The Washington times., 1908-09-27
TAFT GAINING GROUND
THROUGH MIDDLE WEST
First Four Days of His Spea king Tour Have Been Pro
life of Good Resuts-Has Addressed Half a
Million Persons
By JAMES HAY, Jr.

ST. PAUL. Mimi. Sept. 26.-With his
speeches this afternoon and tonight IN
the Twin Cities OF ST Paul and Mime
apoHs William Howard Taft ended the
first four days of his speaking tour
through the Middle West. having ad-
dressed half a million people in the
States of Indiana. Illinois. Wisconsin,
Iowa, and Minnesota.
As a result OF his work, Wisconsin
and Iowa have been lifted out OF the
doubtful column, Illinois and Mime
sofa are practically certain TO be Re
publican. and the chances Of Indiana
going for Taft have been improved 50
per cent
kilograms. which have come 10 the
candidate from the Western Republican
headquarters in Chicago, tell OF the
vastly improved conditions in tie States
he has visited. The state politicians
who have been on his ;rain have
brought assurances Of what a powerful
aid he has been 70 rne national and
State tickets. And the enthusiasm and
warmth Of the receptions accorded him
corroborate the encouraging news from
the national committee ana the State
leaders.
How He Succeeded
Taft has accomplished these magnii-
cent results because he has been sue
cessful in persuading the radicals OF the
Middle West that he stands with them;
that he does not Weld 10 them in ad-
miration of Theodore Roosevelt. ana
rlat he. if elected President, viii do
everything IN his power 10 continue
and enlarge the prOgressiveness that
has come 90 be the moving spirit in
this section or the country. Those who
have heard him, know now that he in
tends 10 work for the moral uplift and
the aboveboard policies which are the
open sesames" 10 their favor.
But his final speech Of the week was
in this city. when he gave proof that
his progressiveness is made strong and
effective by the keen insight and the
substantial judgment on which his rep
utatiOn rests. While his speech In st.
Paul this afternoon. before a crowd
that packed the Auditorium and over
flowed in thousands into the neishbor-
ing streets, was an explanation OF why
the Republicans are progressive and
can and will control the corporations,
his address in Minneapolis was a scorch-
ing denunciation Of the Bryan plan for
the guarantee OF bank deposits by the
Government This plan he character
lied as the 'purest socialism, be
cause II would take the money OF one
man 20 pay for the losses Of another.
In its place he offered the Republican
platform plan in a postal savings bank.
Against Socialism
His speech was a declaration that,
while ReUUbliCauism stands for the up
lift Of society. it VIII have nothing TO
do with the exploitation of socialism.
His St Paul speech was practically
q repetition Of the declarations he had
already made in regard 70 the continu-
ance and clinching OF the policies for
which the present Administration has
worked.
In his speech here he pointed out, as
objections 10 the Bryan plan, that the
Government guarantee Of bank deposits
is socialism. puts the ultimate cost on
the depOsitOr instead Of stockholders in
the banks. and could not prevent panics,
as claimed by Mr.. Bryan For the
postal savings bank proposition, he said
that II has worked successfully in the
Philippines. that it is neither socIalistic
nor paternalistic; that it could not Sc
riously interfere with the business of
savings banks, because the Government
would pay only per cent interest, and
that in only eleven out OF thirty-flve
States is the savings bank system now
fully developed
MajOTities Will Be Less.
II political conditions remain as they
- l.
he will carry Iowa, Wisconsin, and