Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-08-06
MIR" Taft Tells Visiting News.
paper Men That He Got the
Name at Yale.
FOOD REPORT BROUGHT HIM
econd Asst. Postmnster-Genern Nc
Cleary Says Minnesota ana WIS.,
conSin Arc in Good shape
Taft Hopes for n Specdicr
and Cheaper Justice.

I1Ot lHkS, va, aug. just Cdll
me Mr.. Taft and If YOU drop into
colloquiism, call me Bill" This was
Judge Tafts laughing reply to-day
when granting audience to a number
of newspapermen. who had severally
addressed as "Mr Secretary" Gov
ernor," Judge" and Mr.. Taft" IT
first got the name Bill at Yale" laugh
ed Mr.. Taft replying to question.
Before l went .here | had been Will
lie In my home and among my Gin
cinnati boyhood friends. But when I
got through school. was called VIII
at home My younger brother Harry
however, never called me Willie after
happening one day at college. We
roomed together on the top floor Of
Farnam hail. Our room was just
over the middle entrance. Harry was
n freshman, l a Junior. He had gone
out and forgotten to take with him
book he wanted. He came back to
the entrance and looking up on the
outside yelled %, Willie Well, in a
second there was a head out of every
one of the four hundred windows. and
It seemed as though every one yelled
at once. At any rate there was a
Harry He has called me BIZ ever
since
How about the four hundred stu
dents7"
"Oh, they called me Bill Just the
same You sec weighed 200 then"
Mr.. and Mrs. Taft attended services at
St Luke's Church and listened to a ser
mon by the Rev. John G, Scott.
James T. MCCleary second assistant
postmaster general and candidate for
Congress, who has Just returned from
Minnesota and Wisconsin, spent Sun
lay here. He assured Mr., Taft that IN
Ms opinion the republican situation N
Minnesota is In excellent shape.
In Wisconsin. Mr.. McCleary says the
handling by Judge Taft Of the railroad
question IN his letter of acceptance, has
pleased the La Toilette wing OF the party
N that State.
MIR. TAFT ON JUSTICE
Speaking generally. I believe the great
.st question now before the American
,ublc Is the improvement Of the ad-
ninistration Of Justice civil and criminal
both In the matter Of its prompt dis
,atch and the cheapeninE of its use"
Judge Taft made this statement YES
serday in discussing the address he Is to
make here next Thursday to the Vir-
ginia Bar association, arrangements for
which were being made with him by
President Wyndham 3. Merdith of the
association.
1T is a difficult problem" ne added
Every difficult indeed TO make the ad-
ministration OF justice equal to the poor
and the rich. The difficulty is In the
advantage the wealthy man has in the
employment of counsel and In the fact
that he is able to stand the expense Of
litigation and the poor man Is not.
There seems to be no absolute remedy
The only thing you can dots to rendsr
the administration OF Justice as pronfDt
as possible. The evil is in the delay more
than anything else"
Mr. Taft minated that he should
dwell at some length on this question. in
his address TO the bar association. The
association will also he addressed by
President Merdith and former Senator
William Lindsay of Kentucky and Ndw
York The meeting will begin Tucsd,v
and Mr.. Taft expects to attend several
OF It's sessions
Cameron Forbes vice-Rovcrnor of the
Philippines, and Gen. Charles r. Ed
wards. chief of the insular bureau have
been invited to Hot Springs by Dir.
Taft and will accompany him to white
Elphur Springs next Friday to attend
he Green Prier county horse show. Mr..
Taft will make no speech on this oc-
msion.
CONGRATULATORY LETTERS.
Yesterday was "congratulation day" so
FAR as Mr. Tafts mail went Many letters
contained fluctuations on the speech of
acceptance. Among those given to the
press was the following from John d.
Long. former secretary of tho navy:
Your speech Of acceptapcabs perfect
md ought to. as I cann6e Houbt IL will,
insure your election for which I earn
silly pray"
United States Senator Cullom of I'LL
iois wrote
Il have Just read your speech OF &C
,eptance and cannot refrain from
writing to tell you how much am de-
lighted with It. 1t rings true. every
word OF II. You did not fail to meet
very possible issue and you have left
he democrats without a leg to stand
your speech Is accepted here by the
.,eople and the press of the middle West
as the utterance of a great man OF
StronE convictions and not fearing or
hesitating to express your convictions N
every particular. Your speech of accept
ance made your election a certainty,
Had It been less strong, had You, n
weaker man might have done. wavered
IN any OF the great issues before us. the
result would have been disastrous, l
know that your hands are moro than
FULL, but / could not resist the temple
hon OF writing you >this note OF con
graduation. Not only are you to be con
graduated, but the party is to be con
graduated in having you at the head
Of the ticket this year"
GOOD NEWS FROM THE WEST.
An optimistic view OF the republican
situation in Iowa and Colorado was com
municated to Judge Taft yesterday by
Secretary Wilson. who Is in the West
looking after the interests of the de-
partment of agriculture. Mr.. Wilson
says the question Of tariff protection OF
farm products will have great weight IN
Colorado.