The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-21
OPENING IN OHIO
Both National and State Cam
paignS Are Inaugurated
By the Republicans at the State
Capital.
PHIL CAMPBELL TO SPEAK
Senator Lodge and Congress-
man Watson on Program.
Uniformed Clubs From Other
Cities Are Present.

Columbus, Sept. 21.-Senator Henry
Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts,, r. s.
Brown, candidate for governor. and
other prominent speakers were sched-
uled to open the national and state
Republican campaigns here today. The
program called for two mass meetings
IN Memorial hall and two parades.
The first meeting was to be at
O'Clock this afternoon and the second
at o'clock this evening. Congress-
man Edward L. Taylor of Columbus
was scheduled to preside at the after
noon meeting at which Senator Lodge.
Mr.. Brown, Rev. John Wesley Hill OF
New York and Congressman Philip Z
campbell of Kansas were to speak
The evening meeting will be presided
over by Warren G. Harding of Marion,
VINO was the Republican candidate for
governor two years ago. Speakers
will be ex-Congressman James e.
watson of Indiana; Beecher W
Waltermire, candidate for Lieutenant
governor, and Tom L. Lewis nominee
for secretary of state.
Special cars and trains began II
bring delegations early. The Blaine
club of Cincinnati and the Boys ia
Blue Republican clubs Of Zanesviils
were among the uniforms displayed.
Others were expected from Washing
ton Courthouse, Lancaster. Lima and
Newark.
Lodge Pleads for Taft.
Senator Lodge opened with an un-
qualified defense of the administration
and a plea for the reelection of Pres
ident Taft.
81 come to urge upon you to 90
everything in your power in this his
own state. for the reelection of Pres.-
dent Taft" he said.
Il believe that the election of tho
Republican candidates from the high
est to the lowest was never more inn
portant than at present"
Throughout the pre-convention cam
vass Senator Lodge had held aloof
from factiOnal quarrels because of his
peculiarly intimate relations, personal
and official, with Colonel Roosevelt
and his friendly relations with the
Taft administration. Today's speech
was his first formal utterance on ma
tional issues as newly defined at Chi
cagO and Baltimore.
Senator Lodge said the Democrat
party had abandoned the Fundamental
principles which it once supported and
said its platform looked on its face
like perfectly vague and incoheren1
aggregation of sentences, a mass OF
language intended to get votes"
The return 10 power of that party
was pictured as the forerunner %
commercial disaster, providing its
present attitude on the tariff WAS
maintained. Senator Lodge did not
mention the Progressive party or
ColOHel RooseNell py Hhhlt Dut Dy III
plication. He opposed the policy ot
the recall of judges and devoted a
third of his time to what he said was
a proposition ITO tear down the con-
stitution of the United States to con-
vert it into a statute changeable bH
the whim of the moment"
Third Termers Open at Akron.
Akron. Ohio, Sept. 21.-The formal
opening of the state campaign of the
party was planned to take
place here this afternoon with Hiram
w. Johnson, governor of California
and vice presidential candidate, and
Arthur L. Garford of Elyria, candidate
for governor of Ohio, as the principal
speakers.
Tonight Johnson and Garford will
address a mass meeting at the Central
armory in Cleveland. Immediately
after his Cleveland speech Governor
Johnson will leave for New York to
arrange his New England tour.