The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-08-14
hayward IS
IN NORFOLK
STATE CHAIRMAN is MADE MA
TloNAL SECRETARY.
DISTRICT CONFERENCE HERE
HAYWARD WILL LEAVE STATE
FOR NATIONAL FIELD.
DISTRICT CONFERENCE HER
STATE is SURELY REPUBLICAN

Sunday Judge William Hayward, Gem.
ing to Norfolk for Political Confer
ence, Learned Of His Appointment
as National Secretary.
Judge William Hayward, for The
past year chairman of the Nebraska
state Republican central committee,
learned just before reaching Norfolk
Sunday night of his appointment as
secretary of the national committee,
to be placed in charge of western
headquarters in Chicago during the
present presidential campaign.
Judge Hayward when he reached |
Norfolk had not been informed of his |
appointment beyond the press dis
patches on the subject and was not |
prepared to discuss his future course
until he could reach Lincoln and re-
ceive official word from Chairman
Hitchcock. Judge Hayward admitted
in Norfolk that the appointment was
too big thing to be passed up. He
will accept.
Mr.. Hayward has not yet determined
whether or not he will resign his of
| flee as chairman of the Nebraska COM
mittee. No definite line of action in
this regard will be taken by him until
he has returned to state headquarters
in Lincoln, there to confer with party
leaders. 1t was pointed out that the
Nebraska state Republican candidates
will themselves choose a new chair
man Immediately after primary election
day, September /
The Norfolk Conference.
Chairman Hayward was brought to
Norfolk Monday for conference with
the chairman of the Republican com
mittees of this section of the state
The conference here is the seventh of
its kind to be held by Colonel Hay
yard. The eighth and last conference
will be held at Valentine Tuesday.
The final conference will probably be
In charge of f. p. Carrick of Lincoln,
the state secretary, as Chairman Hay
, ward expects to leave Norfolk Tues
day morning for Lincoln.
, Republicans Sure of the State.
eve are sure of the state for Taft"
said Chairman Hayward in Norfolk.
Without being over confident or
Dragging can say that the state is in
3 unusually good condition to go solidly
l Republican, giving Taft the electoral
3 vote and Governor Sheldon the biggest
majority any governor ever received
1--WE have eighty Republican coun
ties State pride has been worked
t threadbare. Step outside of Lancaster
d county and you do not hear it. The
e ditions and the voters are going tC
e vote for themselves and their families
rather than for Mr.. Bryan"
Afternoon Conference.
Chairman Hayward arriving in Nor
( folk with his secretary, ]. l.. Brown
II established headquarters at once a
r the OXnard hotel. AS most of thu
y chairman came in on the noon trail
s the Norfolk conference went over I'm
l. til Monday afternoon The first chair
e man to arrive was Louis Smithberge
e of Stanton county. Madison, Pierce
n Knox, Boone, Antelope, Holt, Boyd
y Wayne, Cedar, Stanton and Platt
l. scented here.
The Nebraska System"
, 1t is just such work as Chairman
Hayward is doing in Norfolk which ha
) won him the national secretaryshiT
III Mr. Hayward was recently called Il
lie conference to explain the Nebrask
Il card system by which working diret
a tory is kept of every voter in tn
lie state. This was started back in 1885,
Up pushed forward by Chairman Lindsay
ot dropped during off years and deve
Sc oped in presidential years. Last yea
TT Chairman Hayward perfected the sy:
to TEN in preparation for this years figh
n Last years campaign" said MI
lie Hayward, was almost entirely d
III rected to paving the way for the pres
e. dental fight"
at Hayward Young Man.
is Judge Hayward is one of the youn
Id men who have come to the front i
IL this years campaign. He is a son c
Is the late Senator M. l.. Hayward c
a Nebraska City. His first Nebrask
at distinction was his record gained a
n football player at the state univel
IN sity. He completed his law course i
e. 1898 and that year went south wit
re the Second Nebraska as captain of tn
or Nebraska City company. He becam
is colonel of the regiment. Returnin
he was elected county judge of Otto
county and was one OF the younges
men who ever held that position l
re the country. Judge Hayward was tn
ic leading candidate in the congressiona
er convention which finally nominate
10 Congressman Pollard. For the pas