The Washington herald., 1909-03-06


IN Washington and others who had come
to attend the Inauguration. met at the
Carroll Institute Hall last night. listened
TO eulogies OF President Taft and the
State OF Ohio. and then went home feel
ing that there Is no other State Just Ike
the Buckeye State.
1T Is appropriate for me 10 say that
Ohio has taken q place not only in the
country, but IN the entire world. that
cannot be equaled by any other state.
province. or colony Of any country" de-
claTed Theodore E. Burton. who was
sworn IN as United States Senator from
Ohio, Thursday, the position which
Charles P Taft, a brother OF the Presi-
dent, had desired
When the country needs a ruler, Ohio
can furnish him. he continued ''It has
that great capacity for government We
trust that it win be so in the future.
and that four years from yesterday an
ohioan win again be made President OF
this country
The Republican party was born in
Ohio" declared Representative z. l.
Taylor. That Is. most OF the men who
made the party possible were born there.
We have had seven Ohioans elected TO
the Presidency OF the United States"
OhiO's Presidents.
He showed that William Henry Harri-
son was born virginlan, but was elect
ed from Ohio; that Grant was born az
ohioan. but was elected from Illinois
that Hayes and Garfield we're both born
and elected from Ohio. and that Benja-
min Harrison was born IN Ohio. but wa,
I elected from Indiana He then told abcui
Mckinley and Taft.
The man who has come into the Press
Dental chair so recently that he hasn't
had time 70 warm Il yet, viii do some
thing to make history he is a great
big man." NJ. Taylor said
Where is there a State that can sup
plant man Ike Joseph 3. Foraker witt
another Senator equally as great? I re
fer TO Theodore E. Burton"
He then reverted 70 state politics
deDloring the fact that Ohio had las
fan elected q Democratic governor an,
eight Democratic Representatives.
The fault with Ohio Is not with its cit
izeaship." he said 1T Is Just as strong
ly Republican tonight as It was when {
gave Theodore Roosevelt q majority o
$4,000 votes We must lay aside fac
tionalisn- we have a lot OF selfish. pet
y quarrels within the party. Write you
friends that the party must stand frs
and always above any selfish interests o
! our own. Ohio is not doing as well as
should Republicanism isn't sick. Il !
Only retiring We must be united OF "
won't give william Howard Taft eighties
| electoral votes in 1872"
Taft Combines Qualities.
ohio has produced Grant. Hayes. Gar
field, Harrison. Mckinley. and Taft. an
Taft possesses the good qualities Of then
AL" said Wade H. Ellis. ex-attorne.
/ general for Ohio, but now an Asslstan
United States Attorney General
The reason that Ohio is the most typf
cal OF all the American Commonwealth.
Is because she sits IN the center Of then
al. She is the most " estern OF any o
the Eastern States, and most Eastern o
any OF the Western States. There +
less ultra-radicalism and less ultra-cor
servatism in Ohio than In any othe
State OF the nation The best consensu
Of judgment comes from Ohio"
I'VE are TO have an administration 0
law" he said IN referring 10 the MAKEUP
OF the Taft Cabinet. The majority o
the Cabinet consists OF lawyers The peo
PIE viii know the difference betweel
right and wrong There viii be no haz,
zone wherein the corporations may VIC
late the laws and then take refuge. TIL
people viii know just how far they ma
CO.
A short address was also made By Rep
resentative Ralph D Cole
The Columbus Glee Club, numbering
membership Of 10, OF whom ninery-thre
came to Washington to take part in IN
inauguration sang several songs. amoHi
them being Billy Taft" IN which I
is asserted that everybody knows he
from Oh:o.~ and Billy Taft Yep
I That's He!'
The meeting was held under the au
spices OF the Ohio Republican Club, o
this city. Senator Charles Dick was t
have made speech, but sent word tha
he was too III TO be present.