The Sentinel=record., 1911-09-19
TAFT SPEAKS
 ON TRUSTS'
PRESIDENT LAUNCHES UPON POLITICAL PHASE OF SWING
 AROUND THE clRcLE.v
Denies That He Has Used Patronage to Accomplish Ends and ChaI- Ienaes the Men Who Have
 Charged It.

Detroit, Mich, September 1S.- President Taft today plunged Into Ithe political phase of his long ,r,p through the west and delivered one of the set speeches which may have Ia determining effect upon his future.
 MT. Taft chose the trusts, for his first appeal to the people and Ioutlined this ever-pregnant issue. In second speech he answered the charge that he has used patronage to furnish his own ends and boldly Challenged those who had made the lcharge, to come forward and join him in an extension of the civil service to practically ali of the appointive lotfices under the government. MT. Traits free use of the words -. challenge" gave a campaign ring to This utterances which seemed to de light his hearers.
 The president announced his un- qualified opposition to any amend ment to the sherman antitrust law, designed to overthrow "the rule of Ireason,' laid down by the United States supreme court in the stan dard Oil and tobacco trust cases and Ichalenged William J. Bryan and all Iother critics of the country to cite a restraint of trade which they would condemn and which would not ne lcondemned under MT. Justice Whites definition of the law.
 MT. Taft told his hearers the de parment of justice at Washington is conducting an investigation of all Corporations, suspected of operating in defiance of the antitrust law and added that the statute as interpreted Iby the supreme cour, would be found lsufficient to cause the breaKing u9 of hny ieesgal combinations. The president entered into the defense of the supreme court with more than This usual vigor and his speech, ai- though read from manuscrpt and devoid of oratical efforts, was ire quently interrupted with applause.
 The trust speech came near the close of nine busy hours spent by the president in and about Detroit. Wherever he went today--in Detroit proper at Pontiac and at the state fair gromds-Mr Taft was com' lpelled to make his way through dense crowds. His welcome into Michigan which is regarded as way ering on the brink of insurgency, seemed to please the president and he was in a happy mood when he left at 4.30 D. m. for Saginaw. where a Ihalf hour stop was made, and for Bay City where he spent the re- malnder of the evening and dedicat- ed new armory.
 MT. Taft wiB spend four days in in Michigan, swinging tomorrow up to Sault Ste Marie. He arrived here lin downpour of rain, but when he started for Pontiac the sun had come out. There were crowds at the sta tion as early az six o'clock and neither the rain nor the police, who drew a dead line half block away seemed to dampen their enthusiasm.
 At Pontiac tine president was greeted by big throng, but 1t was aat the opening of the state fair later lin the forenoon that he faced his largest audience. He spoke Of the lvalue of scientific farming. Follow ling an introduction by Milton Me Rae. president of the Detroit Board Eof Commerce, MT. Taft was inter- rupred by an enthusiastic admh!er who called out:
 Three cheers for the next presi- Ident of the Unitedp States. I The pesdent smiled sndulgerEb land then with something of a twin kle in his eye replied:
 My friend. I fear you're not Iprophet-1
 It was at the Board of Commerce llunchedn that President Taft took lup the trust question. The function, held in an immense pavilion, was attended by approximately 1900 busi- ness men of the city.
 Following the luncheon came an Iautomobile parade and a brief visit lof the convention of the United States internal revenue officers where the president tooolS occasion to say something regarding patronage,