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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1908
Page
17
Steubenville and Cadiz host large Taft crowds on a campaign swing with decorations and praise for Taft, while Bryan and Debs draw smaller cheers. Reports say Taft’s reception in Steubenville and nearby towns surpasses prior records, signaling growing Republican momentum against Bryan.
A Taft special train, after a Wheeling meeting, heads toward Kentucky with Louisville as the destination. The trip includes planned stops in Winchester, Mount Sterling, Lexington, Frankfort and Shelbyville, among nine towns, as former voters of both slave and Irish backgrounds shift to Taft this year.
Rear Admiral Coghlan retired accepts as grand marshal of the Business Men's Republican Association parade set for October 31. Commander William B. Franklin named chief of staff. Edward A. Drake leads headquarters at 10 Bridge Street. Expected participation exceeds seventy thousand. Sherman to review if he accepts. Drake says every trade will be represented and committees are forming before October 8.
Congressman Bat of Pennsylvania presented so called proof that Bryan misread Filipino sentiment toward Taft. He cited Sergio Osmena, Speaker of the Philippine Assembly, saying Taft nomination pleases him and that Taft has long shown concern for Filipino welfare and will continue McKinley era policy from the presidency.
George J. Gorey of the National Commercial and Industrial League urged business leaders along Broadway to contribute funds for the league’s work during Republican noonday meetings at the Forum Astor Place and Broadway. Treasurer John D. Gluck asked supporters to send money or checks. The Forum event featured James R. Garfield Secretary of the Interior and drew Colonel William H. Fairless and Representative A. L. Blair who spoke to the audience.
Chairman Hitchcock spent most of yesterday at the Hotel Manhattan meeting Republican leaders. Officials acknowledge the committee is short of cash and efforts to raise money are under way. Literature is prepared for mailing as checks arrive unevenly.
Waterbury Conn October 14 President Roosevelt writes he heartily approves Lilleys campaign speech for Connecticut governor on the Republican ticket. He notes several needed truths and wishes Lilley success. The letter dated October 10 responds to a copy of the speech Lilley sent after last weeks request. The speech was delivered last spring near the submarine investigation.
At Washington Hall in the Bronx the 18th Assembly District Negro Republicans heard Gilchrist Stewart urge support for Governor Hughes as upholding the state constitution. John E. Robinson lauded Hughes as the Empire State’s greatest governor and urged a house to house canvass to elect Judge Taft. Other speakers included Professor Joel Spingarn and J. B. Tobias.
The Hughes Alliance led by chairman Charles A. Schieren opens headquarters at 34 Hast Mth street and receives broad letters of encouragement. City groups planning support for the Hughes campaign are expected to align with the alliance. William H. Abbott Jr becomes first deputy commissioner, replacing Robertson who resigned after it emerged he was not a citizen.
William P. Shefferd Jr. of Newport leads the First Rhode Island District ticket as a Republican candidate. In the Second Rhode Island District Adin B. Capron of Bullwater is listed as a Republican nominee.
Governor Hughes rallies in Herkimer County declaring that reelection will prove government by principle not pull. He cites public service commissions act and repeal of the Percy Gray law while touting farm and factory aid. He pushes direct nominations and blasts Chanler while facing bartender association censure and opposition claims.
The Independent Direct Nominators' party filed a ticket to defeat Representative Herbert Parsons Senator George B. Agnew and Linden Bates with Frank Hendrick for Congress Valentine Buck for Senator and Jesse Ullman for Assembly. Hendrick Buck and Ullman oppose the Parsons Agnew factions and Hendrick may gain Independence party support through Hearst withdrawal. A mass meeting with General Luke F Wright Representative Parsons Senator Agnew and Linden Bates is planned at Terrace Garden.
A petition filed just before midnight creates the Independent Home Rule Democracy ticket. Peter Jones of 677 Third Avenue is nominated for Congress in the 7th District to run against Victor H. Duras Republican Michael F. Conry Democrat and James D. Bush Independence Party member.
Albany October 14 Announcement at the executive chamber that Governor Hughes appointed ex Justice Matthew Linn Bruce to the Supreme Court Justice of the 1st District to replace Justice David Leventritt who resigned Bruce had been nominated by Republicans for the office and the term expires January 1 next He previously received a similar appointment from Governor Higgins on the 18th
In New Haven on October 26 Judge Taft will receive a parchment testimonial signed by nearly the entire Yale faculty and student body as a formal honor during his visit.
Secretary of the Interior James R. Garfield spoke at six Manhattan venues from The Bronx to Harlem and the East Side. He defended Republican policy, attacked Bryan and standardized railroads and Standard Oil actions. Garfield predicted strong support for Taft and Roosevelt in New York.
James S. Sherman, Republican vice presidential candidate, completed a fifty mile ride from Hornell to Cuba in a day marked by chaos as a car killed chickens and another struck a horse. He spoke in Hornell and Cuba, praised Governor Hughey, pressed tariff defense, and urged large Republican majorities while throat inflammation limited his speaking.
President Parsons of the Republican County Committee urged district leaders to make Saturday night Hughes mass meetings big successes. The Murray Hill Lyceum will host a county committee meeting tonight to boost Republican efforts ahead of the Grand Central Palace event where Governor Hughes is to speak.
Senator Lodge in Boston denounces Eugene V. Debs and socialism as the nation s great danger. He warns that agitation poses a universal alarm and could wreck any empire, urging citizens to bury socialist talk and oppose class conflict.
Eugene V. Debs Socialist nominee spoke to about three hundred at Liberty Hall West Hoboken. He apologized for brief remarks due to la grippe and predicted the Socialist party would win significant gains against the two old parties in the coming vote.
Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks spoke to a large Dunkirk crowd on October 4 proposing tariff protection to shield American workers from cheap foreign labor. He touted Republican prosperity under tariff policy and criticized the opposition’s revenue plank, arguing revision should protect capital and labor and align with Roosevelt era policies for national interests.
Senator Boles Penrose of Pennsylvania fears that a Bryan victory could allow Democrats to control the United States Senate. He counters Eastern Democrats who say a Bryan win would not harm the Senate, noting Hudspeth’s claim that Bryan’s election would flip states with Republican Senators. He argues fourteen more Democrats would give a Senate majority, with Vice President Kern as tie breaker, and cites anticipated Republican losses in 1911 from states including Indiana New York Ohio North Dakota Connecticut Wisconsin Illinois.
Rhode Island Republicans at their state convention nominated Aram J. Pothier for governor Arthur W. Densi for lieutenant governor Charles P. Bennett for secretary of state William B. Greenough for attorney general Walter A. Read for treasurer and Joseph B. Flitscher H. Martin Brown Robert W. Goelet and Edmund Arnold for presidential electors all by acclamation The platform backed tariff revision by the friends of protection and urged Taft and Sherman candidacies be dropped President Roosevelt administration praised with L C Robinson named permanent chairman.
The Democratic National Committee quoted Timothy Healy claiming President Roosevelt promised Daniel J. Keefe the office of Commissioner General of Immigration. Healy said his informant was in the President's cabinet, though no White House statement was issued and Leeb denied the pledge. Keefe, Detroit head of the International Association of Longshoremen, supported Taft against Bryan-Gompers.
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