Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1908-03-30
War Secretary Thinks He Can Stand it
IL Entertainers Can.
TO VISIT FITS. OMAHA AND CROOF
Subject of Address in On 90
Mckinley, Pioneer Of E &c
LUNCHEON AT oMAHl
NJ. l.. Learned, Arthur G. SIN
victor Rosewater Invite Neb =:
Delegates 90 Chicago to Jc :
Them at Noon Monday.

Two full sized banquets. two uncheons,
two public receptions, three addresses, sew
eral automobile rides visits 10 two milf
tary posts and constant contact with both
men and women, will be a few OF the
things Secretary william II. Taft will
crowd into a brief forty-eight hours when
he comes TO Omaha next Monday as the
guest Of the Mckinley club at the banquet
10 be held at the Auditorium and is hidden
goodbye Wednesday morning after ban
auet IN his honor given by the Commercial
club of Council Bluffs
Besides this. the big and sood-natured
secretary OF war. and without doubt next
president OF the United states. will ATTEND
to his private and official business" bring
ing his private secretary with him for the
purpose OF assisting somewhat in the dis
charge OF business affairs which follow
a member OF the cabinet to every corner
Of the earth.
And Mr.. Taft has approved the outline
of the local arrangements for his enter
tainment, giving his consent to entering
snto the activities of about as strenuous
time as one man could stand between
early Monday morning and late Tuesday
evening, even when the days are growing
longer
mckinley SuDtect OF AOOFehAs
The secretary of war has announced that
his subject for the evening address at the
Mckinley club banquet will be Mckinley,
the Pioneer In Expansion and will include
fun discussion OF the history which has
Ieen made by America since the acquisition
tn our insuiar dependencies after the
spnnish-Amerioan war.
other speakers at the Mckinley club ban
uuct from outside % the city will be Gov
ernor George l.. Sheldon and William Allen
White. editor OF the Emporia Gazette and
political writer for numerous magazines
The program next Monday will begin
when a email reception committee OF
omshans greets the secretary at Council
Bluffs The larger reception committee viii
meet Mr.. Taft a; the Union station on this
side aid escort him to the Hotel Rome
ehere cU,isusd6iois headquarters have been
reserved for use Of the distinguished guest
and his party
Aficr brenkfast Mr.. Taft will be per
mitted' TO spend his time at his official
and private work, which will require some
hours Before noon he will make hurried
rip to Fort Omaha in an automobile and
return to the city, where he will be the
guest at the Omaha club OF the delegate
at-large and two Second district delegates
TO tue ffNhUiltun habiuhdi NpANNh'iNhf
Victor Itosewster, Myron l.. Learned and
Arthur c. Smith
Luncheon at Omaha Club.
To the luncheon at the Omaha club the
sixteen delegates from Nebraska to the
national republican convention have been
invited together with the speakers OF the
evening banquet program. William II. Hay
ward. republican state chairman; Charles
IT. Morrill,. national committeeman from
Nebraska and Executive Committeeman II.
b. Schneider.
From 2:SO TO $3.50 a public reception for
MIR. Taft will be held in the lobby of the
Hotel Rome, when he will meet representa-
tives of the Ohio club, the Taft league.
Yale alumni. the Mckinley club and others.
Promptly at O'Clock the secretary Of
war win become the guest of the Omaha
Woman's club for few minutes and will
be whirled away to the First Congrega-
tional church, where he will make a brief
address--probably talking fifteen minutes.
Rest will intervene after the address to
the women. and at 7:SO o'clock Mr.. Taft
win be escorted to the Auditorium. where
the Mckinley club banquet is TO be held
and for which the tickets are going rapidly,
over 800 from out OF town having already
accepted the invitation TO attend the big
dinner of the club
Mr.. TAFT will remain in Omaha over
Monday night and Tuesday morning will 60
to Fort Crook in an automobile. returning
to Omaha TO be delivered over to the re-
eeption committee OF the Commercial club
Of Council Bluffs about noon. when he will
be rendered a luncheon by General G. NJ
Dodge in the Iowa city.
CouRciI Bluffs Program.
The dinner in the evening at Council
Bluffs is to be given at the Grand hotel
by the Commercial club OF Council Bluffs
A list OF distinguished speakers have been
secured and the club has invited many
representatives Of commercial organizations
as well as Iowa republicans 60 participate
The speakers at Council Bluffs win be
Lafayette Young. editor of the Des Moines
Capitol and one OF the Iowa delegates to
the republican national convention; Con.
gresham Walter /. smith and Charles A.
"A Dickson OF Sioux City. la.
RAfter spending the night in Council Bluffs
tNfr. Taft will leave early Wednesday morn.
bag for Chicago.
The last time the secretary OF war wa,
seen and heard In Omaha was on his re.
turn from Fort Meade. s. d., last summer
when he made the address at the layins
OF the corner stone OF the Young Women
Christian association building