The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-29
TAFT TALKS POLITICS.
Breaks His Rule fSilence at CALI
polls, o.

Athens, o., Aug. CIV. H. Taft broke
away from his schedule today and de-
livered an impromptu political speech
from the back platform of his train
with Mrs. Taft by his side. In which ne
pitched the campaign on the single is
sue: (which party by its works and
not by its promises has earned the con-
fidence not only of capitalists, but OF
the wage earners and farmers?"
The speech was cheered by urge
crowd of residents of GGllipolis, O.,
where the Taft train stopped for five
minutes this morning.
Athens gave Mr.. Taft a rousing well
come when he later reached that place
and several thousand of her citizens
made themselves a part of the reunion
of veterans of the county now being
held and listened with interest to
speech by the candidate in which he
eschewed politics and devoted himself
to the human interest of the life of the
veterans.
The exercises at Athens were en-
braced in a three hour stay and in
cluded a luncheon party at the home of
General Charles H. Grosvenor, for
many years a member of congress.
The exercises were held in the city
park and after addresses the candi-
date was given an opportunity to
shake hands with his hearers. Through
out the trip to Athens there were con-
slant demands for the appearance of
the candidate on the rear platform and
when he complied he was cheered and
many cordial remarks hurled at him.
The GalIopolis Speech.
In his speech at Gallopolis, Mr.. Taft
said:
1.-THE campaign as it is developing
nthe part Of our friends the enemy
the Democratic party. seems to involve
so many issues that it takes a week
or month to cover them. but I fancy
after all that the issue which will pre-
sent itself to the voters of this coun-
try is the questions of confidence in
the one or the other of the two parties
as to which party by its work and not
by its promises has earned the conf
dence not only of the ca pitalists, but
of the wage earners and the farmers.
For II years we have been enjoy
ing prosperity never before equalled
in the world, and whether or not the
Republican party brought about that
prosperity, certainly it made it pos
sible for US to enjoy 1t so that the
farmers were never more comfortable,
the wage earners never have had
higher wages nor a higher standard
of living and the business men never
enjoyed greater prosperity. In the
course of that tremendous prosperity
abuses crept in and with a knowledge
of those abuses, the Republican party
undertook as it always has undertaken
when obstacles presented themselves,
when evidence became apparent, a
remedy for those evils. Under that
matchless Republican. Theodore
Roosevelt, the Republican party has
gone ahead, to take the steps to
remedy these evils and is in the course
of doing so now. At this point we
have had let up so to speak in the
prosperity Of the country. There has
been such an expansion of capital, so
great investment that the capital for
the time was exhausted and there
came lack of confidence on the part
Of the investing public, but we
hope there has been no halt in that
progress in prosperity which has been
so wonderful for the last IL years
The Real Question.
The question now for the people
TO settle is whether the remedies
which the Republican party has ADOPT
ed and is carrying out under Theodore
Roosevelt shall be continued, whether
the confidence which the public have
in the Republican party and which the
business men have in the Republican
party and those who are willing to in
vest their capital have in the Repub-
lican party, shall be availed of by the
people of this country in order to
bring back the prosperity that we have
had or whether we shall turn the gov
eminent over to a party that has been
doing everything by turns and nothing
long, that in 1898 proposed not a re-
vision of the tariff, nor any other rem
edy but to scale down our debts by
adopting a silver dollar that was worth
so cents in order to bring about a
prosperity which their leader said was
impossible. He said, you remember.
that unless we took free silver wheat
would go down, and he did not have to
live two years before ne saw that
prophecy repudiated by the facts
I'VE went on and on in the face of
their declaration of the necessity for
such remedy to the greatest pros
perity ever seen. And again in 1900
were told that we must have some
thing against imperialism. We must