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Taft Travels and Tariffs Highlight 1908 Politics
Secretary of War Taft undertakes a global travel pace while Cobwebs gather on his office door. The piece contrasts Taft's heavy travel with other presidential hopefuls and analyzes Republican and Democratic convention prospects, tariff debates on wood pulp and print paper, and publisher influence in Washington.
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Willis J. Abbot
Taft
War Department
Panama
United States
Comits Siavers
Prairie
Pensacola
Charleston
Wir
Ike Speaker Cannon
Knox
la Mollette
Fairbainks
Washington
Congress
Bhat
Mr. Taft
Secretary of War
Goldsmith
New York
New Haven
West Indies
Dayton
Stown Exposition
Aike
South Dakota
Kansas
Aus
Murray Bay
Canada
York
Michigan
Missouri
Buffalo
England
New Jersey
Nebraska
Ohio
William I. Taft
William H. Taft
Willam J. Bryan
Chicago
United States Senate
House of Representatives
Cannon
la Follette
Fairbanks
Bailiwick
South
Middle West
Yory Min
Senate
Sky Congressmen
Mann
Dl Nols
Newspaper Publishers’ Association
John R. McLean
Cincinnati Enquirer
Washington Post
New York Ierald
New York Sun
Chicago Inter Ocean
Congressman Mann
Washington, D. C