Word: campaigners
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Although one of the younger men in the Senate, Senator Beveridge is considered one of its ablest speakers and legislators. On account of his close relations with the present administration, he is often looked upon as its spokesman in the Senate. He opened the last presidential campaign in 14 states for the Republican party, and took a trip a short time ago to the Philippines to investigate the conditions there...
...first smoker of the Democratic Club to be held at 9 o'clock this evening in the Trophy Room of the Union, Mr. W. A. Murphy, State House representative of the Boston Globe, will speak on some subject connected with the campaign...
...first speaker of the evening was Hon. James J. Myers '69, of Cambridge, ex-speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Mr. Myers mentioned, in opening, that he had been closely connected with the political clubs of the University since 1888 when he was a member of the Harrison campaign committee. Speaking of the candidates of the Republican party, he said there were really only two, Taft and Hughes. Although Hughes is a strong and energetic worker, he is a single-handed player, a fault which cannot insure a strong administration. He lacks the important element of team play, which...
...next speaker, Mr. John C. Cobb, president of the Boston Associated Board of Trade, and manager of the Taft campaign in Massachusetts, told how the campaign was progressing in Massachusetts. From his recent trip to Washington, he said that no candidates are mentioned there, and that there are only two parties, drawn on sharp party lines: the administrative, who are for Taft, and the reactionary allies who are for no particular candidate but for the defeat of Taft. In New England the reactionaries are endeavoring to defeat Taft by having the delegates go to Chicago uninstructed, and the only...
There will be a meeting of the Taft Club in the Trophy Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock. Three interesting and prominent speakers, actively engaged in the Taft campaign, will address the club. Hon. James J. Myers '69, of Cambridge, ex-speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and trustee of the Mackay Estate; Mr. John C. Cobb, president of the Boston Associated Board of Trade and manager of the Taft campaingn in Massachusetts; and Mr. Samuel J. Elder, of Winchester, a well-known Boston lawyer and Yale graduate have been chosen. Any men not members...