Taft responds to Foraker on Middle Bass trip and pay details
William Howard Taft defends his conduct on a Middle Bass Island visit. He states he paid his own fares for the special car trips and berths, declined a private car from C. Lewis, and was hosted by the Middle Bass Club. He rejects links to Standard Oil or the Glass Trust as frivolous and overstated.
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Senator Foraker
C. T. Lewis
Doyle
Richardson
Glass Trust
Standard Oil Company
Middle Bass
Middle Bass Club
Harrison
McKinley
Cleveland
Keifer
Mr. Lewis
Hot Springs
Toledo
Pullman Company
Ohio River
Lewis
Mr. Richardson
Mr. Taft
Middle Bass Island
Garfield
Commodore Richardson
Taft
Taft Presses Postal Savings Banks In Minnesota
Mr Taft in Minnesota defends postal savings banks and attacks Democratic bank deposit guarantees. He argues federal service may justify government action and labels the Democratic plan as a shortcut at the expense of honest and industrious bankers. Campaign reception seen as favorable.
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The
Tribune
Minneapolis
William H. Taft
Bryan
Taft
Senator Foraker
Minnesota
Twin Cities
Postal Savings Bank
Democratic Party
Bryan to President Answers Recent Letter
Milwaukee September 26 Defending Governor Haskell against charges until they can be examined fairly Mr Bryan answers President Roosevelts letter. He accuses the Steel Trust of buying a rival to gain control of over fifty percent of output and alleges Governor Hughes benefited from trusts and cites campaign contributors including J P Morgan John D Rockefeller Andrew Carnegie and William Nelson Cromwell.
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Milwaukee
Haskell
Bryan
Madison
Roosevelt
Steel Trust
Hughes
Democratic Trust
Hughes Election Fund
J. P. Morgan
John D. Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
William Nelson Cromwell
Mr Bryan Responds to Roosevelt on Haskell and Trusts
In a Milwaukee letter dated September 26, 1908, Mr Bryan defends Mr Haskell against charges of ties to trusts, rebuts Roosevelt’s criticisms, cites Haskell as a Oklahoma constitutional leader, and argues over platform contrasts on anti trust policy and enforcement. He questions Taft’s role and emphasizes constitutional and legislative details affecting the trust issue.
Mack Names Ridder as National Democratic Treasurer
Herman Ridder editor of Staats Zeitung and vice chairman of the DNC publicity bureau was named national committee treasurer by Mack to succeed Governor Haskell. Ridder, who will focus on fundraising, plans to base much of his work in Chicago and previously urged Bryan not to run in Lincoln to avoid New York defeat.
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Denver
National Committee
Hughes
Mr. Taft
Herman Ridder
Staats Zeitung
Democratic National Committee
Mack
Haskell
Oklahoma
Chicago
Ridder
West
Bryan
Lincoln
New York
Senate
Roosevelt to respond to Bryan letter tomorrow
President Roosevelt is expected to issue a statement tomorrow in reply to Mr. Bryan. He retired early and did not receive Bryan's communication tonight, having anticipated it and prepared a tentative statement as a cabinet topic. The two statements might be avoided by awaiting Bryan's letter released tonight.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Bryan
Mr. Bryan
Vermont woodchopper wins novel contest in record time
Edward Moot of Weathersfield shattered the hour and a half faster than expected by chopping five cords of wood in one and a half hours with an extra eighth cord and half cord in reserve. The event drew dignitaries from Washington and New York and about a thousand Vermonters. Moot earned 100 dollars plus reportedly significant winnings from bets placed on the challenge.
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Maxwell Evarts
Vermont
Washington
Green Mountain State
Edward Moot
Weathersfield
Evarts
New York
Boston
L. F. Loree
Delaware & Hudson Railroad
L. A. Coolidge
United States Treasury
Samuel G. Blythe
A. B. Kittredge
South Dakota
Mr. Moot
Work for President's Son Roosevelt Joins Hartford Carpet Plant
Theodore Roosevelt Jr is expected to arrive in Thompsonville to work at the Hartford Carpet Corporation. He will likely begin at ground level, learning the carpet business like other employees. He visited A C Higgins whose son is a Harvard friend of Roosevelt.
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Thompsonville
Conn
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Hartford Carpet Corporation
Roosevelt
A. C. Higgins
Carpet Corporation
Harvard
Theodore Roosevelt
Executive Department
Supreme Court
William Howard Taft
Life of a Pimple
Advert of possum skin cure promises rapid relief for eczema acne tetter blotches scalp hives and itch. It claims an experimental free package by mail from Emergency Laboratories and a fifty cent box at Hegeman s and Riker s drug stores.
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New York
Hegeman’s
Riker’s
West Twenty-fifth Street
Taft and Sherman poised to win 30 states and 307 votes
National Committee estimates Taft and Sherman will carry 30 states securing at least 307 of 485 electoral votes this year, with Bryan and Kern at 158 and 18 votes in doubt from Indiana and Nevada. Indiana and Nevada may favor Republicans, but not counted in the tentative tally.
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Hitchcock
Republican National Committee
Taft
Sherman
Bryan
Kern
Indiana
Nevada
National Committee
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
California
Idaho
Colorado
Montana
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Governor Hughes Calls Direct Nominations in Brooklyn Speech
Governor Hughes in Brooklyn outlines a direct primary nominating approach as a key issue in his acceptance address for the Republican gubernatorial nomination. He defends administration reforms, attacks bossism, and urges strong constitutional governance and efficiency in state government.
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Clermont Avenue
Brooklyn
William Berri
Union League Club
Prospect Hall
New Academy of Music
Academy of Music
Timothy L. Woodruff
State Committee
Speaker Wadsworth
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Edward R. O'Malley
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J. E. Smith
Almer F. Larson
Washington, D. C
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