The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-21
TAFT MAY YIELD
 AND GO ON STUMP
3arkis Appears to Be PertectI '
 WlIlin' and Ready
ITINERARY MAY BE MADE
National Committee Will Arrange the Plans for Taft To Speak If He Decides To Do So-ohio
 Situation Discussed.

Hot Springs, Va, August O.-"After the first week of any speaking campaign has I been gone through with, and ono finds himself as 1t were, talking without diff | fculty on all of the various subjects of discussion, I do not think there is any, thing more enjoyable than making at least one speech a day."
 This utterance by Judge Taft today. presents his attitude toward campaisn- ing He added that in the 1904 campaign he made speeches almost daily during a seyen-weeks' tour in New England, "and enjoyed every minute of it.
 When asked If it were not a possibility that change might be decided upon in the announcement that he would not leave Cincinnati during the campaign MT. Taft deplied:
 "of course, there is nothing to prevent a change of these plans"
 MT Taft admitted that perhaps the principal reason for the official announce ment that he should remain in his native city was to forestall the deluge of appli- cations for his presence in various parts of the country, but these applications are coming just the same.
 Any change of plans affecting the can didate however, 1t was stated, was a matter entirely with the national com mittee That Mir Taft is entirely willing to accommodate himself to anything but a whirlwind campaign, as he put it, was made plain
 There is no harder work" he added, than making hurried speeches from the rear end of train, and l doubt If such a work Is effective"
 Should it finally be decided that MT Taft shall make a campaign outside of Cincinnati, his itinerary. it was explained, would be arranged entirely by the na- tional committee, leaving him entirely free from details.
 Hot Springs is in readiness for the re- publican rally tomorrow. Col. s. Brown Allen of Staunton today estimated the crowd to come at 6O00 or 1000.
 Judge D. D. Woodmansee, judge of the common pleas court at Cincinnati, presi- dent in 1906 of the National League of Re- publican Clubs, and a cousin and old friend of Judge Taft, was an arrival to- day and gave out an interview regarding the decision of the Ohio state committee not to invite Senator Foraker to speak at the opening of the national campaign at Youngstown September 5. He said:
 Aside from the fact that we have had many campaign openings in Ohio, without our senator taking part, it can at once be understood that very important ques- ton of party policy arose this year. Every one can appreciate that it was an embarrassing situation. Senator Foraker, in his chamber of commerce speech de- livered in Cincinnati, only short time ago, made a severe attack upon the poli- cies of President Roosevelt. How could the party, which intends to wage the fight. stand squarey on these policies as declared in its platform, consistently in vite him to take the most conspicuous part in the campaign.
 ''It was practically impossible and most of Senator Foraker's friends see it that way.
 T will yield to no one in my admira- tion for Senator Foraker. The splendid services that he has heretofore rendered in behalf of the republican party cannot and must not be forgotten, and no one shall regret more than myself if he finds it impossible to serve the party during this important campaign