The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-12
sTRAUs TO STUMP.
Will Try to Square Taft With the
Laboring Men.

Cincinnati, o., Sept 1.-THE position
of the present administration and
Judge Taft on the labor question is to
be made the special subject of consid-
Grafton in the campaign by Oscar S.
StrauS secretary of the department c.
commerce and labor, who with T. v.
Powderly of the immigration bureau OF
| that department, called on the candi-
date today.
IT am going to make as many
speeches and do as much work in the
campaign as my official duties will
permit" said Secretary Straus, after
his conference with Mr.. Taft Il will
speak in New York and Chicago at
least. and undoubtedly in other places.
LAS the head of the department of
commerce and labor. am decidedly in
terested in the welfare of labor, and /
regard the Bryan fallacies more dan
gerous to labor than to any other ele-
ment in the campaign. His govern
ment ownership of railroads and his
bank deposit scheme would so cripple
industry as to reduce the wage paying
fund even more than his previous
fallacy of 16 to 1.
It do not think that even Bryan him.
self would claim that President Roose-
welt was inimical to labor and 1 know
from my own connection as a trusted
member of his cabinet, and say this
without disclosing any of the privacies
of the cabinet room that whenever the
labor question came up either in or out
of that room Mr.. Taft's position has
universally been for the best interests
of the laboring man.
Mr.. Powderly said he was here to
establish a receiving bSreau for the in
quiries his bureau had sent out to
farmers, particularly of the south ask
ing their needs with respect to farm
labor. The rural carriers, he said. had
already carried to the farmers of the
1frxy a mill nd q half n a
cards making the inquiry as to the
character and quantity of farm help
needed to be used in giving advice to
arriving foreigners. Cincinnati has
been selected, he said, as the receiving
point of the answers because of its
geographical location.
Judge Taft has been presented with
the gavel and pounding board used by
Chairman Harry S. New in calling to
order the last Republican national con-
.vention. The wood from which the
souvenirs were made was taken from a
Spanish block house on San Juan Hill
by an American army officer who car
ried 1t to Fort Robinson, Neb., where
Quartermaster Wheelwright Irish
made the gavel and pounding board.
1t was presented to Chairman New by
Representative Kincaid of Nebraska.
There is to be a reunion of the Taft
family, to which Judge Taft has been
invited, at Triangle, Broome county,
New York September II. The exigen-
cies of the campaign will prevent the
| acceptance of the invitation
The number of babies named for
Judge Taft has recently been increased
by three-Taft Bates, of Frazure, KY:
William H. Taft, of Salem. Mass, and
| Taft Mitchell of Chester, Pa.
S. M. FELTON,, president of the Next
can Central railroad. had an interview
today with Judge Taft. Mr. FELTON,
said that in his Judgment the election
of Mr.. Taft was of the utmost i'm
portance to railway men as a class,
because 1t means the restoration of
confidence, which is necessary before
we can hope for a permanent revival
| of business