Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-28
YALE MEN GIVE
TAFT GREAT FEAST
He Is Royalty Received Out in
Cincinnati.
TALK ABOUT PRESIDENCY
He Is Whooped Up as the Successor
of the President.
SoME OF HIS LATE VIEWS
He Tells Them About the Problems
That Confront the People
Now.
TALK ABOUT PRESIDENCY
SoME OF HIS LATE VIEWS

United States government will withdraw
from temporary control OF Cuba in septem-
Der, 1905. was manifested in an interview
by Secretary of War Taft today Briefly
referring to that country and his recent
visit there, the Secretary said that the
Cuban settlement had proved so unexpect-
eddy satisfactory and that Gov Magoon
had so completely succeeded in winning the
confidence of all parties there that he felt
that the United States could withdraw from
Cuba and give those people another oppor-
tunity for self-government not later than
September, 1908
Secretary Taft said that while the Cuban
parties had not agreed among themselves,
still they had agreed with him, and thus
the coming evacuation of the island bv the
American troops was a matter of calendar
calculation. Secretary Taft also said that
he expected to sail for the Philippines on
September ], to be absent about eighty
| days on the trip
lh!s statement is taken as a suggestion
that he has dismissed the idea that he
must cancel the Philippine engagement so
that he can devote his time to political
affairs in Ohio
The Secretary, by the way, is having the
tline OF his life with some Yale men who
(, are here to do him honor. They hailed
from nearly every state in the Union be-
tween the Alleghenies and the Mississippi.
| and many were present from the SOUTH
| Their illusions to the next President OF
the United States" were frequent and pop
| ular The sentiment could not be downed
| and, although the Secretary ignored IL
as well as he could. it was impossible to
pass it by entirely
The First Outbreak.
The first outbreak came in the business
meeting of the morning The Secretary, as
presiding officer, had announced the per-
sonnet of a nominating committee, and
mentioned the offices they were to fill. AS
he finished, voice from the throng Of
fered the amendment of land also nominate
the next President of the United States"
A spontaneous yell came from the conven-
! ton, but the Secretary 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
| glazing with disapproval at the man who
had led them astray; He sank into his
| seat looking abashed, although, next to
| the Secretary he had made less noise than
| anybody in the room.
At tonights banquet, however, there
were signs on every side of the coming
! presidential campaign. The Secretary him
! self was unmoved or jocular at the fire.
| quent illusions and the continued applause
which followed them. He was at all times
noncommittal, but, for the men from Yale
! the bow of presidential promise al
ready arching the sky and it formed moth
ing more nothing less, than political
| halo for the head of Taft of Yale So
rendered n he
| in that 1t had sent forth the man and
! gave much honor to the man because he
| had entered the school.
Secretary Taft, presiding officer and
POSTMASTER delivered the first address of
| the evening. He said:
This is time in the history of the
world, said Secretary Taft, when asso-
citation is the order of the day and SYM
pathetic feeling among even a few on any
subject matter justiiies the forming of a
society. 1t may be superfuous to point
out dwell upon the reason for the ASSOC
citation in whose name We gather tonight.
The hurnor of occasion like this is
chiefly reminiscent, and II Is not inappro-
I pirate therefore to invite your attention 10
the fact that in this city in December, 1864,
in law office in the Maconic Temple, was
| organized the first Yale club that was
formed anywhere in this country of the
graduates of our alma mater. and that in
this company tottering and venerable
alumni of the classes of 1868 and 1854 who
were present at that first meeting"
For GOOD or Yale.
Secretary Taft then pointed out that the
forma ton of Yale clubs and clubs of the
graduates of other institutions had grown
into a custom, and he briefly outlined the
idea which led to the formation of the
Western Federation of Yale Clubs, which
had its first meeting in Chicago two years
ago. its second in St Louis and now it's
third in Cincinnati. The advantage OF such
organization. to his mind. is that 1t
makes for the good of Yale, in that 1t
arouses interest in the university the coun-
try ard binds together in sweet
memories the members of the organiZa-
ton. The effect therefore" said the Sec
rotary. "of an association which spreads
the evangel of the Yale spirit through the
country by bringing to the university stu
dents from all over the country continues
and adds to the cosmopolitan character
that Yale has always enjoyed.
Another benefit which follows from the
organization of a club or an association or
clubs like this is the fact that 1t furnishes
| an opportunity for the crystallization and
| expression of opinions by the alumni or
the university upon the broad policies to
be pursued in the progress which the uni
Like every good thing in this world
Yale is a growth. and 1t is growing more
today than ever in It's history. Inc ex
pansion in the university during the last
twenty years has been much greater than
in the previous one hundred years.
Moral Tone Has Improved.
at is not true that because hazng has
disappeared, because drunkenness is very
much less, that therefore men may not de-
veiop rugged. practical qualities fitted to
resist temptations of after life; and all OF
us ought to rejoice that the material growth
of Yale since we were there has been par
alleled by an Improvement in the moral
tone of the student body and in the stand
ards set by that public opinion which is
even stronger as an influence In the cox
lege community of New Haven than in tile
body polite at large. The change has not
affected the spirit Of Independence. Of self.