The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-04-29
TAFT In HIS
HOME TOWN
Yale Alumni Help His Boom
For President
POLITICS NOT TALKED
Even Seems to Be Annoyed at Demon
stration While Presiding at
Alumni Meeting IN
Cincinnati
POLITICS NOT TALKED

Cincinnati, o., April 20 Secretary Of
War Taft Saturday returned to his home
| in Cincinnati. His public utterances
were devoid Of political import and his
( private words were those Of harmony
and good will. During the afternoon,
however, he conferred with perhaps a
dozen politicians. The secretary himself
was consistently silent upon all matters
! relating to the presidency. On account
Of the death Saturday Of Senator Fosa-
ker's brother, James r. Foraker, ii II
certain that there can be during the
present western trip OF Secretary Taft
no political argument on debate between
him and the senator. The friends Of the
secretary We're more demonstratiye than
he, and chief among them we're the men
from Yale, who went to Cincinnati as
ibid the secretary. To attend the annual
convention OF the associated western
Yale clubs. Secretary Taft. as president
Of the organization, held the gavel at the
business meeting in the morning and
again at the banquet in the evening.
Although tine secretary announced up
on his arrival In the city that he would
not in any manner alludp to politics dur
I ing his visit west there was no such re-.
straint upon the young men Of Yale.
They hailed from nearly every state In
the Onion between The Alleghanies and
the Mississippi, and many were from the
south. Their aliusions to tbe next
lpresident OF the United States were
frequent and popular. The sentiment
could not be dnwned. and although the
secretary ignored ii as well as be could,
II was impossible to do 80 entirely. The
first outbreak came IN the business
meeting of the morning The secretary
as presiding officer announced the per-
sonnet Of nominating committee, and
mentioned the Offices they were to fill.
As he finished 4 voice from the gathering
offered the amendment Of, "and also
nominate the next president of the
United States" 4 spontaneous yell
came from the crowd. but the secretary
was unmoyed. @Ihe gentleman was out
Of order" he said, with such definite
lack of appreciation that the men who
had cheered the words tried to make up
flor their indiscretion by gIaring with
Idisapproval at the man who had led them
lastray. He sank into his seat, looking
abashed, although, next to the secretary,
he had made less noise than anybody In
the room.
At the banquet there were signs on
eyery side Of the coming presidential
lcampaign. The secretary himself was
lunmoyed or joctlar over the frequent al
lusions and the applause which followed
them. he was at ali times noncommit
ltal The secretary, as presiding officer
and POSTMASTER, delivered the FIRST ad
dress Of the evening This Is a time in
the history of the world, he said, "when
association is the order of the day and a
/ sympathetic feeling among even few
on any subject matter iustifes the form,
ing OF society Secretary Taft then
pointed out that the formation Of Yale
l clubs and eelnbs of the graduates Of
other institutions had grown into GUS
tom, and added Like every good thing
in the world, Yale Is 4 growth, and Is
/ growing more to-day than ever in its
1 history In conclusion, in presenting
President Hadley Of Yale 20 his fellow
\ alumni. Secretary Taft said ut is not
more than a dozen years ago since the
Yale men Of Cincinnati met and passed
IA resolution that in their opinion the
person TO be selected to succeed Presi-
dent Dwight was Arthur Hadley OF the
class of 1876. This was the first formal
expression Of opinion from any part of
the country. We cannot say that his
selection was due to that resolution, but
we can take pride in the fact that that
resolution expressed the general opinion
OF the alumni of Yale and Of the cor
poration, and we can take further pride
in the triumphant vindication Of our
judgment which the administration Of
] brn.idnnt Hadler 20 ahnndanilN fur.