The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-01

Speeches In Ohio in as Many Days
 Without Abiding to POIitics-No
 Work, the Secretary Says, Can be
 Done With Vigor and With an Effort
 to Do Ones Duty Without Encoun-
 tering Opposition From Wicked and
 Vicious Persons.
 Washington, April 2S.-Apparently Secretary Taft has kept his promise of making three speeches in Ohio in as many days without referring, even re- motely, to politics. Of course politics was referred to by his friends at the meeting of the Western Federation of Yale clubs. The secretary Is generally nominated for the Presidency, the chief justiceship, whenever he is in the pres ence of a group of Yale men. MT. Taft has never taken these allusions to his political future seriously When some one suggested to him recently that the Western Federation would probably AeA AQllNAl lllS DOOIll IOE lllG I6SIQCllCJ without saying anything to him about it in advance, the secretary remarked: ''The accession is non-political, and my address will be in keeping with the occasion. Whenever my Yale friends say anything about my Presidential ambitions I am reminded of an inci- dent which occurred at one of the sev- eral Gridiron dinners l have attended. Something having been said about my nomination for the Presidency, in the course of speech which Uncle Joe Cannon made, he did me the honor to address a few, remarks to me. He said among other things, shaking his finger at me the while he spoke: Young man, don't you know that you can not be elected by the votes of the saints alone? That thought. every time I am nominated and elected by a Yale audience crawls upon me, and leaves me in a condition entirely free fro mthe buzzing of the bee"
 Instead of regretting that his speech es in Ohio last week were to be non- secretary, who was fresh from a months trip In Panama, Cuba and Porto Rico, where he was not able to keep close track of happenings at home to know that he would not be compel led In any of these utterances to take Il pthe subject of his political future before he had acquainted himself with recent changes in the situation. AL though the secretary is now in the race to stay, it has been no easy matter for
 i'm to turn his back again upon what ssas hitherto been the ambition of his life, a seat On the United States Su- preme court. With all of his good na- ture the secretary is still a sensitive man.
 "A man in public life" he remarked to a group of Yale men, who visited him on one occasion, "has to go through a great many unpleasant ex periences. He never gets used to 1t, but he frequently arises in the morning to find in the papers column by some gentleman who with the freedom of ' liar or a thief does not hesitate to ex- press himself with the candor that be- Comes an American The truth is that n0 work can be done with vigor and with an effort to do one's duty unless there is some opposition encountered from vicious and wicked persons and also by persons most conscientious, who view the matter from different stand point and who do not hesitate to ex- press their views and to question the motives of those who are working in the direction that they do not approve. At such time 1t is of the greatest as sistance to the public official, charged with the responsibility of trying to work out a problem, to feel as I have often felt about my Yale friends, that there is body of men who are willing to take it for granted that the off, cial by reason of his training at Yale is probably trying to do his duty. I cannot say what a comfort it is in crises that are presented-they may not seem to be crises to other people, but they are crises in a personal sense ito feel that the Yale men of this country whom know and who know me, are waiting and hoping that the charges that are brought against me will be met some time in the future if not immediately. On the other hand, the consciousness that if one is found wanting, it will pain and humiliate his other Yale friends is one of the strong est supports, and reasons why he should hew closer to the line"
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 ALDERMANIC MEETING.