The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-09-10
BRYAN
PLEASED THAT TAFT
is TO GO OWEST
On Speaking Tour as it
Shows
Campaign is Far From
Being a One-sided At
fair-The Peerless Will
Change Speaking Tour
to be in Thick of Fight.

Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 6.-The prac-
tical announcement. that Judge Taft
would abandon the quietude of his
home and take to the hustings will
cause change in the plans already
announced by Mr.. Bryan and the Dem
ocratic national committee. Instead
of the Democratic candidate quietly
resting in his Lincoln home while the
Republican candidate is out tearing
down the fences he has been erecting
there is every reason to believe that
both men will be fighting 1t out in
the same section, regarded by both
as the real battle ground, the middle
west, during most of October. That
is one of the topics that will be dis
cussed at the Tuesday conference in
Chicago.
Mr.. Bryan's announced plans call
for his return to Lincoln by way of
South Dakota on the 29th of Septem-
Der and he intended to be home until
October 20, when ten day whirlwind
finish was to be made in whatever
section of the country it was then
tanned or where his presence was
necessary. After the statement by
Chairman Hitchcock that Taft would
make a stumping tour was made pub
lie, Bryan held confab over the long
distance telephone with Chicago head
quarters, and it is likely that an addi-
tional itinerary or changed one will
be made ready for his approval when
he holds the conference with cam
paign managers Tuesday.
Mr.. Bryan, and Vice Chairman Hall
had the matter up and the advice of
his Nebraskan friends was to get
into the fray and stay in to the end.
One result of the change of plans will
very likely be an extension of the
tour into New England states other
than Rhode Island and the devotion
of more time to New York and other
eastern states where the Democratic
managers tell him he has more than a
fighting chance.
This new arrangement would pro-
long Mr.. Bryan's stay in that section
and land him in Ohio along about the
time that is suggested for starting
Taft out, and would give him several
weeks to thoroughly cover the disput-
ed states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois
and Wisconsin.
Mr. Bryan was visibly pleased over
the announced determination of Judge
Taft to invade the west. He regards
1t as a confession on the part Of the
Republican managers that the cam
paign is far from being the one-sided
affair they have been stating 1t to be
in interviews.
Mr.. Bryan has told party leaders
that in his opinion the statement from
Middle Bass Island, practically an
nouncing that Taft would take the
stump was about the best confirmation
that could be asked for Of the reports
received by the Democrats that the
Republicans were steadily losing
ground, and that the fact that Taft
was to turn from his original plan of
"a dignitied campaign" and make a
lively hustle for the presidency on
the stump indicated the desperate
character of affairs with the Repub-
hcans.
''The decision OF Chairman Hitch
cock" said Vice Chairman Hall Of the
Democratic national committee, "simp-
ly proves that he has been getting the
same kind Of reports that we have
been receiving. While we have nat
urally discounted some of those made
to us, all Of which have been uniform
ly favorable to Bryan, we have known
that much of the information was un-
true. We have reason to
believe that the Republicans were
getting some of this information and
We have been looking for signs that
they were worried. This Is one OF
them. 1t means that apathy will be
at an end for the remainder of the