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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Reporter
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1908
Page
4
Logansport Daily Reporter announces publication details and pricing. Offers daily except Sunday, with weekly Tuesday and Friday editions, carrier delivery, and mail options. Subscribers must report delivery issues directly to the office at 625 Broadway Logansport Indiana.
Chicago June 11 Taft campaign funds loom large as Charles P Taft and Mrs Anna Taft back brother William H Taft with lavish support. The Tafts gave major gifts to Union Bethel Y M C A and an art academy while building a costly opera house. Estimates place the Taft fortune between 40 and 50 million with holdings in Cincinnati gas electric and traction companies plus real estate and theaters.
William R. McKeen of Terre Haute retires twenty eight years as a national delegate, voting at conventions from 1880 for Garfield to 1896 for Fairbanks. A near millionaire banker, he recalls landmark votes in Chicago Minneapolis and Indianapolis as he travels to the coming Chicago convention to support Charles W. Fairbanks.
Chicago June 11 anti administration forces target the Roosevelt planks in the platform. They seek vague wording on tariff revision and delay via a tariff commission. Roosevelt approved aims include tariff revision regulation of railroads securities anti trust reform child labor federal action and anti injunction measures.
Indications suggest a candidate is quietly urged for the vice presidency. The source notes concerns he will be railroaded into the position.
Chicago dispatch details rumors that Rudolph Spreckles could be Taft's dark horse vice president candidate. The piece traces Spreckles' wealth and influence, his role in San Francisco graft fights, his talks with Roosevelt, and speculation about a convention nomination without his consent. It also notes Fordney’s convention position and praises Senator La Follette as Wilson’s acknowledged superior.
Chicago June 11 To be appointed reading clerk at the Republican national convention is likened to receiving an iron clad health certificate. Wilson, a self styled leather lunger from Des Moines Ia, boasts he can be heard a quarter of a mile and read for long periods.
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