The morning journal-courier., 1908-12-17
ALL WALL STREET DIMES WITH TAFT Morgan, Rockefeller, Ryan, Hartman, Gates and Many Others at Ohio Club
 Dinner.
so IS DELAVAN SMITH
Next President Tells Millonaircs and Mere OhlOanS That the Tariff Must Bc Revised
 Honestly.

New York, Dee l6 In bringing his stay in New York to close tonight Presdent-olect William F. Taft was the guest of honor at one of tho most notable banquets ever held in this city. II was the twenty-third annual dinner of the Ohio society In New York, but around the 100 tables placed in the grand ballroom and Astor Gallery of the Waldorf-Astorla were men gath cred from every section of the couu- try and leaders in many walks of life
 Mr. Taft took advantage of the occa- sion. in speech filled with more earn estness than any he has delivered since his election to pledge his administra- ton and his party, go far as hn can control It. to a loyal adherence to tho Chicago platform He dvelt almost wholly upon the revision nf tho tariff which he singled out as tho most im- portant declaration made at the last national convention and after having previously referred to tho veto power Of the Chief Executive said with all the emphasis of which he was copahlo:
 Better no revision at all, better that the new hill should fail unless we have an honest and thorough revision on tho basis laid down and the principle out- lined in the party platform
 MT Taft also referred again tn the Sherman antitrust law and declared f,,y itr Ca ,f q, If cies of President Roosevelt which tho party pledged itsolf to carry forward
 Seated al tho Presidents table" with MT. Taft were the -presldont- elect, Mir. Sherman. Governor Charles F.. Hughes of New York who paid q glow ing tribute to Mn Taft during tho evc- ming Henry w Taft, president of the society. and toastmaster Charles r Taft of Cincinnati Horace p Taft of Watertown, Conn Dr Arthur T Had ley, president of Yale university, form CT Senator John C. Spoouer. one of these who responded to the toasts, J. Pierpont Morgan Paul Morton, Gov ernor Franklin Fort of New Jersey; Secretary straus, Frank II Hitchcock, Genera H C. Corhln, Admiral Casper Goodrich and others
 At one of the tables near that of the guest of honor was perhaps the most notable group of ananciers ever gathered together at a dinner in this country All the diversified interests and so-called Wall street crowds were represented There were F. H. d, IT Do Jo,, of the First National bank, George w. Perkins. of J P Morgan & Co, F, H. Gary. chairman of the Board of the United States Steel company; John Clafin. Frank A. Vanderlip. vice pres idert of the National City bank Dar- wir P Kingsley. president of the New York Life Insurance Co.,, I P. Nor gain ir, F. T stoteshury of DrexeL Morgan X Co.,, of Philadelphia, and Charles Steele, of F. Morgan < Co.
 At another table and rivalIng in the attention of the diners the -four Tafts" at the presidents table, were four Rockefellers, John D., John D. ir.. William Rockefeller and P. A., Rockefeller. With them sat John n. arcnhOld, the ACtlNe neHn or lne Standard oil company and John c. Milburn, the special counsel Of the company
 Frank R. Kellogg, who has been prosecuting the Standard on com pany and William Nelson Cromwell, so prominently brought to the front In the recent Panama canal discus zion, were near neighhors to the Rockefellers.
 Thomas r, Ryan sat at 2 table with R r. Yoakum. James Speyer. Lord Revelstoke and others, Paul n. Cravath, John w. Gates, Melville E. Ingalls,. Wade H. Ellis, Leslie M. Shaw. Myron T. Herrick, Justice Will liam A, Day, Robert C, Clowry, Charles Fl. Treat and Delavan Smith were others among the more than 900 diners The galleries of the grand ballroom. where the speeches were made, were filled with an assem- mhlage of beautifully gowned women who joined with the men below in the en- thieiastIr tributes of cheers and ap- plause paid to MT Taft and in but slightly lesser degrees to Governor Huphee