Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-21
Many Speakers Of National Reputa-
ton Sent to These Sections.
AFT ON LABOR PROBLEMS
Republican Candidate Speaks in West
Virginia.
ORGANIZATION IS GREAT FACTOR
judge Says while This IL True,
Courts Must he Sustained in
order 60 Administer JUS
tice 20 All.

NEW lONhs wv 4is--NlTs dIt Will leave
Cincinnati tomorrow night and begin at
once tour OF Indiana. on his return from
New York he will close the campaign in a
speech at Youngstown o., Monday night,
November ?.
The impression that the republican ma
tional committee has virtually taken charge
of the campaign In Ohio is erroneous. The
impression doubtless grew out Of the state
ment made today by Chairman Hitchcock
that the national committee had arranged
to send number of eminent speakers into
the state. The national committee has done
thi safter full understanding with the
committee in Ohio, so the matter was ex-
planned at republican national headquarters
today. The national committee is inter-
ested in the Ohio situation because OF the
many. though disputed, reports Of dissatis-
faction in parts of that state, but the COM
mittee insists that 1t has no doubt of the
result in the stat cas- whole. 1t now pro-
poses, 1t was said, ito clinch the nail" Mr..
Taft will appear at all the day meetings
which had been announced in his itinerary
in Indiana and Ohio. but he will not speak
at any. The arrangement has been agreed
to by the committees in Indiana and Ohio.
The object fthis is to satisfy the crowds
that are expected to attend and to save Mr..
Tafts voice for the night meetings that
have been announced. This statement was
authorized today by Chairman Hitchcock.
Hitchcock Goes TO Chicago.
Chairman Hitchcock viii leave for Chi
cago tomorrow or Thursday, but will be in
that city for only two days. After that he
will return to New York and remain here
until after election. After a conference late
today with State Chairman Woodruff Mr..
Hitchcock said that while he had never had
any doubt about New York he was more
confident than ever that the Taft and Sher-
man electors woul dhave a great plurality
in the state. and he was just as confidens
of the reelection Of Governor Hughes. The
final whirl of the republican national cam
paign will occur IN Indiana, Ohio and New
York. From now until the day Of the vets
every available speaker of national reputa-
ton will be heard in the three states which
both parties regard as pivotal.
The national committee has arranged to
throw the following speakers into Ohio:
Mr.. Taft Postmaster General Meyer. secre-
tary Garfield, Secretary Straus, Senator
Dolliver Senator LaFollette, Leslie NJ.
Shaw, General o. o. Howard, Representa-
tive Foster Of Vermont and Representative
Longworth OF ONO,
The campaign in Indiana will also be
conducted with all the vigor the national
committee can put into It.
Labor Address at Cumberland.
CUMBERLAND, Md, Oct. a.--Fifteen
speeches were on the itinerary of Candidate
Taft today. All but two Of them were
delivered in West Virginia. The people Of
Martinsburg, w. Va, were at the station
an hour before the train arrived there.
This fact Judge Taft told them, made
their interest apparent and he took it as a
good augury of republican success in that
state. Today's tour ended with a night
meeting at Parkersburg. TO an audience
which filled the theater here, Judge Taft
deIieverd his speech OF labor
when II takes nothing but words and
wind" he declared In asking the question
as to which party ought TO receive the sup
port of the labor vote. 1.-The democratic
party has greatly the advantage, but when
It comes to things accomplished and prog
ress made. the advantage is always with
the republican party"
Mr.. Taft explained that the Washington
administration and congress were limited
in their judiciary action over laS~ and
labor legislation to government workmen.
those engaged in interstate commerce and
District OF Columbia. Nevertheless. he said,
there had been a number Of important laws
passed in the last seven years affecting
labor within the jurisdiction and for the
purpose OF furnishing model laws for the
states to follow. After cnumeratinE these
laws ana demanding others. Mr.. Taft paid
his respects to Mr.. Gompers saying that
It was his judgment that the American
laboring man had Intelligence and inds-
pendence enough to use his own Judgment
and not be delivered" by Mr.. GomperH
to any one. After reviewing at length the
cases he decided while on the bench which
have been made the subject Of attack upon
him, Mr.. Taft concluded:
81 only cite them 10 show that when I
am charged with being hostile To labor
organizations, when am charged with
being unfair to labor It docs me gross in
justice I yield to no man in my sympathy
for the men who earn their livelihood by
the sweat OF their brow, and / would join
in any legal method to encourage them in
their hard struggle upward in this life of
ours.
Labor Powerful Factor.
But these combinations Of labor that
ought 10 be encouraged. that are necessary
to enable labor TO assert its right in its
necessary controversy with capital have
an enormous power both for good and for
evil, just exactly the same as the combina-
tions OF capital have enormous rover both
for good and for evil and no myspathy
you may have with the prosperity Of the
country and the necessity for combination
for good and for evil. and no sympathy
with the illegality and attempted monopoly
OF capital on the other hand and no sym
pathy that you have with struggling labor
on the other ought to make you sympa-
thze with the unlawful methods when II
resorts to unlawful methods on the other
side.
In other words, you have got to main
tain the power Of the courts in order that
there may be justice administered with an
evan hand as 10 hoth theae areaf ipOu