Taft Speaking Tour Schedule Set From Sept to Oct
Frank H Hitchcock and Senator Dixon announce Taft's Western speaking tour begins September 22 at Brook Indiana and ends October 7 at Galesburg Illinois. Key stops include Milwaukee Madison Saint Paul Minneapolis Fort Dodge and Omaha with speeches planned in Mitchell Corn Palace South Dakota and Fargo North Dakota along the way.
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Missouri
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Advisory Committee
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Taft
Brook
Ind
Galesburg
Ill
Milwaukee
Madison
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Fargo
South Dakota
Corn Palace
Mitchell
Fort Dodge
Iowa
Omaha
Taft Campaign Schedule Outlined With Multiple States
Taft plans a daylight Nebraska to Denver leg October 2 with an evening speech in Denver, then crosses Kansas October 3 to Topeka, rests in Kansas City October 4, and speaks at St. Joseph October 5. He then heads to Chicago for the Deep Waterways opening, attends Galesburg for the Lincoln Douglas debate anniversary, and continues through Missouri and Washington state with support from local GOP leaders.
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Topeka
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Burton
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Tennessee
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New York City
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Congress
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McKinlay
Nevada
Washington
Charles W. Murphy
Chicago Champion
Cubs
Judge Taft
Bonaparte comments on Roosevelt Taft and GOP outlook
Baltimore dispatch reports Attorney General Bonaparte saying he has no official information on Roosevelt's plans. He doubts a stamp endorsement, cites uncertain Taft arrival, and notes the West GOP is united but warns discord could threaten victory. He would help if asked.
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West
Dix Family Political Ties Mentioned in City Notes
A nephew of Governor John A. Dix recounts his relative's 19th century service in Albany and as Treasury Secretary who issued a war era order. The piece notes Dix’s Civil War role as a major general, his son Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix, and references the present John A. Dix’s prior Buffalo bid for governor with seventeen votes, amid Hearst nomination.
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John A. Dix
Albany
Dix
Treasury
Morgan Dix
Trinity Church
Buffalo
Philip P. Farley for State Engineer and Surveyor
Philip P. Farley of Brooklyn with office in Long Island City seeks the State Engineer and Surveyor post. A nephew of Archbishop Farley, he is 36, born in Brooklyn, educated at St John’s College and Cooper Union, where he earned the C E degree in 1805, and served three years as Assistant City En.
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Philip P. Farley
Brooklyn
Long Island City
Archishop Farley
New York
Mr. Farley
St. John’s College
Cooper Union
Engineer tied to Atlantic City streets and Manhattan subway
A Baltimore born engineer who led street and sewer work in Atlantic City and later contributed to the Manhattan subway project for three years. He then served as assistant superintendent at Standard Oil Bayonne plant from 1903 to 1906 and was named to the Jamaica Bay Improvement Commission by Mayor McClellan in 1906.
Treasurers Julius Hauser of Sayville
Julius Hauser elected State Treasurer two years ago and a well known Sayville baker. Born in Baden Germany in 1854 he came to the United States as a boy and learned the baker trade. He started his own business, married in 1877, led the volunteer fire brigade, served as Islip Township clerk and in 1903 as Supervisor. He headed the Suffolk County Democratic Committee and belonged to several social organizations.
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Julius Hauser
Sayville
Long Island
Baden
Germany
Islip
Suffolk County Democratic Committee
Longtime Democratic Leader George M. Palmer Dies or Retires
George M. Palmer, a longtime leader of the Democratic minority in the Assembly, was born in Richmondville Schoharie County in 1861. He studied law in Albany, practiced in Cobleskill, led the local Board of Education and Masonic lodge, and served in the Assembly from 1896 with multiple re-elections. He was a recurring Speaker candidate and sought the 1894 governorship nominating race before politics shifted.
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George M. Palmer
Assembly
Richmondville
Schoharie County
Normal College
Albany
Cobleskill
Board of Education
Masonic Lodge
Hearst
D. Cady Herrick
John J Whalen Rochester native and Secretary of State
John J Whalen born in Rochester in 1868. He attended Rochester High School and Rochester Business Institute. He worked in tobacco sales in Norwich and Oneonta before rejoining his father’s firm R Whalen & Co in Rochester in 1899. Active in tobacco workers unions and the Commercial Travellers’ Association he declined several Rochester offices before accepting Independence League and Democratic endorsements for Secretary of State in 1906.
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John 8. Whalen
Rochester
Rochester High School
Rochester Business Institute
Norwich
N. Y
Oneonta
R. Whalen & Co
Life of M H Glynn Albany Journalist and Statesman
M H Glynn born 1871 in Kinderhook Columbia County became Albany Times Union editor and publisher. A 1894 Fordham graduate he studied law and entered Congress for two terms after 1898. He served as vice president of the National Commission for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1891 by McKinley's appointment.
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Martin H. Glynn
Kinderhook
Columbia County
Albany
Pordham University
Albany Times-Union
McKinley
McCarren Fight Reaches New York Court of Appeals
Albany September 16 A major phase of Senator McCarrens bid to control Kings County democracy has reached the Court of Appeals The Coler inspectors filed a return on appeal from a decision of the Appellate Division Second Department ordering the Board of Elections to appoint Kings County election officers from a list submitted by McCarren The appeal likely to be heard the week starting September.
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McCarren
Kings County Democracy
Court of Appeals
Appellate Division
Second Department
Board of Elections of New York
Kings County
Lst
Coler
Democratic Platform Outlined by New York State Convention
The platform reaffirms allegiance to Democratic principles and endorses the Denver nominees. It attacks Republican waste, calls for retrenchment, opposition to commissions, supports direct election of U.S. Senators, eight hour law, police certiorari, anti trusts, good roads, forest and waterpower protection, civil service honesty, and broad appeals to Democrats and independents for honest elections and fiscal restraint.
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California
Taft
Representative Bell
Denver
New York
Democratic Party
Bryan
Thomas Jefferson
Andrew Jackson
Jefferson
Jackson
Kern
United States
Adirondack
Catskills
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