The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-06-23
TAFT TO GO BACK
TO LAW PRACTICE
Growing Reminiscent, He DweIIs on
Happenings of His Life During
Past Twelve Years.

Washington, D. c., June 2O.-Presi-
dent Taft, in happy vein, delivered
an address to the Commercial Club
of Cincinnati yesterday in which he
lightly referred to the possibility of
going back to less active life," away
from the presidency, as having both
welcome and unwelcome phases. He
said in the absence of any provision
for ex-presidents, he would open a
law Office in his old home city and that
he determined that his son Robert
should work out his life amid those
surroundings.
Mr.. Taft was speaking at the Chevy
Chase Club here, il the Washington
suburbs, at lunch con rendered him
there by the Cincinnati. Commercial
Club, and was formally accepting for
Mrs. Taft and himself a silver rose
ooWl presented by the Cincinnatians.
The president said:
Mrs. Taft and esteem the coming
of the Commercial Club here to attend
our silver wedding as the chief pleas
ure of the occasion.
1T is not so long since we left Gin
cinnati. 1t is only twelve years: and
twelve years in the life of a man. or
or the life of nation, or the life
OF an association, as we grow older and
look back, is not period of very
long duration. But we have to meas
uer time rather by events than by the
tick of the watch; and certainly in
twelve years it has fallen to my lot
to have great many unusual things
happen to me. To be transplanted
from one civilization to another from
contact as civilian, or as the arm of
The administration of justice to the
chief executive for the time being of
ninety millions of people, is a tremen.
1ous change; and to have the last four
years made a period such as | have
experienced is to prolong the period
lntil 1t scenes almost life. And then
o come to Washington and to remain
Tx or seven years, under conditions
10 different from those at home
'reates a period that has much greater
distance in it, so to speak, than the
mere months or years of it's duration.
me effect that it has upon ones life
md character is something that one
ealizes fully but cannot explain.
To go from the somewhat hum
rum but always delightful life of a
udge, who could retire from public
lie in any Sense without being expos
q to criticism, to place where there
GEMS to be nothing but criticism. was
change that only a man who has
cen through it can fully understand.
The prospect of going back to
7ss active life has in it at this time
ONE phases that are welcome and
ONE that are unwelcome. The neces-
Ity Tor labor, which will follow NV
stlrement, however, relieves me some
hat from anxiety on that score. There
as yet, so far as have been inform
4, no provision for an ex-president.
nd While | do not wish to hold ont
ny competition to the two LAWYERS
no honor this club, wish to say to
le rest of the members of the club
lat shall open an Office and be ready
n business, not at an old. but at a
cry new stand.
1t Will be now, when my son Robert
'mes back to Cincinnati to practice
w, four generations in Cincinnati
I'D while it has been pressed on him
Id on me to have him go to some
ace where possibly his emoluments
ould be larger I am determined. and
sympathizes with me, that he shall
to the home that knew his great
'andfether and his grandfather and
S father, and there he shall work ont
S life under the influence that I hone
Ill be favorable to his success-at
asst in restraining him within the
Ith and limitations of an honorable
e."
The speech of presentation was
ade by James Albert Green, presi-
NJ q the Commercial Club.