The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-05
TAFT yO CLOSE IN YOUNGSTOWN End Sf Speaking Tour on November ,. BUSY DAY IN KANSAS CITY Republican Candidate coddles the
 Negroes. Speaks to overflow Meeting at '. NJ. C. A., and Then Goes to Church
 of Blacks Where He
 Gives Advice.
BUSY DAY IN KANSAS CITY

5 Kansas City. Mo, oct. 4.--It has been definitely decided that Judge William H. Taft shall close his campaign on the night of Nov. at Youngstown. Ohio.
 The national campaign of the party was opened at that place with Gov ernor Hughes as the principal speaker. and it has been deemed fitting that the national candidate should make his closing address at that place.
 The announcement was regarded as interesting from the indication 1t points >to, that the candidate will be occupied actively right up to the last. After the Youngstown meeting. MT. Taft will leave at once for Cincinnati to cast his vote the following day.
 The details of the itinerary of the after he closes his Western tour in Chicago Wednesday night have not been finally worked out, but will be completed. it is said, thIs week.
 Candidate Taft had an exceedingly hard time to carry out what he de- sired and had planned a program Of rest today. He reached the city at 2 o'clock this morning from Topeka. and was met by a local welcoming committee, consisting of Senator Will Ham Warner, Representative E. c. Ellis and State Chairman Walter S. Dickey. They escorted him to the Baltimore Hotel where a private breakfast party occupied an hour or more, and demands of local politicians for "just handshake" consumed the time until the church hour. With MT : Ellis. the candidate attended services at the Beacon Hill Congregational Church, and from there lunched at the residence of Mir. Dickey.
 2 An automobile ride over the numer- ous b0ulevards. of which, Kansas City is proud. was taken. after which the real work of the day for the tired campaisper began. MT. Taft had some work 0F fh6 yr 'aa. C. 4. Go an kudfs enee of men at the Independence Ave- nue Methodist Episcopal Church. The audience cofnpletaly filled the church and the crowd outside which demanded admission. was twice the number in- side. Windows in the 'edifce were broken. so great was the eagerness of the crowd to get glimpse of the candidate. and 1t was oply after 1t had been announced that Mir. Taft would address the -oEerhow meeting that the inside meeting was allowed to proceed.
 Mir. Taft delivered the same speech he made last Sunday to similar au dience in. St. Paul. He gave his strongest endorsement to the work the association is doing, particularly In the Philippines, the Orient and in Panama to say nothing of the work in this country. He made no refer ence in any manner to political con- ditions.
 When the outdoor meeting had been addressed. Judge Taft was informed by a committee which had been wait ing for him. that a large meeting of negro. men and women had assembled in the Independence Baptist Church. with the full expectation that he would come there and say just a word.
 As MT. Taft put 1t when he stood before the negro audience, I'm just looking in on you moment as l go by"
 He then told his hearers that he was friend of the race, had always been one. and had strong beliefs re- garding their conditions and future. They faced, he said. a problem which the race itself must solve. He believed. the negroes of the United States would solve the problem and solve it right.
 You must make yourselves useful members of the body politic," he said. land to do this you must enducate yourselves industrially and thoroughly. You must learn to be frugal and hus- band your resources. YouF> develop ment along these lines has been great. and there is but one prediction that can be made as to the future. and that ia a bright one