The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-28
Judge Taft's Speech.

saw ne reason why an effective fight
should not be waged.
Judge Taft's Speech.
Judge Taft's speech concluded the meet
ing. 1t was received with enthusiasm and
was generally applauded. He said:
My friends, before / get through with
you tomorrow you will understand the
Importance that | attach to the Informal
ton which has been limited at today and
OF Which shall receive full account
tomorrow. | am not here to make a
speech. am here only to have a friend
ly talk and to identify myself as far as
possible with the Ohio campaign.
Republicans of this country have been
in the habit of electing to office their
Ohio candidates and | should be very
uchNlisappointed if there was to be any
exception to that rule. but we should be
very unwise to lose controversy Ike this
through overconfidence- We must know.
those of US who face the facts. that we
are meeting large, strong party. headed
by an able. forceful and experienced cam
didate, and we should be exceedingly i'm
prudent if we belittle the forces behind
him and the resources of an able leader.
Therefore ii is our duty as Republicans
TO see to it that the Republican cause
has behind IT all the force of discipline.
all the force of organization that our sin
cere belief and interest in our cause re-
quires. Organization is such as is abso-
lutely necessary. 1t is necessary that we
should bring out the vote.
1T is necessary that the issues should
be clearly explained to the voters. The
men who are to bring about this result
in Ohio for the Republican cause l am
now addressing.
Following Roosevelt.
I'VE have. as | shall hope to explain
TO you. just cause that will arouse our
enthusiasm. We follow and hope to con-
tinue an administration than which there
is no one who has done more for the coun-
try. and than which there is no one that
n ont mon lr,e-i --tt<,
port We have a state ticket every can
didate on which has high character and
has experience sufficient to insure the
proper and competent discharge of his
duties. We have a candidate for govern
or whom we are proud of and whom it is
a pleasure to follow
Il am not going back of the conven-
ton, because all that is wiped off the
slate. We are standing now together.
shoulder 10 shoulder. to meet our COM
| mon enemy and overcome him as we
have in the past. 1t is great comfort
to me TO know that in the strenuous times
that are to follow from now on l shall
have the close and personal and most
useful assistance and aid of our friend
| whom you know and l know as Jake
Vorys. He has a faculty for telling you
| things you ought not to do that makes
him one OF the most valuable advisers /
know. And he has an energy for doing
things that makes a lazy man like me
admire him intensely.
Hopes to Pull His Weight.
Now, gentlemen, as l say, l did not
come here TO make political speech ]
only came here to assure you that /
hoped IN this campaign in Ohio to pull
my weight in the boat and to be on the
ground to assist in the carrying to victory
of that banner which the Republicans of
Ohio have always carried on a presiden-
tial campaign. Our friend the enemy is
looking, as it so frequently happens, to
Ohio as doubtful battle ground. II that
viii withdraw his energies from other
parts of the United States we ought to
welcome that hOpefulness on his part
| because ] am confident that the Repub-
leans of Ohio will organize as they ought
to organize and will not allow the state
20 go by default. AS Mr.. Vorys has said,
the Democrats always carry Ohio in Au-
gust and that has usually helped us to
carry this and other states in November.
Would Welcome Advice.
II thank you. my friends for coming
| here. | appreciate the opportunity or
! meeting you. and | wish you to under
stand that every one of you is a man
whom | feel to be in common enter
prise with me. If any one of you thinks
| there is anything | ought to know | hope
| you will address ME directly. because 1
| shall he glad to hear it. Any assistance
| that / can render you in the common
cause you can certainly count upon me. /
| thank you"
Candidate Taft had every minute of a
! long day fully occupied. He arose early.
breakfasted at the Taft residence. then
walked down Fourth street to the Hotel
| Vinton, where he had an appointment to
| review the program for notification day.
This program he found satisfactory. Sit
ting for photographs next occupied the
attention of the candidate.
LAS l have sat for pictures in nearly
| every city in the country" he explained,
Il can hardly refuse request in my own
city"
New Specs for Campaign.
The purchase of pair of spectacles was
| the next task. and then Mr.. Taft wend-
i ed his way with many salutes and greet
| ings. to the Taft residence. Again early
| in the afternoon he went to the Vinton
| hotel and made a selection of rooms to
| constitute his offices during the cam
| paign months of September and October.
| After his address to the committees he
] returned to the Taft residence and was
| there engaged throughout the remainder
! of the afternoon and evening in receiving
! members of the notification committee,
| the national committee and state and 10
| cal leaders
| Elmer Dover, secretary of the national
| committee. reached the city today and
| reiterated his disclaimer of any intention
of resigning his position. He had long
| talk with Mr.. Taft late in the afternoon.
| The work of putting the finlshing touches
! ON the city in the way of decorations con-
| tinued throughout the day, and by night
| the streets were a blaze of color and IL
| Illumination. A holiday has been declared
| for tomorrow, and this holiday began SO
| far as the celebration feature is concerned
tonight Many excursionists reached the
| city during the day and evening
| ~-c~----
Kodak Finishing.