Taft Assured That Ohio Votes Are His
Taft arrives in Cincinnati and charts a large campaign push through Indiana and Ohio. He praises home-based outreach and joins the Citizens Taft Club, boosting turnout with two thousand plus members. Ohio voters expected to favor Taft and Harris, while energy spreads in Hamilton County and Martins Ferry amid broader Republican efforts nationwide.
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Ohio
Taft
Harris
Martin’s Ferry
Martin's Ferry
Hamilton County
George B. Cox
Mr. Taft
Cox
Mr. Teft
Cincinnati
Taft Business Men's Club
Citizens’ Taft Club
Judge Taft
Indiana
Campaign Notes Show Caspar Fights For Assembly Seat
Renatus P Caspar Republican candidate in the 30th District conducts a strong campaign with his Willis Avenue business background. Women activists will lead a noonday meeting at 746 Broadway and Miss Helen Varick Boswell will preside. The Hughes Alliance seeks funds, with treasurer J Adams Brown receiving contributions. A big Republican college men mass meeting at Carnegie Hall is being organized with speakers including ex Governor Frank S Black and Secretary Straus. Sherman says Taft and he will not be headed off in any poll. Taft leads in Ohio per a railroad workers poll. A major Negro voter meeting is planned at 127 West 88th Street with Taft and Governor Hughes addressing. Taft’s southern trip is hailed as a political boost.
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National Republican Committees
Commercial Travellers’ League
Broadway
Helen Varick Boswell
Black
Carnegie Hall
Root
Frank S. Black
Edmund Wetmore
Senator Dolliver
John L Griffiths
Straus
Taft
Oh!o
Myron T. Herrick
Ohio
Republican National Committee
Cleveland
Judge Taft
Ani Ieee
Bryan
Colored Republican Club
State
South
Loudensinger
Congress
Tribune Bureau
Washington
New York
White House
Senator Dixon
Montana
Chicago
Dixon
East
Wisconsin
Iowa
la Follette
Pacific Coast
Great Far West
Colorado
Nevada
Idaho
Wyoming
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Lake Shore Road
Debs
Che‘n
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Oklahoma
Republican Party
Tennessee
Memphis
Nashville
Chattanooga
Maryland
Roosevelt
James B. Reynolds
New York State
M. Reynolds
Hughes
Chanler
Harlem
125Th Street
Third Avenue
William J. Bryan
Railroad Men's Taft Campaign Club
Harlem River Station
New York, New Haven & Hartford
Harlem Station
Willis Avenue
Bronx
Harlem River Bridge
Lexington Avenue
128Th Street
Camp Taft
Grand Central Station
Bryan Express
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
Time constraints threaten campaign leadership change
The text notes that he has not made time and is feared unlikely to do so. If he does come, it will be for consultation only and not to supersede any current director in the campaign's direction.
Taft to Visit Brooklyn With Five Rallies Event
Brooklyn Republicans completed plans for five Monday night rallies welcoming Judge Taft on his first borough visit in this campaign. Two hundred prominent citizens will dine him at the Montauk Club with State Chairman Woodruff. A parade of 536 organizations and 50 bands will lead to speeches at Metropolitan Sanger Hall Brownsville Congress Hall Arion Hall Academy of Music and Clermont Avenue Rink.
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Ohio
Taft
Cleveland
Youngstown
Cincinnati
Hitchcock
Linton
Bitchcock
Buckeye
Rge
Williams
Kings County
Metropolitan Sanger Hall
Brownsville
Congress Hall
Arion Hall
Academy of Music
Clermont Avenue
Missionaries praise Taft for fair leadership in Philippines
The Rev Dr Homer C Stuntz former auxiliary secretary of the Methodist Board of Foreign Missions and author lauds Taft's fair administration in the Philippines amid earlier disagreements. Presbyterian official Arthur J Brown and YMCA secretary John R Mott also praise Taft for aiding religious groups and missionary efforts during his tenure as Governor General.
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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
Civil Commission
Arthur J. Brown
Board of Foreign Missions
Presbyterian Church
Judge Taft
John R. Mott
International Committee of the
Young Men's Christian Association
Mott
Christian Missions
Bryan to Speak at Four Meetings Monday Night
Tammany preparations for Mr. Bryan's Monday night appearances. He will address four gatherings including Madison Square Garden, Hamilton Fish Park, Cooper Union, and Palm Garden. Secretary Smith predicts up to forty thousand attendees near the Garden with demand exceeding capacity.
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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 Demonstration
In Steubenville Ohio on October 7 the floor of the American Hotel barroom caved in during a Bryan demonstration. The crowded room sent about fifty people to the cellar. Several were slightly injured and some women fainted.
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Steubenville
Ohio
American Hotel
Taft Campaign Itinerary Outlined by Republican Committee
The Republican state committee released a revised itinerary for Judge Taft for next week with a series of county organized meetings. The schedule lists locations including Brooklyn Yonkers Peekskill Fishkill Landing Poughkeepsie Hudson Schenectady Cohoes Troy Lyons Canandaigua Geneva Seneca Falls Auburn Syracuse Oneida Rome Utica Batavia and more, spanning October 26 to October 30.
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Republican State Committee
Taft
Brooklyn
Yonkers
Peekskill
Fishkill
Landing
Poughkeepsie
Hudson
Schenectady
Cohoes
Troy
New York City
Lyons
Canandaigua
Geneva
Seneca Falls
Auburn
Syracuse
Oneida
Rome
Utica
Batavia
Republican National Committee gains confidence in key states
Chairman Hitchcock reported improving mood at national headquarters as reports from ex-Governor Herrick reassured on New York and other battlegrounds. He noted Montana and Nevada as tight, Missouri a hopeful hold, and Maryland likely Republican.
Prosperity in the West Pushes Taft Vote, Says Commissioner
National Erectors' Association official Walter Drew reports Western business improving across trades with large fall orders. He notes furniture firms in Grand Rapids facing peak production and predicts a strong Taft labor vote, despite Gompers' AFL endorsements. He says rank and file oppose political dictation and favors Taft for prosperity.
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Walter Drew
National Erectors’ Association
New York
Grand Rapids
Mich
Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Taft
Bryan
HITS GUARANTEE SCHEME
Havre de Grace Maryland October 21 Attorney General Bonaparte spoke on a Democratic plan to guarantee bank deposits arguing depositors are creditors and that extending guarantees risks harming well run banks. He contrasted postal savings banks as a safer alternative for small savers.
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Havre de Grace
Bonaparte
Yale Democrats wrangle over Bryan Club formation
New Haven October 21 Yale Democrats clashed while forming a Bryan Club with some proposed officers declining to serve as they planned to vote for Taft. F O Mason of Chicago called such voting while in office immoral. B H Sullivan accepted the presidency. Jack Leonard treasurer. Kenneth Wynne secretary. Tommy Taggart Jr chairman. Vice presidents Brides and Rose.
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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
Kern Abandons Campaign to Return Home for Ill Son
Syracuse Oct 21 John W Kern Democratic Vice Presidential nominee quits his Southwestern tour to rush home after a message from his wife reports their eight year old son has a serious illness infantile paralysis. He will speak in Indiana if the child's condition improves and earlier planned stops in Oswego Ashtabula and Conneaut are postponed.
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Syracuse
John W. Kern
Southwestern Limited
Oswego
Ashtabula
Conneaut
Ohio
ONLY SOUTH FOR BRYAN RAILROAD MEN RALLY
Washington dispatch reports a Harlem rally of the Railroad Men's Taft Campaign Club in support of Taft and Hughes. Senator Dixon predicts a Taft majority nationwide with emphasis on the South, Northwest, and Pacific Coast and notes railroad voters leaning toward Taft in Indiana and other states.
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Bryan
Chafin Denounces Taft Bryan and Hughes in Prohibition Rally
Eugene W. Chafin, Prohibition candidate for president, spoke at Cooper Union claiming both Taft and Bryan would win only by accident and blasting Hughes as a Sunday school man. He defended a 321 word platform and vowed to clean Washington, aided by his W C T U wife, with remarks on rolling out whiskey barrels before March 5. Aaron S. Watkins and George E. Stockwell also spoke.
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Eugene W. Chafin
Prohibition
Cooper Union
Taft
Bryan
Hubbard
Judge Taft
Mr. Bryan
Chafin
Hughes
Washington
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Aarons. Watkins
George E. Stockwell
New York State
Hains Brothers Denied Grand Jury Minutes in Murder Case
Captain Peter C. Hains Jr and his brother T. Jenkins Hains were brought to Bayside court to face murder indictments for the killing of William E. Annis. Justice Garretson denied their motion to inspect grand jury minutes as District Attorney Darrin opposed the request amid a lengthy legality debate. General Peter C. Hains and Major J. T. Hains attended. trial 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
Grant Withdraws From Elector Race Amid Business Focus
Democratic electors face withdrawals and hints of a price for support. Ex Mayor Hugh J. Grant quits politics to devote time to business after four years away from public life. Joseph P. Day succeeds as elector candidate, joined by Thomas Murphy as a longtime ally and loyal party friend.
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Hugh J. Grant
Joseph P. Day
inUrinsie
Chariaa J. Murphy
Beaten at Faro Alleged Quick Profit Scheme Ends in Raid
John Austin and Dr. Sydney Stokes, Boston men, claim they were fleeced out of 2500 dollars by a fare game scheme run by a man named Snooks. After reporting to Inspectors Walsh and Reidy, a raid at a West 68th Street gambling house recovered paraphernalia and a woman was arrested for renting the room. Austin recounted joining with his brother in law Stokes and meeting Snooks in Boston who promised 4000 dollars profit on a 2500 stake at Hotel Manhattan before the bad luck led them to seek police aid.
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John Austin
Adams Street
Boston
Sydney Stokes
West 6Sth Street
Inspector Walsh
Captain Reidy
West 68Th Street
Austin
Stokes
Snooks
Manhattan
Gas Institute ends day with call for public service control
The third annual American Gas Institute meeting drew 675 members to the United Engineering Societies Building in New York. President Alexander C. Humphreys urged federal and state supervision of gas companies and warned against blending legislative and executive powers in commissions. 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
Frank N. Speller
Jacob van Maur
Watterson blamed for Hearst tale on bribery fund
Report on the Henry Watterson and Courier Journal controversy over a claimed 500000 bribery fund to defeat Hughes. Quotes from Col. Watterson, State Chairman Conners, and Charles F. Murphy at Tammany Hall. Bryan's campaign activity noted with plans for William J. Bryan’s Elmira speech and Empire State support.
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Marse
Henry Watterson
Hearst
Hughes
Louisville
Courier-Journal
Marie” Henry
Colonel Watterson
New York
Conners
Mr. Conners
Tammany Hal
Charles F. Murphy
Mack
Democratic National Committee
Illinois
Maryland
Bryan
Ohio
Republican Party
Mr. Bryan
William J. Bryan
Elmira
Hoffman House
Chanler
Roosevelt
Tammany Hall
McCarren
State Committee
McCaren
Mr. Murphy
Murphy
Colonel Tucker in Last Illness Shifts Pursuit to Washington
Chicago dispatch reports Mrs. W. F. Tucker leaving for Washington after filing a public note with attorney H. R. Pearson stating Colonel Tucker is in his last illness and that she will return to Chicago to prosecute the abandonment case if he recovers. The note mentions a recent will but its content is unknown.
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Chicago
W. F. Tucker
John A. Logan
Washington
Praise for Public Service Commission trains and tracks
Complaints and compliments about the Public Service Commission flow in from Far Rockaway teachers in Brooklyn praising an extra morning Long Island Railroad train. J William Greenwood complains about Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad tracks in Franklin Avenue and thanks the commission for acting as a public defender 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 By Ex Governor Stone
Ex Governor W A Stone attorney for Harry K Thaw filed an appeal to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals from Judge Youngs dismissal of the habeas corpus writ to bring Thaw to Pittsburg for bankruptcy testimony The court granted a writ of error signaling review by the high court Argument set for December Stone delivered the papers to the judges and the exact contents may remain unknown until a decision is issued It is believed the appeal seeks only a review of the case
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Philadelphia
W. A. Stone
Pittsburg
Harry K. Thaw
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Young
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