The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-11-01
In Taking Stump Taft
Shows Greater Wisdom
Than Politicians.
LEAVES IMPRESS
IN EVERY SECTION
No Orator, But Sincerity Is Con-
Vincing, and Immense Audi
enCeS Listen.

BY JAMES HAY, Jr.
BUFFALO, y. \. Oct. 31-Wisdom
and interchangeable zeal have been the
great characteristics OF William Howard
Tafts tight for the Presidency.
If he is elected Tuesday, he viii know
hat the result came more from his
work than as the fruit OF any other
maRs or mems endeavOrs, In his cam
paigning, he has travelled more than
$1,000 miles. made more than 400 speech
es, and talked TO approximately 100000
people.
he has traveTsed the prairies of the
West, the plateaus of the Rocky noun
taIas, the valley OF the Mississippi, the
tobacco fields of the South. the busy
Eastern States, and a part of New Eng
land. His uncompromising voice has
reused the echoes in the canyons OF the
West, and gone with insistent call down
the dark lane OF Wall street. He has
talked 10 the miner. the lumberman, the
farmer, the mechanic. the union lab
orer the banker. the professional man
every clss OF the nations life 4
And I'm this was the sign of his great
wisdom. Men high in the party advised
against his taking the stump, on the
dent, as not other Republican Presiden-
tial candidate had done IT, But he turned
deaf ear to this advice, and asked
the national committee 10 make out his
itineraries
Decides to Stump.
This decision was reached finally by
him after he made his run from Vir-
sinia Hot Springs, where he had been
spending the summer to Middle Bass
Island. whittier he went for a week S
nsning. That run was on August .,
and the ten speeches he made in Ohio
that day demonstrated that he was an
exceedingly effective man on the plat
form. a week later, on his journey from
Middle Bass to Cincinnati, he made
more speeches from the rear platform
OF mis- car.
On September %, he started out for
his Western trip. which was 10 take him
over a route embracing 5000 miles He
went into twelve of the Middle Western
and iuter-momJalu States. This was
the part of the country where that
great new spirit of radicalism had at
tackled the ramparts of the old conserv-
atism with the frebrand of faCtionaIism
In every State. the conservatives OF the
stalWaTts, as they sometimes called
themselves, were i'm flight before the
new feeling that was abroad among the
people. They were in flight, but their
retreat was a fight. The Republican
party was suffering, because not all of
its leaders had had the wisdom TO see
that the old mornings were unsafe, the
old IDEAS untenabIe.
Taft Sees Drift.
But Taft mad seen it. He realized that
This pyogressiveuess which was going
up and down the land like a strong man
hunting its enemy. was the healthy
and proper sentiment OF the people. 1t
was his viewpoint of the national life.
II was the sentiment which Roosevelt
and RooseveIts Administration had en-
bodied and expressed.
Knowing an this. he saw that the pro-
gressives were the power in the land,
and that rar the sake Of the country
and the party the old wing OF the Re
pubhcans had to be swung into line.
This was exactly what ne accomplished. /
lie has adhered strictly 10 his rule Of
uon-iuterference in the fractional fights
in any State, but his deliverauces from
the stump were such as to make the ele-
meuts in his party cohesive, harmonious
enough TO work for the victory of the
national ticket.
Invades the South.
lie went into no place which failed to
respond 10 his appeals. Every State he !
visited experienced an awakening of Re /
publican enthusiasm. After two weeks
of constant travelling and speaking, he
returned To Cincinnati for a rest OF .
three DAYS Then he struck toward the /
south, going through West Virginia, /
Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, /
Virginia, Maryland, Delaware. and New I
Jersey. From New Jersey he went 10 /
Indiana and Ohio. In Indiana he made /.
fifty-four speeches in three days. From 1
there he came back to New York state, 1
where he has spent the past week, re-
ceiving last Wednesday, in New York I
city the greatest demonstration, ever ac- 4
corded any candidate in this state. /
After rest here tomorrow he VIII go /
TO Ohio. speaking in Cleveland, Ashta- /
hula. and Youngstown. He will reacn I
Cincinnati at 9 o'clock the morning OF /
election day.
Taft Is a large man. He weighs nearly .
400 hounds on this account IL was pre-
dicted that he would never stand the F
work he had set himself to do. But /
he has a viii as big as his body, and /
he has gotten away with the labor /
without faltering once.
There was one day In the West /
when he made twenty-five speeches. /
There have been many evenings. both
West and East. when he had TO attend .
a banquet, review a parade. hold a re- |
ccption, and make from three to five /
speeches Nearly every day he has /
been up and out by 1880 o'clock. and 4
some of his largest audiences have been
at s o'clock in the morning. In MIS-
souri, he made a speech at 6.15 in the
morning
breaches Two Things
In only one way can the worth Of /
what he has done be estimated. That
is I'm what he has said and in what
mood It has been received by those who
heard him. He has preached two great
Things
That The Republican Dar.y is the
natural promoter and conserver Of the
.country's prosperity;
And that his administration will con-
tnue the work of uplifting the official I
aud national ideals of the country. as
begun BY the Roosevelt administration.