Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-09-19
Candidate Will Traverse Both
Eastern and Western Ends
of the State
BIG MEETING IN DEs MONIES
Will Speak at State Capital Friday Ev
enins-will Speak in Fort Dodge and
other Places the Day Following
Change in Plan Secured by State
Chairman FRANKIE.
!, Times-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Sept. 19.-Cand1date
William III. Taft will come to Iowa
next week. touring thru the eastern
part of the state and ending with q
monster meeting at Des Moines, Fri
day evening, Sept. 25. He will then go
thru Minnesota and the Dakotas, re-
turning to Iowa for a night meeting
Sept. 30
This information was conveyed to
State Chairman c. F. FRANKIE yester-
day afternoon in telegram from JOS
eph NJ. Dixon, OF the national speakers
bureau. Mr.. Taft will be in Milwaukee
next Thursday evening and will leave
after his meeting, waking up in Iowa
the next morning somewhere near Clin-
ton. He will speak for few minutes
at Clinton, leaving there at ocfock
and going to Davenport over the Mil
Wduh6e. IICIc itS VI ehiiL WAiA ts'S SAs>AA
ferred TO the Rock Island road and ne
will proceed to Burlington by way OF
Muscatine and Columbus Junction
From Burlington he will go west tc
Ottumwa over the @, from thence te
Des Moines over the Rock Island. He
will travel 292 miles.
After the Des Moines meeting neX'
Friday night the Taft special will pro-
ceed to Ft. Dodge, arriving there at
o'clock in the morning over the M.
st. L. The TT. Dodge date previousl!
arranged will be abandoned.
From Fort Dodge the special will &c
to Mason City by way of the Grea'
western and thence north into Mime
sofa The Sioux City meeting will bt
on the way back from the Dakotas.
Arrangements are already in pro-
gress for the big Des Moines meeting
and it is expected that the railroads
will run special excursions into tht
city from ali over central Iowa. Excur-
sions may also be arranged into Dav-
export and Burlington.
The arrangements for the meeting al
Des Moines contemplate two gather
ings, one at the auditorium and the
other at Fosters opera house.
The arrangements for the Iowa meet
ings were made after some strenuous
figuring between the national bureau
and Chairman FRANKIE. The latter was
in Chicago last week and received as
surances that if it were possible Mr.
Taft would be sent to Des Moines, but
it was thought that it would be nee
essary to make a special trip back from
Chicago for this purpose. This was
found later to be impossible and there
was a possibility that the candidate
would speak nowhere in Iowa except al
Fort Dodge and along the western bor-
der. However by allowing him but
one day in Wisconsin the Iowa dates
were arranged
Mr.. Taft is no stranger to Iowa. He
delivered the commencement address
at Iowa City a year ago last June
speaking there five times in the same
day. The night before he spoke at Da-
venport where he was entertained by
the Tri-City Press club.
Whole itinerary Revised.
After making the arrangements tc
get Judge Taft to Chicago for the ban
tquet Senator Dixon revised the entire
itinerary, cutting one day off the time
allotted to Wisconsin, giving Des
Moines Iowa, night meeting and
making several other changes. AS an
nounced last night, the new itinerary
is as follows:
Sept. 23-Leave Cincinnati, a. M;
Ade, Ind, p. M; Chicago, railway
mems evening meeting.
Sept. 24-Madison, Wis, I p. M;
Milwaukee, evening meeting.
Sept. 25-Des Moines, Iowa, evening
meeting.
Sept. 2s-st. Paul Minneapolis, even
ing meeting.
Sept. 27-Rest at Minneapolis.
Sept. 2S-Grand Forks. N. D., p.
M; Fargo, evening meeting.
Sept. 29-Mitchell, S. D., noon; Sioux
City, Iowa, evening meeting.
Sept. 3O-Lincoln, Neb., evening
meeting; Cheyenne, Wyo., 8 p. M;
Denver, Colo, evening meeting.
Oct. 3-Topeka, Kas., evening meet
ing.
Oct. 4--Rest at Kansas City.
Oct. 5-St. Joseph, Mo-, noon meet
ing.
Oct. 6-St. Louis.
Oct. Chicago, 1880 a. M, deep
water convention; Galesburg, Ill, 4:3o
D. M; Lincoln-Douglas fiftieth ami
versary; return to Chicago same night
for banquet Chicago Association of
Commerce.
Kern Will Follow Taft.
Judge Wade arrived today from
Chicago and announced that Kern will
swing around the Iowa circle about the
middle of October, to offset Taft, and
will speak in Des Moines. Other speak
ers for the democrats soon to reach
Iowa. are Bourke Cochran, Martin Lit
tleton, Senator Clayton, Governor
johnson, former Governor Lind, of
Minnesota, and others
The republicans locally in charge of
the Taft meeting for Friday, have Sc
cured both the auditorium and Fos-
ter's opera house, and will fill both. A