The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-06-25
MAKING MUCH Of
SECRETARY TAFT
Commencement Festivities at
Yale Big Boost for the
Candidate.
DEGREE FOR J. P. MORGAN
DOCTOR OF LAWS AS WELL AS or
RAILROADS.

Lew into the commencement festivities
at Yale.
Secretary William II. Taft was in
formed of the demise of Mr.. Cleveland
as the procession of officials of the uni
Nerslty, the faculty and the graduates
was forming to march to WOOlsey hall, in
which the commencement exercises were
held. He expressed his deepest regret at
Mr. CIVeland's death, and said:
president Cleveland was one of the
very great men of the country. His death
= i distinct loss TO the American people"
Later in the day at the commencement
dlnner the secretary paid a beautiful and
eloquent tribute to the memory of the
oead eX-president
Postponed a Meeting.
Al the conclusion of the commencement
exercises. Secretary Taft announced that
on account Of the continued illness of
Representative James s Sherman his
running mate on the Republican national
ticket, he had decided TO postpone for one
week the meeting of the subcommittee
or the national committee which was APP
pointed TO meet him IN conference TO Sc
lect a national chairman. The adjourned
meeting was to have been held in Wash
lngton on Wednesday, July l. but by Sec
rotary Taft's direction it will not be held
until Wednesday, July s. The secretary
late today sent a telegram 10 his private
secretary In Washington, Frank w. Car
penter, directing him TO send messages TO
ing him of the change in the date of the
conference.
Mr.. Sherman" said Secretary Taft lis
anxious TO be present at the conference,
and II seems likely now that he viii not
be able physically 10 be in Washington
next week. 1t is desirable, therefore, that
the conference be postponed.
Alumni Dinner.
At the alumni dinner after the formal
commencement exercises. Secretary Taft
delivered the second of his scheduled adj
dresses for the week. He made only
casual reference 10 politics in his speech,
4 that being when he begged to advise the
youngest alumni of Yale that the term
democratic is a mere historical de-
ScriptiOn. To what was regarded as
significant extent he outlined his own pO-
sition whsT Ie said he had come to Yale
filled with Yale spirit which was the
spirit of prOgressiveness without the spirit
of destructiVeness-"
Secretary Taft sat between President
Hadley and Joaquin NabucO the Brazilian
ambassador. who was here today to re-
sitting next 10 the Brazilian ambassador.
He received the degree of doctor of laws,
but was Obliged to leave the hall before
the speech making began.
The secretary was introduced in fe-
licitous speech by President Hadey, and
as a preface 10 the secretary's speech the
assemblage sang, Everybody takes his
hat off to Taft" The secretary said:
Eulogy of Cleveland.
Mr.. President. Ladies and Gentlemen.
Men of Yale:-l Join in expression Of
sorrOw-deep sOrrOw-at the death of
Grover Cleveland. He was a great man,
and a great president. He had the highest
civic ideals. he had a rugged honesty, he
had "A high courage and courage that
snakes him now happy in his death, as he
leaves this life revered, respected and
loved BY all his c0untTymen. and there
is no more fitting place to pronounce an
eulOgy on him than in meeting OF Yale
men, actuated and inspired with Yale
spirit"
against those who had received degrees
being permitted TO have them without
making a speech and then added;
Last year l was compelled to take the
place of Senator Knox, and this year OF
experience with the members of the dis
tinguished body that they are sometimes
willing TO speak when the country does
not desire TO hear them, and now that We
are all aching to hear them, why they
each should desert their posts l don't I'M
derstand."
After the exercises in Woolsey hall,
Secretary Taft went 10 the headquarters
of the class of lSS5-that Of his brother
Horace-and held an informal reception
fcr half an hour Late in the day he and
Mrs Taft assisted President and Mrs.
Hadley in receiving the guests at the
presidents annual reception.
Tonight Secretary and Mrs. Taft were
guests of honor at dinner party given
nv their host. W. W. Farnam.
Today the secretary telegraphed Cen
eral Clarence r. Edwards chief of the
bureau of insular affairs OF the war de-
partment. TO meet him al the Manhattan
hotel in New York Saturday morning, TO
ioin him and General Luke Wright in
their visit TO President Roosevelt at Oys-
4 er bay.