River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-29
WH|RLW|ND FINISH
FOR THE CAMPAIGN
ALL THE SPELLBINDERS WILL BE
BUSY THIS WEEK.
HOT FIGHT FOR NEW YORK
Taft and Bryan to Lead Their Forces
in Supreme Effort to Cap
ture the Empire
State.

New York, Oct. 26.-The political
campaign, which is entering upon it's
last week, is to have real whirlwind
| finish From the highest to the low
est, all the spellbinders of all the par
! ties will be out in force during the
next six days and wavering voters will
| be urged by eloquent advocates Of the
several causes to cast their ballots
right"
In practically every state of the
union rallies and mass meetings al
most without number have been ar
ranged, but it is in New York, with it's
large number of electoral votes at
stake, that the real battle will be
waged. There practically all the lead
| ing candidates will concentrate their
efforts, ably assisted by large num-
Der of the country's most forceful and
resourceful campaigners.
Cabinet Members in Ohio.
Ohio and Indiana also will be given
considerable attention, particularly by
the two leading parties. Among the
speakers who will urge the voters to
support Mr.. Taft will be several men,
bers of President Roosevelt's cabi-
net-Secretaries Root and Garfield and
Postmaster General Meyer-and the
Republican candidate for president
himself delivers two formal addresses
at Cleveland and Youngstown on Mon
day Vice-President Fairbanks will
head the Republican forces in Indiana,
which will include Senators Beveridge
and Hemenway, Edward H. Ozmun,
consul general of the United States at
| Constantinople; John L. Griffen Uni
ted States consul at Liverpool, and
Representative Gardner of Michigan.
Bryan's Fight for New York.
Both Mr.. Taft and Mr. Bryan were
in this city Sunday night. All the
| forces the Democratic national COM
mittee can summon will be brought to
| bear to secure the electoral vote of
New York state for Bryan. Led by the
presidential candidate himself, who
will speak four days in this state, an
army of speakers will be sent into
every county and town to spread the
doctrine and appeal for votes for the
ticket. Mr.. Bryan went to the cities
and towns in the southern tier Satur-
day, and after two days campaign in
the greater city he will stump cities
and towns that fringe the east shore
of the Hudson river, which seldom are
visited by Democratic candidates in
search of support.
The Democratic campaign in the
Ixy hO WY
ayers, will receive it's impetus from
the meetings here Monday night at
Madison Square Garden and in Brook
Ign Tuesday. Besides these meetings,
many others at which Mr. Bryan will
speak have been arranged in different
parts of the city Tammany Hall has
planned to make the Madison Square
meeting the greatest demonstration
given the candidate in this campaign,
and red fire will burn and bands play
in every assembly district on Manhat-
tan island. Thursday night Mr.. Bryan
will leave the Empire state to devote
the closing days of the contest to Ohio
Indiana and Illinois.
All the SpelIbinders Busy.
M0duWuIl0 oil CuS CcuA-
I paigners the Democratic state and ma
tional committees can enlist have been
sent to the GIL counties of New York
state and to the doubtful states of the
middle west. Among the leading speak
ers in New York state for the week
will be eX-Judge Alton B. Parker,
John Sharp Williams, Senator Bacon
of Georgia, Gov Hoke Smith of Geor-
gia, Gov. J. H. Higgins of Rhode Is
land, and Gov. Ansel of South Caro-
lima.
The Republican wind-up of the cam
paign in New York city calls for %
mass meetings to be addressed by
speakers of national reputation; a
parade of the Republican clubs of
Greater New York and big parade of
the Business Mems Republican associ-
alton.
Big Republican Meeting.
The big Republican event of the
week will be the Madison Square Gar
den meeting on Wednesday night, at
which Mr.. Taft and Gov. Hughes will
be the principal speakers. The other
speakers will be Senator William AL
den Smith of Michigan; George A.
Knight of California, and United
States Assistant District Attorney H.
A. Atwood of Chicago. Gen. Horace
Porter will preside.
Mr. Taft and Gov. Hughes will adj
dress four monday meetings on
Wednesday. Other Republican meet
ings of The week will be addressed by
Secretary of State Root, Secretary of
the Treasury Cortelyou, Secretary of
Commerce and Labor Straus, Attorney
General Bonaparte, James S. Sherman,
|. the vice-presidential candidate; Sena-
tor Dolliver, Congressman Herbert
Parsons of New York. Congressman ].
Francis Burke Of Pennsylvania, and
others.
Frenchman Wins Roosevelt Prize.
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