New-York tribune., 1908-10-29
TAFTS BUSY AFTERNOON.
Talks to QO,OOO Persons at -Four
Enthusiastic Meetings.

rudea Taft alighted from his train the Grand
Central Station just before noon yesterday. fol-
lowing the trip from Troy without a trace OF
WEAKNESS, ready and At for OF the hardest
davs Of his campaign. In the first two hours he
talked to about twenty thousand peresons at four
meetings and fully hundred and forty thousand
saw him and cheered him to the echo
The first meeting at Bethune and West
streets where in the open were gathered five thou
sand teansters, Iongshoremen and marketuen, who
roared noisy greeting as Judge Tafts automo-
bile swung 20 the stand The meeting was held
under the auspices of the Republican Club Of the
9Th Assembly District and J. T Hackett the lead
er presided Judge Taft began by asking whether
the voters preferred party that in the last ten
wears had given the country greater prosperity
than had ever been experienced, or party whose
1ead<r had been proposing economic reforms for
the last twelve years and had 10 abandon one after
the other There was cry OF Taft, Taft.''
Al the meeting at Lafayette and Spring streets
ten thousand persons from that neighborhood,
nearly all Italians made so much noise that Judge
Taft had TO plead for quiet To them he was
finally able TO say;
7 ask your support If only TO defeat Bryan's new
banking proposition Such a law would tear down
the foundation OF our present laws If you want
sound banking laws I ask your support. II you
believe in the Roosevelt regime vote for
You look sood to US" shouted a commercial
traveller when Judge Taft appeared on the plat
form at No 81 Union Square. where the CONNER
cfaI travellers Sound Money League had gathered
The trust evil Judge Taft said. could not be
crbed by means of the tariff without injuring the
innocent with the guilty. The Republican party
had struck at the root Of the evil he said and
nroposed TO make the laws in force more clear
and effective and their enforcement consistent with
legitimate business. OF the Bryan banking idea, he
said:
The whole system is predicate, d, on & the idea that
with little capat but plenty OF aqdactty and cheek
come down with a crash with such sociaIstlc ideas
in force as proposed in the Democratic plat
form
All the way down from Union Square TO the Astor
Place forum at Broadway. dense crowd surged
10 the curb cheering Judge Taft At the forum,
where the members OF the National Commercial
Travellers and Industrial League had gathered,
George J. Corey. the leagues president introduced
the candidate
The administrations OF William Mckinley and
Theodore Roosevelt should receive anything but
commendation." began the candidate. but the crowd
was determined not to let such remark pass with
out due appreciation and IT not until they
tired cheering that Mr. Taft could tell what his
party had done and add:
The idea of putting the Democratic party. led
by its present leader, In the place Of admtnis-
teTous that cannot think that any man OF intel
iigence would be party to such project
ON his way out Of the meeting Judge TAFT
walked 70 his automobile through lane hanked
by cheering thousands He was Whiried away TO
his brothers home for rest.
When Judge Taft awoke. bright and early yes
terday at Rensselaer,. y. Y. where his train had
remained for the night. he expressed himself
as highly pleased with his experiences In New
York State Tuesday and remarked that the
close attention paid him by the workingmen of
schenectady as we'll as elsewhere. demonstrated
how fair-mnded and ready TO hear both sides they
were
The run to New York started at O'Clock
and was without incident, except that at Hastings
the train slowed down out or respect TO Mr.. Bryan
who was speaking from the platform OF his
spectal train Mr Taft was in his stateroonn. but
his friends noted as gratifying Indication tha
fact that the Bryan crowd much smaller than
any which Judge Taft addressed yesterday. Mr
BRYAN waved his hand In acknowledgment of the
hat raised 20 him the rear end OF the Taft spe-
cial and a Taft porter threw handful OF Taft
buttons into the Bryan crowd