The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-07-01
PRESIDENT Gi.ES TIMELY HINT
TO THE REPUBLICAN
Parry I'M SPEECH.
ADDRESSES GRADUATES
In After Dinner Speech to One Thous-
and Eight Hundred Graduates Of
Yale, Executive Declares That I'm
less Party FuIfiIis Its Pledges 1t
Will Become Minority Opposition.

President TAFT paused In the course
OF All after-dinner speech to 1900
graduates of Yale, gathered at the
annual alumni dinner today, to
issue a serious note Of warning to
congress and to the leaders Of the
republican party. The president de-
up to its promises and the expecta-
tions of the people it would be rele-
gated to the position OF minority
opposition.
The president spoke extempo-
raneously and his utterances as to
the republican duty seemed the re =
suit OF sudden impulse rather than
of studied preparation. Mr.. Taft
made no effort to explain his warn
ings. The Yale men caught his
meaning and the significance OF the
remarks coming While the tariff de-
bate is in progress, however, and
they stood and cheered for several
minutes. He had been speaking of
Secretary Of War Dickinson, a dem
ocrat upon whom Yale today con
ferred an honorary degree. He
taunted the democracy with the best
Of good humor as to it's present day
condition and this led him into the
declaration as to his own party.
Did Very Well.
You went south of the Mason and
Dixon line he said. ITO get sec
retary Of war to give degree to. 1t
- well that you did, because he IL
going 10 build the Panama canal,
and other universities win follow
where you got IN early. One Of the
difficulties that has confronted
Brother Dickinson out in Chicago,
where he has a temporary residence,
was a discussion as to what consti-
tnted an orthodox democrat, and
whether he really ought to be
counted as a democrat if he allowed
himself to 60 into a republican cab
met. Well, when you come to dis
cuss what Is democrat these days,
you are presented with much the
same difficulty that ] 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 'rectiiied whisky and then
there is limitation whisky Now,
speak with q good deal of hesitancy
in saying whether my friend Dick
'rectified' democrat. + would not
dare say in his presence that he
was an imitation democrat.
Our Side Also.
I'm suggesting differences among
democrats I am far from ignoring
difficulties on our side. I remember
in 1904 that Mr.. Charles Francis
good Adams reason for the election
of the democratic candidate over
the republican candidate. He said
that one Of the essentials of sue
cessful free government was on
able. patriotic and efficient opposi-
tion and that as the democratic
party had utterly failed in reaching
that IDEAL he was in favor of put
ting the republican party in that
place. Now, l venture to say that |
while that may not be the reason /
which shall move the American peo-
pie, it is true that if the republican
party uOeS not i've up 10 lis pIolll-
iscs and what the people expect of
it, it will be relegated to position
like that of his majesty's opposition /
And. therefore, / may say by way I
of cavil that we have troubles of /
our own
The president attended meeting
of the Yale corporation, spoke at |
the midday dinner of the alumni
presided over meeting held for ar
ranging a memorial for Yale men I
who died on both sides in the civil I
war, stood for nearly two hours with |
President Hadley at the commence
ment reception, and rushed tonight |
from meeting of skull and bones
to board his private car for Wash I
ington.