Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-29
TAFT AT BARBECUE
Two Bears, Ten Oxen and Twenty
Lambs Roasted at Fargo.
GENUINE WESTERN WELC0NT
Every County in State Represented 3
Great Meeting.
CANDIDATES. VOICE IMPROVES
CANDIDATES VOICE IMPROVES
Hoarseness Practically Gone and
Speeches Are Full Of Ginger.
TRAIN ESCORTED BY SNowsToRM
Three Speeches Made at Grand Fork"
to Crowds AEEreEntinE twenty
five Thousand-TrIp Through
Minnesota,

FARGO \. D.. Sept 2S.-(Special Tele-
Rran)-Wilnam II. Taft has been in Roose-
Welt territory sll day. Northwestern Mime
sofa and North Dakota regard the president
as favorlte son and they have given his
former secretary OF war welcome to
keeping with this spirit. Tonight twelve
bands are playing in Fargo and every
county in the state is represented at the
great barbecue at Island park where the
republican presidential candidate addressed
an audience Of more than 10000 people.
Last night a fire was started in pit
seventy feet long. four feet deep and four
feet wide. For twelve hours ten oxen
and twenty lambs were roasted on the oak
ambers and the feast was spread before
Mr.. Taft upon his arrival here. There was
an escort OF state militia, torchlight pa
rade and other embellishments of western
hospitality that made the republican candi-
date feel that he was in the house of his
friends and that his winning of the west is
an accomplished fact.
Taft's Voice Improves.
The Taft special went through sparsely
settled territory today but at every station
crowds gathered to cheer the republican
nominee with the hoarseness practically
gone from his voice. Mr.. Taft was ready
for fight or a frolic and his short plat
form speeches were full of ginger and he
did not mince his words in criticism of Mr..
Bryan whom he denomlnated a physician
with nostrums and panaceas for the cure
of every organiv disease. The republican
party offered no quack medicines guaran-
teed to cure over night but submitted
record Of things accomplished and asked
that It be continued as the family physician
and not succeeded by an itenerant vendor
with great force Mr.. Taft told his audi
ences that when he was elected president
he would devote his ability and all his
sctrongth to chnching the Roosevelt poll
cies to the end that every man could have
a square deal before the law.
Again and again he denied he was un-
friendly to labor and urged that the work
inErnen look into the record for them
selves and not take the records from the
new evanger' samuel Gompers who ad-
mitted that he carried the labor vote in his
inside pocket.
North Dakota IL Safe.
Senators Nelson and Clapp and the other
members of the Minnesota congressional
delegation were with the Taft party all
day. Senators Hansbrough and McCum-
ber and j. Nj. Kennedy. national commit
teemen for North Dakota, told Mr.. Taft
that the North Dakota ELECTORAL vote was
as good as counted for him. In the nine
teen years of it's statehood North Dakota
never has been democratic in a presidential
election Four years ago Roosevelt car
ried the state by 10000 and the republican
leaders estimate Mr.. Tafts plurality will
be close to this figure.
Three late afternoon meetings at Grand
Forks brought out audiences aggregating
5000. No more enthusiastic reception has
been given Mr.. Taft since he left Cincin-
natl At one of these meetings the cries
you're all right. BILL" were so numerous
that Mr.. Taft had difficulty in making
himself heard.
Train Escorted by SnOwstOrm.
Throughout the day the Taft train was
escorted by a snowstorm. and Mr. Taft
talked In an overcoat collar turned up
the auditors similarly attired He asked
permission to keep his hat on as on ac
count OF "the infrequency" OF his hair, hli
hat was the only shelter that his head haC
from the snow.
Some Of the visitors at the Fargo meet
ing tonight had come as far as $50 miles
and all OF them brought encouraging re
ports 10 Mr.. Taft They declared fac
tionalism had been buried and that ther,
never had been in the state such en-
thuslasm as for Mr.. Taft, not excepting
Roosevelt
r. r. Marshal and NJ. y. Johnson, riva
candidates for the North Dakota unite,
states senatorship boarded the Taft spe
cial az Crookston. They came arm in arm
aud Mr.. Taft was told first hand that al
the Johnson and Marshal votes would b