New-York tribune., 1908-03-04
GUILD PREFERS TAFT.
SECRETARY. IN BOSTON
Serer0i Thousand Persons Unable
TO Hear HIM.

Boston March "A great audience assembled
symphony Hall tonight and heard addresses
by William II. Taft, Secretary OF War; Elmer
J. Burkett, United States Senator from Ne
bTaska; Governor Curtis Guild, jr, and Lieu
tenant Governor Eben S. Draper. All the
speakers were guests of the Republican Club of
Massachusetts. which held its annual dinner in
the hail previous 10 the speechmaking. The
SPACIOUS galleries were thrown open to the pub
lie but so great was the demand for admission
that several thousand persons were unable TO
enter the building.
The address OF Secretary Taft followed lines
similar to the one which he delivered I'm Kan
City several days ago Governor Guild an
nounced his preference for Secretary Taft for
the party nomination for President and for
Lieutenant Governor Draper for Governor The
Governor also took occasion to deny that he
had been party to any arrangement by which
he would receive the nomination for Vice-Pres-
ident. He added that should he be selected he
would not refuse the nomination
WALKER INTRODUCES GUILD.
Representative Joseph Walker of Brookline.
presided and introduced the first speaker
Lieutenant Governor Draper, who was greeted
as the next Governor The second speaker
was Governor Guild He spoke in part fol-
lows:
II Is my high privilege TO welcome in your
name 10 Massachusetts, the distinguished sons
1hst MASSACHUSETTS, proposes this year 10 redeem
nsT steps OF four years e slnee snbi aa
ssn Presidential electors but Republican Gov
,rnor IN the person Of Eben Sumner Draper
Last fall You were good enough for the sixth
Lime 10 honor me with high public office ON
You. esther before or after election member
T fnrsc EoI;r trsf and ID lo1ai SUPPORT
IN twelve years we have become the first manu-
nerciai nation in the world The line of progress
: straight before us. The fists that grasp the
handles of the plough are be ones, but, no
matter who is to direct the course. the furrow
already drawn must be driven straight through
We may not all agree do not-with certain
methods the present President has employed The
skilful use of knee and rein Is sometimes better
foI steady progress long road than violent
The great essential fact is that though in this
wrong in method. he has been sincerely. fear
lessly and everlsstingly right in principle
Iiis successor is 10 have easy task The
Tour years before US are crowned with difficulties
needed for the tasks We nave to face aiO'H
II say . personal word about myself j IS
Easier by~ssabusing You here now and publicl,
.'f the inspired statements OF certain newspaper:
and newspaper correspondents outside OF this
<onInenwe ealth that possibly might tend TO some
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Jation that YOU have laid upon foFbids NE L
l,e either delegate to the next national eonven
7ion or q manager or canvasser for delegates.
9lsve made and shall make no canvass for fur
What have ever asked-all shall ever ask
I have too much respect for the high office viii
which YOU have honoTed me TO make IL TqlcuouS bl
5unnlng after any other nomination. IT, howeF er
iarpen 30 follow certain friendly calls from vari
satss m IN tnS & foqsn South and nd nHo1 MeS5 Il a sGqlq q
national recognition of Massachusetts and New
Ia this transition period into which we ar,
plunged every kind Of radicalsm is daily suggested
Gig" cf constitutional law and the limitation Of th
powers of the national executive and national gov
Who is a better expert than one who has no
merely pleaded a member of the bar. but sa
upon the bench as Judge IN The courts of the Unite;
s7nd 10 advance judicously than one who has no
only the judicial temperament bat judicial train
ds eeT R G s among 1d good I'd men % the R best for u
The admnistrator. the American whose private char
sct-r Is as white as his judicial eTmine William
MUCH ENTHUSIASM FOR TAFT.
When Secretary Taft rose to speak he wa.
enthusiastically spplauded, the demonstration
lasting minute and d half before he could be
gin his speech. The greater portion of his ad
dress was given to a discussion of tn
principles which the Republican party had in
sisted on during its existence and which, he as
serted, had been successfully carried out Among
shese were. the issues Of slavery, tariff th'
Spanish war and expansion He said that there
had been certain influences in the Republican
party which he called disease, but he de
tared that the party had cured the disease ir
tfs own ranks and had gone on to success.
Taking up more modern affairs he said tha
she administration Of President Roosevelt woul'
soe remembered as extension Of reforms
many Of which President Roosevelt himself ha'
snitiated and become responsible for. especially
fhose in relation his attitude toward trusts
snd combinations of capital
The speaker said that there some mel
.sho had used capital in Illegal form. monop
xIies which were unlawful and rebates whicl
ssere held to be questionable Among the result
ey the administration the rate bill becaus