New-York tribune., 1908-10-12
TAFT READY FOR TRIP
FEELS IN HIGH SPIRITS.
Encouraging Reports Reach HIM
Oppositi0n'S Tact admissions.
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laaya This city early tomorrow morning Oh MS
second speaking tour and all the preparations
have been completed This trip VIII ihciuu0
first three DAYS in Ohio, then one or Nv"
sneechcs in West Virginia, several in KENTUCKY
one each in Tennessee, North CaFolh1' WI
ginia and New Jersey, several in Marylahu anu
ano,ber dav in Ohio Two weeks from now Mr
TAFT win spend Sunday in Cincinnati res1ilis'
and will then go through this state to lndlaha'
nrohably resting the following Sunday at Fort
wavne or Chicago and then coming east 10
New, York where he will spend the last week OIL
the campaign.
senator William Alden Smith will accompany
Mr. Taft through Ohio, assisting MN III .iie
public speaking and Leslie NJ Sha"' l'i lio..' 't'
Secretary of the Treasury, will Joi1 LIZ pa =
at Wheeling and proceed as far as f.i-li.iio~1 -,
or Washington. Arthur l. Norys Joiileu -
party tonight and will accompany the -.
Dental candidate through Ohio, ana p0sSi'''
further. ,o,,,+ of
DR.. J. J. Richardson, the throat sp0O :. :,
washington will also accompany Judge lalt oi
- 80 a1d will doubtless continue with MIN
throughout the remainder of the carnPais'il
-f- fa.le that It was due TO DR.. Rlehafu u9o :
eu;u that he was able to make upWaIu % -.
t,,,drad and sixty speeches on the ldS' 'F
c,n,a he has been in Cincinnati Dr. hloLi0hi'
has been able to restore the cahdlua.0 +,,a
to its normal condition, but the 81 ,3n+,t-
oonoine trip-he is scheduled 10 man IN -
o;obt sneecbes in the next three udS ,-,.4
sncb that he is unwilling to nave lii0 80
1eave him. Mrs. Richardson VIM .,o.a
snending the last three days Win iie-
left here for Washington to-day ,,s
iel, -, r,,,ia1 NJ Ransdar, Sergeant-at-A Arms
- cara+e will again be in charge Oh inc
aud the remainder Of the party VIII DC
,..o.,+ioo1,,, as before. Colonel Ransuan Gam
= p e.or, indiana last night and brought eIcoui
-. news regarding the prospect Oh s"O
FOR the national ticket in his staie'
tbat the Indiana Republicans are IN per ~. a
- ard are working as one man 1or the eie0
tion of Taft and Sherman.
CANDIDATE IN GOOD SPIRITS
Mr. Taft will start his trip IN even pe''el
sn;rits than when he left Cincinnati h''le oNel
+r-o 1vaeks ago. From every quarter come re-
ror+s of ironroved Republican prospects' Inc
Ior+ e,,aaling tour has given greatly Incredoeu
i,,,rat,s to the campaign in the West ana IT'S
e,rcess is befeved to augur well for the coIliiiis
trims Mr. Taft has developed wonderfuly aS d
public sneaker, and members OF the Ha a'ioiiA,
committee who heard him speak in Chlcago anu
two ,yeeks later in St Louis and East St LOUIS
declared that they had never conceived ne couiu
attain such surprising development IN SO sIoi
a time This. of course, has given the ctLil'iu0'
Increased confidence in his own ability, and he
IS now impatient to get before the voters again
and explain to them the reasons why they should
nernetuate the Republican policies and admin
istration.
AS has been told, the early part of the coming
trip has been so arranged as to give Mr. Taft
the greatest possible opportunity to talk 10
workingmen, and there is no subject which the
candidate handles with greater force and ab1I-
ity than the labor question. Wherever he has
addressed a labor audience he has won its COM
pIete sympathy before his remarks were over
1t is the consensus of opinion among Mr.. Taft's
advisers that wherever he can personally ad-
dress laboring men he can more than Offset the
effects Of the attacks made on him by Bryan,
Gompers. ct al His sincerity and manliness in
dealing with this subject and with his own rec
ord upon it are most effective.
Some of Mr.. Taft's staff regard the articles
which are appearing in the opposition press, and
which seek to demonstrate that the outcome of
the election is entirely in doubt, as decidedly en-
coura ging. The writers of these articles are
forced in order to show the least likelihood of
Bryans election, TO credit TO him, or at least to
place in the doubtful column, states which are
unquestionably for Taft that their tables
really amount to a confession of weakness.
DEMOCRACY's TACIT ADMISSIONS.
Such an article, for instance, was published
simultaneously in New York, Cincinnati and
elsewhere this morning. In order to make his
point the writer places in the doubtful column
Kansas Wisconsin, Nebraska and Montana
saying that this classification is based on in
formation which has reached Washington. Those
who in a position to know, from actual OBJ
servation in these states, declare that to class
them as doubtful is the sheerest nonsense as
every of them is as certain as anything in
the future can be to choose electors instructed
to vote for Taft.
Other states described as Gin the balance" are
South Dakota, Ohio and Utah all of which, say
the confidential reports made to the national
committee, Republican beyond question. 1t
is admitted that there will be stiff fights in New
York and Indiana although all reports indicate
that they will be safely Republican. but care
full examination of the electoral vote of the sew
eral shows not the slightest possibility of
Bryan's election unless he can carry New York
and the Republicans are determined as they
are confident that the Empire State shall not
give its thirty nine electoral votes to William j.
Bryan.
Mr. Taft spent to-day quietly at the residence
of his brother. c. P. Taft. He attended church
in the morning and this afternoon took long
walk with his brother, climbing to thu top of the
highest hill in Hamilton County.