Word: speaker
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...will be for the best interests of Cuba that the United States, before the end of the next two years, cease to have any part in the government of that island, reserving only those rights included in the Platt Amendment." At the first trial, on next Thursday evening, each speaker will be allowed five minutes to argue either the affirmative or negative of the subject for the debate; and as a result of these speeches, from twelve to sixteen men will be retained. These men will deliver 10-minute speeches on the question at the second trial on March...
After being for several years the representative of the city press at the State House, Mr. Murphy has been on the Globe staff for the past twelve years and is widely known throughout state political circles as a ready and witty writer and speaker...
...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...
...last speaker was Mr. Samuel J. Elder, of Winchester, a prominent Boston lawyer and Yale graduate. He said that it was gratifying to see that Harvard was supporting a Yale graduate, Taft, as strongly and sincerely as Yale, a few years ago, had supported Roosevelt, a Harvard man. He said that both Hughes and Taft stand for civic honesty and the purity of the country, but that Taft, because of his superior equipment and indomitable courage, was the better man. In closing, he said that Taft should be elected for he has always stood by the President and his principles...