The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-09-22
BRYAN TO TRAIL TAFT
VIII Follow Republican In Western
Speech Making Trip.

Brooklyn, Sept. 22.-The Bryan
managers have just played a card that
they have been reserying up their
sleeve for a long time, says the Eagle
It Is learned that the Democratic can.
dldate for president is to be turned
loose on the trail OF Mr.. Taft when
the latter starts on his western speak
ing tour with the expectation that he
will eat him up as one of the Dem
ocratic managers expressed it,
1t has been noted that Mr.. Bryan
has made no speaking engagements
for October. He has appeared on the
stump in a number OF states thus far
and is now winding up his first in
vasion Of the "enemy's country" The
fact that secrecy was maintained
! about Bryan's movements during Oc-
tober created much speculation, but
now the reason for the mystery is
found. Bryan was waiting to see
what Taft proposed to do I'm October,
with the idea of covering the same
ground.
The Republican managers have de-
cided to send Mr.. Taft into the Far
! West. He will speak in ten western
states, winding up his tour on October
| II. This is in pursuance of the re-
Gently adopted policy of having Mr..
Taft appear as frequently as possible
on the stump. When first nominated
/ Mr.. Taft announced that he would
make no speeches except from his
front porch in Cincinnati.
The Democratic managers are in
high feather over the knowledge that
Mr.. Bryan will have chance to take
the measure of the Republican can
didate in a series of speeches. They
believe that he will make a specta-
Gle" of the Republican nominee and
boast that he will LAY him OUT as
easily as he did Speaker Cannon.
Things are coming our way fast,
said one of the managers of the Dem
ocratic headquarters at Hoffman
house today. Mr. Taft sidestepped
the joint debate with Mr.. Bryan at
the Chicago Commercial club but he
cant avoid our candidate when he
makes his tour OF the west. We have
been making no dates for Mr.. Bryan
to speak in October because we under
stood that Mr.. Taft was to make
Western tour during that month. We
will have Mr.. Bryan trail the Repub-
lican candidate and he will answer ar
gument with argument.
81 don't believe that Mr.. Taft is
match for Mr. Bryan as debater. ana
think the Democratic cause will be
materially advanced by this clashing
OF the two leaders. You observed
that Bryan knocked Speaker Cannon
out in one round. Cannon made slur-
ring illusions to the Bryan fortune,
saying it had been accumulated by the
sale of wind and ink.
Mr.. Bryan came back with the
question, What have you sold, Mr..
Cannon. to have accumulated a for
tune during your career as an office
holder? Cannon's answer to this
pointed query was the lame statement
that he was only joking
At the Republican headquarters the
leaders declared they had no fear OF
the outcome of an oratorical contest
between Mr. Taft and Mr.. Bryan.
They said that Mr.. Taft would be
able to hold his own without any trou-
BILE. asserting that he has proved very
effective during the speeches he has
made thus far. It is no secret how
ever, that many of the Republican
leaders were anxious to have Mr. Taft
conhne his speaking activities to the
porch of his Cincinnati home, fear
ing his inability to cope with the re-
sourceful and more experienced Mr..
Bryan. Now that the two are to get
together in the same territory il is
| certain that the fur will fly.