Taft the Builder Directing Panama Canal Success
Taft through the Panama project has insured high progress and worker welfare. He personally approved every dollar spent, improved labor conditions, sanitation, and health, transforming the isthmus into a safer U S work site with better living standards and wages for laborers.
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Gis
Panama Canal
William H. Taft
Fast
Panama
Taft
Isthmus
Department of Sanitation
Department of Municipal Engineering
Building Department
Roosevelt
Isthmian Canal Commission
New ‘Orleans
Bryan and Haskell in the Kansas City Star Address
The piece contrasts Haskell’s oil ties and Bryan’s campaign role with Senator Foraker, calling for Haskell to sever ties until innocence is proven. It accuses Democrats of duplicity for opposing campaign finance reform and fraud prevention bills, framing the issue as a Bryan era trust in outsiders. James S. Sherman is cited.
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Haskell
Senator Foraker
Kansas City Star
Standard Oil
Democratic National Committee
Bryan
Foraker
Taft
Democratic ‘Party
Congress
Dson
James 8. Sherman
Philippine postal savings banks show two years of success
The Philippine postal savings bank system under the American flag is deemed a great success after two years. Manila opened Oct 1 1906 and by year end 235 offices existed across classes. deposits reached 786 361.03 pesos with 2 329 accounts remaining.
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Watt
Tat
Tropen
Taft
United States
Central
South America
Panama Canal
Philippines
Philip Pine Commission
Postal Savings Bank
Manila
Postal Savings ‘Bank
Postal Savings Bank Investment Board
Roosevelt Praises Taft as His Only Choice
The former president declares Taft as the reform-minded choice, praising his consistent promises and actions. He credits Taft with decency in public life and vows support for wageworkers, noting Taft’s integrity in never doing wrong for any man.
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Roosevelt
Taft
Mr. Taft
United States
Combative Altruist Taft Fights for Peace and Reform
A compilation of editorial takes portrays William Howard Taft as combative yet altruistic, highlighting his wars against deceit and unfaithfulness, his peacekeeping record as Secretary of War, and his fitness for the presidency. Mentions Oklahoma, Taft lineage, and praise from multiple newspapers.
Campaign fund drive seeks small donations for Taft Sherman bid
A Western Division appeal urges Republican voters to donate one dollar each to support Taft and Sherman. The letter notes legal limits on corporate contributions and provides state finance chairmen names and addresses to mail checks or money orders for the campaign treasury.
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Taft
Sherman
Republican National Committee
Congress
State Finance Committee
Colorado
Whitney Newton
Denver
Idaho
Frank F. Johnson
Wallace
Illinois
Frederick H. Smith
Peoria
Iowa
Lafayette’ Young
Des Moines
Kansas
Frank E. Grimes
Topeka
Michigan
John N. ‘Bagley
Detroit
Missouri
Li Whitelaw
North Second Street
St. Louis
Montana
Thomas A. Marlow
Helena
Nebraska
John GC. Wharton
Omaha
New Mexico
J. W. Reynolds
Santa Fe
North Dakota
James A. Buchanan
Buchanan
Oregon
H. W. Coe
Portland
South Dakota
O. W.hompson
Vermillion
Washington
James D. Hoge
Seattle
Otto Fred W. Upham
Michigan Avenue
Chicago
Nilmois
Religious Battle Over Taft Arouses Clergy Support
Clergymen across denominations defend William H. Taft amid religious attacks, praising his broad, nonsectarian faith. Prominent ministers including Bishop Fallows and Rev. Dr. Short endorse Taft’s high character and fitness for the presidency, calling for unity and civil religious leadership.
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William H. Taft
Taft
St. John's Church
Washington
Helen
Fallot
Samuel Fallows
Reformed Episcopal Church of Chicago
Toledo
Adamses
Abraham Lincoln
Man trusted with cabinet picks not fit to pick Haskell
St Louis Globe Democrat argues the man who chose Haskell to help design a national platform and manage campaign funds is not trustworthy to oversee presidential cabinet selections or the nominating power. The piece critiques judgment and fitness for key executive duties.
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Haskell
United States
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
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Rocky Mountain States
Fred W. Upham
Short
John Ireland
St. Paul
Francis Burgette Short
Salt Lake City
Gibraltar
William Howard Taft
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