The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-30
TAFT'S TALK TO
THE SHOVELERS
Candidate Appreciates the
Honor Conferred Upon Him
by the Union.
GOES BACK TO HOT SPRINGS
WILL RETURN TO CINCINNATI
FIRST OF SEPTEMBER.

Cincinnati, July 29.-William How
ard Taft, accompanied by Mrs. Taft,
left Cincinnati at $40 o'clock tonight
for Hot Springs, Va, where they will
remain until the opening of the cam
paign the first week in September.
AT that time Mr.. Taft will return to
this city, where il is his present inten-
ton to remain until election day.
The day following thte notification
ceremonies was one of comparative
quiet for the candidate. He had an
extended conference with Arthur L.
Vorys, his chief of staff. touching
many minor matters in connection
with the Ohio situation. He also saw
Chairman williams and Elmer Dover,
secretary Of the national committee.
He was made member of the Inter-
national Brotherhood of Steam Show
elers and Dredgemen's union, and late
in the afternoon went in an automoolle
TO the home OF his father-in-law, Mr..
Heron. where Mrs. Taft spent the en-
tire day. Mr.. Taft said he felt no Ill
effects of his speech-making exertions
yesterday, but will go back to the
mountains with some relish for
month of comparative quiet and golf.
Speech to Shovelers.
In accepting TIC
shovelers' organization, Mr.. TAFT mad
this TO say regarding labor:
Il am very glad to have at your
hands this expression of confidence in
my efforts to do justice while was In
office. The work upon which many
of your members and l were engaged
in one capacity or another. endeaVor-
ing 10 facilitate the greatest construc-
tive work of modern times, adds a
81 int m in the COM
pliment YOU pay me today. / am es-
pecially gratified because you evince
n liberal and impartial view or thus
rendering me this compliment be-
cause i'm the administration of work on
the isthmus l did not always declre
in favor of your contentious Bul
when l decided contrary to the claim
which was made by you. 1 tried TO
give reasons, which / think by your
action today. were convincing OF my
desire TO reach a just conclusion.
other Noted Union Men.
President Mckinley had the honor
TO be an honorary member OF the
Bricklayers' union, President Roose-
Welt has the honor TO be an honorary
member of the Firemen's union With
such examples as that. and with the
precedents in my own life In becoming
an honorary member of useful organ
izations, l cannot see the slightest OBJ
lection to my accepting this compli-
ment at your hands, which I appre-
ciate highly, and which / shall always
cherish as one of the evidences that
there are some men whom l have con-
WINGED. through my official work, of
my desire TO do thes quare thing for
everybody"
T. ]. Dolan, president of the organ
ization, speaking of the manner in
which Judge Taft had treated the or
ganization in connection with canal
work, said to Judge Taft:
I'VE always have been treated by
you in an eminently fair and just man
ner. you always having shown your
appreciation of our efforts in securing
volunteers from our organization from
all parts of the country, 1t being neces-
sary to ask for volunteers because of
the climatic conditions that exist on
the isthmus."