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Show 00 8 iTh IT 8 b m 8 B T" Taft Declares Struggle For His Home State Will Be Hard Cincinnati, May 7. Ohio. President Presi-dent Taft's home state, bids lair to become the bloody battleground where tho presidont and Colonel Theodore Roosevelt will fight to a finish one of the decisive "actious" of the present pres-ent campnlgn for the Republican presidential pres-idential nomination. Frionds of President Pres-ident Taft, with him on his visit to Cincinnati, declared that the result of tho Maryland primaries mado It certain tho struggle for Ohio would bo hard. The president will spend more time campaigning rn Ohio than ho did In Maryland, where ho spoke only during ono day. His secretary, C D. Hllles, announced that Mr. Taft would return to Ohio later for a four or five days' stay. He will visit most of tho principal towns and cities not touched on tho present trip. Fmrn his homo state tho president will probably turn his attention to Now Jersey, which gives her opinion of the presidential candidates one week later. lat-er. So far no Invasions by the president pres-ident of other states in which primaries pri-maries are to be held, have been planned. Tho -president Is resting today for the first time In Several weeks", but tomorrow he starts north on a sixteen six-teen hour tour that ends In Columbia lato tomorro wnlght and on which ho will mako at least fourteen speeches In towns of all sizes, Tho presidont was said today not to be discouraged by tho fact that Colonel Roosovelt won out in the Maryland primaries. Mr. Taft spent only one day campaigning thoro and was said to feci that ho had done well, although other members of his party were disappointed. Metal Markot. Now York, May 7. Standard copper cop-per weak; spot, 15.40ain.60; July, 15.40al5.C2 1-2; electrolytic, 16al-S; casting, 15.5-Sa7-S. Ijcad quiet 4.10a4.15. Spelter firm. $6.75a6.S5. Bar silver, 60 1-lc. The Socialist party In Hawaii demands de-mands higher wages, vhlto labor employed em-ployed and shorter hours. Wages range from $18 to $25 a month for tho plantation laborer and far long for women and children. |