Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-12-18
TAFT INSISTS ON
TARIFF REVISION
REFERS TO VETO POWER OF EX
ECUTIVE III DISCUSSING HON
EST CHANGES.
ADDRESSES OHIO SOCIETY.
President-Elect Earnestly Pledges Him
self and His Party to the Chi
cage Platform.
SITS AT TABLE WITH SPOONER

NEW YORK, Dee. Infringing his
stay in New York to q close last night,
President-elect William H. Taft was the
guest of honor at one of the most notable
banquet ever held in this city. 1t was
the twenty-third annual dinner of Il.
Ohio society in New York, but around
the 100 tables placed in the grand ball
room in Astor gallery of the Waldorf
Astoria hotel were men gathered from
every section of the country and lead
erS IN many walks of life.
Mr.. Taft took advantage of the occa-
sion, IN speech filled with more ear
nestness, perhaps, than any he has de-
hyered since his election. to pledge his
administration and his party, so far as
he can control IT, to a loyal adherence
to the Chicago platform. He dwelt al
most wholly upon the revision of the
tariff, which he singled out as the most
important declaration made at the last
annual convention, and, after having
previously referred to the veto power of
the chief executive, said, with all the
emphasis of which he was capable:
Better no revision at all, better that
the new bill should fail, unless we have
an honest and thorough revision on the
basis laid down and the principle out
lined in the party platform
ApplOVeS sherman Law.
Mr.. Taft also referred again to the
Sherman antitrust law and declared for
Its enforcement as one Of the Roosevelt
policies that the party had pledged itself
to carry forward
Seated at the ''President's table" with
M. Taft. were the vice president-elect,
Mr.. Sherman; Gov. Hughes Of New
York. who paid a glowing tribute to Mr.
Tart during the course of the evening;
Henry W. Taft, president of the society
ana postmaster; Charles p. Taft of Gin
clnnati' Horace, D. Taft of Watertown,
Conn; DIR. Arthur t. Hadley, president
Of Yale university, former Senator John
=. Spooner, who responded to the toasts;
J: Pierpont Morgan, Paul Morton, Gov
Franklin Fort of New Jersey; Secre-
tary Straus, Frank H. Hitchcock, Bish-
op Leonard of Ohio, Gen. II. c. Cor
BIN, Admiral Casper Goodrich and 9TH
erS.
Four RockefeIlels There.
At another table and rivaling the at
tention of the diners the -four Tafts'
Rockefellers John D., John D., Jr.,
William Rockefeller and P. A Rookie
Teller. With them sat John d. Arch
bold, the active head of the Standard
Oil company, and John G. Milburn. the
special counsel Of the company.
frank Is. Kellogg, who has been pros
ecuting the Standard Oil company, and
William Nelson Cromwell, SO prominent
ly brought to the front in the recent
Panama canal discussion. were near
neighbors to the RockefelIers.
After a stay of four days in this city
President-elect Taft left at 7:55 a. m.
today for Washington and Augusta.
Ga. where he will have his last period
of rest and recreation before assuming
Al Il -
sons. Robert A. Taft and Charles p.
Taft. and Mr.. Taft's assistant secre-
tary, Wendell Mischler, were left to
follow Mr.. Taft on the train leaving
Jersey City at 1917. Mr. Taft will
have luncheon with the President in
Washington and will then meet his two
sons and proceed with them to Augusta,
where they are expected to arrive over
the Southern railway at 1910 d. N.
tomorrow.