The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-07-01
TAFT SOUNDS
WARNING TO
THE TINRERS
Party Disaster viii Follow
Failure to Live Up to Prom
iSeS SOIemnIy Made.
AFT DINNER SPEECH
TO GRADUATES OF YALE
AUDIENCE CAUGHT DRIFT OF RE-
MARKS AND CHEERED-TAFT
HAS A STRENUOUS DAY.

New Haven, Conn, June 30.-Presi-
dent Taft paused in the course of an
after-dinner speech to 1900 graduates
Of Yale, gathered at the annual alumni
dinner today, 10 issue a serious note Of
warning to congress and to the leaders
of the Republican party. The president
declared that If the party failed TO live
UP to its promises and the expectations
Of the people it would be relegated to
the position of a minority opposition.
The president spoke exteInporaneously
and his utterances as to the Republican
duty seemed the result of a sudden i'm
pulse, rather than of studied prepara-
tion.
Did Not Explain.
Mr.. Taft made no effort to explain his
warnings The Yale men caught his
meaning and the significance of the re-
marks coming while the tariff debate
is in progress, however, and they stood
and cheered for several minutes. He
had been speaking of Secretary of War
Dickinson, a Democrat, upon whom
Yale today conferred an honorary de-
gree. He tainted the Democracy with
the best of good humOr as to its present
day condition, and this led him into the
declaration as to his own party.
Dickinson's Democracy.
''You went south of the Mason and
Dixon line" he said, ito get a secretary
of war to give a degree to. It is well
that you did, because he is going TO
build the Panama canal, and other uni
veTsities will follow where you got in
early. One of the difficulties that has
confronted Brother Dickinson out in
Chicago, where he has a temporary resi-
denCe, was a discussion as to what con-
stituted an orthodox Democrat, and
whether he really ought to he counted
as q Democrat if he allowed himself to
60 into a Republican cabinet. Well,
when you come to discuss what IS a
Democrat these days, you are presented
with very much the same difficulty that
I have before me now in giving certain
rules for the construction for the pure
food law as to what whisky is. They
say there is straight whisky, and then
there is rectifed' whisky, and then
there is imitation whisky. Now, I
speak with a good deal of hesitancy in
saying whether my friend Dickinson is
a straight Democrat or a 'rectified'
Democrat would not dare to say in
his presence that he was an imitation
Democrat
The Warning.
an suggesting differences among
Democrats I am far from ignoring diff
ficulties on our side. remember in 1901
that Charles Francis Adams gave what
I may call a perfectly good Adams rea-
son for the election of the Democratic
candidate over the Republican candi-
date. He said that one of the essentials
of a successful free government was an
able, patriotic and efficient opposition,
and that as the Democratic party had
utterly failed in reaching that ideal. he
was in favor of putting the Republican
party I'm that place Now. 7 venture to
say that while that may not be the rea-
son which shall move the American peO-
Pile it is true that if the Republican
party does not live up to its promises
and what the people expect of it, IL viii
be relegated 70 a position like that of
his majesty's opposition, and. therefore,
I may say by way of caveat, that we
have troubles of our own"
Busy Day for Taft.
The president attended a meeting Of
the Yale corporation, spoke at the mid
day dinner of the alumni, presided over
a meeting held for arranging a memo
rial for Yale men who died on both sides
in the civil war, stood for nearly two
hours with President Hadley at the
commencement reception and rushed
tonight from a meeting of Skull and
Bones to board his private car for
Washington.
The commencement was notable
President Hadley announced the re-
C.ipt during the past year of gifts
amounting to 81, OOO, 900.
Praise for Roosevelt.
In referring to the action of the Yale
corporation in granting a degree to Rear
Admiral SpeTry President Taft said:
81 assume from the corporations action
although the spokesman of the Univer-
sity was a little bit chaTy on that subject
that ii approved the voyage Of the six
teen battleships around the world, and
that # recognized in Admiral Sperry the
supreme ability. the supreme equipoise
and the determination which were able to
meet the requirements Of the custodian
of S150000,O0j of United States property
which if lost could not be restored in
more than a decade.
Il wish to say with reference to that
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