Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-11
TAFT PRAISES NEBRASKANS
Appreciates Their Services to Ma
tional Committee and Party.
CHAIRMAN HITCHCOCK IS WINNER
Kennedy Travels $4,000
Miles and Distributes Millions
of Tracts of Litera-
ture.

Having travelled over 1900 miles in TWEEN
ty-four states and distributed 6,5C0,0O0 pieces
Of campaign literature since September Is,
in the interest of Judge Taft's election,
Crawford Kennedy has returned to Ne
braska and is t~arrying in Omaha for a
few days before soing TO his homo at
Albion, where he will soon plant his corn. ="
Mr.. Kennedy was sent out On the Taft
train by the national republican committee.
He had charge of the distribution of cam
paign literature and souvenirs and in this
capacity saved the committee vast sums Of
money which would have been spent in
mailing and expressing had not this plan
of distribution been adopted by Chairman
Hitchcock.
Hero are the states through which Mr..
Kennedy Travelled with Judge Taft, start
Ing at Cincinnati, September IS, and going
first to George AIDES farm at Brook, Ind.
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa,
Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota,
Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas
Missouri. West Virginia, Tennessee, North
Carolina, Kentucky. Virginia, New Jer-
sey, Delaware, Maryland, Connecticut and
New York. He made the trip to the cele-
bration of the Lincoln Douglas debate at
Galesburg.
Under Mr.. Crawford's direction these
tracts were distributed One million and a
half Taft photographs, 1000, 600 buttons, $780,
600 Taft labor decisions, $1,000 Raymond
Patterson life of Taft, 25, 900 DR. Lyman Alb
bolt eulogy on Taft, $4,000 Roosevelt on
Taft and 100000 other documents.
TAFT Praises Two Nebraskans.
Judge Taft Is a great, big man." says
Mr.. Kennedy. eve on the train with him
throughout his strenuous campaign were
Impressed by the bigness and unselfishness
of the mans character. He is a modest
man and always wants to give the other
fellow Cue credit. He is not afraid to ex-
press himself, as so many public men are.
He had many words OF praise and apprec a
ton of the work that the committee, the
newspapers and the people generally were
doing in his behalf. Many candidates take
all these things as matters of fact, but
Judge Taft seemed to feel a personal debt
Of gratitude to every man who was aiding
in his election. He was especially frank in
his expressions of appreciation Of Chairman
Hitchcock and our own Bill Hayward, sec
rotary Of the national committee, and Victor
Rosewater, director of the western bureau
Of publicity. Those boys are doing a mag
nificent work. Judge Taft remarked one
nay toward lie idNltl CIV VI Wv Noilpolbh H.
IF anybody thought the judge didn't
know what was going on In m.nutest detail
he was Gead wrong. He kept a close tab on
everything.
THE people of Nebraska have cause for
feeling proud of the services rendered the
party by Mr.. Hayward and Mr.. Rosewater.
People OF other states are proud of them.
Chairman Hitchcock. a dynamo of energy
and an executive of rare ability, praised
them both very highly. He said on more
than one occasion that he thought 1t ex-
tremely unselfish in Mr.. Rosewater to leave
MS personal work in Omaha and go to the
front for the party when he was not looking
for anything himself except the success of
the ticket,
Il am certain that the republicans Of this
country, beginning with President-el,c
Taft and President Roosevelt, have long
ago determined that the right man was Sc
lected for chairman. Mr.. Hitchcock proved
the wisdom of his selection in a very little
while