The Washington times., 1908-10-22
Lays Stress on Prosperity
Issue and Ridicules
Bryan FallacieS."
RUNS HIGH;
OUTCOME DOUBTFUL
One Continual Round Of Stump
Speeches Are Billed Up
Until Election.
By JAMES hay, Jr.

MITCHELL. Ind. oct. 2s-With his
first speech IN L.awrenceburg at TBS
o clock this morrH.2. William Howard
Taft began his thre7-lays' tour OF In
diana which the lsaSers hope viii place
the state in the Republican column
That Taft will do his share in eIecting
the Republican tickets ssems assured.
He is billed for seventeen speeches to-
day and is expected 10 make a total
OF forty-seven addresses in the three
Gays he is on Indiana soil.
He has paid particular attention. today
TO the prosperity issue and TO showing
40 what he terms Bryan falacies and
,i,-s-,x remedies for the Ills OF the cOUn-
try" AT I.awrcuCeburg. ne ridiculed
Eryan's claim that the Republicans are
bribing the labOring man by prophesy-
ing that prosperity can result only from
Republican victory in November. He
argued that the iaboriug men are en-
titled 10 know this fact as much as busi-
ness men, who viii conduct their bust
ness AMI run their plants only when
they can sell their products al a prOft.
At Aurora. he made the same arEu-
meut, while at Seymour. North Vernon.
aud other small towns he told the farm
crs that they win get good prices TO-
their crops If the Republicans are elect
ec. he lost no opportunity 10 dwell
IN the certainty of business depression
AMI financial disaster visiting the coUn-
try if the Democrats are put I'm power.
In Great Form"
'Che candidate is in fine physical trim
His voice Is strong and clear and he
seems completely rested by the quiet
day he had IN Cincinnati yesterday.
Senator Hemenway and other state
leaders are on the Taft special Judge
Taft has come into a state that IS in
-he throes Of political demeHtia. En-
thusf8s.u -uf boru Democrats and Re-
pUbICaus is several degrees above the
boiling point Father. mother. ana the
girls are all talking politics, shouting
politics, and devotIng all their time TO
thS burning questions o the day
In The larger towns and cities fifteen
minute meetings are he d at nO1n dur
ing the lunch hour. There arr night
meetings in every town in thu State.
Republican and Democratic orators are
going an over every county. Next Mon
day, Senator Beveridge will stump the
State IN "a special train FOR FIVE days
and then Watson. the candidate for
governor. viii take the train for CFo
more days After that a long list Of
speakers Of national prominence Will
come into Indiana from Ohio
The Liquor Interests.
The temperance element IS doing all
Il can for the Republicans. and the
liquor interests are at II hammer and
tongs for the Democrats. The religious
element is fighting Watson because
Watson is a close friend Of Speaker
Cannon. Earlier in the campaign Wat
son i1advisedly had the Speaker Of the
HOuss come into the state and make
some speeches He mas been hearing
from IL ever since in this State. as in
others in the middle West, the Speaker
is a liability rather than an asset Of
his party.
Whether Bryan or TAFT will carry IN
diana nc man can tell AT this time. but
it is certain that Taft VIII poll q bigger
vote than the Republican State ticket.
Republicans are saying that their State
ticket may be defeated, but that the
national candidates VIII come out with
a small lead.
At any rate. the interest IN the poll
tics throughout Indiana viii result in
a tremendous vote Both parties will
muster their fun strength at the polls.
If father does not want TO vote. mother
and the girls will make him. This State
of farmers and authors is the most
wide-aWaIe section Of the country the
candidate has vet entered, when il
comes 70 politics