The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-24
HERRICK is OUT.
He Will Not Be in President
Taft's Cabinet.
Said Long Ago He Could Not
Take the Place.
IT'S UP TO MAC VEAGH
He Seems to Be the Only Man
Left i'm the Race
For the Position Of Secretary
of the Treasury.
IT'S UP TO MAC VEAGH

New York. Feb. 24.-Ex-Governo
Myron T. Herrick of Ohio will not be
secretary of the treasury in the Taft
cabinet. This is set forth in the fol-
lowing statement written by Mr.. Taft
after a lengthy conference with Mr.
Herrick:
"At the invitation of the president
elect, Gov. Herrick called on Mr..
Taft. Mr.. Taft authorized the state
ment mat the mention of Mr.. Herrick
Tor the portfolio of the treasury as if
he had been a candidate did him
great injustice because Mr.. Herrick
wrote Mr.. Taft as early as December
last to say that his business engage
ments were such as to prevent his
acceptance of a place in the cabinet"
Mr.. Herrick said he had nothing
to add.
The elimination of Mr. Herrick at
his own request would seem to put
Franklin MacVeagh of Chicago in the
lead for the place but the only light
Mr.. Taft would throw on the situation
was that it would be several days yet
before the matter would be settled.
TO address a meeting in the interest
of Hampton institute at Carnegie hall
and to attend Friday night the dinner
to be given in honor of Elihu Root
are the purposes of Mr.. Taft's visit.
He will take advantage of the time
between the two engagements TO finish
two or three magazine articles he
has agreed to write, saying he can OBJ
tain more seclusion here than would
be possible in Washington.
AT Carnegie Hall.
Mr.. Taft was the principal speaker
at the meeting in the interest of
Hampton institute under the auspices
of Armstrong association at Car
negie hall A drenching rain failed
to keep away a large throng eager to
hear Mr.. Taft and learn of the indus
fa1 - L, TT
ents nor did it dampen the enthusiasm
of the welcome to the president-elect.
All the approaches to Carnegie hall
were carefully guarded by one hun
dred patrolmen and only those having
the necessary cards of admission were
permitted to enter.
Mr.. Taft was given hearty APP
plause as he was escorted to the plat
form with William Jay Schieff1in,
pres tot OF the Armstrong a9s associa,
Washington and Bishop Greer.
Plantation songs by a chorus of
Hampton students opened the pro-
gramme.
ment of the negro in industrial endeavors
when given chance to improve his mem
tai capacity and learn a trade
" A Problem to Solve.
Bishop Greer introduced Mr.. Taft, say
ing that no one in American public life
better understood the problem of race and
class adjustment. MI. TAFT said that nine
of the ten million negroes in the United
states lived in the southern states. 1--WE
have the problem and we have simply got
to solve it, he asserted. 1--WE have a
race feeling. 1t does exist and that's a
heart You are going going to Work k it out by
realizing that it is not to the advantage
of either to make it difficult for both to
live together.
THE negro is absolutely essential to the
south. Hence it is that the Hampton
institute has such tremendous Importance.
1t is the solution of the race question
No unparalleled person, Mr.. Taft said,
could read the statistics of the negro race
in the past so years and not feel con-
WINGED that a solution was to follow.
lone of the difficulties of the south is
that it is not the negro and negro only
that needs education and 1 mean that
literally
Turning his attention to italian imni-
grafton to the south, Mr.. Taft remarked
that he believed in competition in all
things.
He eulogized the patriotic citizen of the
negro race and his love for the stars and
stripes.