The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-10-23
Number of Factories and
Stores Will Close That En-
pIoyes May Hear Judge
Taft.
INDIANA TOUR is
PROVING A SUCCESS.
thousands, of People FIocking
To Hear the Next Presi-
dent-Taft Discusses Bry-
an1njunction Idea.

Good weather alone ia needed to
make Che visit of William H. Taft to
this city tomorrow morning a great
success. A stand is to be erected at
Tenth and North d streets from which
tho Republican, candidate for president
will speak unless it should be raining.
will be made whereby he will speak
from his train In the sheds at the Penn
eylvania station. Judge Tagt Is sched-
uled to arrive here at $50 o'clock and
the time allotted for his speech is twen-
ty minutes. There Is no doubt but that
an immense throng will be on hand to
greet him. It will be the first time a
Republican presidential candidate has
visited Richmond since Benjamin Har-
rison was here during his campaign
against Grover Cleveland. The occasion
will not be permitted by the Republi-
cans 10 60 unrecogniZed.
Stores Decorated.
The North e street merchants and
business men and the officials OF the
Pennsylvania depot are decorating the
fronts of their stores and the depot
this afternoon. The plain red brick
fronts are being converted into things
of beauty. Yards and yards of bunting
have been festooned from windows and
pillars and huge American flags have
been woven into the scheme for decor
alton. Pictures Of Taft and the other
Republican candidates are displayed
prominently. Those of Watson appear
equally as conspicuous as those Of Taft.
10000 Expected.
A crowd of 10000 is anticipated in
case of good weather. Extra police
will be provided and will permit no
vehicles of any kind to encroach near
to the speakers stand. A number OF
factories and stores will close so as to
permit employees to hear Taft. 1t will
be Saturday morning but the hour OF
time lost by the clerks will be more
than made up by their good humor
during the remainder of the day, SO
the me ercnamS say.
The following men will serve on the
reception committee: VIM. Dudley
Foulke, Stephen S. Strattan. Jr., John
+. Mccarthy, DR.. Henry Davis, E. NJ
Haas. Henry Mason, l.. s. Bowman,
John L. Rupe. The above named will
meet the Taft train at Greenfield and
act as an escort to Richmond. The
balance of the reception committee is
as follows and will meet the train at
the depot: Richard Sedgwick, DR.. C,
S. Markley, Jno. F. Davenport, Nettle-
ton Neff, Sharon Z. Jones.
There are about so vice presidents
who will take part in the reception
given Judge Taft and occupy seats on
the platform with the candidate:
Frank o. Chambers. BENZ. F. Maths,
Cash Alexander, John F. Haner, Chas
I. White. G. F. Pfafflin, J. T. Hill. C.
G. Weist, ]. Falck. A F. Guy. Rev
Noah Williams. Godfrey Williams
Frank Medearis, VIM. j. Brannon, D.
w. Dennis. Rev. S. r. Lyons. Isaac
Jenkinson, Adam H. Bartel. William
+. Russell, John Deitz, William Whit.
acre. Mark Shissler, Oscar Tauer. Jr
c. L. Sackman, Harry Goodwin, Rus
sell Strattan, o. P. Norman, Harry
Highley, James Braxton, John Often
Frank Goddard, William Hartzler
Fred Heitbrink, William j. Shearon
George Matthews, James Kessler
Lawrence White, William II. Plum.
mer, Oscar Medearis, Alva Champion
William Hollopeter, William f. Pic
kett. Henry Engelbert.
Stands on Record.
Evansville, Ind, Oct. 23.-Taft stood
on his record as Judge in talking tc
miners of southern Indiana. and said
that II he had not issued injunctions
against lawless laborers he would not
now be fit to ask the votes of law abid-
ing workingmen.
Most Of Taft's sixteen speeches Of