The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-22
To Attend Reunion of His Class
mates of rs.
Survivors Number SO and 81 of
Them Will Be Present.
WILL SEE BALL GAME.
Attend Boat Race and Make
Several Speeches.
Declines to Discuss Bryan's
Comment on the Platform.

New Haven. Conn.,. June 22.-Secre-
tary William H. Taft reached this city
at 1:55 p. M, and left the station in
an automobile for the Yale campus
Mr. Taft is here to be present at q
reunion of his classmates of '78 there
being 96 survivors, 81 of whom will
be with Yale for the reunion On
Tuesday night Secretary Taft will at
tend his class dinner at the New
Haven country club, at which time he
will deliver an official address. The
secretary attended the alumni dinner
at p. m, where he spoke. Secretary
Taft has agreed to speak at the dedica-
ton of Flagstaff erected on Yale campus
by the class of '9S in memory of Lieu
tenant Ledyard, who was killed in
the Philippines.
He will attend the ball game on
Tuesday and will go to New London to
see the Yale-Harvard boat race on
Thursday. In the Taft party was
Judge II. c. Hollister of Cincinnati, a
class mate of the secretary and Ral-i
E. Clark, class of '9S, member OF
Judge HOLSTERS law firm. Frank D.
Kellogg, national committeeman from
Minnesota, came as far as New York
with the secretary, where he left the
party to take up his duties as CHIEF
counsel in the Standard Oil inquiry
now going on in New York.
1
| Secretary Taft said man must be an
! optimist to succeed. He spoke with
| enthusiasm about the demonstration
| for President Roosevelt at the Chi
cago convention, saying:
1T was a genuine demonstration
| and I tell you 1t was a great demon
| stration."
| Concerning the vice presidential
nominee. Mr.. Taft said:
'I have known Mr.. Sherman for q
1 III 4, -
him. However. / do not think this
| is the time to discuss personalities"
Mr.. Taft said he did not expect to
| return to Cincinnati, until the fall. and
that he will start his campaign for the
presidency in that city in September.
Asked about his selection of cam
paign manager. he said that nothing
definite had been decided in the mat
ter.
| Mr. Taft declined to discuss Mr..
Bryan's comments on the anti-injunc-
ton plank adopted at the Chicago
convention nor would he discuss any
feature Of the Democratic situation.
The secretary said he expected to be
| actively engaged in his campaign
| right up to election day and that he
| would not take any vacation.
I've got along without any vaca-
tion for. the last eight years. he said.
land 1 think I can stand it a little
| longer"
Congratulations Still Coming.
| Washington. June 22-Aside from a
congratulatory telegram to Secretary
Taft nothing has been heard at the
war department from General Luke
| E. Wright, who is to succeed him, as
to his movements, preceding the for
NAL assumption of his duties. Secre-
tary Taft is confidently looked for at
the department by the beginning Of
next week when General Wright will
be ready for a conference with him. A
great number of congratulatory letters
continue to be received at Secretary
Taft's office and now and then a stray
telegram comes along. Many of the
letters are said to be from persons in
the more modest walks of life. An
swers to the congratulations are held
for Secretary Taft's personal sigma
ture, when he returns to Washington.
| Today's mail brought congratula-
tory letters from Mrs. Lucreta r. Gar
field and Mrs. Benjamin Harrison. the
widows of ex-presidents. -.-l-
Charles Taft went with his mother
last night to join the secretary in New
Haven today. The family today will
be the guests of an old friend OF Mr.
Taft, William Farnham. ~