Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-10-28
KENNEDY AND BAKER
TALK AT WATERLOO
Candidates Start on Thorough
Canvass of the Second
District.
HoFF DELIVERS ADDRESS

dience which gathered in Walsh
hall here tonight, John L, Kennedy,
republican candidate for United
States senator and Ben S. Baker,
republican candidate for congress
from the Second district, spoke for
two hours and were greeted with
much applause.
The meeting here tonight was the
first of series to be held through
out the district, and the indications
are that Mr.. Kennedy and Mr..
Baker will make a vigorous cam
paign from now until election.
]. L. Robinson presided and in
troduced the speakers and the
Waterloo cornet band gave a concert
in the bandstand, and in the hall
prior to the speaking
Hoff Covers County.
Sam Hoff, republican candidate for
the Legislature, closed a vigorous
campaign of the county today after
visiting Bennington, Millard, Elk
horn and Waterloo, by short, but
, effective speech delivered at the
meeting here tonight Mr.. Hoff is
the candidate of the country people
and has many friends in this end of
the county. Frank Shotwell, F. S.
Howell, chairman of the county COM
mittee and lack Ellis were also here.
Brother Not in Army.
1t was explained here tonight that
William P. Warner, republican can
didate for congress from the Third
district has no brother who is
soldier in the Canadian army as re-
ported, but that he has a brother
who is resident OF Alberta and
candidate for office there. 1t was re-
ported by mistake that this brother
was member of the Canadian army.
Mr.. Warner has stated emDhatically
that his brother never was and never
intended to be a member OF the
Canadian army Mr.. Kennedy has
just closed weeks campaign in the
Third district.
Baker Discusses Tariff.
Mr.. Kennedy and Mr.. Baker came
to Waterloo tonight after visiting
the new Offices of Armour & Co., at
South Omaha this afternoon, where
they stopped to call on Robert c.
Howe, general manager Judge
Baker discussed the tariff in an in
teresting manner He also asked that
something might be done to make
American citizenship mean some
thing in the eyes of the world. He
deplored that condition of affairs
in Mexico when, in times of direst
need, the present administration
withdrew American battleships and
compelled Americans to take refuge
on German and British battelships,
after being informed of the dangers
besetting our citizens in Mexico.
No Protection Offered.
He said President Wilson had
said in his Omaha speech that we
must extend our American COM
merce to the four corners of the
world, and then stood for a policy
OF never protecting the American
citizen when outside of the bound
aries of America, on the theory that
when an American citizen goes out
side of his country he does so at his
peril. He said that never had Amer
lean women been so violated as dur.
ing the past eighteen months in
Mexico and yet we were maintaining
the American army on the border
with apparently nothing to do but
to remain there until after election.
Mr.. Kennedy took issue with the
democratic senator from Nebraska
who has said that this is not cam
paign of principle, and he pointed
out the numerous reasons for the
return of the republican party to
power. He pointed out that Cover
nor Hughes had left the United
States supreme court at the call of
the American people and had be-
come the candidate for the presi-
dency on the theory that no man had
the. right to deny the people their
wish when they called him to the
high Office of president.
He urged that since the American
people had called Governor Hughes
into the contest, it was now I'D to
them to support him.
Mr.. Kennedy continued along the
patriotic line He talked for Amer
lea first, and the protection of Amer
leans citizens throughout the world |
Showing that he was patriot first
and partisan afterward, he asserted
that in all matters wherein the |
health and the happiness of the
American people were concerned he
would, if elected, vote for measures
that commended themselves to him
without regard to whether they orig
mated on the democratic or republi-
can side of the senate. This assertion
was cheered enthusiastically, by his
hearers.