The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-10-24
Republican Candidate Swings
in Large Circle Around In
dianapOlis for Day.
STORM DOES NOT CHECK
ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTIONS
Makes Numerous Speeches and
Closes Day With Big Meet
ings in Metropolis.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. Oct. 23.-The
days exhibition of political enthusiasm
in Indiana. has been such as to eclipse
all previous campaigns, according to the
national and state leaders who have
been with the Taft special. So great
even the arrangements Of the local com
! mittees have been overridden. Appre-
ciating the conditions, aud realizing
that while he might be heard by few
it was better TO meet the demand of the
many who would be satisfied with n
sight of him, Mr.. Taft has done less
talking and more exhibition work
than heretofore in the campaign. When
ever he has spoken his remarks have
been appreciated, and what be has said
has been a repetition of his recent
speeches. This one note, however, has
dominated his thought today:
Indiana is surely alive to her polIti.
cal responsibility. and the character Of
her enthusiasm means the success OF
the Republican party
Has Bad Weather.
A drizzliug rain for part of the day
and evening and bad railroad service.
which set the train more than an hour
! late before the DAYS itinerary WAS
seemed TO make no impression on the
| demand for look al the big candidate.
aud whenever bis train was at 4 stand
| still there was no cessation TO the cries
of approval and shouts of applause
which filled the air,
! Beginning at Brazil with n monster
meeting at clock this morning, the
| Taft special made complete fifty-mile
circuit around Indianapolis, which was
reached at q clock tonight. Craw
! fordsville. Lafayette. Frankfort and
! kokomo were visited 10 turn. aud each
was repetition in teemiDg populacc
! and enthusiasm.
Marion s crowd was so dense that
| Senator Hemenway, who followed close
house steps, lost his poeketbook without
knowing it for some time. Muucie, the
next stop, presented lnsurmountable OBJ
stacles IN the way of people, and the
candidate Just simply rode in the line
of march and abandope0 all attempts
to reach the speakers stand provided.
He made few remarks from the rear OF
his car after reaching 1T, and the crowd
which followed him to the station was
amply repaid in oratory. as the Big -Four
road allowed freight to block the
| road, and the special waited an hour.
During this time Senator fEemcnwav
and half dozen of the speakers which
the train provided from the local com
mittees aboard, furnished entertainment
remaining despite the rain which fell.
Has Good Fortune.
At Kokomo tin roof which had
! been used as grandstand by nearly
! 200 boys and men cayed in while the
candidate was talking from his car
platform. He. asked after the accident
| II anybody had been hurt, and was in
formed that none had,
''Well. that is the biggest luck ] have
had ou the entire trip he calculated
with much feeling.
| teristic speeches of the day was deiv-
cred at Anderson after dark and in the
rain, but TO q big and enthusiastic audi
ence He paid tribute to former
! President Harrison here, saying:
''lt is 10 mo an intense pleasure TO
| have received from the people OF Iudl-
| ana such a cordial welcome as we have
to the nation General Benjamin Harri-
son makes me always feel grateful, be-
cause he, more than any other public
man, first gave to me the assistance,
the sympathy and the cordial support
that made me aspire TO judicial office,
General Harrison was a great lawyer
and great man, and Indiana may well
|
by the erection of monument IN In
| dianapolis.'
Shot at Opponents,
Mr.. Taft said that confidence will
never be restored by the putting into
the executive char man who has Sc
many half baked. unfounded economic
theories as the leader of the Democratic
party. 1.-The interests OF the laboripe
man, of the farmer and of the business
man. he said, 'tare Identical, and IL
order to bring back good times you must
rot put IN man who is constantly
advocating new experiments, and whose
experiments heretofore have always
failed. >
It was reserved for Indianapolis tc
furnish the climax OF the day of crowd.
and noise, A tremendous parade await
ed his arrival, with the accessories mul
tiplied and enhanced: Three meeting:
extended effort oF the day being before
an immense audience at the Virginis
avenue auditorium. where Vice-Presi
dent Fairbanks presided, Senator Hem
enway and Representative Overetree
officiated ut the two other meetings
which were held in the open.
The Indianapolis reception of Judge
Taft, though more than an hour behind
the scheduled time and in steady rain
WAS the climax of the day. Tho eandi
date was driven through the busincs.
streets of the city and cheered by thou
sands His automobile was then halted
that he might review the parade, the
marchers standing in the rain for more
than two hours. Judge Taft carried out
his programme of speech aud was pre-
sented in each instance by Vice Presl
dent Fairbanks.
After the meetings Judge Taft re
turned to his private ear for the night
He leaves Indianapolis early tomorrow
for his last day in the state.
FROM MoRTGAGED MULE