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'.. 4 TLhe 2ail IRebraehan Vol. VIII. No. 9. GUEST Of UNIVERSItV PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE TAFT 8PEAK8 AT TEMPLE. ARRIVES ON SCHEDULED TIME MANY CLA88E8. DI8MI88ED FOR H8 ADDRE88. Judge Appears Tired an His Voice Is Hoarse and 8hows the Effects of the Constant 8train of a 8trenuous Campaign. William H. Taft, republican candi date for president of the United States was the guest of the university. His first speech in Lincoln was delivered before a university audience in the Temple. Many classes wore dismissed in order that the studontB and profes sors might have an opportunity of hearing the distinguished speaker. Mr. Taft arrived lri Lincoln at 5:15 o'clock in the aftornoon in accordance with his schedule as previously an nounced. A largo crowd greeted him at the dopot and followed his carriago up to the university. Escorted to the University Mr. Taft was escorted from the dopot up to the unlvorslty by a long lino of automobiles and carriages. The parade gathered in front of the Capital Hotel and then went to the depot where it was formed in lino. A band Berved to create enthusiasm while a squad of university cadots, numbering about fifty, and armed with mega phones gave university yells and cheers for Taft The road taken by Judge Taft was up It street to Twelfth and then north to the Temple. Along this routo many people had gathered to see the can didate and the street was surrounded with carriages. Ono feature of the trip was tho disagreeable forwardness of many people anxious to grasp tho hand of tho candidate. They swarmed about him and over tho carlage and were Insistent upon some attention. Taft Looks Tired. Mr. Taft looked very tired but In spite of this he wore the same smile which has become famous during tho campaign. His voice was In very poor shape although by an effort he over came much of its hoarseness. Ho showed plainly tho strain which ho has been under for the last few days. A large crowd of studonts gathered about the weBt entrance to the Tern pie as tho capacity of the thoator was limited and many could not gain on trance. Admission was by tickets pre viously lBSued at tho Y. M. C. A. rooms, but these disappeared before many were ablo to obtain them. As soon as tho speaker arrived the doors were thrown open to tho public. Temple Well Decorated. Tho unlvorslty republican club has made a large feature of tho presence of Judgo Taft Tho Tjjmpjfl raa doc drated with stroamora and tho box office was almoBt hidden by a display of palms. Tho cadets who took part in the celebration wore fitted, out with megaphones and ponants bearing the names of Sheldon and Taft The demonstration in Mr. Taf t'rf hon or was largely non-partisan and was the university's welcome to a promi nent American. It was a high honor, that Mr. Taft was willing that his Urut speech in Lincoln should be to the university students. ' Mr. Taft came to Lincoln over the Northwestern railroad, but the train was switched onto the Burlington and taken to Havolock, where Mr. Taft spoke to tho workmen. Miss Jessie Kriedler, A. O. P., ex 1009, is teaching in the Fullorton city schools this year. Baked boans, baked oh the premises and served hot with delicious brown bread, lQo, at The, Boston Lunch. UNIVERSITY OF INCONVENIENT TO HEAR TAFT. Young Bryan Forced to Qo In 8earch of a Ticket. The son of a democratic presidential candidate experiencing difficulty in getting a ticket to attend a meeting addressed by his father's opponent was tho unique spectacle which occurred on tho Unlvorslty of Nebraska campus yesterday afternoon. William J. Bryan, Jr., Bon of William J. Bryan, presidential candidate, much desired to hoar William H. Taft, also a presidential candldato, talk to tho university students. He went to the man who had the tickets in charge and besought tho favor of an admis sion. But all the available tickets were already out and young Bryan was up against a stiff proposition. Luckily for tho democratic leader's heir, he had a frlond at court after some difficulty suceeded In precurlng a single admission. w I If I I? C " " I I I v , "h 'I If i i '- ' U W " . 'I I ." tt I NEBRASKA, LINCOLN, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1908. WORKING AMONG GIRLS CAMPAIGN ON TO 8ELL 8TUDENT TICKET8 TO THEM. OPINION OF CO-ED ON PUN Tells Manager Eager How 8he Is Go ing to Attend the Games This Year Without Depending On Male Escort. Managor Earl O. Eager announced yeBtorday that a special campaign had been started to sell student athletic tickets to tho co-eds of tho university. The salo of those tickets has been large among the boys. The girls, tho manager says, have been slow, how ever, in securing tho season books. Ho says that tho boys will buy tho . I ii J i w a i i. -i ' f v WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT books without much urging, but that it is nocessary to convlnco oach co-ed Individually that tho Innovation Is a good thing for all tho studonts. In order to mako tho now plan a suc cess, It is said, that it will bo neces sary for a majority of tho girls of tho unlvorslty to buy tho student books. Quito a largo numbor of tho co-eds havo alroady got In lino and purchased tickots so that they will bo ablo to at tend all tho atblotlo contosts of tho yoar without doponding on somo man to take them to any of tho ovonts. Some Have Tickets. "Tho girls," Manager Eagor ox plained yesterday afternoon, "do not need to be' afraid to buy thoso tickots. Thoro are going to bo a wholo lot of tho co-eds at all our football and other contests. Severnl girls havo bought tickets of mo and many of them wore glrlB who until this year had always (Continued on Page 2) fVj 1 '.". jM'fh Price 5 Cents. WANT TO STAND WELL THI8 DESIRE OF COLLEGE MAN WORTH MUCH 8AY8 TAFT. COLLEGE ESTIMATE RIGHT ONE Opinion of classmates shows what the man will be. Republican Presidential Aspirant Lays Aside All Political Questions and Talks of College Life and Its Influences. With Governor Sheldon, Sonators Burkott, and Brown, Congressmen Pol lard, National Commlttoman Rose wator and othor promlnont mombors of his party on tho platform, William H. Taft, republican presidential nom lnoo, yestorday addrossed an audlenco of nearly a thousand unlvorslty stu donts and faculty. Tho Temple auditorium was packed to tho limit and hundreds woro loft j outside.. Admission was by ticket and tho ushorB woro practically swampod, as largo numbors got In without tho pastoboards. Tho conter section of tho orchostra was reserved for the mombors of tho Sholdon and tho Pol lard marching clubs which escorted Mr. Taft from tho station to tho auditor ium. Following preliminary cheers by the marching clubs and tho unlvorslty yell, M. E. Cornelius, president of the Unl vorslty Republican club, introduced Senator E. J. Burkott Mr. Burkott spoke very briefly, showorlng compli 'ments everywhere In his characteris tic manner. Ho referred to tho Uni versity of Nebraska as tho greatest university of America and asserted his assured belief that nowhere would Mr. Taft moot an audionco of such strong and sturdy young manhood. Own College Days. ' Mr. Taft rose at tho formal presenta tion of his namo by Sonator Burtrett and greoted tho enthusiastic applause, with a courteous and smiling bow After thanking tho audience for their cordial ocoption he spoko In part as follows, his remarks being punctuated' by applause: "I do not feel a stranger in address" ing a college audionco. It brings ihe back to my own life at coll ego and to tho campaign of Hayes and Tllden. I remember how thoroughly divided we were at that time and I presume that that you horo aro divided over tho present situation In Juat the same man ner. I hope that your division has caused debate to bo among you, for anything that loads you to exercise your power in debate Is productive of good. "I wish I could toll you of tho de lights of the llfo through which you are now passing. Never do I come in con tact with college life, but I am sorry ' that tho best four years of my life are gono. Yet I should not say that Those four years are never gone. Memory of them remains always. The friend ships, the fruit of contact with the men of school and class, if you are ft man at all, never disappear. One never, with nerhans tho excnntfnn nt ' his wife, makes friendships more last- "o uuio tun oi guua eneci on alter lifo than those contracted In college. Nothing Sordid There. ."That Is the time when the chara ter is forming. Life is free from the sordid considerations which may after wards enter and which may influence one into a .chase after the almighty dollar. College life is free from suck Influence as that "You learn a great deal at the uni versity. I hope that you will carry away a great deal. Yet the abeolate Intellectual benefits are not so great as Is the development of the miad along lines fixed by college Ufluenoee. . The greatest debt of manhood to the i (Continued pa Page I) ii i j A