Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-08-20 | Page 1 | Taft Puts Finishing Touches on His Speech

TAFT PUTS FINISHING TOUCHES ON HIS SPEECH HOT SPRINGS. Va.. Aug. 10. Judge Tuft put. iho finishing touches on his speech to the Virginia Republicans, after devoting practically the whole day to Ihe. work. The speech, according lo a statement state-ment made regarding II by .Mr. Vorys. is not ti reply to Mr. Rryan's notification utterances." but rather an exposition or the records of the Republican and Democratic Demo-cratic parties In their practical work toward to-ward control of trust and monopolies nbuse3. From this comparison, said Mr. 'Vorys, Mr. Taft draws the conclusion that southern Republicans have a very effective slogan to go after the independent indepen-dent vote of the South. The speech, which contains approximately live thousand thou-sand words, will bo delivered Friday afternoon aft-ernoon to several tralnloads of excursionists excur-sionists from all parts of the State. I