The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-10-27
TAFT ADDRESSES
GREAT CROWDS
ENTHUSIASTIC MEETINGS IN
MARYLAND AND NEW JERSEY
GREET THE CANDIDATES.

BALTIMORE (Md.), October 10
Hitting straight at his opponent, with
even more force than in the North,
West or South, Judge Taft today car
ried his campaign to the very doors OF
New York city, and gave a clear indi-
cation of the character of the speeches
he will make in the Empire State next
week.
Taft spent three hours in Newark
an hour in Wilmington and the entire
evening in Baltimore. He encounter
ed tremendous crowds and enthusiasm
spontaneous and ample. His extended
efforts of the day were at Newark,
Elizabeth and Baltimore. At Newark
he gave attention to all the issues save
labor. In his Elizabeth speech he dwelt
solely on the labor question, and to-
night he combined the Newark and
Elizabeth speeches
The zest with which Delaware re-
ceived the candidate resulted in cur
failing the Wilmington speech to few
lines.
81 can only say to you," he remark
ed, that from what l have seen in
New Jersey today and what 1 have
seen in Delaware today, and what l saw
in the South and West the last three
weeks l am going to be elected, and
it would give me the greatest pride if
in that electoral vote l could have the
three from Delaware"
REAL ISSUE OF CAMPAIGN.
The real issue of the campaign is"
said Taft tonight, whether you think
the Republican party, by what it has
done in the last twelve years, is en-
titled to your confidence. Even If 1t
has done something to displease you,
is it not much to be preferred to the
Democratic party under any circum-
stances, considering the history of that
party and considering the peculiarities
to use no more offensive expression
of the leadership of that party?"
The acts of the Republican party
were then recounted. Establishing the
gold standard, repeating the Wilson
German tariff bill and enacting the
Dingley tariff, fighting the Spanish
War I'VE put the Cubans on their
feet, as we supposed. They stayed
there for three years, then they fell on
their knees and we had again to go
and help them to their feet.
In Porto Rico we have made mil
lion people rejoice every night and
every day and thank God that they are
under the prosperity that the Stars and
Stripes have given.
Then we took up the Philippines
the hardest problem that We had tc
solve as the result of the war. Today
half a million Philippine school chill
dren are reading, writing and recitint
in English we have given them prac
teal control over the central govern
ment and full control over the pro
vincial and municipal governments.
1--WE took up the Panama canal
which for 400 years, since the time o
Charles V, had been the subject o
discussion. Under the present Admin
istration there has been an organiza
ton of brains, machinery and the hand
in such a way that in the course o
five or six years any one who know
about the work can promise its com
pletion, so that your Navy will sal
from the Caribbean to the Pacific"
AWAKENING OF THE PEOPLE.
Taft next took up what he terme
the moral awakening" respecting tn
conduct of large business enterprises
resulting in a quickening Of the Anne
rican conscience.
"You would think from statement
of Mr.. Bryan" he added, that n
progress has been made, but the pro
gress is truly remarkable. Throug
the passage of the rate bill the rail
roads themselves have abandoned re
batting, have abandoned unlawful dis
ordinations and have taken away tn
chief instrumentality by which unlaW
full trusts and monopolies have bee
maintained"
Judge Taft followed this with hi
Endorsement of the combination of ca
pital for legitimate purposes. He said
THE combination of capital is jus
as essential to our progress as Tn
combination of the parts of machin,
and the fact that the capital is grea
[ and the number of plans needed al