The Billings Gazette

TAFT GREETED BY BIG CROWDS PASSAGE WAY TO DEPOT BLOCKED IN CHICAGO. HAILED BY PEOPLE

Throughout Indiana He Was Given a Series of Receptions Vast Assemblage at the Ade Farm to Meet the Man of the People Yesterday.

CHICAGO, Sept. 23 - A crowd which blocked the passageway of the Lake Shore station, who waved blue flags with the candidate's picture on them and which fairly drowned the music of a band with its cheers, greeted Judge Taft upon his arrival at Chicago this afternoon. The Republican standard bearer's smile, which had beamed through the state of Indiana during the early part of the day, showed no hint of fatigue as he was escorted through the crowd to a waiting automobile. Police, both mounted and on foot, were hard set to keep the crowd back. All along the street on the way to the Auditorium Annex hotel, the ovation continued.

At the hotel Judge Taft was closeted with Chairman Hitchcock of the national committee and other campaign chieftains for some time.

Indiana's title for the candidate. And why? Just because It had not rained in the Hoosier state for two months until Mr. Taft began to speak on George Ade's farm this afternoon and then it rained a little.

It did not rain a mile away from Hazelden farm, which was densely populated for the occasion: by Mr. Ade's neighbors, friends and fellow Republicans, who came in hundreds of automobiles, in scores of hay racks, and in seven excursion trains from Chicago, Danville and many Indiana towns, and therefore the credit of the candidate was declared to be decidedly the greater. Before the big cloud of dust raised by the 82 mile clip of the Taft special through Indiana had reached the peaceful rural scene of the political picnic, the big crowd had placed itself in decided good humor by partaking of generous lunch eons from the "full dinner pail" which Mr. Ade made available at 2c per pail.

Beside there were a number of brass bands and James Watson, candidate for governor, was there with his "old Shady" quartette, which divided the honors with the Purdue Glee club.

There was no vaudeville nor barbecue, but there was plenty of enthusiasm for Taft. When he had concluded the ready humor of Rev. Dr. John Wesley Hill, of the Taft party, added to the gaiety and Dr. Watson was left behind to talk state issues while the candidate and his party were whizzed back over the six miles of dusty road in automobiles to the "Taft flyer!"

A private car load of prominent Chicago politicians was added to the train at Ade, which included Judge O. N. Carter of the state supreme court.

An urgent telegram from Indiana Harbor requested a 10 minute stop. The request was complied with.

"Go after Bryan and give him hail Columbia." was the admonition of the audience and taking the cue, Mr. Taft "went after Bryan."

The labor record of his opponent, he said, began when Bryan helped enact the Wilson-Gorman tariff bill which brought greater disaster to the laboring man of the country than had been experienced in half a century

"Has he fired Haskell yet?" came another query from the crowd: The general laughter which followed was the only answer.

Mr. Taft expressed his satisfaction at being able to speak to laboring men and "show you that I am not, as I

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