The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-07
Republican Candidate Grows Restless and Asks That
 Itinerary Be Planned
TAFT IS IN DEMAND BY
 PEOPLE EAST AND WEST
Hitchcock Has Had Conference With Taft and Tells Him That He Will
 Have to Answer the Call
 From Different States.

Middlebass Island, September 6.-w. H. Taft will leave here tomorrow for the activities of his campaign. He has written the republican national com mittee to arrange for him a speech making itinerary and has suggested that the states of Missouri Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Illinois, In- diana and New York be included in any tour that may be decided on The request of the candidate to be assigned speaking dates is regarded as showing his fixed determination to be personally in the fight wherever it may be the thickest, and also his de- termination that no doubt shall exist as to his attitude.
 T can't conceive of anything more depressing than to be denied particl- patton in an active campaign or to be kept quietly in one place, dependins wholly upon necessarily fragmentary reports as to what is going on and as to what conditions are" This was the recent summing up by Judge Taft of his personal feelings in the situation. The Taft party will
 
 Commodore Richardson's yacht Jessa- mine for Port Clinton. the nearest shore | port. There automobiles will be taken | for a 16-mile drive to Spiegel Grove near Fremont, there to be entertained at luncheon at the Hayes homestead as | the guests of Col. and Mrs. Webb Hayes. Sandusky will be reached by trolley before dark. The trip to Gin nati, which begins Tuesday afternoon will be punctuated with at least 10 speeches from the rear platform of the train. A. I. vorys. chief of staff of the candidate, returned here today from Youngstown, where he presided at the opening yesterday of the campaign. MT. Vorys was very enthusiastic over the occasion.
 Labor Turns Out
 We selected Youngstown especially for the opening of the campaign" he said, because it is a great industrial center The idea has been promulgated that union labor Is against the republi- can ticket and We wanted to show the falsity of those statements More than 12,000 mechanics were in line in the Youngstown parade to reply to the charges, being more than three-fourths of all the mechanics in that great in dustrial center"
 MT. Hitchcock has changed his mind" was the expression of Judge Taft after the conference he had yesterday with the national chairman. This change was un- doubtedly because of the pressure which has been brought to bear on him in the demands for speeches and the presence of the candidate, especially from the west
 MT. Taft indicated that although the greatest demand for his presence had came from the west that would not pre- clude his appearance in eastern states and that when the tour was decided on it would undoubtedly reach both east and west.
 Aside from getting together on this important phase of the situation Mir Hitchcock gave the candidate a detailed account of the reports he has been re- ceiving from national, state and local leaders from all sections of the country After the conferences and before leav- ing for Sandusky. MT. Hitchcock had this to say of politics:
 Demand for Taft.
 CT had a very fine talk with Judge Taft We talked for a long time about the demand that he go on a speechmak- ing tour. There is a great demand for him in the west, in fact all over the country; a demand that is so strong that I don't know whether it is possible to refuse it. Party leaders thought 1t best that he should not go personally into the campaign, but the situation is different now from what it was then. Party or ganizations want to him. The trip that Judge Taft made through Ohio has convinced all that he has made good as a campaigner It is possible, therefors. that by October 1 he will go out to make some speeches He would natural ly go into some of the doubtful states, although I could not at this time speci- fy the states. I am personally inclined to favor the idea that the judge go out because the people want him.
 ''I also went over with Judge Taft the situation state by state. telling him of the reports have received and what the party leaders have said There is no doubt that he wiM win if we make tho right kind of campaign and keep at It.
 Wade H. Ellis, who will tender his resignation as attorney general of Ohio to become assistant attorney general at Washington, was here today to pay his respects to MT. Taft