Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-02
SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA TURNS OUT
Crowds Are Enormous and
asm Runs High.

asm Runs High.
The second day of Mr.. Taft's trip
through Nebraska was more successful
than the first, If that could be possible.
He talked to more people; he made longer
speeches and he left the republicans
stirred up to a high pitch in all the terri
tory through which he passed.
In several OF the towns the local Taft
clubs and republican organizations con-
tinued the meeting after the departure Of
the Taft train and drew on the presi-
Dental party for speakers. This was the
case at Wymore, where Labor Commits
sloner Ryder spoke: at Nebraska City,
where Deputy Attorney General Grant
Martin was the orator, and at Beatrice
and other places. In the three towns
named the local committees had erected
grandstands from which Mr.. Taft spoke.
At Beatrice the crowd was variously es-
timated. at 5000 to 1000 people. At wy
more the town was full of people. The
speakers stand there was constructed
fully a block from the station, and local
members of the committee roped off a
road through which the Taft party trav-
eled to the stand. It was at Table Rock
that Judge Taft talked principally to the
railroad employees. The following ex-
tract from his speech there Is an indica-
ton Of the way the presidential candi-
date discussed some questions:
Ladies and Gentlemen: l understand that
this Is a railroad center, and that 1 am
having the privilege Of talking to a good
many men who work on the railroads.. Is
That so? CSome one in the crowd said, yes.)
because when l am maligned. when / am
attacked unJustly, / like to have an OPP
portunity to talk to the jury a little while
and tell them a few things that perhaps
they have not learned. In the first place,
OF course, II cannot prevent Samuel Com
pers from taking all the labor men and put
ting them In his pocket and delivering them
over to the democratic party, but l can
ask for a few crumbs that he may have
A mar who says that l am opposed to labor
says what is not a fact. There is no man
In public life who has more sympathy with
legislation in the interest OF labor than 1
have, and 1 know 1t because l have as
ISOLATED for the last four years with the
greatest friend that labor overhead in this
country, and he Is not a man who has been
engaged in going, around the country
preaching about t.; he is a man who has
done the business, who has delivered the
goods, and that is Theodore Roosevelt.
Now some ordinary, cheap, common liar has
devoted himself to the business of running
around the country and saying that / am
In favor OF, paying a laboring man a dollar
enough. I waSh t, the head Of the Panama
shovel men down there $3.50 a month. AS
figure that out, that makes a little more
than one dollar a day.. Anybody that says
| ever made that remark is a liar and the
man who believes him is a fool, for why
under heaven should I say that l can
not understand. or in what connection or
under what circumstances. Now the pres
ent administration has done more for labor
which comes within the federal Jurisdiction
than any administration that ever existed.
Not only that, but these gentlemen from
the democratic party who are such friends
Of labor before the election and on the
PLATFORM, have never put on the statute
books In the eight years that they were in
power a single act in favorsof the laboring
men Of this country. whereas the republican
party has put IN the statute books some
OF the most important legislation that labor
has ever had enacted in Its behalf. First,
the employers liability act, by which rail-
road labor Is now entitled to recovery
against the railroads for damages even
though the injury resulted from the negli-
gence OF a fellow-servant; even though the
man himslef who is injured was guilty OF
contributory negligence. Second, they have
passed ar act limiting the labor on railroads
to ten hours, lest the employee might in
lure himself or injure the passengers under
his control, because his eye and his ear and
his hand under such long service might
become numb. Third, they nave passed a
model child labor law for the District OF
Columbia. Fourth, they have passed the