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To-dnv. rain. To-morrow, rain; north wind*. CHARACTERISTIC POSES OF W. 11. TAFT WHILE SPEAKING HERE YESTERDAY. NEW-YORK, raURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1908.-FOURTEEN PAGES. V<*~ IAVIII....N°< 22,62 a JUDGE TAFT CHEERED FOR NINETEEN MINUTES PRICE THREE CENTS. PUCKWLLL'S ISLAND BRIDGE OVERLOADED PXTEBTST SUSTAIN THE TRIBUNE'S CHARGE. Monster Crowd Fills Madison Square Garden to Greet Presidential Candidate and Governor. THOUSANDS WAIT IN RAIN FOR PARADE In Cooper Union Mr. Taft Points Out the Peril of the Courts in Bryan- Gompers Plan. GOVERN Cft HUGHE? SPBAKIXG. Snapshot taken at the noonday meeting at Xo. 203 Lafayette street. The climax of a remarkable day of campaijmin? was reached last night when Judjre Taft and Governor Hughes met on the speakers' platform la Madison Square Garden before a tremendous audience, which was wil.l with enthusiasm. Whoa Mr. Taft entered the Garden the crowd cheered, without a break, for nineteen minutes. All efforts to check the enrim- Blasm" were fruitless until the audience was worn out. Jmljje Tuffs speech was interrupted by constant applause of almost every remark he made. Judge Taft in bis speed in Cooper Union discussed the labor question, showed what tlse Republican party has done for the laboring men, while the Democratic party when in power did nothing declared that the injunction plank in the Democratic platform, if read literally, was meanings; denied that his attitude toward labor had bee* hostile, reviewed his judl- eHl decisions, asserting that his acts had been misconstrued; showed the utter unreasonably noss of the plan for a jury trial between an order of the court and its enforcement, explained the' difference between a direct and an indirect contempt of cenrt. showing how its operation would defeat the ends of justice and fatally weaken the power of courts, and d-clnred xbaz this -insidious attack on the courts being made by Mr. Samuel Gompen, and M. partner. Mr William I«ntasa Bryan, is the most important issue in the campagn." adding that ths election of Bryan would destroy the returning confidence in business and end all hope of a 11 'n'^nill 'to New York City shortly before noon yesterday, and In the follow!** two hours "Poke to twenty thousand persons at four meeting and was cheered by fully one hundred thousand more as his automobile carried him from one meeting to another. The executive committee of the Germ,n-Ameriran Hushe* Alliance presented an address to me execmnt B « nr~i him of their esteem. loyalty and confidence, and. m reply- J^JttTSZSTSZtt S Z S Sj'S'r aid I,- wanted ... bind up and conserve «.<\u25a0 prosper!* ..f the « »-h..^ trym ? to Ml *c var,™ \u0084vi,,. At Union S,fiire he told a big l^M that .t would b. ••\u25a0«"" j-eors In the history of the stale when more Important legislation bad been enacted than ta. last two. , \u25a0 MANY WOMEN EJECTED. JAIL FOR 200 YEARS, The extent to which these stresses are in ex- cess of what is regarded as safe for such a et-jcture is best indicated by the fact that tha ctntilever bridge at Quebec failed with a stress tf ... pounds a square inch upon its oompres- Ei-n members, and that the elastic limit of the Structural steel, of which most of the tension members of the Qu^ensboro Bridge are made is f.ven by engineering authorities at _-\u25a0«•• pounds a square inch. "Will you gtov an indication of what the find- tr.gs are?" Mr Hodee was atked. "No. I will give out no information whatever." j-eplred I»Ir. Hodge. -'You can get anything you vast to kr.ow on the subject from the Commis- sioner of Bridges. He ha the report, and it is t;s jrivilege to make its findings public " Although both Commissioner Stevenson and Mr. Kodgc refused to disclose the findings of the rer^T. The Tribune has been informed by en- gin^rs who have b^en able to keep track of bridge department affairs that the investiga- tion Into the safety cf the bridge as disclosed serious defects and strains vastly greater than three alir-.ved in the specifications. The contract called for the erection of a super- rtr-cture capable of carrying a maximum live Icaa of K».CxV) pounds a. linear foot, with an averare stress of 21,000 pounds a SQuar*-- in- *jpon the compression members, and a strain nf 24.000 pounds a square inch upon the tension rserr-ber?. Owing to the fact that the weight of the bridge itself was increased from 84.000.- 000. as estimated in the original specifications, to i<<3.«'»oo,<'»oo pounds to increase the traffic capacity, the stresses were increased so that if the bridge was ever subjected to the maximum Lye ioad~ of 16,000 pounds a linear foot, called for in the contract, with the usual allowances ior wind, the stress upon the compression mem- Urs would be 26,000 pounds a square inch^and the strain upon the tension members 35.000 pounds a square inch. Hodge, "the report is In the the commiss Kerry \V. Hodge, of the firm of Boiler & Kocge. was seen by a Tribune reporter last nJgfct and asked if the report of his firm on the Queeosboro Bridge had been presented to the Corr.rr.ssioner o* Bridges. Tiie oif.cial report of the engineering experts ar>pointe«s five months ago by the Board of Estl- ir.-te to investigate the safety of the Blackwell's Island, or Queensboro. Bridge over the East River, between Manhattan and Queens, was handed yesterday to Bridge Commissioner Stev- enson. The appointment of Messrs. Boiler & Hodge to make the investigation was the result of the publication in The Tribune of a series of articles to the effect that there was grave ap- prehension among bridge engineers that the structure was being dangerously overloaded. The report indicates, it is understood, that not only will the traffic earn capacity of the bridge have to be largely reduced b?low that FPfciS^d in the contract for erection but a con- siderable reduction will also have to be made la the dead weight of the structure. This reduc- tion in dead weight will be obtained, it is said. >)>• doing away with the use of the upper deck, or floor, BfMai which it was proposed in the con- Tract Fpeciflcations to place four elevated rail- •way tracks. The reduction in live load, it is asserted, will be obtained by the elimination of elevated railway service from the bridge alto- pether or by the abandonment of other traffic tervlees which would impose a live load equal to that imposed by the use of the four elevated railway tracks planned for the upper floor of the bridge. Under the terms of the contract the bridge was to have, upon the lower floor. four •\u25a0 ley tracks, two roadway for wheeled vehicles, and upon the upper four elevated railway tracks and two i>ass:enger walks. To give the ridge the usual factor of safety the four elevated railway tracks upon the upper f.oor will have to be done away with. Commissioner Stevenson said that he expected the -•;-'•\u25a0 Professor Burr, who has been act- Ir.g es expert for the bridge department, in a Sew days, and that until he received it he could sot discuss the subject. Suggested to Reduce Overstrain Report Made Yesterday. I \aJ uf All Elevated Tracks /. W. WORMSER INJURED. Several brokers predicted yesterday that the odds on Taft would go to 8 to 1 bef >re Election Day. and that it would be difficult to pi even at that price. The amount of Tut* and Hughes money offered in Wall Street yesterday was about $150,000, but owing to the unwillingness of the rats to ba< k their ..pinions with cash, ex- cept at prohibitive odds, only a small amount uf this was plac< i Between members of the Cotton Exchange it was reported yesterday that $1,000 had l-een bet at even monej on Chan I etween two other members there had been wagered •>.';.< wh> to $1,000 upon Taft. At the Stock Exchange a small I M l>-> to >'.mi was placed on Hughes. On the curb mar- ket bets were reported to have been m even money on the result <>f the state election, although some bettors tried to get 10 t !( :• on Chanler during the forenoon. Two bets were made yesterday at even money that Bryan would get mor< lectoral votes this year than he got in lvi«;.l v i«;. They wer \u25a0 both small wagers. £h*i%&r Supporters Want 10 to S Against Hughes. Bryan and Chanler money is getting scarcer ... day among the layers cf odda Tiie prices quoted yesterday ranged from 4% to •".'.\u25a0 to 1 on raft and from 10 to 8 to even money on Hughes It -i- reported that in one broker's office $4,000 ha . been offered at 3' 2 to I on Taft, with no takers. On the curb 4 1 ? to 1 was offered on Taft, and there $1)00 to $290 was bet on Taft. The sum of $400 at even money was watered in the uptown office of a well known commis- sion house on Chanler. BRVAX MONEY SCARCE. Hardly had the automobiles started again when they missed the roadway and went sev- eral blocks before the mistake was discovered. Two of the cars were disabl -d during the trip. The chauffeur of tl \u25a0\u25a0 <;<.\ rm r'a 1 peai d while the party was at Camp Hughes, delaying the trip several minutes. When he re- turned it was found that he had gone for water for an overheated earburetoi Leaving Huber's 'I:.- automobiles endeavored to take a crosscut over a dump, and the Gov- ernor's machine stuck in the mud. Governor Hughes alighted, and willing hands hauled it out of the mud and started it on its way, the Gov- ernor walking a. block before re-entering the ca~. A.h the Governor's machine turned into West 135 th street from BroaMway, on Its way to Huber's Casino, a car filled w : ' reporters close behind it skidded, and, turning a full circle, struck the mach'.ne in front. For a second the Governor's car ran on two wheels, but finally righted itself with a crash Everybody sprang out, not fully realizing what had hap] The Governor's machine was uninjured, and ded on Its way, but it was some minutes other could go on. Car Containing Reporters Rams the Governor's Machine. Governor Hughes's trip through the city hurt night, accompanied by Colonel Tr*adwe!l, his military Becretary; several members of the Re- publican County Committee r»nd a number of newspt er 1 en in automobiles, was enlivened by a number of mishaps HUGHES L\ AUTO CRASH Woman and His Chauffeur Killed on Motor Car Trip. Vienna. Oct. 2S. Captain Clarence Vyner, a wealthy American resident of Vienna, started two days ago on a motor trip. In the party was a !Mme. Bettin. of Chili. At Trannsteln, a fwn of upper Bavaria, about twenty mile? from Salzburg, the motor car met aft accident while cf-Fcr-nding a steep hill to-day Mme. Bettin and the chauffeur were instantly killed and Cap- tain Vyncr wa.s seriously injured. CLARENCE VVXER HURT. Montgomery Xoic Liable to This Sentence Counts. [By To!f;rraph to Thf Tribune.] Pittsburgh Oct. 28. William Montgomery, of the Allegheny National Bank, was convicted late this) afternoon on nineteen of twenty-one counts for embezzlement and misappropriating $144,000 of the bank's property. Two of the counts were withdrawn. Montgomery had already been con- victed on a charge of. embezzling; $469,000 from the bank, and when he was led back to his cell in the county jail to-night he collapsed utterly. He fainted several times in his ceil last night. Montgomery can be sentenced to tea years on each of the charges on which he was convicted to-day, as well as to ten years on the previous conviction, making his possible sen- , tence two hundred years. Montgomery's attorneys, who fought hard yesterday to keep the name of R. R. Quay out of the case, but who were overruled, themselves brought the son of the former United States Senator Into the case this afternoon. It was in the last few minutes of the trial and left the court room wondering. Addeson S. Altaffer, discount clerk, on the witness stand was asked if he had not acted as private bookkeeper for K. R. Quay while performing his duties at the bank. He answered that he had and that Quay had paid him regularly. "We have only begun to fight." said F. Y. Breck. of counsel for Montgomery, as he came from the jail to-night. It. Btryker had barely taken a seat beside his driver in a carriage at h!s home, on College Hill, to go to the villaee this afternoon, when. just as the vehicle was turning from th*> private driveway into th<> main mad. the spirited horse took sodden fr'ght and dashed across the high- way. Tae carriage was switched into a deep ditch he=ide th« steep hill road and overturned against a hedge. Several Hamilton College students wen- passing at the time, but the ac- cident occurred so suddenly that they had no chance to save their president !'mm injury. They rushed to pick him up. finding him un- consHnus. bleeding from the nose and mouth, aid with a lune gash across his forehead. The driver also appeared to be painfully hurt. Both were removed to r>r. Ptryker 's house, and Dr. Hamilton, of Clinton, v^s summoned. It was found that none of President Stryker's limbs was broken, but indications of more seri- ous injury were four.], concussion of the brain and poc y other serl >us internal injury being- feared. Dr. Btryker remained unconscious until early evening, when h<- was able to answer a few questions. His physician to-night consid- ered bis condit \u25a0 ry dangerous. Hamilton President Thrown in Run- away Condition Critical. Clinton, X. T . Oct. 2S.—Dr. Meiancthon Wool- Bey Ptryker. president of Hamilton Colleee, is to-night in a critical condition at his home here from injurit-.- elved in a runaway accident to-day. DR. STRIKER HURT Bottle Aimed at Taxicah Chauffeur Hits Banker. A bottle containing carbolic acid was hurled through the window of a taxicab in which Louis W. WGrmsex. the banker of No. 636 Fifth avenue, was riding in Madison avenue last r.ight. and he was bruised under the left eye by a fragment of the shattered window. Accord- ing to the ctory told to the police by Charles FrancL'-in. the New York Taxicab Company chauffeur who v.-as in charge of the taxicab, two ir.en ran Into Madison avenue from 4Sth street and one of them burled the bottle at him as the taxicab came abreast of them. They immedi- lUely f."<i. The banker ordered the chauffeur to clrive to a drug store at Fifth avenue and 4Gth ttreet, where his bruises were dressed. TOSSED BABY FROM FIRE. The flr<r Is supposed to have been of Incen- diary origin. The damage Mat estimated at 13,500. Police and Firemen Rescue Six Per- sons from Brooklyn House. Daring rescues of three women and three children were made by the police and firemen at a flre in a tenement house at No. 2^03 Fulton Ktre<t. Brooklyn, last night. Patrolman Charles Z<-rw*-<:k. of the Liberty avenue station, and a member of the police baseball team, tossed Adolnh Kettr-le and an elght-months-old baby fron: the flre escajje on the second story to a brother officer en the sidewalk, and got the child's mother and two other small children to th* roof of an adjoining house in safety. James Jom^s, a fireman attached to Engine Company No. 125, carried Mrs. Anna Mueller. an aged \u25a0woman, and her daughter Amelia down the fire escapes to safety after they had been almost suffocated by the fiinoke In their apart- tn«Tit, More than a score of the tenants in the house were cut off from escape by the stair- ways, and were assisted down the flr<- escapes by the firemen. PRINCETON-WEST POINT FOOTBALL GAME ti V.'esi Po!nt Oct. 21st. Wert Shore R. n. special leaves rVsbroFses Pt. 12:00 nd West iJud St. 12:15 M Ji.25 round trip.—Art t. POLITICAL NEWS OF THE DAY. The climax of the Republican campaign in this city is reached in Madison Square Garden, When William H. Taft and Gov- ernor Ilvghcs address a huge and enthu- siastic gathering. J/r. Taft. in his Cooper Union speech, shoirs the threat against the country's ju- dicial system thai underlies Bryan's in- junction plan. Jaw* 8. Sherman spwks at a Ing rally at Saratoga. Fourteen special trains bring marching clubs from the. surrounding country. fieeretary Root addresses a large audi- ence at Cincinnati on national issues. Secretary of War Luke E. Wright ad- drefisrx a large meeting under the auspices of Toft Democrats at Richmond. Va., and urges the abolishment of sectional preju- dice. A letter to thn President from 8. B. Donnelly, secretary of the General Arbi- tration Board of the \ru York Building Trade/*, demonstrating that Mr. Taft's record proves him the friend of labor, is made public at Washington. William J. Bryan makes a tour up the Hudson Valley, closing trith meeting* at Albany and Troy.. David B. Mil pre- side* at the Albany meeting. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT PRAISES TAFT AND HUGHES; COMMENDS THE GERMAN AMERICANS. President Roosevelt has sent to C B. Wolffram, editor of The New Yorker Herold." a letter praising Govern" Hughis and pre- dicting the success of Tafl and the Gov- ernor's re-election. The letter follows: October 27, li'o3. My Dear Mr. Wolffram Ithank you for your remembrance of my birthday Will you let me take this opportunity to thank you In return for the admirable work you are doing for clean and honest govern- ment by your support of Taft and Hughes? 1 have profound faith in the good .sense and conscientious devotion to duty and to I Igh Ideals of my fellow Americans of German birth or German parentage. lam certain that they illgo ri-iht if only the facts can 1,,. , ,-!\u25a0.\u25a0 presented to them: am thanks largely to your efforts the facts are thus be- ing clearly* presented. . Mr. Taft stands In the nation and Mr. ]!,,...• stands in the state for that high or- der of governmental efficiency aid that high standard of governmental honesty the union of which is absolutely essential in order to secure srood government. Each adheres, and has always adhered, In public and private life, to tho most Inflexible standard of honesty and fair dealing as be- tween man and man Ea< h represent* what Js best in American citizenship Not one word of any kind can be truthfully said against the private or pub!: character of either. Each has the broad, st sympathies for his fellow citizens for I need hardly say that the accusation that Governor Hughes is a narrow and Illiberal man is preposterously false. I believe that the victory of the one li the na- tion and the other In the state Is assured by overwhelming majorities, and Ithank you for the way in which by your efforts you have contributed to bring about this result. With all regard, believe me, Sincerely yours, THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Audience Roars for Taft Until Com- pletely Exhausted. Twelve thousand persons, packed into every inch of space in the vast auditorium of Madison Square Garden, shook its walls to their very foundations in greeting Judge Taft and Gov- ernor Hughes at the largest meeting of the campaign, under the auspices of the Republican County Committee, last night. The great, spon- '. taneous. wildly enthusiastic, tremendously •".- spiring, soul stirring tributes touched the candi- dates to the very depths. In sustained inre» and depth of genuine feeling the meetins as far surpassed the Bryan-Chanler meeting in the Garden on Monday M the thunders of the irre- sistible ocean might ill above the noise made by a mill stream tumbling over a dam. It seemed an augury of the mighty voice cf the people at the polls on Tuesday, as the audi- ence rose to its feet in a whirlwind of enthusi- astic and devoted allegiance to the two candi- dates. It was the acme of \u25a0 night of triumphal cam- paigning in a downpour of rain. Thousands of those in the Garden had stood for an hour la the rain that they might be sure of their op- portunity to pay their tribute to Taft and Hughes. Never was then? a Madison Square Garden meeting held under more discouraging weather conditions. Never was there one -which sur- passed it in size and enthusiasm. While the monster meeting was going on In the great hall, the parade was wending its way through a downpour of rain through the heart of the city. Though the streets wew Hooded, the miserable weather was utterly ig- nored both by those in the parade and by the j thousands who stood on the curb along the Una of march. GREAT GREETING TO GOVERNOR. hen Governor Hughes walked through tha hall, and later when Judge Taft came, the scenes were such, both men saM, as could never be effaced from their memory, and will never be forgotten by those in the Garden. Starting at either end of the hall, the cheers increased la volume and numbers until they met in the cen- tre of the auditorium and went up in one vast roar. ck and forth the cheers reverberated in a veritable storm Men and women imped on chairs, n railings and on every point of vant- age, and cheered and shouted until M seemed as if they could shout no more But each time It died away the demonstration -would rise again, gradually working up a frenzy of enthusiasm, But it was not alone a tribute to the men. When they expounded the doctrines for which they stood the audience stamped its earnest and demonstrative approval on every point. It was only by pleading for the opportunity to continue- their speeches that they were able to check some of the outbursts that started while they t c rpeaklng. i TAFT CHEERED NINETEEN MINUTES. It was 11:06 o'clock when Judge Taffs ap— proach to the Garden was heralded by shouting I in the itreet that brought the audience "Us feet. After the demonstration on Judge Taft's I- rival had bet-n going on for some minutes, while he walked to the platform, it broke all bound 3 as he appeared at the front of the platform. Umbrellas were thrown into th? air and a nun- ber of toy balloons were sent floating back and forth through the air. Some one gave a Yale cheer, then the band started up a series of Yalo songs. "Boola, Boola/" "Bright College Years" and others, while the crowd stopped Mi cheers for a moment ami j'ined In singins. Then tho mighty slogan Taft: Taft: Taft:" was taken up all over the auditorium. It was with the greatest difficulty that General Horace E. Por- ter, the chairman, was able to quiet the people. It was nineteen minutes before Dm demon- stration subsided enough for the candidate to begin his speech. He talked for only eight minute^, as his voice had had a great strain throughout the day. He declared that the great Issue Of the campaign was as to whether tha HEND'K HUDSON FOOTBALL SPECIAL. :V.Vst I': -1 rlnceton Oct. 31. See Day lisa Advt.—. tint BIG CROWD AT GARDEN' Continued an third page. Regarding the tariff. Judge Taft declared that the Republican party was for just, honest and thorough revision. He resented the attacks against his sincerity, and bo earnest was his j declaration that the audience showed its belief in him by rising' as one man and cheering Judge Tafl said: Fellow Citizens: I am glad to have an oppor- tunity to come face to face with representatives ; of labor unions, and to discuss with them the issues which have been raised in this cam- paign in respe t to the attitude that organized labor should occupy toward the two leading po- liticai parties. In the first place Mr. Samuel Gompprs. at the head of the Amt-rican Federation of Labor, has attempted to deliver the entire organized union labor vote, and possibly the unorganized labor vote, to Mr. Bryan as the leader of the Democracy, and if this grant and delivery were complete perhaps it would be useless for me to address you on the subject, Bui I venture to assume that the laboring men of this country, and especially tfcose who are organized, arc too intelligent ami farsighted and too Independent and courageous in thought to allow themselves to be delivered as political factors by any leader from one party to another. I assume that laborers, like other men. differ in thf>lr political principles, that there are Re- publican labor men and Democratic tabor m^n, and thai it la noi too late, even after Mr. G<">m- prrs'K action, to argue out the \u25a0;'!<•>•• i which party should be supported upon grounds appeal- ing to reason. The record of the Republican party in Con- gress In its limited Jurisdiction has been most remarkable in the number of valuable statutes which have been enacted In the interest of labor the eight hour law. the sixteen hour law, the model child labor law, the Interstate rail- way arbitration act. the interstate railway em- ployers' liability act. the government employes" compensation act. the safety appliance acts, some two or three In number; the appropria- tion for Investigating the cau«e of mining disas- ters—are nil especially directed to the interest of laborers employed either by the government, by th.- Interstate railways, or at work within the District of Columbia, in the exclusive jurisdic- tion of Congress This is a record of which any party may well be proud, and it is \u25a0 record In which the Democratic party has no part. Wot \u25a0 single line of labor legislation was put upon the federal statute book during the Incumbency of That brought out a ringir.g burst ol applause. which was duplicated when he add-=d: "Eut th py may not Injure the property or un- lawfully injure the business of their >-mi]->y--T>. and th.'y may net institute a secondary boycott in such a dispute." Tells Audience of Peril to Courts in Bnjan-Gompers Plan. William Howard Tafl convinced an aodUenea of more than three thousand persons in Ooope? Union last night of his frankness in the dte- cus^ion of his position on labor questions, and there was unanimous approval when he finished. He laid bare before a critical audi*>n~e just wha! be had done as Judge, as Governor of the Philippines and in the Panama Canal zono Al- h the meeting was l.ed under the au- of the Republican Trade Union 1.- the audience was largely composed of persona of ail parties. When Judge Taft arrived he was : with a whole-hearted h be- came a prolonged roar, quieted only aft us use of a gavel as big as a sledge hammer Judge Taft's voice was rather husky when i.c began his s; \u25a0 " as he proceeded he spoke with less and less difficulty. Sti t.iok his hr;ir^rs through the party's record. drawing a sharp contrast with the record ol the •,an. He said he did not lik^ the class appeal of the Democratic party Neither did the audience, judgingby its applause. H :his record as Judge in I --. and there was the silence of profound attention. He had his hearers with him when he summed rnest. with stately precision, giving the > .-\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0.'.: of his decisions, which established: Thru any employe may leave his employment \u25a0 \u25a0-.. whether he brinks a contract No Injunction will lie to prevent That ;. associate with his fellow emploj bring about what is called a strike, and no In- junction will issue to prevent. That he <•rjf.-i.rr/-'- his fellow employes into associations, who shall appoint officers, and they may r-=-f>r these Industrial disputes to th»ir officer*, to abide by tii^ir derision, and may giv^ to the officers the power of exclusion from the associa- tion f r disobedience Th it they may by a mer.t collect a fund to support strikers, ifstrikes are tho eht to i c necessary. That they may I raw from association with th«-ir em; and withdraw those who sympathize wit I from sui'h association. TAFT AT COOPER UiNlOfl DEWEY'S PURE GRAPE JUICE it I'm: Ifiea the Blood and Ing it '1 De* \u25a0:• Bona Co., 13S Fulton B1 . New York. -A.l', t- NEW SERVICE TO TORONTO. Buffet broiler sleeping oar lea' except Satur- day via New York Central lines \u25a0 20 I.M., arrived Toronto \u25a0\u25a0 3G A. M. Buffet sleeping ear dally leaves 6:00 P. M., arrives Toronto 10:65 A. M. Advt. Among the local unions which have turned them down are the locals ol th< Internationa] Brotherhood of Bookbinders, the Pavers' Union, Clgarmakers' Union No 14 4. >t which Gcunpera la Ftill a ni'mhi-r and several other onions of cigarmakers; a number of waiters' unions, locals Kos 809 iii"l 375 of the Brotherh lof Carpi i i.-rs, which voted against their adoption; sev< ral locals < f the International Association < f .1 . cbinista, mo»t of the locals of th" Brotherhood of Tailors, and the locala of th Internationa] Brewery Workers, which as a body repudiated the circulars and appeal. ers Table or Ignore His Appeal. Unions In this city representing more tha i one hundred thousand workers, it was Bald ye - t.-rdnv. had either tabled or decided not to ad nn the circulars sent oul by President Gompen of the American Federation of Labor, urging the unions to support the candidates and plat- form of the !»• :: '\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0 raile party and appeal ng for funds Union* Representing 4OOJOQO Work- BLOW TO GOMPERS. It v;.s found that the hams had been care- fully padded to prevent n<>isf when the suffra- . •\u25a0 entered the ladies' gallery. According to thHr companions, the whole thing had been planned beforehand with gr^at secrecy. One hand was to demonstrate outside the building, another in the lobby of the House, and a third in the gallery. The gallery contingent num- bered fourteen, but it vas attended by many passive sympathize rs. Tii.- removal of two militant puffrasrettes y,r-'- sented a comical scene to those in the corridor. Both the offenders were laughing heartily as they were escorted by a posse of policemen, one of the officers tarrying that part of the ir n work of the grille to which the women chained. They were conducted into a committee room, and workmen wer« ti;-iw>n».] to rile off the iron from the chains, which were padlocked around the women's waists. Attendants rushed on him. but be :• slst< d fiercely the attempts made to carry him bodl from the gallery. After a desperate struggle the attendants succeeded in ej< ting the man. About the same time a large body of suffra- gettes made a demonstration outside the Parlia- ment building, and fifteen of them wei rested. Ten minutes later there was another dramatic so«»nr\ a man in the strangers' gall< ry flingii g another bundle of bills down on the Houm aid shouting "Why don't you giv<> women vot--s and relieve the unemployed?" The scene was wat hed with amazement from the floor of the House, but fi T gettes were dragged from their posts and re- moved, but only after parts of the grille were removed with them. London, Oct. Suffragette disturbances have driven the government to the unusual course of temporarily closing the strangers' and ladies' galleries in the House of Commons. This was announced by the Speaker in response to a question from Premier Asquith and Mr. Dal- four, the leader of the Opposition, as Parlia- ment was about to adjourn. While the House was discussing the licensing bill this evening; it was interrupted by th« rj'V-i play of a placard and sudden shrill cries from' the ladies' gallery, demanding votes for women, while simultaneously a bundle of handbills flut- tered down from the strangers' gallery at the opposite end of the Chamber, and a man sh<->utf d protests against "injustice to women." Attendants hurried to the galleries, and the male offender was unceremoniously ejected, but from the ladies' gallery sounds of a desperate struggle were heard. Two suffragettes had firmly chained themselves to the grille, and re- sisted for a time all efforts at removal, crying continuously in shrill tones their demands for votes. Suffragettes Chain Themselves to Grille Visitors Barred. TUMULT IN COMMOSS /^i^^Sfw j&*^^\u0094 \u25a0 j^EfW to !•* J^ 1 "~™" * j^ JVitlP^JtK mXJPMIi^*

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NEW-YORK, raURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1908.-FOURTEEN PAGES.V<*~ IAVIII....N°< 22,62 a

JUDGE TAFT CHEEREDFOR NINETEEN MINUTES

PRICE THREE CENTS.

PUCKWLLL'S ISLAND

BRIDGE OVERLOADED

PXTEBTST SUSTAIN THE

TRIBUNE'S CHARGE.Monster Crowd Fills Madison Square Garden to Greet

Presidential Candidate and Governor.

THOUSANDS WAIT IN RAIN FOR PARADE

In Cooper Union Mr. Taft Points Out the Peril of the Courts in

Bryan-Gompers Plan.

GOVERN Cft HUGHE? SPBAKIXG.Snapshot taken at the noonday meeting at Xo. 203

Lafayette street.

The climax of a remarkable day of campaijmin? was reached last night when Judjre Taft

and Governor Hughes met on the speakers' platform la Madison Square Garden before a

tremendous audience, which was wil.l with enthusiasm. Whoa Mr. Taft entered the Garden

the crowd cheered, without a break, for nineteen minutes. All efforts to check the enrim-

Blasm" were fruitless until the audience was worn out. Jmljje Tuffs speech was interrupted

by constant applause of almost every remark he made.

Judge Taft in bis speed in Cooper Union discussed the labor question, showed what tlse

Republican party has done for the laboring men, while the Democratic party when in power

did nothing declared that the injunction plank in the Democratic platform, if read literally,

was meanings; denied that his attitude toward labor had bee* hostile, reviewed his judl-

eHl decisions, asserting that his acts had been misconstrued; showed the utter unreasonablynoss of the plan for a jury trialbetween an order of the court and its enforcement, explained

the' difference between a direct and an indirect contempt of cenrt. showing how its operation

would defeat the ends of justice and fatally weaken the power of courts, and d-clnred xbaz

this -insidious attack on the courts being made by Mr. Samuel Gompen, and M. partner. Mr

William I«ntasa Bryan, is the most important issue in the campagn." adding that ths

election of Bryan would destroy the returning confidence in business and end all hope of a

11™'n'^nill'to New York City shortly before noon yesterday, and In the follow!**

two hours "Poke to twenty thousand persons at four meeting and was cheered by fully one

hundred thousand more as his automobile carried him from one meeting to another.

The executive committee of the Germ,n-Ameriran Hushe* Alliance presented an address tome execmnt

B«nr~i him of their esteem. loyalty and confidence, and. m reply-

J^JttTSZSTSZtt S Z SSj'S'raid I,- wanted ... bind up and conserve «.<\u25a0 prosper!* ..f the « »-h..^ trym? to Ml *c

var,™ \u0084vi,,. At Union S,fiire he told a big l^Mthat .t would b. ••\u25a0«"" <°

j-eors In the history of the stale when more Important legislation bad been enacted than ta.

last two. , \u25a0

MANY WOMEN EJECTED.

JAIL FOR 200 YEARS,

The extent to which these stresses are in ex-

cess of what is regarded as safe for such a

et-jcture is best indicated by the fact that tha

ctntilever bridge at Quebec failed with a stress

tf ... pounds a square inch upon its oompres-

Ei-n members, and that the elastic limit of the

Structural steel, of which most of the tension

members of the Qu^ensboro Bridge are made is

f.ven by engineering authorities at _-\u25a0«••

pounds a square inch.

"Will you gtov an indication of what the find-tr.gs are?" Mr Hodee was atked.

"No.Iwillgive out no information whatever."j-eplred I»Ir. Hodge. -'You can get anything you

vast to kr.ow on the subject from the Commis-sioner of Bridges. He ha the report, and it ist;s jrivilege to make its findings public

"

Although both Commissioner Stevenson and

Mr.Kodgc refused to disclose the findings of the

rer^T. The Tribune has been informed by en-gin^rs who have b^en able to keep track of

bridge department affairs that the investiga-

tion Into the safety cf the bridge as disclosed

serious defects and strains vastly greater than

three alir-.ved in the specifications.

The contract called for the erection of a super-

rtr-cture capable of carrying a maximum liveIcaa of K».CxV) pounds a. linear foot, with an

averare stress of 21,000 pounds a SQuar*-- in-

*jpon the compression members, and a strain nf

24.000 pounds a square inch upon the tensionrserr-ber?. Owing to the fact that the weight

of the bridge itself was increased from 84.000.-

000. as estimated in the original specifications,

to i<<3.«'»oo,<'»oo pounds to increase the traffic

capacity, the stresses were increased so that ifthe bridge was ever subjected to the maximumLye ioad~ of 16,000 pounds a linear foot, called

for in the contract, with the usual allowances

ior wind, the stress upon the compression mem-

Urs would be 26,000 pounds a square inch^andthe strain upon the tension members 35.000pounds a square inch.

• Hodge, "the report is In the• the commiss

Kerry \V. Hodge, of the firm of Boiler &Kocge. was seen by a Tribune reporter lastnJgfct and asked if the report of his firm on theQueeosboro Bridge had been presented to the

Corr.rr.ssioner o*Bridges.

Tiie oif.cial report of the engineering experts

ar>pointe«s fivemonths ago by the Board of Estl-ir.-te to investigate the safety of the Blackwell'sIsland, or Queensboro. Bridge over the EastRiver, between Manhattan and Queens, was

handed yesterday to Bridge Commissioner Stev-

enson. The appointment of Messrs. Boiler &Hodge to make the investigation was the resultof the publication in The Tribune of a series of

articles to the effect that there was grave ap-

prehension among bridge engineers that the

structure was being dangerously overloaded.The report indicates, it is understood, that not

only will the traffic earn capacity of the

bridge have to be largely reduced b?low that

FPfciS^d in the contract for erection but a con-

siderable reduction willalso have to be made la

the dead weight of the structure. This reduc-

tion in dead weight willbe obtained, it is said.>)>• doing away with the use of the upper deck,

or floor, BfMai which it was proposed in the con-

Tract Fpeciflcations to place four elevated rail-•way tracks. The reduction in live load, it isasserted, will be obtained by the elimination

of elevated railway service from the bridge alto-

pether or by the abandonment of other traffictervlees which would impose a liveload equal to

that imposed by the use of the four elevatedrailway tracks planned for the upper floor of

the bridge. Under the terms of the contract

the bridge was to have, upon the lower floor.four •\u25a0 ley tracks, two roadway for wheeledvehicles, and upon the upper four elevatedrailway tracks and two i>ass:enger walks.

To give the ridge the usual factor of safety

the four elevated railway tracks upon the upper

f.oor willhave to be done away with.

Commissioner Stevenson said that he expected

the -•;-'•\u25a0 Professor Burr, who has been act-

Ir.g es expert for the bridge department, in a

Sew days, and that until he received ithe couldsot discuss the subject.

Suggested to Reduce Overstrain—Report Made Yesterday.

I \aJ uf All Elevated Tracks

/. W. WORMSER INJURED.

Several brokers predicted yesterday that theodds on Taft would go to 8 to 1 bef >re ElectionDay. and that it would be difficult to pi

even at that price.

The amount of Tut* and Hughes moneyoffered in Wall Street yesterday was about$150,000, but owing to the unwillingness of the

rats to ba< k their ..pinions with cash, ex-cept at prohibitive odds, only a small amount

uf this was plac< i

Between members of the Cotton Exchange it

was reported yesterday that $1,000 had l-een

bet at even monej on Chan I etween two

other members there had been wagered •>.';.< wh>

to $1,000 upon Taft.

At the Stock Exchange a small I Ml>-> to>'.mi was placed on Hughes. On the curb mar-ket bets were reported to have been meven money on the result <>f the state election,

although some bettors tried to get 10 t!( :• on

Chanler during the forenoon.Two bets were made yesterday at even money

that Bryan would get mor< lectoral votes thisyear than he got in lvi«;.l v i«;. They wer \u25a0 both smallwagers.

£h*i%&r Supporters Want 10 to S

Against Hughes.Bryan and Chanler money is getting scarcer... day among the layers cf odda Tiie prices

quoted yesterday ranged from 4% to •".'.\u25a0 to 1

on raft and from 10 to 8 to even money onHughes It -i- reported that in one broker'soffice $4,000 ha . been offered at 3'2 to IonTaft, with no takers. On the curb 41? to 1 was

offered on Taft, and there $1)00 to $290 was beton Taft.

The sum of $400 at even money was wateredin the uptown office of a well known commis-

sion house on Chanler.

BRVAX MONEY SCARCE.

Hardly had the automobiles started again

when they missed the roadway and went sev-eral blocks before the mistake was discovered.Two of the cars were disabl -d during the trip.

The chauffeur of tl \u25a0\u25a0 <;<.\ rm r'a 1

peai d while the party was at Camp Hughes,delaying the trip several minutes. When he re-turned it was found that he had gone for water

for an overheated earburetoi

Leaving Huber's 'I:.- automobiles endeavoredto take a crosscut over a dump, and the Gov-ernor's machine stuck in the mud. GovernorHughes alighted, and willinghands hauled it outof the mud and started it on its way, the Gov-ernor walking a. block before re-entering theca~.

A.h the Governor's machine turned into West135th street from BroaMway, on Its way toHuber's Casino, a car filled w: ' reporters closebehind it skidded, and, turning a full circle,struck the mach'.ne in front. For a second theGovernor's car ran on two wheels, but finally

righted itself with a crash Everybody sprangout, not fully realizing what had hap]

The Governor's machine was uninjured, andded on Its way, but it was some minutes

other could go on.

Car Containing Reporters Rams theGovernor's Machine.

Governor Hughes's trip through the city hurtnight, accompanied by Colonel Tr*adwe!l, hismilitary Becretary; several members of the Re-publican County Committee r»nd a number ofnewspt er 1 en in automobiles, was enlivenedby a number of mishaps

HUGHES L\ AUTO CRASH

Woman and His Chauffeur Killed on

Motor Car Trip.Vienna. Oct. 2S.

—Captain Clarence Vyner, a

wealthy American resident of Vienna, started

two days ago on a motor trip. In the party was a

!Mme. Bettin. of Chili. At Trannsteln, a fwn

of upper Bavaria, about twenty mile? fromSalzburg, the motor car met aft accident while

cf-Fcr-nding a steep hill to-day Mme. Bettin

and the chauffeur were instantly killed and Cap-

tain Vyncr wa.s seriously injured.

CLARENCE VVXER HURT.

Montgomery Xoic Liable to ThisSentence Counts.

[By To!f;rraph to Thf Tribune.]

Pittsburgh Oct. 28.—

William Montgomery, of

the Allegheny National Bank, was convicted latethis) afternoon on nineteen of twenty-one counts

for embezzlement and misappropriating $144,000of the bank's property. Two of the counts were

withdrawn. Montgomery had already been con-

victed on a charge of.embezzling; $469,000 fromthe bank, and when he was led back to his

cell in the county jail to-night he collapsed

utterly. He fainted several times inhis ceil last

night. Montgomery can be sentenced to tea

years on each of the charges on which he was

convicted to-day, as well as to ten years on the

previous conviction, making his possible sen-

, tence two hundred years.Montgomery's attorneys, who fought hard

yesterday to keep the name of R. R. Quay out

of the case, but who were overruled, themselvesbrought the son of the former United States

Senator Into the case this afternoon. It was inthe last few minutes of the trial and left the

court room wondering. Addeson S. Altaffer,

discount clerk, on the witness stand was asked

ifhe had not acted as private bookkeeper for

K. R. Quay while performing his duties at thebank. He answered that he had and that Quay

had paid him regularly."We have only begun to fight." said F. Y.

Breck. of counsel for Montgomery, as he came

from the jail to-night.

It.Btryker had barely taken a seat beside hisdriver in a carriage at h!s home, on CollegeHill, to go to the villaee this afternoon, when.just as the vehicle was turning from th*> privatedriveway into th<> main mad. the spirited horsetook sodden fr'ght and dashed across the high-

way. Tae carriage was switched into a deepditch he=ide th« steep hill road and overturnedagainst a hedge. Several Hamilton Collegestudents wen- passing at the time, but the ac-cident occurred so suddenly that they had nochance to save their president !'mm injury.They rushed to pick him up. finding him un-consHnus. bleeding from the nose and mouth,

aid with a lune gash across his forehead. Thedriver also appeared to be painfully hurt. Bothwere removed to r>r. Ptryker 's house, and Dr.Hamilton, of Clinton, v^s summoned.It was found that none of President Stryker's

limbs was broken, but indications of more seri-ous injury were four.], concussion of the brainand poc y other serl >us internal injury being-

feared. Dr. Btryker remained unconscious untilearly evening, when h<- was able to answer afew questions. His physician to-night consid-ered bis condit \u25a0 ry dangerous.

Hamilton President Thrown in Run-away —

Condition Critical.Clinton, X. T. Oct. 2S.—Dr. Meiancthon Wool-

Bey Ptryker. president of Hamilton Colleee, isto-night in a critical condition at his home herefrom injurit-.- r» elved in a runaway accidentto-day.

DR. STRIKER HURT

Bottle Aimed at Taxicah ChauffeurHits Banker.

A bottle containing carbolic acid was hurled

through the window of a taxicab in which

Louis W. WGrmsex. the banker of No. 636 Fifth

avenue, was riding in Madison avenue lastr.ight. and he was bruised under the left eye by

a fragment of the shattered window. Accord-ing to the ctory told to the police by Charles

FrancL'-in. the New York Taxicab Company

chauffeur who v.-as in charge of the taxicab, two

ir.en ran Into Madison avenue from 4Sth street

and one of them burled the bottle at him as the

taxicab came abreast of them. They immedi-

lUely f."<i. The banker ordered the chauffeur to

clrive to a drug store at Fifth avenue and 4Gthttreet, where his bruises were dressed.

TOSSED BABY FROM FIRE.

The flr<r Is supposed to have been of Incen-diary origin. The damage Mat estimated at13,500.

Police and Firemen Rescue Six Per-

sons from Brooklyn House.

Daring rescues of three women and three

children were made by the police and firemenat a flre in a tenement house at No. 2^03 Fulton

Ktre<t. Brooklyn, last night. Patrolman CharlesZ<-rw*-<:k. of the Liberty avenue station, and amember of the police baseball team, tossedAdolnh Kettr-le and an elght-months-old baby

fron: the flre escajje on the second story to a

brother officer en the sidewalk, and got thechild's mother and two other small children to

th* roof of an adjoining house in safety.

James Jom^s, a fireman attached to Engine

Company No. 125, carried Mrs. Anna Mueller.an aged \u25a0woman, and her daughter Amelia downthe fire escapes to safety after they had beenalmost suffocated by the fiinoke In their apart-tn«Tit, More than a score of the tenants in thehouse were cut off from escape by the stair-ways, and were assisted down the flr<- escapesby the firemen.

PRINCETON-WEST POINT FOOTBALL GAMEti V.'esi Po!nt Oct. 21st. Wert Shore R. n. specialleaves rVsbroFses Pt. 12:00 nd West iJud St. 12:15*» M Ji.25 round trip.—Art t.

POLITICAL NEWS OF THE DAY.

The climax of the Republican campaign

in this city is reached in Madison Square

Garden, When William H. Taft and Gov-

ernor Ilvghcs address a huge and enthu-

siastic gathering.

J/r. Taft. in his Cooper Union speech,

shoirs the threat against the country's ju-

dicial system thai underlies Bryan's in-junction plan.

Jaw* 8. Sherman spwks at a Ing rally

at Saratoga. Fourteen special trains bring

marching clubs from the. surrounding

country.

fieeretary Root addresses a large audi-

ence at Cincinnati on national issues.

Secretary of War Luke E. Wright ad-drefisrx a large meeting under the auspices

of Toft Democrats at Richmond. Va., andurges the abolishment of sectional preju-

dice.

A letter to thn President from 8. B.Donnelly, secretary of the General Arbi-

tration Board of the \ru York Building

Trade/*, demonstrating that Mr. Taft'srecord proves him the friend of labor, is

made public at Washington.

William J. Bryan makes a tour up the

Hudson Valley, closing trith meeting* at

Albany and Troy.. David B. Mil pre-

side* at the Albany meeting.

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT PRAISESTAFT AND HUGHES; COMMENDS

THE GERMAN AMERICANS.

President Roosevelt has sent to C B.Wolffram, editor of The New Yorker Herold."a letter praising Govern" Hughis and pre-dicting the success of Tafl and the Gov-

ernor's re-election. The letter follows:October 27, li'o3.

My Dear Mr. Wolffram Ithank you foryour remembrance of my birthday

Will you let me take this opportunity tothank you In return for the admirable workyou are doing for clean and honest govern-ment by your support of Taft and Hughes?

1 have profound faith in the good .sense andconscientious devotion to duty and to I IghIdeals of my fellow Americans of Germanbirth or German parentage. lam certainthat they illgo ri-iht ifonly the facts can1,,. , ,-!\u25a0.\u25a0 presented to them: am thankslargely to your efforts the facts are thus be-ing clearly* presented.. Mr. Taft stands In the nation and Mr.]!,,...• stands in the state for that high or-der of governmental efficiency aid that high

standard of governmental honesty the unionof which is absolutely essential in order tosecure srood government.

Each adheres, and has always adhered, Inpublic and private life, to tho most Inflexiblestandard of honesty and fair dealing as be-tween man and man Ea< h represent* whatJs best in American citizenship Not oneword of any kind can be truthfully saidagainst the private or pub!: character ofeither.

Each has the broad, st sympathies for hisfellow citizens

—for Ineed hardly say that the

accusation that Governor Hughes is a narrowand Illiberal man is preposterously false. Ibelieve that the victory of the one li the na-tion and the other In the state Is assured byoverwhelming majorities, and Ithank you forthe way in which by your efforts you havecontributed to bring about this result.

With all regard, believe me,• Sincerely yours,

THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

Audience Roars for Taft UntilCom-

pletely Exhausted.Twelve thousand persons, packed into every

inch of space in the vast auditorium of Madison

Square Garden, shook its walls to their very

foundations in greeting Judge Taft and Gov-

ernor Hughes at the largest meeting of the

campaign, under the auspices of the Republican

County Committee, last night. The great, spon- '.

taneous. wildly enthusiastic, tremendously •".-

spiring, soul stirring tributes touched the candi-

dates to the very depths. In sustained inre»

and depth of genuine feeling the meetins as far

surpassed the Bryan-Chanler meeting in the

Garden on Monday M the thunders of the irre-

sistible ocean might ill above the noise made

by a mill stream tumbling over a dam.

It seemed an augury of the mighty voice cf

the people at the polls on Tuesday, as the audi-

ence rose to its feet in a whirlwind of enthusi-

astic and devoted allegiance to the two candi-

dates.It was the acme of \u25a0 night of triumphal cam-

paigning in a downpour of rain. Thousands of

those in the Garden had stood for an hour la

the rain that they might be sure of their op-

portunity to pay their tribute to Taft and

Hughes.

Never was then? a Madison Square Garden

meeting held under more discouraging weather

conditions. Never was there one -which sur-

passed it in size and enthusiasm.While the monster meeting was going on In

the great hall, the parade was wending its

way through a downpour of rain through the

heart of the city. Though the streets wewHooded, the miserable weather was utterly ig-

nored both by those in the parade and by the

j thousands who stood on the curb along the Una

of march.GREAT GREETING TO GOVERNOR.

hen Governor Hughes walked through tha

hall, and later when Judge Taft came, the scenes

were such, both men saM, as could never be

effaced from their memory, and will never beforgotten by those in the Garden. Starting at

either end of the hall, the cheers increased lavolume and numbers until they met in the cen-

tre of the auditorium and went up in one vast

roar. ck and forth the cheers reverberated in

a veritable storm Men and women imped on

chairs, n railings and on every point of vant-

age, and cheered and shouted until M seemed asif they could shout no more But each time It

died away the demonstration -would rise again,

gradually working up a frenzy of enthusiasm,But it was not alone a tribute to the men.

When they expounded the doctrines for whichthey stood the audience stamped its earnest

and demonstrative approval on every point. Itwas only by pleading for the opportunity to

continue- their speeches that they were able to

check some of the outbursts that started while

they t c rpeaklng.

i TAFT CHEERED NINETEEN MINUTES.

It was 11:06 o'clock when Judge Taffs ap—

proach to the Garden was heralded by shoutingIin the itreet that brought the audience "Us

feet.After the demonstration on Judge Taft's I-

rival had bet-n going on for some minutes, while

he walked to the platform, it broke all bound 3as he appeared at the front of the platform.

Umbrellas were thrown into th? air and a nun-ber of toy balloons were sent floating back andforth through the air. Some one gave a Yalecheer, then the band started up a series of Yalosongs. "Boola, Boola/" "Bright College Years"and others, while the crowd stopped Mi cheersfor a moment ami j'ined In singins. Then thomighty slogan Taft: Taft: Taft:" was takenup all over the auditorium. It was with thegreatest difficulty that General Horace E. Por-ter, the chairman, was able to quiet the people.

It was nineteen minutes before Dm demon-stration subsided enough for the candidate tobegin his speech. He talked for only eight

minute^, as his voice had had a great strainthroughout the day. He declared that the greatIssue Of the campaign was as to whether tha

HEND'K HUDSON FOOTBALL SPECIAL.:V.Vst I':-1rlnceton Oct. 31. See Day lisa Advt.—.tint

BIG CROWD AT GARDEN'

Continued an third page.

Regarding the tariff. Judge Taft declared that

the Republican party was for just, honest andthorough revision. He resented the attacksagainst his sincerity, and bo earnest was his jdeclaration that the audience showed its beliefin him by rising'as one man and cheering

Judge Tafl said:

Fellow Citizens: Iam glad to have an oppor-tunity to come face to face with representatives ;of labor unions, and to discuss with them theissues which have been raised in this cam-paign in respe t to the attitude that organizedlabor should occupy toward the two leading po-liticai parties.

In the first place Mr. Samuel Gompprs. at thehead of the Amt-rican Federation of Labor,

has attempted to deliver the entire organizedunion labor vote, and possibly the unorganizedlabor vote, to Mr. Bryan as the leader of theDemocracy, and if this grant and delivery werecomplete perhaps it would be useless for me toaddress you on the subject,

Bui Iventure to assume that the laboring menof this country, and especially tfcose who areorganized, arc too intelligent ami farsighted

and too Independent and courageous in thoughtto allow themselves to be delivered as politicalfactors by any leader from one party to another.Iassume that laborers, like other men. differ inthf>lr political principles, that there are Re-publican labor men and Democratic tabor m^n,

and thai it la noi too late, even after Mr. G<">m-prrs'K action, to argue out the \u25a0;'!<•>•• i• • whichparty should be supported upon grounds appeal-ing to reason.

The record of the Republican party in Con-gress In its limited Jurisdiction has been mostremarkable in the number of valuable statuteswhich have been enacted In the interest oflabor the eight hour law. the sixteen hour law,

the model child labor law, the Interstate rail-way arbitration act. the interstate railway em-ployers' liabilityact. the government employes"compensation act. the safety appliance acts,

some two or three In number; the appropria-tion for Investigating the cau«e of mining disas-ters—are nil especially directed to the interestof laborers employed either by the government,by th.- Interstate railways, or at work within theDistrict of Columbia, in the exclusive jurisdic-tion of Congress

This is a record of which any party may wellbe proud, and it is \u25a0 record In which theDemocratic party has no part. Wot \u25a0 single

line of labor legislation was put upon thefederal statute book during the Incumbency of

That brought out a ringir.g burst ol applause.

which was duplicated when he add-=d:

"Eut thpy may not Injure the property or un-lawfully injure the business of their >-mi]->y--T>.and th.'y may net institute a secondary boycottin such a dispute." •

Tells Audience of Peril to Courts inBnjan-Gompers Plan.

William Howard Tafl convinced an aodUeneaof more than three thousand persons in Ooope?

Union last night of his frankness in the dte-

cus^ion of his position on labor questions, and

there was unanimous approval when he finished.He laid bare before a critical audi*>n~e just

wha! be had done as Judge, as Governor of thePhilippines and in the Panama Canal zono Al-

h the meeting was l.ed under the au-

of the Republican Trade Union 1.-

the audience was largely composed of persona

of ail parties. When Judge Taft arrived he was

: with a whole-hearted h be-

came a prolonged roar, quieted only aftus use of a gavel as big as a sledge

hammerJudge Taft's voice was rather husky when i.c

began his s; \u25a0

" as he proceeded he spoke

with less and less difficulty. Stit.iok his hr;ir^rs through the party's record.drawing a sharp contrast with the record ol the

•,an. He said he did not lik^ the classappeal of the Democratic party Neither didthe audience, judgingby its applause. H

:his record as Judge in I --. andthere was the silence of profound attention.He had his hearers with him when he summed

rnest. with stately precision, giving the> .-\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0.'.: of his decisions, which established:

Thru any employe may leave his employment\u25a0

\u25a0-.. whether he brinks a contractNo Injunction will lie to prevent That

;. associate with his fellow emplojbring about what is called a strike, and no In-junction will issue to prevent. That he<•rjf.-i.rr/-'- his fellow employes into associations,who shall appoint officers, and they may r-=-f>rthese Industrial disputes to th»ir officer*, to

abide by tii^ir derision, and may giv^ to theofficers the power of exclusion from the associa-tion f r disobedience Thit they may by amer.t collect a fund to support strikers, ifstrikesare tho eht to ic necessary. That they may

Iraw from association with th«-ir em;

and withdraw those who sympathize wit Ifrom sui'h association.

TAFT AT COOPER UiNlOfl

DEWEY'S PURE GRAPE JUICEit I'm: Ifiea the Blood and Ing

it '1 De* \u25a0:• Bona Co., 13S Fulton B1. New York.-A.l',t-

NEW SERVICE TO TORONTO.Buffet broiler sleeping oar lea' • except Satur-

day via New York Central lines \u25a0 20 I.M., arrivedToronto \u25a0\u25a0 3G A. M. Buffet sleeping ear dally leaves6:00 P. M., arrives Toronto 10:65 A. M.

—Advt.

Among the local unions which have turnedthem down are the locals ol th< Internationa]

Brotherhood of Bookbinders, the Pavers' Union,

Clgarmakers' Union No 144. >t which Gcunpera

la Ftill a ni'mhi-r and several other onions ofcigarmakers; a number of waiters' unions, localsKos 809 iii"l375 of the Brotherh lof Carpi i

i.-rs, which voted against their adoption; sev< rallocals < f the International Association < f .1 .cbinista, mo»t of the locals of th" Brotherhoodof Tailors, and the locala of th • Internationa]Brewery Workers, which as a body repudiated

the circulars and appeal.

ers Table or Ignore His Appeal.

Unions In this city representing more tha i

one hundred thousand workers, it was Bald ye -t.-rdnv. had either tabled or decided not to adnn the circulars sent oul by President Gompen

of the American Federation of Labor, urging

the unions to support the candidates and plat-

form of the !»• :: '\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0 raile party and appeal ng for

funds

Union* Representing 4OOJOQO Work-

BLOW TO GOMPERS.

It v;.s found that the• hams had been care-

fully padded to prevent n<>isf when the suffra-. •\u25a0 entered the ladies' gallery. According tothHr companions, the whole thing had beenplanned beforehand with gr^at secrecy. Onehand was to demonstrate outside the building,

another in the lobby of the House, and a third

in the gallery. The gallery contingent num-

bered fourteen, but it vas attended by many

passive sympathize rs.

Tii.- removal of two militant puffrasrettes y,r-'-

sented a comical scene to those in the corridor.

Both the offenders were laughing heartily asthey were escorted by a posse of policemen, one

of the officers tarrying that part of the ir n

work of the grille to which the womenchained. They were conducted into a committeeroom, and workmen wer« ti;-iw>n».] to rile off

the iron from the chains, which were padlocked

around the women's waists.

Attendants rushed on him. but be :• slst< dfiercely the attempts made to carry him bodlfrom the gallery. After a desperate struggle

the attendants succeeded in ej< ting the man.About the same time a large body of suffra-gettes made a demonstration outside the Parlia-ment building, and fifteen of them weirested.

Ten minutes later there was another dramatic

so«»nr\ a man in the strangers' gall< ry flingiig

another bundle of bills down on the Houm aidshouting "Why don't you giv<> women vot--s

and relieve the unemployed?"

The scene was wat hed with amazement fromthe floor of the House, but fiT

gettes were dragged from their posts and re-moved, but only after parts of the grille wereremoved with them.

London, Oct.—

Suffragette disturbanceshave driven the government to the unusualcourse of temporarily closing the strangers' andladies' galleries in the House of Commons. Thiswas announced by the Speaker in response to aquestion from Premier Asquith and Mr. Dal-four, the leader of the Opposition, as Parlia-ment was about to adjourn.

While the House was discussing the licensingbill this evening; it was interrupted by th« rj'V-i

play of a placard and sudden shrill cries from'the ladies' gallery, demanding votes for women,

while simultaneously a bundle of handbills flut-tered down from the strangers' gallery at theopposite end of the Chamber, and a man sh<->utf dprotests against "injustice to women."

Attendants hurried to the galleries, and themale offender was unceremoniously ejected, butfrom the ladies' gallery sounds of a desperatestruggle were heard. Two suffragettes hadfirmly chained themselves to the grille,and re-sisted for a time all efforts at removal, cryingcontinuously in shrill tones their demands forvotes.

Suffragettes Chain Themselves to

Grille—Visitors Barred.

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