The Nevada County picayune., 1908-10-22
'AFT'S CAMPAIGN OF RUNko

why Taft Went West; or Is Golf hadyllke Game might afford an an. proprlate title for a chanter or Nr 5 at recent campaign trip. It now aINe'o1s s.', mat one of the chief reasons "HS MT. Taft took to the rear plat form was 10 tell the farmers of the northwest about golf. and to show then that he is Tot dude NIr. Taft emphasized that fact in his speech at fafgo, x. D. By inference. at least IL was apparent that Mr. Taft wanted 10 inform his hearers that if bv any chance he should be elected president mere would be no more tennis cabi. nets, such as President Roosevelt maintains, but that he would proceed 10 organize golf cabinet and play the game on the White lot. He might invite that other distinguished golfer John D. Rockefeller. to play ".tN Eiif., but John D. is not so popu- hf "l'h the farmers and laboring men as he is with the Republican party. so MT. Taft did not mention him.
 Here Is record of what he said on the subject, as transcribed from the stenographer' notes:
 | want to make a little personal explanation. l got an intimation that l ought to go out to North Dakota and convince the people that l am not an aristocrat and above the people They said that l had heen playing golf this summer, that that is an eastern game and it indicated that l was out of sym pathy with the plain people We'll, I n in to satisfy public opinion on that game of golf. In Scotland golf is the game of the poor, and in this country, where you can get place to play it, 1t IS the game of the people that are not active enough to play baseball and tennis that have too much weight to carry around, And yet when a man weighs 295 pounds you have got to give him some opportunity to make his legs and muscles move. and golf affords that opportunity. It may be that it is a game of rich men, but 1 beg to as- sure you that l am personally advised of the fact that very poor man can play it. But somehow or other my friends were certain that if I could only come out here and show you the
 
 you would get over the impression that there is anything about me that resembles dude. So, l am here and 1 am glad to be here.'
 After setting himself right on the all important golf question MT. Taft proceeded to explain why It was that two gentlemen" as he characterized them, who had violated the antitrust law. and who were presidents of two subsidiary concerns of the Tobacco trust. had not been put in jail when they had confessed their guilt He then argued that 1t would be better to have trusts than to have the statutes piled with laws which would result in red tape and impose burdens on cor porations.
 In the same speech MT Taft paid Mr. Bryan the compliment of admit ting that to take the tariff off and put on the free list every trust-made arti- cle in this country would cer- tainly end the trust that was depend ent on the tariff.
 MT. Taft. perhaps unwittingly, how ever. admitted also that the Dlngley tariff i.i not responsible for the pros perity of the farmers, for he said, T don't maintain that the Dingley tarlr bill alone accounts for the great pros perity that we have enjoyed in the last II years. Certainly so far as the farmers are concerned. the Lord has had a good deal to do with 1t In the matter of good crops.
 This is the first instance on record where the Republican party ever con scented to divide honors with the All mighty.