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Show TAFT IS CERTAIN M OIL VIM Republican Candidate Finishes Strenuous Day in Bryan's 1 Home State. i MAKES MANY SPEECHES ' AND IS WELL RECEIVED i Strongly Defends His Attitude as to Labor While on the Bench. j OMAHA, Neb., Oct. 3. "I am going io bo elected. !' This statement made tonight by William II. Taft sums, up in a word what the candidate thinks of the effect of his speech-making tour thus far. The belief is based, Mr. Taft explained, upon the manner of his reception re-ception in states thuB far traversed in which there was reported to bo defections defec-tions among the Republican ranks. Aa to tho national ticket, Mr. Taft no-." believes that there is no reasu'i to doubt that the Republican party will hold its own and should this provo the case, Mr. Taft; says, thero is no doubt that he will get tho electoral vote cf Wisconsin, Minnesota, the Dakotas, Iowa and Nebraska, the states in which thg disaffection wna supposed to exist. In Touch With People. "I have been in real touch with tho people." continued Mr. Taft. "They haw come to see me and hear mc in number.- far beyond my anticipation, and what seems". of even moro importance, impor-tance, they have responded to what I have had to say in a way that I could feel thuir sympathy, Tho desire of my audiences today to 'get in personal con-j con-j tact with me has ocen marked, and j shows moro than a passing interest.'' Thirteen speeches were mado by tho I candidate today in a awing around the ! southeastern part of Nebraska, termi- j 1 nating at Omaha tonight, where two i 1 big meetings were held, one for tho ben- ; i ciit of the stockyard employees in I South Omaha, tho "other in lhe Audi- torium. Throughout tho day tho t crowds were larger than usual afc the short stops. At Crete. Beatrice, Table i Rortlc and .Nebraska City the -voico of tho candidate was entirely inadequate to rea-ih the limits of the crowd?. At i several of the stops' Mr. Taft left his car and spoke from a platform. At practically every station the local band ! was in attendance, and the cheers which j greeted the candidate upon his arrival ana departure came with a vigor. Trend of Areument. Throughout the day Mr. Taft confined con-fined his speeches to picturing conditions condi-tions under the last Democratic administration, admin-istration, and contrasting them with Republican Re-publican rule. As he has dono during his two days in Nebraska, ho did not fail to pay his respects to Mr. Bryan whenever ho spoke. On several occasions oc-casions he delivered his labor speech and declared to be a Ho the statement that he had ever declared that ono dollar dol-lar a day was enough forany laboring man. Omaha 's reception of tho candidate was in keeping with that accorded him at Lincoln last night. Tho Ak-Sar-Ben carnival in progress here, and tho added illumination of tho ciiy, lent a holiday appearance. No parade was arranged. The arrival of tho Taft special at 5:30 o'clock was signalized by the looting of whistles and firing of bombs. A reception re-ception committee awaited the candidate candi-date at Uic Omaha station. He was taken for a short nutomobilc ride and then returned to his car for dinner. Tho South Omaha meeting wa3 reached by automobiles and the return was made shortly after 0 o'clock to tho Auditorium, Auditor-ium, whore Senator pollivor had been j holding forth to an immense audience for an hour. Tn his South Omaha speech, Mr. Taft, after reviewing tho labor decisions ho had rendered, mado this conclusion: His Relation to Labor. "This' is not all. I laid down the rule that labor not only had the right to unite, but that it ought to unite in I order to meet capital on a level; that workingmcu had a right to appoint, officers; of-ficers; that they had a right to raise funds with which to sustain striken, that strikes could not be enjoined, that men had the right to leave the employ of their employers in coucort if they chose; that they had the right to appoint ap-point officers who should direct them in what they nhould do; that they had a right to withdraw from association with tho with whom they had' controversy; that lliey had the right to induco, all their competitors, all their fellow unionH to withdraw from such association, but that ihev did not have tho right to injure in-jure the'property of their employers or 'declare a sccondar- boycott against "Those decisions T claim have been the magna charta of trades unionism ever since. The railway orders used that decision iu a case before Judge Adams against, the Gould roads in which an injunction was issued forbidding thorn to follow the decisions of their chiefs, They went into court and cited uij' case, and Judge Adams withdrew his injunction. The same thing happened hap-pened down in Connecticut under Judgo Thompson in a similar case with respect re-spect to the Typographical union. No Pear of Corporations. t "I have not decided all my cases in labor business. I have had also to run up against corporations. As one of the court I wrote( tho opinion in the first important anti-trust case that was decided de-cided and it laid down tho position upon which all the anti-trust prosecutions are now conducted. MI am not apologizing for anything T did; I. am only telling you truth'when I say that the legality and the opportun- I Continued on Tago Two. TAFT IS CERTAIN THAT HE WILL WIN j Continued from Page One ! ity of men to unite; to carry on their I organizations to the perfection that they havo reached; to bring about trado j agreements to entitle them to the re- J sponsible position that they occupy now in dealing with their employers, is as j much duo to the law which 1 laid down as to any other cause. "T am said lo be the father of in- j .juuotions. I issued injunctions; there is not any doubt about that, aud if I went on tho bench and the occasiou called for an injunction I would issue I it. again, but T deny that I invented in-junclions. in-junclions. Injunctions were issued long before I went on tho bench and I only used a remedy that every man is entitled en-titled to when no other remedy is adequate. ade-quate. Dodges tho Platform. "I agroc that injunctions havo becu I issued which have-been much too broad, j and the reason why they havo been too , broad is because they have been issued' without notice and the judgo has not sufficiently considered it. M'hcreforo, I have been in favor of requiring thnt no injunction should issue without; notice, but tho Republican convention did not desire to go ho far, but said, 'If yoii put into mandatory statute the best present statutes and" so define the , few cases where temporary injunctions may issue without notice and require that when a temporary injunction is issued' is-sued' without notice it shall not havo effect for iuoto than forfc3'-oight hours, I so that a man may havo a hearing within with-in forty-eight hours, then that abuse of j which thev complain, and of which 1 they rightly complain because injunctions injunc-tions issued temporarily without notice and the time for hearing has been fixed 1 lm wit?0'"10""'" hence, will be donoTp it is an outrage and ought vk 1 Ku7nltMlvind r- " w Fditfet it, but what I say i8. thero ir,.. and jmWs, and to vis St m? frw sponsihifity for even- abuse been committed and uot t looklr own cases and to know what in.t crjc decided, is not to givT The Taft speech at the Audlt tonight was a repetition of .-wKfa Ins lreqnently said about tho the trusts and the general rede11? tbc Republican and Democratic";!. 1 The Taft special left hero aftf-r 10 o'clock for Denver byNSp I Chevenne, "Wvo. aj?L Mr. Taft will reach Denver tbifcz night. 1 Secretary llhyward of the Repw national committee, who travcUf the candidate today, left toni&7 Chicago. |
