Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1908 — TAFT IN THE HOOSIER STATE [ARTICLE]

TAFT IN THE HOOSIER STATE

Devotes Much of His Speeches to the Injunction Issue. Evansville. Ind.. Oct. 23.—During the fleet of the three days he Is to spend In Indiana, Judge Taft talked to more people than on any previous day of this campaign. In each of his sixteen speeches the and applauders have numbered thousands.. Rejuvenated in voice, energy and enthusiasm by bls one day of rest the candidate handled the campaign issues with even a greater degree of positiveness than heretofore. In the very first speech be made he ridiculed Bryan’s charge z ef "bribery” tn connection with the promises of employers to their env ployes of more work with Republican success, and the orders of businessitbr goods said to be contingent on the same result. These were not bribes, be said, but business. They did not represent false conditions, but facts. Judge Taft talked to many labor audiences, and ft was noticeable that what he said was more educational than heretofore. At 'Linton, where he

•poke to several thousand coal miners be gave them the history of the writ of injunction, something he has not previously done. At Terre Haute be made a clear distinction between the. Republican and Democratic platforms on the use of the injunction, and declared business to be projierty. The dargest outdoor gathering Taft said he Lad ever addressed was assembled at Terre Haute when the Taft special arrived there. There were many in the coarload of local politicians which escorted the candidate to the city that said it was the largest gathering the state had ever had. The injunction was the feature of this speech, and after It had been explained and' the position of the two parties clearly set forth, the candidate declared with great vehemence: “That Is where the Republican party stands, that is where I stand, and don’t care what happens politically, that Is where I am going to stand.” Illustrating the use of injunctions the judge said that one principle of equity was that prevention is better than cure, and gave the case of a man who goes into court and tells the'court that his tenant is going to cut down a tree on the rented land, and says the cutting down of the tree will Injure the land and asks for an injunction, and he asked: “Is prevention better than • cure In such a case?” He then gave the history of the injunction which was first established in Great Britain 400 years ago to prevent a man losing a >IO,OOO farm for a debt of SSOO.

The judge declared his own injunctions had been issued according to law, and asked what sort of a Judge the people wanted if not one who obeyed the law under his oath. At Evansville Taft spoke first In the Grand theater and then in the People’s theater, besides an address from the steps of the State national bank. Thee was a large parade of marching clubs and red fire ad lib.

ON THE FIRING LINE Headquarters Notes and Where the Battle Is Raging. New York. Oct 23.—Having discovered that the schedules prepared would bring Taft and Bryan together at Fortchester, N. Y., next Monday, the Republican and Democratic national comlttees have rearranged their dates with the result that Bryan will speak at that place in the morning of Monday and Twft will make his address there at 3 p> in. The itineraries of both leaders for their New York tours show that each will have a strenuous time while in this state.

The leading speakers for the Republicans were at work yesterday as follows: Sherman at Elmira, N> Y.; Vice President Fairbanks, U. S. Treasurer Treat and Representative Dalzell at Pittsburg: ex-Secretary Shaw at Marietta, o: For the Democrats, the principal demonstration outside of the leader’s trip through West Virginia, was held at New York city, where the headliners were Governor Swanson, of Virginia, and Senator BacWn, of Georgia. The minor parties are represented in the spellbinding by Debs at Evansville, Ind., for the Socialists: Hfsgen at Toledo. O„ for the Hearst party; Chafin at Portland, Me., for the Prohibitionists.