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Seven copies of documents related to Taft's Presidential Campaigns. All appear to be typed copies of letters, newspaper articles, speeches, etc. One is titled "Extract for the Concord Evening Monitor - Monday, September 14, 1908 / As to Mr. Taft. President Roosevelt Tells of his Remarkable qualities." 6pp. in which Roosevelt outlines Taft's qualities for the office. "The honest wage-worker, the honest laboring man, the honest farmer, the honest mechanic or small trader, or man of small means, can feet that in a peculiar sense Mr. Taft will be his representative because of the very fact that he has the same scorn for the demagog that he has for the corruptionist,... No consideration of personal interest, any more than of fear for his personal safety, could make him swerve a hair's breadth from the course which he regards as right and in the interest of the whole people." Second typed article has title page "Taft Makes Good Promise to Labor. Administration's Record Squares with its Pledges." Probably put together for the second campaign, it looks at Taft's record with labor for the past three years. 4pp with title. Two legal sheets with "Photographs of President Taft at Different Periods in Pathe's Weekly." With captions, photo numbers. Another sheet has literature that is ready for distribution by the "National Taft Bureau." 2+ pp. 3pp giving Taft's "Work for Farmers." It notes that Taft saw the Department of Agriculture as critical and exempt from "belt tightening" in the face of a smaller budget. Taft cited in his first inaugural address that the scientific work of the Department must continue, since it benefits such a large number of people. 2pp spelling out in some detail Taft's hires of African Americans and their inter-departmental transfers. 3pp on "onion skin" copy paper, pinned together with a straight pin, with a couple of glued "extensions" on the paper - each page is a slightly different size, more or less legal size - with numerous manuscript edits. This draft outlines Taft's achievements in combating disease in the Army. "Typhoid fever is the most formidable of all camp diseases, and its ravages in the army were deeply impressed upon the minds of the people during the Spanish-American, war when it made its appearance in more than 90 per cent of all the regiments mustered into the service within eight weeks of their organization. Owing to the sanitary precautions and the method of vaccination against typhoid applied to all the troops in the army of mobilization , both officers and men, but one case of typhoid developed among the soldiers after three months in camp, and one case in the person of a civilian teamster who was unvaccinated. This record is unparalleled in the history of military medicine." The paper goes on to outline the "conquest" (or at least discovery of the cause) of beri-beri, which affected Asian troops the way typhoid affected American troops. They also mention the reduction in yellow fever in Cuba, and ongoing work on hook worm disease in the Philippines. "By reason of his having been Secretary of War, President Taft's interest in all branches of the War Department work has been especially keen and the efforts of the Medical Bureau to reduce the death rate, stamp out disease and build up the health and strength of the United States soldier has had his loyal and continuous and intelligent support." Condition: Most with some toning, a few fairly extensive. The larger sheets tend to have some edge scuffing.