The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-02
IN HOME STATE.
Taft Is Spending Winding Up
in Ohio Today.
Last Speech of Campaign at
Youngstown Tonight.

F, Buffalo N Y. Nov. Judge Taft en-
tered upon the last day of the, campaign
| this morning in as fine physical condition,
| save for his hoarseness. as he was on the
| first day out. His itinerary today in
| cludes stops at Dunkirk. Erie, Ashtabula,
| Cleveland and Youngstown, where the
night meeting will be held and whence
| the party will depart for Cincinnati at
| 1 80 tonight.
Judge Taft early this morning was join
| ed bv Mrs. Taft who came on from New
| York to accompany her distinguished hus-
| band on the last day of the campaign
as she had done on the. first day of his
| to Middle Bass island.
Appeals to Labor.
Dunkirk, N. Y, Nov. 2.-What
| Judge Taft will speak about in the
| speeches he is to make today, all OF
which are at labor centers, was out
lined in what he said to an audience
numbering thousands which listened
| to him here this morning. Judge Taft
| indicated that he could not emphasize
| too strongly that his friendly feeling
| for the interests of organized and un-
| organized labor will not be affected in
the event of his election by the fight
| that has been made on him by Mr.
| Gompers
| Standing on the rear platform of his
car with Mrs. Taft by his side, he
said this:
"I don't know whether you are as
| glad that tomorrow is election day as
| l am If you are you are very happy
1 am delighted to stand before an
audience of workmen to assure tc
| them that there are many reasons
| why they should vote the Republican
ticket and if that ticket is successful
as 1 have no doubt it will be, then we
| will have nothing to regret in the
| victory first because it will preserve
| the protective system; second be-
cause it is not a menace to prosperity
and prosperity will return as we hat
it two years ago for period of II
years and third, because the Re
| publican party has shown itself in the
past to be a friend of the working
men and it will do so in the future.
'T have been attacked as unfair t.
labor 1 wish 1 could stop and
| demonstrate to you that of all th'
| public men you know there are yer,
few who have done more in the In
| terest of labor than l have, and wan
it understood that if 1 am elected tn
| fact that Mr.. GomperS has attempted
to deliver over the labor vote to tn
Democratic party and has attacked
me bitterly and with others has don
me injustice, will not deprive me o
the interest 1 feel in labor in its at
tempt to get to higher things, and vii
give me the utmost pleasure to folloN
along in the path of Theodore RooSe
Welt, as 1 have been associated wit
him in the last four years, to bring t
the attention of congress and b
executive measures to put labor on a
equality with every other class in tn
community If 1 understand tn
position of labor, they don't ask to b
put on an advantage. They ask
square deal, to be put on a level. Th
Republican party in the last 10 year
has passed 10 statutes and the Demo
, cratic party not a single line in tn
, interest of labor. Under those claim
: ask you to consider carefully tn
| question whether you wish to put
! the Democratic party with its recor
/ and its promises unfulhlled or the Re
, publican party with its records {
; things done"