The morning journal-courier., 1908-11-05
YALE IN THE WHITE HOUSE.

YALE IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
 Quite aside from questions of polit- ics 1t has been like 8 thorn in the side of Yale men generally whether republicans or democrats that the man who has been gracing the presi- dental chair in the White house for the last two terms has hailed from the college yard of Fair Harvard IT would be gross exaggeration to say that Yale was solidly behind Mir. Tars during the stirring campaign whi.h has just drawn to close, Had it been certain that every Yale vote would be registered in the Taft col- umn, there would have been no need or excuse for the Yale Alumni Week 1y the Yale Daily News, or other col- 1egiate organs holding themselves aloof from the campaign the way they have. But 1t is safe to say that by far the great majority of Yale men, as of eastern colleglans generally, for that matter, were in support of the stouter William. Certainly now that the election has pointed to Mir. Taft as the overwhelming choice of the people, there will not be a son of Ell or any political party who will not feel prouder for the fact that a fel- low-alumnus will succeed to the helm of the national ship of state taking the place of Harvard man.
 It was with excusable exuherance of spirits that the Yale Daily News came out with a joyous editorial yes terday morning on the subject; "A Yale President" and pointed put that for the first time in her two hundred and seven years of existence Yale is to have representative in tho execu- tive office of the nation-Wirliam H, Taft, '7S. Vale, her alumni and undergraduates, said the news. "are Justly proud of him" And why shouldn't they be? It Is no small honor that the blue flag Of Yale Is to be unfurled at the White House and that the right hand of Yale fellow ship. than which none 's more well come. is ever awaiting the Sons of the Fence in Washington.
 It was only expressing what every Yale man felt when the graduate pub lcation wired the successful candidate as follows. "F1ftoen thousand Yale alumni will unite with us tonight in sincerely congratuating you, whose career has been so signal an example of dsinterested public service, on this splendid recognition to those qualities of mind and heart which Yale has so long known and loved and honored. " Brave Mother Yale 1t was who was speaking, not one man or one group of men.
 Yale and Yale men are making their presence felt more and more In Washington as years go on. The young men In semi-important positions are so numerous that the capital to- day ls completely noneycombed with them A casual glance at the higher dignitaries shows us Justice David ]. Brewer, '56, of the supreme court; Secretary of the Navy Victor II. Met calfe, '78 L; Assistant Secretary of the Navy Truman Fl Newberry, 'S5 S.; Commissioner of Corporations Herbert Knox Smith '01 member of the now-famous "tennis cabinet" of President Roosevelt's; and Forestry Chief Clifford Pinchot, 'Ss,
 Princeton and Harvard have now had their presidents and 1t Is but fair and natural that Yale blood should be given a chance to show what 1t can do for it's country With President Taft, Yale '78, the New Haven univer. sity will begin to come into it's own Every Yale man feels to-day that the latchstring will be out to him after March 4th next and we have no doubt but that 1t will, if indeed, we know anything at all about the new presi. dent-elect,