not being made sure; that
apathy is too apparent in the rank and
file Of the party, and that vigor should
be pur into the fight Many Of these
complaints were highly circumstdntia.'
citing instances where apathy has done
harm, and reminding him Of how the
conditions could be improved.
Will Boost Campaigning.
The protests have not fsi!en upon
deaf ears. end the vigorous campaign
ing the writer's wanted viii be forth
coming
Taft himself viii make a speaking
tour which will break all records for
such work in the past on the p"rI OF
Republican Presidential candidates He
has swept aside as being cut of date
the precedents Of Republican Presi-
Dental nominees not taking the stump
in their own campaigns. ans be has
made UP his mind TO travel through tie
Middle West as far as Nebraska. 70
swing down 10 the South as far as
Nashville. Tenn. 70 make a speech IN
Baltimore. and then travel NoTthward
as far as New York. and even as far
as Boston 81 II can possibly be ar
ranged in the limited time at his dis
posaL
He may do all this in one continuous
trip, or. what is more liksly. he will
divide IT into three trips. But, how
ever. It is done. 70 is n program which
will be carried out Hereto ore. Il has
been the rule for those who visited the
candidate and consulted with iIIm about
the political situation 70 leave his Office
and have nothing 20 say. Bat there was
a change today The aggressive program
was put into effect.
The result was that Secretary Straus,
Of the Department Of Commerce and
Labor, and Terence V. Powderly, the
great labor authority Of the same de-
partment. gave out interviews after
seeing Taft, which attacked in the most
emphatic terms the Democratic aIti-
tude as regards organized labor and the
general welfare Of the country. Straus
declared that he would take the stump
because he bad been driven 20 it 10y the
num4rous misstatemeuts Of the Demo-
cratic speakers"
Judge Taft Indignant
IN other words. Judge Taft and his
friends are thoroughly Indignant They
do not propose TO allow the Democrats
TO misrepresent them. as they claim
they are being misrepresentcd- Goaded
tc action by what has been said Of
them, they propose TO make that
action as effective and emphatic as
possible.
This determination and the complaints
of apathy among the members Of the
party were the factors which electrified
the Taft headquarters today.
They are factors which have en-
phasized ard enlarged the candidates
desire to travel from one end Of the
country TO the other, telling the people
where he stands on every conceivable
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