The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-09
Flying Trip Will Be Made Throughout the United
 States
SUDDENLY DETERMINED
 ID FOLLOW BRYAN'S LEAD
Speeeh-Makine Trip Through ohio Gives Candidate More Confidence In His Powers as a Speaker
 and as a Slayer.

Cincinnati, September S-That William H. Taft will make complete and exten- sixe tour of the United States before the November election may be announced tonight as the personal determination of the candidate. MT. Taft will rely on the record made by himself today as proof complete of his ability to make good in & campaign of travel
 Besides the physical capacity of sneak Ing from north to south through the state or ohlo' MT Taft made himself the ag- gressor in the political fight He said in his first and principal speech or the day at Sandusky that if elected President he would devote his best en- ergies to constructive recommendation to Congress for legislation which would clinch the Roosevelt policies of business
 honesty At the same time he made if clear that the regulation by the govern
 ment or interstate business should be nor only sound in legal principle, but that the interpretation and enforcement of the law 1 should be both clear and speedy to tba end that legitimate aggregation of canitsI
 
 and that confidence in the commercial
 staollity or the country should be on
 the nrmest possible basis. MT. Taft also
 pledged himself to further the policy of i or government supervision of the issue 1 or stocks and bonds of interstate rail- ways.
 l Republican Record.
 Later in the day Mir Taft declared that
 the republican party had made the best record in labor legislation during the
 past seven years of all previous recoros since Washington's time. Still later in
 his flying trip through the state the can
 didate declared with great emphasis that
 MT, Bryan and the democratic party were 1 responsible for at least two years of
 fighting in the Philippines, which would
 nave been unnecessary in the absence of 1 opposition in this country.
 1 The personal demonstration of Mir. Taft 1 as campagner and the evidence given by the people of his own state of their l Endorsement of his presidential aspira- 1 tions during his trip today from Sandusky | to his home city, added to the positive an- l nouncement he made in his numerous 1 speeches constituted an important epoch | in the campaign.
 l MT. Taft, who is comfortably ensconced l tonight at the home of his brother, 1 Charles P. Taft, began the day with an 1 address to the veterans quartered at the | Soldiers home at Sandusky. He talked
 patriotism and not politics and was cor dally received.
 Speech at Sandusky.
 Then came the principal speech of the day to an audience which filled the Sa d tfolrxy afo ,l- the start was made in a special car for Cincinnati. Ten minutes late at | Castelia, the candidate received not l only the cheers of the popuace at Cas- telia, but a huge bouquet of garden | flowers tossed to him on the rear of his
 car by a bevy of children. At York, | an instant's stop allowed but few words | and a cheer. 1t was at Clyde, a half
 hour after the start that opportunity ! was given after an introduction to a l large crowd by Representative Mouser. and the candidate talked tariff revis- ion along protection lines. The re- publican party, he said, had not aban- 1 doned this principle and in that re. | spect differed from democratic revision.
 which would disregard American in- dustries in the interest of tariff for | revenue only.
 At Green Springs the candidate got a i cordial shout of approval
 Tifhn was next on the map and MT. and Mrs. Taft left the train and mounted a stand near the station which was decorated with flowers and crowded with bevy of "old glory girls" in l blue. Here MT. Taft gave his views 1 on labor He opposed class legislat tion, l but favored such enactments as would place labor on an equal footing with capital in making contracts for service. Philippine Question. | At Carey, the next stop a platform | engagement was also arranged It
 was here the candidate took MT. Bryan 1 to task about his Philippine criticisms. l Now he said, "Mr Bryan says that l we are infringing on his patents with reference to the Philippines, and we have adopted his policies. I assert l without hesitation and I know what | am talking about, that the war was l continued two years longer in the Phil. 1 ippines because of the attitude of MT. l Bryan and his party on that sub ject." | At Wharton there was only time for | a oh eer; at Kenton a reminiscence by the candidate that his first campaigning was done there: while short speeches were made at Urbana and Bellefon- | tain.
 Springfield and Dayton vied with each | other for the biggest crowds of the day, and each was expressive of en- 1 thusiasm. Red fire and torch es helped | the crowds at Middletown and Frank 1 lin. and the speaking time was limited. Cincinnati was reached at nearly ' o'clock, an hour later than scheduled. l The Taft family was driven directly to | the residence of Charles P. Taft from where the campaign of the month of | September will be conducted. SwashbuckIinq Play.