Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1908 — “I AM GOING TO BE ELECTED” [ARTICLE]

“I AM GOING TO BE ELECTED”

That la What Talt Thinks of the Situation Thus Far. Omaha, Oct 2.—“1 am going to be elected.” This statement; made by Judge Taft sums up in a word what the candidate thicks of the effect of

fLla speech-making tour thus far. Tfcs belief Is based, Taft explained, on the manner of his reception In states thus , far traversed in which there Were reported to be defections from the Republican ranks. Thirteen speeches were made by the candidate in a awing around the southeastern part of Nebraska, terminating at Omaha at night, where two big meetings, one for the benefit of the stock yards employes in South Omaha, the other In the Auditorium, were held. When he reached Omaha he received an enthusiastic reception. His speech in South Omaha was of special interest for there he reviewed the labor decisions be had rendered while on the bench, and then said: “I laid down the rule that labor not only had the right to unite, but that it ought to unite, in order to meet capital on a level; that they had a right to -appoint officers; that they had a right to raise funds with which to sustain strikes; that strikes could not be enjoined; that men bad the right to leave the employ of their employes in concert if they chose; that they had the right to appoint officers who should direct them in what they should do; that they bad the right to withdraw from association with those with whom they had controversies; that they had the right to Induce all their competitors, all their fellow union men, to withdraw from such association; but that they did not have the right to injure the property of their employers or declare • secondary boycott against them. “Those decisions I claim have been the magna charts of trades unionism ever since. The railway orders used that decision in a case before Judge Adams against the Gould roads, In which an injunction was Issued forbidding them to follow the directions of their chiefs. They went into the court and cited my case and Judge Adams withdrew his injunction. The. same thing happened down in Cincinnati under Judge Thompson Id a similar case with respect to the Typographical union.” IT WAS NOT ALWAYS LABOR Hu Run Up Against Corporations. Too, and Hit Them. Judge Taft took occasion again to declare “a lie" the statement that he had said a dollar a day was enough for any laboring man. He also said that a] lhig cases were not labor injunction cases, and added: “As one of the court I wrote the opinion in the first important anti-trust ease that was decided, and it laid down the principles upon which all the anti-trust prosecutions are now conducted. lam not apoligizlng for anything I did; I am only telling you the truth when I say that the legality and the opportunity of men to unite, to carry on their organizations to the perfection that they have reached, to raise the funds that they have raised, to bring about trade agreements, to entitle them to the responsible position that they occupy now in dealing.with their employes, is as largely due to the law which I laid down as to any other cause.

“I am said to be the father of injunctions. I issued injunctions—there isn’t any doubt about that; and if I went on the bench and the occasion called for an injunction I would issue It again, but I deny that I invented injunctions. Injunctions were issued long before I went on the bench and I only used a remedy that every man is entitled to when no other remedy is adequate.” He agreed that some Injunctions issued had been too broad, and declared he favored the requirement that no injunction issue without notice and that any Injunction issued must be beard within forty-eight honrs, for there was great injustice in issuing an injunction without notice and then putting the bearing three months in the future. But he had never done that, and it was not giving him a "square deal” to hold him responsible for such procedure. The Taft speech at the Auditorium here was a repetition of what he has frequently said about the tariff, the trusts and the general records of the Republican and Democratic parties, not fnlllug to iuelude a roast for the Democratic candidate on general principles. The entire Taft itinerary for the day included speeches at tLe following places: Crete. Wilber, Demitt. Beatrice. Wymore, Pawnee. Falls City, Auburn. Table Rock, Nebraska City. Plattsmouth. South Omaha and Omaha. The Taft special left here shortly after 10 p. m. for Denver, Colo., by way of Cheyenne. Wyo. He will reach Denver tonight. ,