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Show TAFT ADDRESSES Candidate Carries His Campaign Cam-paign Into Heart of Steel and Iron District. DECLARES HE IS EVER FRIEND OF THE TOILERS Believes That Gompers Has Not Delivered Entire Federation Federa-tion to Mr. Bryan. EAST LIVERPOOL, O., Oct. 13. In tho middle of tho steel and iron district of Cleveland, "William II. Taft today commanded the closest attcntiou of au immenso audience. The dotails of the meeting were known to tho candidate but a half-hour before ho reached the eit3r. The immense tent in which it was held was readied by a four-milo automobile ride through Cleveland, and the audience patiently waited the half-hour half-hour delay caused by the lateuess of tho candidate's train. "When Mr. Taft appeared ho was warmly welcomed. lie began at once to talk with an earnestness earnest-ness which caused close attention. Ho showed from his viowpoint why American Ameri-can workingman needed the protection of tho tariff and what had been tho result re-sult when he had not been given that protection. Mr. Taft followed this with a detailed account of his own experi-enco experi-enco with the labor world. He explained that the decisions he had rendered while on the bench, and for which ho was now condemned by Bryan and Gompers, wcro in reality tho legal basis of labor organizations organ-izations of the present day, and upon that basis they had grown and prospered pros-pered until today thoy wcro stronger than over. Special Nearly Wrecked. The Taft special ran into its first mishap mis-hap today. The front trucks of the candidate's car and tho rear trucks of the Pullman preceding it went off the track just as tho train was coming to a halt on a siding at Sterling shortly after 10 o'clock this morning. A halt-hour's halt-hour's delny was caused. No other damage was caused except that the track was torn up. Tho train moved about half a car length after the wheels were on the ground, Spreading of tho rails on the Biding was tho explanation made by the railroad people. Fourteen audiences were addressed by the candidate today. At Lorainc a cheor for Debs when the candidate mentioned men-tioned his name in connection with tho labor enses ho had handled while on the bench, inspired Mr. Taft to pay his compliments com-pliments to Dobs as a presidential candidate. candi-date. "Mr. Debs is a Socialist," he held when the applause died out. "Mr. Debs is logical. Ho is opposed to the institutions of this country, as they have been established by th'o Constitutionally Constitu-tionally has a right to be, if ho chooses, provided ho accomplishes his methods by legal and non-violent ways. Thoro-foro, Thoro-foro, T am not going to criticizo Mi'. Debs." Member of Labor Union. In Cleveland, after Mr. Taft had reviewed re-viewed his labor record at length with an illustration of what he had to do with helping to build up labor organizations organi-zations in the Philippines, and his administration in connection with tho Panama canal, whoro ho had much to do with labor unions, he smilingly recalled re-called tho fact that ho had since "been made a member of the union. Ho added: "Accordingly, I rccoived an invitation invita-tion from a contracting firm up in Oregon, Ore-gon, saying that they would bo glad to have r'c, now that I was a regular j member of tho trades union, to go into Continued on Pago Two. TAFT ADDRESSES t. MANY W0RK1NGMEN ' Continued from Page One. I tho business and work ono of their 1 steam shovels, but I said that certainly ' until the 3rd of November T had a.iob, and after that I would communicate with them further, t have had a good deal to do with labor as Secretary ot War. We have a great deal to do with the enforcement- of the eight hour law. Mr. Gompors is one of the active coun-.Hgl coun-.Hgl of tho American Federation ot Labor, and I got the impression that i tho whole Federal ion of Labor was de- slivered body and -snul by Gompors i'o the Democratic party and to Mr. Bryan, li but it seems there are some let t. '(, Daniel Kecfe, tho head of the Long- i shoremen's union, with whom perhaps J a number of my audience aro ac- quaint.ed, does not think that I am j a ""devil with horns. Ho is going to sup- jl port me for tho Presidency because he says ho has found- in his dealings with-mc with-mc (and wo have had a good many), that T was .iust nn.d fair to the inter- k . ests" which ho represented as tke head i of the Longshoremen's union, a.nd one B of'the executive-council of. the Ainori- f san .-Federation of Labor. I do not want I1 losubmit the-letters of recommends tion for the . Presidencj', but its dis- mission seems to involvo whetlicr I am l a tyrant, and oppressor of. labor , and l' otherwise, and I have got to submit. I evidence that T do not cat a laborer L every morning for broakfast; that I am fcr not engaged in fighting 'that which is tho" backbone and sinew of the Nation tho laboring class. "I am democratic in sympathy. I :(W. a real democrat. I am not rcf err-. ; in'g to this historical designation that i docs not mean anything by reference I6partics."' ... |
