Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1908-09-23
COME TO HEAR TAFT SPEAK
Republican Clubs Convention Held in
Cincinnati Today.
MANY DELEGATIONS ATTEND
Special Train is Made Up on which
Presidential Candidate VIII
Take His sixteen Days
Speaking Trip.

ClNNlNNA1ls W sept. r. w men 4 ktA
into the White House, assuming 1 am to
be put there, no plea in favor Of a negro
will have any less consideration because
he is a negro rather than a white man."
This declaration OF intention was made
by Judge william II. Taft today i'm the
course OF the brief address he made to the
delegates to the negro national Baptist con
vention. being held in Lexington. Ky, the
members of which came to Cincinnati for
the purpose of meeting Judge Taft.
There was hardly a sentence which Judge
Taft, uttered that did not receive warm
applause by his hearers, who were received
in the upper banquet hall OF the Sinton
hotel. The delegation was headed by Rev.
f. Z. Morris of Helena, Ark. and repre-
sented nearly every southern and many
northern states
Real Representatives of Race.
Judge Taft remarked that in a letter he
had from Booker T. Washington he had
been told that when he received DR.. Morris
delegation he would be meeting real repre-
sentatives of the race. Preceding the talk
which Judge Taft made he was presented
to each delegate and received from Secre-
tary Morris for the company assurance that
the negro vote was going for the party
which he said had always in the past
proved to be the friend of the black man.
II welcome your sympathy and support"
was the answer of the candidate, land |
feel that there is in my bosom a sympathy
with your race which entities me to that
support"
Mr.. Taft enjoined his hearers that the
one. way to abolish race prejudice was by
life of thrift and enterprise and good citi-
zenship on the part of the negro. There
were many positive evidences that great
progress was being made by the race and
a continuance of sensible, earnest endeavor
was urged
The arrival OF the delegations to the con-
vention of the National League of Repub-
lican Clubs, accompanied as they were
by bands, which devoted their attention
particularly to the Sinton hotel, livened
things up somewhat in the way of po-
litical enthusiasm around the Taft quar-
ters.
The Taft special train rolled in from
Chicago this morning with Colonel Daniel
Ransdell who Is to have complete control,
aboard The private car Constitution is
provided for Mr.. Taft and his immediate
party. Here ne will sleep, eat and talk
during the trip Two other cars, with
sleeping accommodations for other mem
a baggage car, comprise the train. The
start will be made from here at s o'clock
tomorrow morning, and the run to Brook
Ind is to be made without POLITICAL inter-
ruption. The celebration on the George AIDE
farm will be Joined in by the candidate
He will make a short speech and then go
on to Chicago. where he is to speak that
night to railroad men.
| Taft Invites CummIns
SHELTON, Conn, Sept. 22.-Governor A
B. Cummins of Iowa. who, with Mrs Cum
minis, came here last evening as the guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. Andrews. will leave
this afternoon for Chicago in response to
| a message from William H. Taft, which
Governor Cummins found awaiting him on
his arrival here. Mr.. Taft asks the gov
ernor to meet him in Chicago Thursday
and to go with him to Iowa
Five Speeches I'm Des MOines.
DIES MONIES. Ia, Sept. 22.-William H.
| taft will make five formal addresses in
! Des Moines next Friday. Twice he will be
! called upon TO mount stands in the streets,
! IL having beed decided that the city does
not afford halls sufficiently large to ac-
| oommodate the throngs anxious to hear
| the candidate One of the novel gather
| ings will be that in the big Plymouth Con-
| gregltional church. where Mr.. Taft will ad-
dress a meeting exclusively for women.
] Prominent club leaders have the arrange
ments for this meeting in charge. Thous-
ands of republicans will come to Des
Moines from all over the state to particl-
pate IN the rally here, which the republican
state committee intends to make the larg-
est political gathering ever held in Iowa.