The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-28
OVATION TO TAFT
YALE MEN GREET SECRETARY A WITH ENTHUSIASM.
Presidential Probability is silent to All Expressions Touching on Politics. He Reaches Cincinnati on
 Western Tsrfu.

Cincinnati. April 27.-Smoking the pipe of peace with vigorous whiffs, but with his friends carrying a war bon net within his easy reach, Secretary of War Taft today returned to his old home reservation. His public utter ances were devoid of political import and his private words were those of harmony and good will During the afternoon, however, he sat in political counsel with the wise men and throughout the dozens of belligerent young bucks did scalp dances and made much political war talk.
 The secretary himself was consis- tently silent upon all matters relating to the Presidency. Senator Foraker, the leader of the political faction op- posing the secretary in this State. sus- tained today a deep personal sorrow in the death of his brother, James R. Foraker. It is therefore certain that there can be during the present west ern trip of Secretary Taft no politi- cal argument or debate between him and the senator
 The friends of the secretary were more demonstrative than he and. chief among them, were the men from Yale who came here as did the secretary. to attend the annual convention of the Associated Western Yale Clubs. Sec retary Taft, as president of the organi- zation, held the gavel at the business meeting in the morning and again at the banquet In the evening.
 Although the secretary announced upon his arrival in the city that he would not in any manner allude to poli- tics during his visit to the west, there no such restraint on the yonng men from Yale. They hailed from nearly every State in the union between the Alleghenies and the Mississippi, and many were present from the South. Their allusions to the next President of the United States" were frequent and popular. The sentiment could not be downed, and although the secretary ignored 1t as much as possible, 1t was impossible to entirely pass it by.
 The first outbreak came in the busi- ness meeting. The secretary, as pre- siding officer, had announced the per sonnel of a nominating committee and mentioned the offices they were to fill. As he finished, voice from the throng offered the amendment of 'and also, nominate the next President of the United States" spontaneous yell came from the convention but the sec retary was unmoved. The gentleman Is out of order" he said with such definite lack of appreciation that the men who had cheered the words tried to make up for their own misconduct by glaring with strong disapproval at the man who had led them astray. He sank into his seat looking abashed and silly, although it is to the secretary he had made less noise than anybody in the room.
 At tonights banquet. however, the signs were on every side of the com ing Presidential campaign. The sec retary himself was pnmoved or jocu- lar at the frequent allusions and the continued applause which followed them. He was at all times noncommit- tai, but for the men from Yale the bow of presidential promise was already arching the sky and it formed nothing more nothing less than political halo for the head of Secretary Taft of Yale. So they rendered great glory to the school in that it had sent for the men and gave much honor to the man because he had entered the school
 Secretary Taft, as presiding officer and toastmaster. delivered the first ad- dress of the evening.
 At the conclusion of Secretary Taft's address, he intrdouced President Had ley of Yale University, who spoke upon Vale"
 Other speeches of the evening were, The Alumini Advisory Council" Fred erick N. Judson, of St. Louis; Yale in Ohio" w. o. Henderson, Columbus O.; Thirty Five Years at Yale" by President-elect Frederick S. Dickson, of Cleveland.