The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-15
TAFT Is DELIGHTED
CANDIDATE CONCLUDES HIS TRIP
 THROUGH OHIO.
Gives Out . Statement That He is satisAed-SpeeiaI Train in an
 Accident at
 Ca1fz

Wheeling. W. Va. Oct. 14-Judge Taft today concluded his three e-days' campaign in Ohio. What he thinks of the situation is set forth in the fol. lowing statement which he Issued to- night:
 q have now spent three days in the State of Ohio, most of the time in industrial and labor centers, among men who, 1t was reported, were dis affected and opposed to the Republican party and It's candidates. Wherever 1 appeared was cordially received. ana only aa.oecasional Interruption in- dicated that misrepresentation of the attide of the party and the candidates had made a. casual impression.
 Tt is, my opinion that the attitude of labor. toward the Republican party has been misrepresented quite as free ly as that of the party and the can didates toward labor, and find no reason for the belief that labor will divide other than on the lines that have heretofore divided 1t. In my opinion. the normal Republican labor vote will be cast as heretofore.
 'In the agricultural regions it is quite apparent that the farmers are opposed to a change that will imperil their present prosperity.
 "The situation in Ohio is entirely satisfactory and no one has any req sonable doubt but that the Republi- can majority will be a substantial one. certainly have no doubt on the sub ject myself"
 Again today the Taft special was de- layed by accident. In trying to nego- tiate a spur track from Cadiz Junction to Cadiz, O., 1t was found that the train was too heavy for the grade. notwithstanding two engines were used. The train was run back to the aNRk nff O the second attempt, while a speed of about ten miles an hour was being made. two wheels of the second engine jumped the track. Before a stop could be made. the train had run two lengths. The wheels which were on the ties cut them in two. On either side of the track the bank sloped down for twenty feet and that the engine did not go over was said to be due to the pilot engine. No one was injured. and, like yesterdays derailment, but half hour was lost through the &C., cident.
 steubenville and wheeling furnished the big audiences of the day, although at each of the nine stops there were crowds and enthusiasm. Steubenvill0 made much of the candidate. He con stituted the chief attraction in a lengthy parade, which marched through the streets for half an hour. After the parade, an open-air meeting was held opposite the court house. Many thousand of people participated in .he celebration.
 The central market house was clear ed at Wheeling and there tonight the candidate addressed an immense audience, representing labor, and to whom he made his labor speech in full. From the market house Mir. Taft was taken to the old Baltimore and Ohio station, which had been temporarily abandoned by the railroad. Here a business mems meeting was held, par ticipated in by many thousands of persons.
 Ten or twelve speeches have been mapped out for the candidate tomor- row on his way to Louisville. Ky. where he goes for an evening meet ing. The following two lays of the Southern tour will have lighter | speaking itinerary.