Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1908-12-18
TAFT INSISTS ON
KEEPING PLEDGE
Tariff Must be Re-
vised According to
Party Plan
PROMINENT MEN HEAR HIM
Principal Speaker at Ohio
Society's Banquet, Hughes
Hailed as Next President

New York, Dec 1S.-Presdent.elect
Taft was the guest of honor at the
twenty-thrd annual dinner of the
Ohio society of New York. Around
the 100 tables of the Waldorf-Astoria
We're men gathered from every Sec
ton of the country and leaders in
many walks of life. Mr. Taft took adj
vantage of the occasion, in a speech
filed with more earnestness than any
he has delivered since his election, TO
pledge his administration and his par
ty so far as he can control IT, to
loyal adherence to the Chicago plat
form.
He dwelt almost wholly upon the re-
vision of the tariff which he singled
out at the last national convention.
and after having previously referred
to the veto power of the chief execu-
tive, said
Better no revision at all, better
that the new bill should fail, unless
we have an honest and thorough re-
vision on the basis laid down and
the principles outlined in the party
platform"
Mr.. Taft also referred to the Sher-
man antitrust law and declared for
its enforcement as one of the Roose-
welt, policies that the party had
pledged itself to carry forward
Seated at the Presidents table"
with Mr.. Taft were the vice president
elect. Mr.. Sherman, Gov Hughes. Hen.
ry w. Taft. president of the society:
| Charles p. Taft of Cincinnati. Horace
u. Taft Cof Watertown, Conn; DIR. Ar
| thur T. Hadley. president of Vale;
| former Senator ,lohn G. Spooneij one
of those who responded to the toasts;
]. Pierpont Morgan Paul Morton.
| Gov. Franklin Fort of New Jersey,
Secretary Straus, Frank H. Hitchcock,
Bishop Leonard of Ohio. Gen. II. G.
| Corbin, Admiral Casper Goodrich. and
Others
Gov. Hughes was hailed by Toast
master Henry Taft and by Senator
| Spooner as the successor Of Mr..
Taft" when it should again come
New Yorks turn to name the occ"-
rant of the White House.
The president-elcc was the last TO
speak. He said:
81 am going to talk little politics
tonight. And | want to invite your
serious attention TO some OF the re-
cu)iarities with which we have to ceal
in our form of government, as COM
nared to that of other nations. Ours
is essentially government OF partfes.
, England also has parties, but lnere
thew fix the responsibility of the parry
on one man. They do not divide the
responsibility as We do here, upon seV.
eral different heads. The DIVISIONS OIL
authority in our parties sometlmes
makes it extremely difficult to caSry
ont the promises so freely made IN
: tho course of campaign.
S "The President is the executive vi
f the nation and while in the Whi'e
5 bouse is rightly regarded as he heau
| of his party. for in the campaign "Iilch
l follows his term of Office ne Is III q
S sense made responsible for whas mas
: happened during the party admins
iration. Yet when we come 70 thc
= election of candidate ana the aaof-
l tion of platform declaring the i,rlh-
!. cinles of the party, this work ls iel,
to convention of men gathered from
all the states Il the Union.
"Once the party has adopted us
5 n,atform in convention and has sue
e cessfullv gone before the people On
J. that platform, it becomes the sacred
l. duty of the President, the sacred duty
If of the House and Senate sacredly 70
n carry ont the policies thus declared.
e "The principal plank in the Chicago
Y platform was the one which declared
IL for a revision of the tariff at an extra
q session of the Congress to be caileu
as soon as possible after the 1ourti
of March next. In that plank the
standard by which the revision coulo
= be made was plainly laid down. y
y y was agreed that the revision should
! ! be made on the principles OF protec'
- tion. and that principle was detiheo
: further by the statement that the rates
: TO be fixed should be measure o. the tl'
- difference of the cost OF productloel
here and abroad, with reaso1apis
profit to the manufacturers.
. "This declaration devolyed upon tne
narty the duty of determining VIVA
i'll the difference in the cost OF pfouu0
at tion here and abroad and liking q ray
,t- which would provide q reasonlaSoi' lSl''
te profit to the manufacturer. This mus mus
ar- be the basis Of our new tarin law.
Mr.. Taft declared