The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-28


William Howard Taft, Who Was Oflic
playing and a budding carnival of
riotouS enthusiasm in the process of
going into full bloom.
The notification ceremonies at the
historic old Taft mansion on Pike
street were led up to and will be fol-
lowed by minor displays in the pro-
gram of the day. These ceremonies
were impressive in directness and sim
plicity, in the appropriateness of the
surroundings, in the presence of ma
tional party leaders and visiting Re-
publicans from Ohio and the sur
rounding states, and in the regard
and pride of the neighbors and per-
sonal friends of the candidate-citizens
of Cincinnati, who for the first time
have been honored by the selection of
a presidential can6date from their
number.
The name of taft" was upon every
lip and the Taft smile" was COM
mented on as being universally in evil
dence. 1t was half after o'clock
when the crowds began to participate
in the exercises. This early ceremony
constituted a simple expression of
neighborly affection. Charles P. Taft
was made custodian of high Ameri-
can flag which was raised to the top
of a so foot mast erected in the front
yard of the Taft mansion-the gift of
the people of Cincinnati to the Taft
family with the single stipulation that
1t be raised whenever the candidate IS
in the city and lowere dduring his abb
sence. The presentation was made the
occasion for an invocation by Bishop
David H. Moore. an address by former
Congressman Jacob Bromwell and a
response by Charles p. Taft. The yard
and streets had been thronged with
people from early morning to witness
the flag raising ceremonies.
Music and Marching.
America" was sung by the assem-
blage. Selections by a band and by
members of the Yale and Woodward
alumni formed part of the pro-
gramme. Benediction was pro-
nounced by Rev. George A. Thayer.
Meanwhile a band concert was being
enjoyed by an immense crowd sur
rounding government square, some
blocks away, and marching clubs
were making practice marches en-
tirely Independent of orders and com
mand under the f1uttering flags in the
street.
A long line of solemn looking car
riages appeared before the Hotel Sin
ton early in the forenoon and the
members of the notification COM
mittee of the Republican convention,
augmented by the numerous mem
bers of the central committee who
had come to attend the ceremonies
proceeded to take their places for
professional drive to the Taft resi-
dence to partake of notification
breakfast. This little feature was
devoid of all ceremony. With the
hour of noon the party filled out of
the old colonial front doors to the
place assigned on the broad porches
with their fluttering canvas covering
constructed for the occasion.
kro Of
souri,, past commander-in-chief of
the G.. A. r.. chairman of the
notification committee, escorted
Judge Taft to the substantial
platform. which projects out over
the old stone steps leading
to the entrance to the mansion. Mr..
Taft was smiling and happy from
early morning. The porches and
lawn were reserved for ticket hold
| ers, the street being the free for all
front of the platform on the front
walk kept the assembling crowd in a
merry mood Senator Warmers
| speech of notification was brief and
| Judge Taft acknowledging the in
| formation impaired, stated in his first
nomination with a full sense of its
| obligations.
Speech Is Cut Down.
For the sake of his hearers, Mr.. Taft
| had taken his blue pencil and gone
| through the speech for the sole purpose
of making it's delivery a matter of
| less than an hour instead of two hours.
He, however, did not eliminate any top
les touched upon, but simply took out
| long detailed explanations, all OF
| which appear in full in the printed doc
ument. With the speech over, the
scene was shifted for the review of the
parade. A platform with canopy
! covering had been thrust through the
high iron gates of the mansion out
| over the sidewalk. On this Judge Taft
| took his stand and the anxious March
ers were given their way for nearly
| two hours. Marching club after march
| ing club saluted, shouted. waved flags
/ canes, hats: received smiling acknow
| ledgment to stir their enthusiasm a
| fresh and then gave place to other
| clubs from other sections.
| During the parade the notification
/ committee sat on the covered porches
| to admire and applaud until the end OF
! the procession was in sight. Automo-
! biles followed the last marching club
| and the committee members were ta-
| ken aboard and whisked through the
| city into the suburbs, out to the fam
| Gus Cincinnati club, where later upon
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