Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-29
CHEERS FOR TAFT'S NAME
Washington Hall Meeting One Of Old
Time Republican Enthusiasm.
SENATOR BURKETT WARMING UP
Cites Some Pertinent Instances of thu
Practical Value of Republican
Policies to Both LnbOrer
and Employer.

THE republican party has Ihis year
the best candidate for president any
party ever had. So far as Mr.. Bryan's
charge Is concerned that William Howard
Taft wears the Roosevelt brand, l want
to say that Mr.. Bryan would like very
much TO have Teddy's brand on himself.
Did he not declare himself the only true
heir of the Roosevelt policies? lie said:
I am the father of all these policies and
therefore the legitimate heir Then he
turns around and complains because
Roosevelt picked the genuine beneficiary.
Is Mr.. Bryan going to contest another
will?"
The keynote Of a most enthusiastic re-
publican rally at Washington hall last
night was the most pronounced enthusi-
asm for Taft himself. Led by the speaker
whose words are quoted above, United
States Senator +. J. Burkett, fully l,OOO
men cheered to the echo and the re-echo
every mention of the republican party's
chief standard bearer. Taking their cue
from the first speaker the succeeding
orators followed what was their own nat
ural inclination and spoke for Taft amid
the wild applause of their auditors.
'In my opinion" continued Senator
Burkett, IF Mr.. Bryan insists on an
other will contest the American people
| VIII IE-ItElnkNl Will 49,
opinion of the Connecticut Judge Of the
court of last review, who, after Bryan
had bounded the Bennett widow from
court TO court, declared Bryan's conten-
ton was the most ridiculous, his claim
the least w~ell-founded he had seen IN
years and years on the bench and that Il
is so ridiculous that it bordered on the
criminal.
shots at Bryan.
But Mr.. Bryan has gone up and down
the length and breadth of the lana,
III rough the highways and byways' criti'
Ching all VIII would vote for a man who
I has something of credit in his past ana
something Of prospect i'm his future, The
man who has been doing this has not
been able in sixteen TO eighteen years to
write a line in the statute books which
was not repealed at once because Of the
damage 1t lid; the man who can wrap up
words in pretty, rhetorical passages, but
who after using more words than any
other nineteen men combined has never
given utterance to any gem OF literature
or any Pigment of thought which any
I schoolboy has thought IL worth his while,
or his teachers have thought worth his
while to be memorized."
The major portion Of Senator Burkett's
speech was devoted to as brilliant a rid
ding Of frce-trade advocacy as has peeH
heard in Omaha in years and the un-
bounded enthusiasm with which he was
heard and the keen, intense interest dis
played by his auditors proved beyond the
shadow Of a doubt that devotion 70 the
principle Of protection Of American labor.
ing men and American business men las
not changed an iota.
Result of Protection.
The article in question was a description
Of the Cudahy packing plant In South
Omaha and contained a declaration by Mr.
Cudahy as 10 the tin bought for canning
manufactured products that he could buy
Americsn-made tin cheaper than IN TIN
days before William Mckinley first put q
tariff on tin. when there was not ar
American tin plate mill and when millions
went abroad every yesr for tin TO Wales
In the years since the industry has grow
until J.OOJ American citizens are engage,