The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-10-02
Republican Nominee Announces
Fact Ii Omaha
THIRTEEN SPEECHES MADE
nging Around Nebraska Taft Gath
ers Confidence AID Says He VIII
Carry All Disaffected States
of the West.

Omaha Neb., OctoAer IL am gong TO
be elected 81
This statement rnade tonight by ". II
Taft sums up n a Aard what the eandi-
date thinks of the effect of his speech
making tour thus far. The belief is
based, Mr.. Taft exE,Ained, on the manner
of his reception Is states thus far
traversed in which Acre was reported to
be defections among he republican ranks.
AS to the national ticket Mr.. Taft now
believes that there Is no reason to doubt
but that the republican party will hold its
own and should this prove the case Mr..
Taft says there is 30 doubt that he will
get the electoral vote of Wisconsin Min
nesota, the Dakotas Iowa and Nebraska
the states in which the disaffeetion
was supposed to exist.
'I have been in real touch with the
people," continued Mr.. Taft, "they have
come to see me and hear me in num-
bers far beyond my anticipation, and
what seems of even more Importance,
they have responded to what I have
had to say in way that 1 could feel
their sympathy.
"The desire of my audiences today to
get in personal contract with me has
been marked and shows more than a
passing interest"
Two Big Meetings.
Thirteen speeches were delivered by the
candidate today in a swing around the
southeastern part of Nebraska and ter
minating at Omaha tonight, where two
big meetings, one for the benefit of the
stock yards employees in South Omaha,
the other in the Auditorium, were held.
Through the day Mr.. Taft confined his
speeches to picturing conditions under the
last democratic administration and con-
trasting them psh republican rule. As
he had done during his two days IN Ne
braska he did not fail to pay his respects
to Bryan whenever he spoke. On sew
eral occasions he delivered his labor
speeches and declared to be lie the
statement that he had ever declared that
81 a day was enough for any laboring
man.
Omahas reception of the candidate was
in keeping with that accorded him at
Lincoln last night. The -Sar-Ben car
added Illumination of the city lent to
the holiday appearances. No parade was
arranged. The arrival of the Taft special
at $50 o'clock was signalized by the toot-
ing of whistles and firing of bombs. Judge
Taft was taken for a short automo-
bile ride and then returned to his car for
dinner. The South Omaha meeting was
reached by automobiles and the return
was made history after o'clock to the
At,1f tor T., a
been holding forth to an immense audi
ence for an hour.
In his South Omaha speech Mr.. Taft,
after reviewing the labor decisions he
had rendered. made this interesting con-
clusion:
Decisions on Labor.
THAT is not all / laid down the rule
that labor not only has the right to unite,
but that it ought to unite in order to
meet capital on a level; that they had
right to appoint officers; that they had
a right to raise funds with which to sus-
tain strikes; that strikes could not be en-
Joined; that men had the right to leave
the employ of their employers in concert
if they choose; that they had the right
to appoint officers who should direct them
what they should do, and that they had
the right to withdraw from association
with those whom they had controversies !;
that they had the right to induce all their
competitors, all their fellow union men to
withdraw from such association; but they
did not have the right to injure the prop
erty of their employers or declare Sec
ondary boycott against them.
'Those decisions, / claim, have been
the Magma Charta of trades unionism ever
since. The railway orders used that de-
cision in a case before Judge Adams
against the Gould roads, in which an in
junction was issued forbdding them to
follow the directions of their chiefs. They
went into the court and cited my case
and Judge Adams withdrew his injunc-
ton. The same thing happened down in
Cincinnati under Judge Thompson In
similar case with respect to the Typo
graphical union.
'I have not decided all my cases in
labor business. ] have had also to run
up against corporations. AS one of the
court ] wrote the opinion in the first i'm
portant antitrust case that was decided,
and it laid down the principles on which
all the antitrust prosecutions are now
conducted
No Apologies Made.
Il am not apologizing for anything 1
did; / am only telling you the truth when
| say that the legality and the opportun-
ity of men to unite to carry on their or
ganizations to the perfection that they
have reached, to raise the funds that they
have raised, to bring about trade agree
ments to entitle them to the responsible
position that they occupy now in dealing
with their employers, is as largely due to
the law which laid down as to any other
cause.
II agree that injunctions have been is
sued which have been much too broad, and
the reason why they have been too broad
is because they have been issued without
notice and the judge has not sufficiently
considered it; therefore, I have been in
favor of requiring that no injunction
should issue without notice. but the re-
publican convention doe not desire to go
so far, but said if you p4 into mandatory
statute the best present statutes and so de-
fine the few cases where temporary in
functions may issue without notice and
require that where a temporary injunc-
tion is issued without notice it shall not
have effect for more than 4S hours, so
that man may have a hearing within Is
hours, then that abuse of which they COM
plain, and of which they rightly conf
plain, will be done away with. 1t is an
outrage and ought not TO be permitted.
and | am not defending it, but what l say
is there are judges and judges, and to
visit me with responsibility for every