Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1908 — TAFT AT LAFAYETTE ON OCTOBER 23 [ARTICLE]

TAFT AT LAFAYETTE ON OCTOBER 23

Special Train With One Fare for the Round Trip Will be Run from Rensselaer on that Day.

William H. Taft will be at Lafay.ette on next Friday, Oct. 23d, and that city will pull off the greatest rally of the campaign in this section of Indiana on that day. When Lafayette republicans undertake to do a this they don’t stop at expense and they are planning a monstrdhs meeting to greet the great statesman, and a letter from Judge Edwin P. Hammond, of that city, to Attorney C. O. Bpitler, says they are expecting from 30,000 to 50,000 people. For the first time this year the Monon will run a special train with a on** fare .rate out of Rensselaer. The time of leaving here and the arrangements for the return had not been made when this article was wrlt’en, lut Division Passenger Agent: John Priest was here a short time this Friday morning and said that the special train would be provided, and it was probable that there would alEo be a sp'f’al train returning, leaving Lafayette after the evening program was completed, about 10:30.

Many of our people saw Mr. Taft at Hazelden, but many will also desire to see him again and with a one-fare rate of 94 cents tor the round trip this will doubtless be the best patronized excursion that has left Remsilaer for a long time. The Lafayette meeting will be a regular old time rally, with ma ching clubs from every town and township In the county. There will also be au automobile parade in the afternoon and a monster parade in. tha evening. Mr. Taft will only be at Lafayette a half hour In the afternoon. In the evening the spe king will take place at the coliseum and Hon. W. C. Owen, of Kentucky, will be the principal speaker. He is an eloquent man and secured a national reputation by his corageous defense of Caleb Powers, the man so bitterly persecuted by the Gobel partisans. Lafayette will be handsomely decorated. Here is a chance for Jasper county people to attend a mammoth old time rally and it is believed that a great crowd will go from here.