The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-24
'OFF.FOR THE WEST
Presidential Candidate Taft
Left Chicago at Midnight
wearing a Straw Hat and an
OvercOat.
In WISCONSIN TODAY.
He Is Scheduled to Speak i'm Mil.
waukee Tonight.
Began the Day With a Speech
at BelOit at $3.50.
IN WISCONSIN TODAY

nee left Chicago at midnight on the
chicago Northwestern railroad for the
scenes of the second day of the pres
ent campaign expedition into the north
and central western states. Somewhat
fatgued after a busy day and evening,
Mr.. Taft was, nevertheless, happy
\ and well, and he fell into a sound
sleep before the train was outside the
| city limits.
| Mr.. Taft arrived at Beloit, Wis, at
$3.50 O'Clock today and addressed stu
dents of Beloit college and citizens of
the town. Five minute speeches were
made at GAINESVILLE and at Evansville,
Wis, during the forenoon on the way
| to Madison, where the presidential
| candidate was due to arrive at IL
o'clock. Mr.. Taft is scheduled to re-
main in the Wisconsin capital for 80
| minutes.
From Madison, Mr.. Taft's train will
head for Milwaukee. On the way to
the metropolis of the Badger state the
train Will stay for five minutes at
Waukesha and for 20 minutes at
west Allis, where are situated the
shops of the Allis Chalmers company.
Five minutes viii also be spent at Ra-
cine. 1t is planned to land Mr.. Taft
in Milwaukee at 4:45 O'Clock this
| afternoon SO that he will have time for
rest before his night address
Governor A. B. Cummins of Iowa
Joined the Taft party last night so as
to be with the Republican nominee
during the latter's trip through Iowa
on Friday.
A crowd which blocked the pass
ageway of the Lake Shore station
which waved blue flags with the can
didate's picture on them and which
fairly drowned the music of a band
with cheers greeted Judge Taft upon
his arrival at Chicago. The Republi-
can standard bearers smile which had
beamed through the state of Indiana
during the earlier part of the day,
showed no hint of fatigue as he was
escorted through the crowd to a wait
ing automobile. Police, both mounted
and on foot, were hard set to keep the
crowd back. All along the streets on
the way to the Auditorium Annex, the
ovation continued. At the hotel Judge
Taft was closeted with Chairman
Hitchcock of the national committee
and other chieftains for some time.
Taft the Rainmaker.
Taft the rainmaker," is now Indi-
ana's title for the Republican presi-
dental candidate. And why? Just
because it had not rained in the
Taft began to speak on George AIDES
farm. And then it rained, little. 1t
did not rain mile away from Hazel
den farm.
cago politicians was added to the
train at Ade. An urgent telegram
from Indiana Harbor requested a ten
minute stop. The request was COM
piled with.
go after Bryan and give him hail
Columbia was the admonition of the
audience, and, taking the cue, Mr.. Taft
went after Bryan" The labor record
of his opponent, he said, began when
Bryan helped enact the wilson-1or-
man tariff bill, which brought greater
disaster to the laboring men of the
country than had been experienced in
half a century.
HAS he fired Haskell YETI" came a
query from the crowd. And the gem
eral laugh which followed was the only
answer. Mr.. Taft expressed his salts
faction at being able to speak to labor
ing men and ''show you that am not
as I have been represented, possessed
of horns" He talked of the record of
the administration which. he declared,
had placed more labor legislation on
the statute books than had been done
in a decade. He gave the Republican
party credit for practically the entire
body of federal laws which had bene-
flied labor.
With this concluding sentence Mr.
Taft aroused three hearty cheers for
himself:
''If I am elected president, as I hope
and believe I shall be, 1 propose, and
it will be one of my most pleasant
duties, to devote my time and all the
ability 1 have to the construction of
legislation which shall place labor on
an exact level and give a square deal,
and no more than square deal"
Spoke Twice in Chicago.
Judge Taft, in two addresses last
night in this city, opened what his
leaders declared would be from now on
an aggressive campaign. Speaking be-
fore the Railway Mems Independent
Taft club, Mr.. Taft paid his respects
to union labor. dealing particularly
with decisions in labor cases rendered
by him when judge.
Arriving in Chicago from Cincinnati,
after having stopped at George AIDES
farm at Brook, Indiana, the candidate
went Immediately to the Auditorium
Annex, and after a short conference at
dinner with Chairman Hitchcock
drove in an automobile to Orchestra
hall on the Lake front. A large crowd,
forming an overflow meeting surround
ed him, and standing in his automobile
Mr.. Taft delivered an informal address.
He said he believed that no judge had
ever had the interest of the laboring
man at heart more than he had now
and had had when judge. He was
proud to say that he frequently had
been called in consultation with Presi-
dent Roosevelt on labor matters and
that his own and the presidents views
were in accord.
He referred to Mr.. Bryan and Samuel
Gompers as among those people who
are always full of enthusiasm for union
labor when they are running for office.
But" continued Mr.. Taft, you've
got to get men like Theodore Roosevelt
when you want them to do things"
That Mr. Taft had not suffered from
the fatigue of the day was shown when
after entering the hall and being in
troduced he announced his Willingness