The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-29
New Workers Turn Out i'm Rain
in Great Numbers
10 Hear Taft and Hughes at
Madison Square.
BANDS DROWNED OUT
By the Yelling Hosts When
Leaders Appeared.
Presidential Candidate Leaves
for Trip Up State.

New York, Oct. 29.-william H Taft
and Charles E. Hughes were the at
fractions at a great Republican mass
meeting at Madison Square Garden last
night.
The meeting was remarkable in sew
eral respects. At every mention of
Governor Hughes the hall resounded
with cheering and when he entered the
hall the crowd which filled every avail
able space in the auditorium, cheered
him for sixteen minutes without stop
ping. Governor Hughes made a char
acteristic address which was received
enthusiastically. But it remained for
Mr.. Taft to inspire the greatest demon
stration. For nineteen minutes Madi-
stamping of feet and the roar of voices.
Mr.. Taft tried to quell the racket.
but was powerless to do so.
! When the noise ceased Mr.. Taft be-
! gan his address. His voice was hoarse,
but the crowd was satisfied merely to
| look at him and his every word was
cheered. There were a number of other
speakers before Judge Taft and Gov
ernor Hughes arrived, but the throng
was impatient to hear the presidential
| and the state nominees.
| The march of the Republican cohorts
to the gardens was not the least spec
tacular feature of the occasion.
! Undaunted by a persistent drizzle,
which made tramping along four miles
of city streets anything but pleasant,
| they trudged down Fifth avenue their
spirits quickened by outbursts of mar
| tial music.
The parade passed a reviewing stand
at Twenty-fifth street and Govenor
Hughes reviewed the marching col
umns from behind the raised window
of a hurrying automobile.
! Hours before the doors of the garden
were thrown open long lines of ticket
holders had formed. There is no other
| structure in New York which can hold
such an audience as Madison Square
| Garden. but it soon became apparent to
the police that it would not have space
enough for the. crowds gathered out
! side.
| ,y1 Rain Descended
At Z O'Clock a heavy rain set in and
1t was thought the. throngs would
dwindle, but this was mistake. The
streets for blocks around were alive
| with umbrellas and few persons de-
serted. Excellent police regulations
prevented an unseemly crowding when
| the doors were opened. By o'clock
| the police had to bar all except re-
served seat ticket holders. The gal
leries were girdled with American flags
the dome was hidden by a mammoth
| American flag and over the main en-
| trance hung a big blue Yale banner
with portraits of Taft and Sherman
upon it. and in the center yale '7S,
Judge Taft having been a graduate of
| that year.
A band of 100 pieces kept the crowd
from becoming impatient during the
hour or more that elapsed before Cen
| eral Horace z. Porter, who presided,
called the meeting to order
When Senator Henry Cabot Lodge
appeared on the platform the music
was drowned out by cheering.
Senator Chauncey M. Depew ana
State Chairman T. L. Woodruff were
greeted with similar demonstration.
| General Porter was introduced at $3.50
and began by saying that he never had
attended such an enthusiastic meeting.
| Then he attacked w. j. Bryan, saying
| that he was suffering from political
and financial delusions.
The chairman took up the issue OF
the guaranteeing national bank de-
posits and said that Bryan's political
economy was trying to make the gov
ernment smoke five cent cigars when 1t
| took ten cents worth of matches to
| light them.
Presently General Porter prophesied
the election of Mr.. Taft. At the mem
ton of the candidates name there was
prolonged cheering and when. mo-
ment later, the speaker mentioned the
name of Governor Hughes there was
an outburst that lasted more than two
minutes.
| Hundreds of small American flags
were waved.
General Porter finally made his voice
heard and introduced Senator Lodge
who opened his address by paying
| tribute to Governor Hughes and urging
! his election.
Senator Lodge Speaks.
Senator Lodge then took UP ma
tional issues and said in part:
1.-The Democratic party objects to
- ozf Or
remote. They would have us judge
| them solely by their future, which is
unknown and which as an assurance
! of conduct is unsatisfactory. 1 will
not undertake to tell you what Mr..
Bryan's views and policies are. 1
1 do not know what they will be to-
morrow and no one can guess what
they will be on the 4th of March, not
even Mr.. Bryan himself.
1--WE do know that the Republican
party is committed to the gold stand
| ard and that under no possible con-
ditions would the free coinage of sill
yer be recommended or permitted by
Mr. Taft"
On the subject of the tariff Senator
Lodge said the Democrats them
selves did not know how far they
would 60, and "their victory would
| throw an uncertainty across the path
way of business which would hang
like a pail over all business enter
| prises."
Senator Lodge contrasted the at
titude of Mr.. Bryan and Taft towards
| the courts with special reference to
| their probable selection and appoint
ment of judges, adding:
! "Do you think that uncertainty as
to appointment to the bench would
| be otherwise than injurious to busi-
| ness and alarming to every man who
believes that true liberty can not ex-