The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-07-01
President, in Speech to Yale
Graduates, Delivers 0racular,
but Plain Utterance.
MUST LIVE UP TO PLEDGES
OR TAKE A BACK SEAT
Executives Statement Seeming.
ly Not Premeditated, but on
Impulse of Moment.

.
President Taft paused in the course Of
an after dinner speech TO 1900 pradu-
ates Of Yale, gathered at the annual
alumni dinner today, TO issue a serious
note of warning to congress and 10
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
minority opposition.
| The president spoke extemporaneous.
| ly and his utterances as to the Repub-
| licnn duty seemed the result of a sud
den impulse rather than OF studied
preparation.
Mr.. Taft made no effort to explain
his warnings. The Yale men caught
his meaning and the significance of
the remarks, coming while the tariff
debate is in progress. and they
stood and cheered for several min
utes. He had been speaking Of Secre
| tary OF War Dickinson, a Democrat, upon
whom Yale today conferred an honorary
degree. He taunted the Democracy
with the best of good humor as to its
present day condition and this led him
iuLo luc uCNidi dIlOn dIo " hio ch II
party.
Praise for Dickinson.
"You went south of the Mason and
Dixon line, ne said, TO get secre-
| tary OF war TO give a degree to, 1t is
well that you did, because be is going
to build the Panama canal, and other
universities will 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 discussion as to what
constituted an orthodox Democrat, and
whether he really ought to be counted
as Democrat if he allowed himself to
go into j Republican cabinet. Well,
when YOU come TO discuss what is a
Democrat these days, You are presented
with very much the same difficulty that
have before me now III giving certain
rules for the construction of the pure
food law as TO what whisky is. They
saw there Is straight whisky, and
then there is 'rectified whisky, and
then there is imitation whisky. Now,
speak with a good deal of hesitancy
in saving whether my friend Dickinson
is a straight Democrat or 'rectifIed
Democrat [ would not dare TO say III
his presence that he was an 'imita
ton Democrat.
Some Partisan Difficulties.
"In suggesting differences among
Democrats ! am far from iguoring DIFF
ficulties on our side. | remember IN
1904 that Mr.. Charles Francis Adams
gave what ] may call q perfectly good
Adams reason for the election or the
Democratic candidate over the Repub- |
ican candidate He said that one of
the essentials of successful free gov
ernment was an able, patriotic and etfl- |
cient opposition aud that as the Demo
cratic party had utterly failed in reach
ing that ideal, he was in favor OF put
ting the Republican party III that place,
Now, | venture to say that while that |
NAV not be the reason, which shall move
the American people, it is true that
if the Republican party does not 1--we |
up to its promises and what the people
expect of it. it Will be relegated to
a position like that of his majesty S
opposition, and therefore l may say by
way Of caveat that we have troubles OF
our own.
Puts in Strenuous Day.
The president ATTENDED meeting of
the Yale corporation, spoke At the MD
day dinner of the alumni. presided over
a meeting held for arranging mem
orial 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 z meeting of Skull aud
Bones to board his private car Tor
Washington.
President Hadley announced the re-
ceipt during the past year OF gh'a
to $l,0oO,000:
From President Hadley's office the
president of the United States and the
president of the university. walked to
hall to attend the hnal cor
poration meeting of the year Most
Of the business of the commencement
was transacted by the corporation on &
Monday and today's sitting was brief Il
one. 7
The procession OF officers, graduates,
candidates for degrees and invited Il
ruests was formed under the elms on ;
he college campus. The mace was car -
led by Professor Gustav Schwnb, the a
marshal of the day, In the long line I
here were 299 candidates for degrees, T.
besides the guests upon whom were to =
DC conferred the honorary degrees.
Among the guests were Charles p.
md Henry w. Taft and United States =
senator Depew. There were also in y;
inc Secretary Of War Dickinson, Rear 4
ADMIRAL Charles H. Perry, Bishop Will =,
lam Wallace and others, -
In Woolsey hall, where the exer- u u
ises were held, President Taft sat on =
he stage with the corporation mem :,
,ers and the guests. The dean of Fad :,
am called tho candidates for degrees :;
nd these were conferred by President -
Iadley. Then followed the preseuta- L.
ion of tho candidates for the honorary h'
egrees. Among them were the follow. ~
ng; vi
Honorary Degrees, -
|
Master or Arts-Johu PlerpoDt CodS al
ngton Foster, Yale, prominent in the w
ampaIgn against tuberculosis and th
lember of the Yale medical school fac at
lty.