Taft Assured Ohio Votes Are His In Close Ohio Campaign
Taft arrived in Cincinnati and addressed the Citizens Taft Club after a visit to his brother’s home. He travels to Indiana this week then New York, with Ohio deemed safe for a Republican win. The Ohio campaign features strong local clubs, energized voters, and expected large turnout, plus a statewide whirlwind effort through November 2.
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Tribune
Cincinnati
William H. Taft
Charles P. Qeft
Citizens’ Taft Club
Taft
Indiana
New York
Lawrenceburg
Evansville
Indianapolis
Gary
Chicago
Connecticut
Brooklyn
National
Campaign News and Campaigners in New York
Republican candidate Renatus Caspar fights a hard race in the 20th Assembly District from his Willis Avenue shop. Women from the Women’s National Republican Committee host a noon meeting led by Miss Helen Varick Boswell at Broadway. The Hughes Alliance reports its first fund appeal through J. Adams Brown. Ex Governor Black heads a Carnegie Hall college men’s Republican mass meeting with Root presiding and speakers including Dolliver and Straus. Sherman says Taft and he will keep polling till the tape. Herrick cites Ohio railroad polling showing Taft leading. A large Negro voters meeting is planned at West 88th Street with Taft and Hughes addressed. Taft’s southern trip praised by Representative L. Longensinger as beneficial to Republicans.
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Ohio
Taft
Harris
Martin's Ferry
Martin
Hamilton County
George B. Cox
Mr. Taft
Cox
Citizens’ Taft Club
Judge Taft
Indiana
Woman's National Republican Committee
Commercial Travellers’ League
Broadway
Helen Varick Boswell
Hughes Alliance
J. Adams Brown
New Netherland Bank
West 34Th Street
Black
Carnegie Hall
Root
Frank S. Black
Edmund Wetmore
Senator Dolliver
John L Griffiths
Straus
Sherman
James 8. Sherman
Republican National Committee
New York State
Oh!o
Myron T. Herrick
Cleveland
Bryan
Colored Republican Club
State of
New York
South
Loudensinger
Congress
Tribune Bureau
Washington
White House
Senator Dixon
Montana
Chicago
Dixon
East
Wisconsin
Iowa
la Follette
Pacific Coast
Great Far West
Colorado
Nevada
Idaho
Wyoming
Mr. Dixon
Lake Shore Road
Debs
Che
Senator Beveridge
Oklahoma
Republican Party
Tennessee
Memphis
Nashville
Chattanooga
Maryland
Roosevelt
James B. Reynolds
M. Reynolds
Hughes
Chanler
Harlem
125Th Street
Third Avenue
Wiliam J. Bryan
Railroad Men's Taft Campaign Club
Harlem River Station
New Haven & Hartford
Harlem Station
Willis Avenue
Bronx
Harlem River Bridge
Lexington Avenue
126Th Street
Camp Taft
Grand Central Station
Silver Street
Edward Patterson
Railroad Men’s Republican Club
J. P. Hopson
New Haven Road
James McDowell
McDowell
J. Wesley Hill
Metropolitan Temple
Railroad Men
America
Unclear motives limit potential campaign visit
The text notes that the person has not found time and is feared to remain absent. If he does come it would be only for consultation and not to take a directing role in the campaign.
Taft Set for Five Brooklyn Rallies Monday Night
Brooklyn Republicans arranged five big rallies for Monday night as Taft visits the borough for the first time this campaign. Two hundred prominent citizens will dine him at the Montauk Club with State Chairman Woodruff hosting. A Dig parade features 536 organizations and fifty bands under Major Ebstein. Taft will speak at Metropolitan Sanger Hall Brownsville Congress Hall Arion Hall Academy of Music and Clermont Avenue Rink.
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Kings County
Metropolitan Sdnger Hall
Brownsville
Congress Hall
Arion Hall
Academy of Music
Clermont Avenue
Missionaries praise judge Taft in the Philippines
The Rev Dr Homer C Stuntz and Rev Dr Arthur J Brown credit Taft for fair policies and support for religious groups during his tenure as Governor General of the Philippines. John R Mott hails Taft's aid to the YMCA and missions in the Far East.
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Homer C. Stuntz
Board of Foreign Missions of
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Philippine Islands
William H. Taft
Philippines
Far East
Stuntz
Taft
Arthur J. Brown
Board of Foreign Missions
Presbyterian Church
Judge Taft
John R. Mott
International Committee of the
Young Men’s Christian Association
Mott
Young Men's Christian Association
Bryan Here Monday Night Amid Tammany Rally
Tammany organizers announce Bryan will address four meetings on Monday. The East Side from Madison Square Garden to the Battery is set aflame with Tammany fire and enthusiasm. Secretary Smith expects around forty thousand attendees near the Garden, easily exceeding its seating capacity. Other rallies will be at Hamilton Fish Park Cooper Union and Palm Garden on 68th Street and Third Avenue.
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Tammany
Bryan
Madison Square Garden
The
Battery
Smith
Hamilton Fish Park
Cooper Union
Palm Garden
68Th Street
Third Avenue
Barroom floor collapses at Bryan meet
In Steubenville Ohio the Bryan demonstration crowd packed the American Hotel floor a collapse sent about fifty people to the cellar. Several were injured and several women fainted amid the hepanic chaos and emergency aid.
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Bryan Meet
Steubenville
Ohio
Taft campaign itinerary listed with city visits
The Republican state committee outlines Judge Taft's travel plan for the week starting October 26 with a sequence of meetings in Brooklyn Yonkers Peekskill Fishkill Landing Poughkeepsie Hudson Schenectady Cohoes Troy and more. The schedule spans October 26 to October 31 including New York City Lyons Canandaigua Geneva Seneca Falls Auburn Syracuse Oneida Rome Utica Batavia Kilmera Oswego Binghamton Cortland Rochester.
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Republican State Committee
Taft
Monfiay
Brooklyn
Yonkers
Peekskill
Fishkill
Landing
Poughkeepsie
Hudson
Schenectady
Cohoes
Troy
New York City
Lyons
Canandaigua
Geneva
Seneca Falls
Auburn
Syracuse
Etay
Oneida
Rome
Utica
Batavia
Kilmira
Oswego
Binghamton
Cortland
Rochester
Republican chairman reports improved mood in key states
Chairman Hitchcock said Republicans no longer fear New York New Jersey Ohio Indiana Kansas Nebraska Wisconsin and the Pacific Coast states California Oregon Washington. Ex Governor Herrick’s reports boosted confidence. Montana and Nevada remain doubtful while Missouri Kentucky Maryland show potential gains. Sherman Hughes Taft plan and fresh fundraising describe a campaign turning steadier with renewed activity and a stronger front in Ohio New York and statewide races.
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Hitchcock
Republican National Committee
New York
New Jersey
Ohio
Indiana
Kansas
Nebraska
Wisconsin
Pacific Coast
California
Oregon
Washington
Myron T. Herrick
Taft
Montana
Nevada
Colorado
Idaho
Missouri
Kentucky
Maryland
Richard V. Culahan
Literary Bureau
Sherman
Hughes
Chicago
Republican National
W. Murray Crane
Massaachusetts
Cornelius N. Bliss
Crane
National Committee
James S. Sherman
Bryan
Prosperity in West boosts Taft labor vote view
Commissioner Walter Prew of the National Erectors Association reports broad improvement in several trades in Western towns. He notes large fall orders for manufacturers, cites Grand Rapids furniture makers, and says Western workers intend to back Taft despite Gompers calls to vote Democratic. He predicts Taft’s election aided by labor support.
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Walter Prew
National Erectors’ Association
New York
Grand Rapids
Mich
Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Taft
Bryan
HITS GUARANTEE SCHEME
In Havre de Grace Maryland on October 21 Attorney General Bonaparte argued against a government guaranteed bank deposits scheme. He contended depositors are creditors and warned universal guarantees could jeopardize well run banks by undercapitalized rivals. He favored postal savings as a safer public option.
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Havre de Grace
Bonaparte
Yale Bryan Club Debated By Democratic Students
New Haven October 21 The Yale Democrats wrangled over forming a Bryan Club as several proposed officers declined to serve because they planned to vote for Taft. F O Mason urged immorality in voting for Taft while holding office. B H Sullivan accepted the presidency. Jack Leonard became treasurer. Kenneth Wynne named secretary. Tommy Taggart Jr chaired the executive committee with Brides and Rose as vice presidents.
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Tribune
New Haven
Yale
Bryan Club
Taft
Bryan
F. O. Mason
Chicago
B. H. Sullivan
Roger Sullivan
Jack’ Leonard
Adlai Stevenson
Kenneth Wynne
Tommy” Taggart, Jr
Kern Delays Campaign to Return Home for Ill Son
Syracuse dispatch reports Democratic Vice Presidential nominee John W. Kern abandoned plans to speak in Oswego and Ohio and boarded the Southwestern Limited home after his wife informed him their eight year old son is gravely ill with infantile paralysis. He said he would still try to resume a week of Indiana appearances if the child's condition improves.
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Syracuse
John W. Kern
Southwestern Limited
Oswego
Ashtabula
Conneaut
Ohio
Kern
Indiana
Only South for Bryan Railroa d Men Rally
The Tribune reports a Harlem rally of railroad men in Camp Taft, praising Taft and Hughes and refuting Bryan. A parade of engineers carried banners urging Taft, while speakers credited the Republican ticket with labor support and predicted a Taft led landslide.
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Bryan
Chafin Casts Prohibition Vision at Cooper Union
Eugene W. Chafin the Prohibition candidate told Cooper Union audiences that Taft or Bryan would win only by accident as 69 percent back his platform. He defended his 321 word program as comprehensive and attacked Taft Bryan Hughes and local liquor interests. He promised to clean Washington with his wife’s WCTU ties and pledged strong action on prohibition alongside Aaron L Watkins and George Stockwell.
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Eugene W. Chafin
Prohibition
Cooper Union
Taft
Bryan
Mother Hubbard
Judge Taft
Mr. Bryan
Chafin
Hughes
Washington
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Aaron 8. Watkins
George E. Stockwell
New York State
Hains Brothers Denied Access to Grand Jury Minutes
Captain Peter C. Hains Jr and T Jenkins Hains were handcuffed and brought to Bayside court to face a murder indictment for William E. Annis. Justice Garretson denied their motion to inspect grand jury minutes, with District Attorney Darrin opposing. General Peter C. Hains and Major J. T. Hains attended as the case resumes Monday.
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Peter C. Hains, Jr
T. Jenkins Hains
Flushing Court
William E. Annis
Bayside
Garretson
Darrin
Hains Brothers
John F. McIntyre
Manhattan
Peter C. Hains
J. T. Hains
Withdrawal of Hugh J. Grant Shocks Democratic Elector Candidates
Expect $500 from subs as price for electors. Ex-Mayor Hugh J. Grant withdraws from elector race amid claims of stepping back from politics to focus on business. Joseph P. Day succeeds him, with Charles J. Murphy cited as a key ally in Chicago. The move prompts comment on party loyalty and civic duty.
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Hugh J. Grant
Joseph P. Day
Tammany
Chariaa J. Murphy
Men say they were fleeced in Boston bet on fare game
John Austin and Dr. Sydney Stokes, both of Boston, allege they were cheated out of 2500 dollars in a gambling house on West 68th Street after meeting a man named Snooks who claimed to offer a way to beat the fare game. Police raided the house and arrested a woman who rented the room.
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John Austin
Adams Street
Boston
Sydney Stokes
Weat
Inspector Walsh
Captain Reidy
West 68Th Street
Nold &A
Austin
Stokes
Snooks
Manhattan
Gas Institute meets in New York with 675 attenders
The American Gas Institute held its third annual meeting at the United Engineering Societies Building in New York with 675 members present. President Alexander C. Humphreys of Stevens Institute of Technology and the institute urged deference to federal and state supervision of public service corporations and stressed uniform control and operation. Technical papers were presented by Frank N. Speller and Jacob Van Maur.
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American Gas Institute
United Engineering Societies
West 39Th Street
Alexander C. Humphreys
Stevens Institute of Technology
The
Institute
Humphreys
Fall of Marse Henry Watterson and a Campaign Yarn
A critical clash over a sensational corruption tale aimed at Hughes surfaces. Watterson’s Courier-Journal is accused of printing a New York copy, drawing denials from Conners Murphy and Mack. Interviews reveal partisan spin on Bryan in Maryland Ohio and New York, with predictions for Chanler and Hughes.
Colonel Tucker In Last Illness
Mrs. W. F. Tucker left Chicago for Washington after stating in a note to the press that Colonel W. F. Tucker now is in his last illness and may die. The note, signed by Mrs. Tucker and her lawyer, says she will return if the husband regains health to face the abandonment charge. he has recently drawn up a will, details unknown.
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Chicago
W. F. Tucker
John A. Logan
U. S A
Washington
Tucker
H. R. Pearson
Compliments For Public Service Commission From Teachers
A note from Far Rockaway teachers in Brooklyn thanks the Public Service Commission for securing an extra morning trek on the Long Island Railroad. J William Greenwood praises the commission for addressing poor track conditions of the Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad along Franklin Avenue and hopes the commission endures as a shield for a helpless public against corporate nuisances.
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Public Service Commission
Commission
Far Rockaway
Brooklyn
Long Island
J. William Greenwood
Coney Island & Brooklyn Railroad Company
Franklin Avenue
Appeal Taken In Thaw Case In Pittsburgh
Ex Governor W A Stone attorney for Harry K Thaw filed an appeal to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals from Judge Young s dismissal of the habeas corpus writ to bring Thaw to Pittsburgh for bankruptcy testimony The court granted a writ of error setting the stage for a December argument Stone submitted papers directly to the judges and the exact content of the appeal remains unclear It is believed the appeal seeks only a review of the ruling
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Philadelphia
W. A. Stone
Pittsburg
Harry K. Thaw
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Young
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Faro
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Jacob van Maur
Marse
Henry Watterson
Hearst
Courier-Journal
Louisville
Marie” Henry
Colonel Watterson
Conners
Fudge
Mr. Conners
Tammany Hall
Charles F. Murphy
Mack
Democratic National Committee
Illinois
William J. Bryan
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