The Topeka state journal., 1908-09-02
Canned Oratory Received by
Chairman DOlley Today.
May Be Used in Lieu of Real
Thing Here.
THREE MINUTE TALKS
They Cover a Wide Range of
Subjects.
PhonOgraph Will Take Place
Of Campaign Speakers.

William H. Taft, Republican nomi-
nee for the presidency, delivered a
series of short addresses at the Cope
land hotel this morning, in the pres
ence of Chairman ]. N. Dolley of the
Republican state committee, and a
number of others.
Chairman Dolley was trying to de-
eide whether he wants to use Mr.. Taft
in the Kansas campaign.
OF course it is understood that this
refers to canned Taft" Mr.. Taft's
voice was the only thing that was
present. and it came out of the throat
of a megaphonic phonograph.
1t is likely that Chairman Dolley will
decide to use a little canned Taft in
introducing the Republican nominee to
the people of Kansas. A man with
photograph, a series of the Taft
speeches, and a few good band pieces
can fill up an evening very entertain
ingly, and the Republican managers
figure, profitably. The Taft speeches
are each about two or three minutes
in length, and are on the following
subjects:
"The Republican Party Stands by
Mr.. Roosevelt -
Functions of the Next Administra-
tion.'
GllSuIS anu IIOSISSS VI lllC 4NC6IO.
THE Farmer. and the Republican
Party"
Postal Savings Banks VS.. Enforced
Insurance of Deposits
Labor and It's Rights
"The Effect of the Proposed Jury
Trial in Contempt Cases
Democratic Policy Prevents Restor-
alton of Prosperity"
"Our Foreign Dependencies
What Constitutes an Unlawful
Trust"
Irish Humor."
The Taft records are very clear, and
come in two sizes. man can get a
records were made at Hot Springs, Va,
August 5 and consist largely of por-
tions of Taft's speech of acceptance.
Mr.. Lewis Arrives.
The speakers supplied to Kansas by
the national bureau of the Democratic
party at Chicago are to be under the
control of the state Democratic cen
of dates and the places where their
services will be employed
This practically gives carte blanche
to the state committee as regards ham
ding the foreign and imported talent.
the national bureau simply designat
ing the speakers who will be appor-
toned to each state but even in this
regard Kansas will be consulted and
Chairman Henderson Martin will
leave in a few days for Chicago to
take this matter up in conference with
the members of the national speakers
bureau.
All of which means that the state
committee will play a mighty impor-
tant part and that the manager of the
speakers bureau in Kansas, James
Lewis of Kingsley, who came to To-
peka this morning to take active
charge of the bureau will have to
work with his coat off and sleeves roll
ed up. But if the work is made some
what heavier in this respect it is les
sened in marked degree in others
there are not nearly so many speakers
whooping things up to send over the
state to this and that point Free
transportation is not stacked up in
bundles at the political headquarters
in this campaign as it was in 1900 or
even in 1904. 1t takes the cash to car
ry the politician nowadays in Kansas
All who could "orate'' and who were
known to be of the faith were accept
ed with scarcely a bubble when they
made application to stump the state
for transportation was easy to obtain
and the cost of the hotel bills was not
a particularly large item. If a demand
came in from one part of the state for
a political speech nothing was thought
of jumping the first available man
away across the state if need be, 400
miles to the town asking for someone.
The cost comes in for some atten-
ton this fall and these big jumps are
carefully avoided and the number of
sneakers whose services are actually
accepted are also cut down to the MIN
innum. I'VE don't expect to have as
many as we did in 1900 when / ran
the bureau" said Mr.. Lewis. The
political parties We're prodigal with
their men and we were deluged with
speakers.
1T is a great deal like being train
dispatcher," he continued. You have
vour mass of time tables, you must
know when this train leaves this town
and gets into the other. You must
keen constantly in touch with the 10
cation of your force of speakers and
move them from this point to that as
the demand indicates and you must
studv out the best train schedule
T-bic, viii land them there in the
shortest space of time and in the best
Mr. Lewis had railroad map of the
| state and was sticking pins at differ
ant towns, showing the location of the
candidate who was campalgnlng there
| at Democratic meeting When the
| camnaigner moves the pin is stuck
into a different place.
Picnics are better than county fairs
| +o mix political medicine in the estima-
tion of Mr. Lewis. 4 would rather
| send man to a cross roads picnic
than to a fair almost any time" said
he ..There is more time for a speaker
TO be heard at a picnic, the people are
lot running off to watch the bal
games. horse racing and fat pigs. Fairs
are a poor place for politics.
| Jerry D. Botl1in, candidate for gov
/ ernor. and Hugh Farrelly, candidate
for United States senator, are in strong
i demand over the state and are the ones
most frequently named in the appeals
| made for speeches.
The First congressional district com
mittee met at the Byram hotel in Kan.