Show PRESIDENT WILLIN WILL MAKE SPEAKING TOUR IN DEFENSE Of HIS NIS ADMINISTRATION nON 1 w Feb W. W President Tat Taft soon noon will start a a. vigorous orous speech speechmaking speechmaking making campaign to explain has Is position on current questions and c candidacy candidacy can can- n- n dl acy for tor Before the Republican national convention conven COD tion meet meets In June the president will upend spend many days on the road and Is expected ex- ex expected expected ex ex- to deliver scores of ot speeches ches He lie will TiJU travel el as far west as ns Chicago asfar as asfar asfar far north as a yen New Hampshire and south at at least lust as far as Georgia Other engagements may be made In the f few w weeks necks Tile The pre presidents president's political advisers ad b believe e he is 1 I their lr best orator Ever rr since h ce the Taft Tart r head hlad quarter were opened here Iere with Uve William B R. McKinley In Jn char charge Republican leaders 3 hav fI have urged the th president dent f follow n to get ct Into the h campaign n. n lie bc begin began followings Ins this advice ad when he h accepted d an Invitation ot of a years year's Ara standing lo to tat- at- at tend d the fiftieth a annual dinner of or the Swedish American Republican club In Chicago I M Many y Invitations The Acc acceptance of or that Invitation was followed by the th announcement that the president had con consented cemented to stop on his way wa at III Toledo O. O Invitations Imitations to visit and OIl Million have be been on re re- re and nd probably will b be accepted A few days AJ ago O the bouso let Jet pt It t h he known that the presIdent would t ld go KO to SR annah armah Gay Ga In April or o May and might stop atop at N X C. C Last night after a a. short conference with wa was Senators said M Crane the Smoot and er It president nt would extend his coming trip to Boston to Include Nassau and Concord N 1 jc H. H He leaves Washington Wash Wash- ington March larch for 18 r Boston on on March 17 17 spends there and will visit the two New l e. e Hampshire title clUe on March 13 19 Although no announcement has been mado of or subjects subject for foi to 1 speeches the presIdent prey pres- Ident will make mak on these thello trips traps it Is Practically that he lie will not fall 1 l 1 Include in n his hi address the recall o of judges Possibly Possibly- IM ps the the WA of ai J judicial decisions initiative and referendum topics touched b by Colonel Roosevelt In hi n and tile his speech at Columbus last Jut week Reply to Roosevelt Jt I Probably Mi h Taft Tatt will 11 make n-ake no direct reply to that speech p and It has been stated with tJI emphasis that he lie wi will wll not indulge In per personalities but hut that he will t make clear his has own views on man many of ot he the doctrines advocated by br bv Colonel noo It In III Columbus Is almost certain A canvass of or the thc New York political situAtion made mad at at conferences on of or r D names Jr Tr chairman mun of or the New York state Republican J committee cc rr Pr resident Sherman State Senator Brack BI it and Representative Calder a It leader in congress s resulted In an an Informal declaration that President ent I Taft aft would hAv have an almost almot solid New Yuri Yo delegation o H to Co the national conven tion It was claimed d that the confer confer- once enc h between Pr President ld nt Taft Tart and Chair Chair- hair hair- man Ramps Barnes was satisfactory to both In so yo oIt far ral faras as the selection of or delegates and the the- proposed wording of the platform was as I conc concerns concern rne Congressman McKinley director of or th the national Taft headquarters returned yes yes- from rom Chicago where herc he mado made ar at- for the wt western rn end of ot the raft fait campaign Mr Ir McKinley had a n I short hort tall with tho the president but did not co no over 1 tho the thoe e western t rn situation In detail nOLI lo 0 at tho the Taft raft he I expressed prId the th lId belief that tho the pre president was wag gaining In Illinois |