Perth Amboy evening news., 1909-10-02
TAFT IN OREGON
REST
President Will Spend Two
Days in Portland Journey
Half Over. 81.
DINNER AT TACOMA

Portland, Ore.s Oct 2. President
Taft having completed the, first 5000
miles Of his 1900 mile tour of the
United States, will remain here for
two days. during which, he will not
pursue quite such a strenuous life as
he has been leading sinee he left Bos-
ton. He says he Is going to rest while
he is here. When he arrived here he
was given vociferous welcome
Renews Roossveles Pledges.
In his farewell speech at Seattle
President Taft outlined bis attitude
toward the Roosevelt policies more
explicitly than he had In any other
speech that he has delivered on his
western trip.
Not only did he renew his pledges to
carry out the Roosevelt program, but
he had word or two to say Of the
Republican radicals who have been ac-
cusing him of backsliding from the
Roosevelt standard
The trouble with these men, as Pres
ident Taft PIT it. is that they are so
earnest In their support Of Mr. Roose-
yelts policies that they are more
Rooseveltian than Mr. Roosevelt him
self. The president also compared for
the first time his own sympathy for
the west with that of his predecessor.
Said the president;
viii Not Betray Condolences.
"Your distinguished governor has
been kind enough to say first that you
trusted Mr.. Roosevelt because he knew
the needs of the west and that at first
you had some doubts as to whether he
could be succeeded by one who could
supply that great need.
but / was in Mr.. Roosevelt's cabi-
net. became imbued with the spirit
certain policies which are rightly
named his, and have attempted thus
far and shall continue to attempt to
carry out those policies as l under
stand them.
And. as your governor said at Spo-
kane the other day, you had conf
dence in Roosevelt and Roosevelt had
confidence In me. and therefore you
had confidence In me. am willing to
take that confidence In that way vIca-
riously, because no one can have a
higher or more profound admiration
and gratitude toward my predecessor
than have myself.
Bears Criticism With Equanimity.
"Of course in attempting to carry out
policies thus described and somewhat
indefinite occasionally disagreements
arise as to methods and as to Just
what these policies are. and as they
have a saying among CATHOLICS that
there are Catholics who are more Cath
Ollie than the pope. so occasionally we
may find gentlemen so earnest in their
support of Mr.. Roosevelt's policies that
they are more Rooseveltian than Mr..
Roosevelt himself
with respect to these gentlemen,
all | have to say is that l am doing
the best | can to carry out the policies
as | understood Them and had dur
ing four years at least somewhat
favorable opportunity to learn what
they were. ~ ~
''It Is inevitable that at times there
should be differences of opinion, and l
hope that l shall be able to maintain
my equanimity and good humor in
spite of criticisms which may re-
gard as unjust, with the hope and feel
ing. that when the grand total account
is made up In reference to this admin
istratlon 1t will have come as near as
In human events we can count to car
rying out its promises to clinch as far
as possible the Roosevelt policies"
The president was entertained at
dinner at the Union club In Tacoma
after making the trip from Seattle on
board the yacht hi Primero, owned
by Chester Thorne. The torpedo boat
destroyer Perry escorted the yacht.