Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-06-20
Possibility Of Going Back to
Less Active Life" Has Both
Welcome and UnweIcome
Phases Says President,
LUNCHEON RENDERED HIM
BY CINCINNATI CLUB
Finds Nothing But Criticism In
Presidential Job and Con-
templates Returning to Law
Practice.
IBy Morning Journal Special Leased wire,

Washington. June 19.-Presdent
Tart In happy vein delivered an adj
dress to the commercial club OF Gin
cinnati today In which he lightly re-
ferred to the possibility of going
back TO less active life, away from
the presidency, as having both weI-
come and unwelcome phases
He said in the absence of any pro-
vision for ex-presidents, he would
open law office in his old home city.
and that he was determined that his
son Robert should work out his life
amid those surroundings
Mr.. Taft was speaking at the Chevy
Chase club here, in the Washington
suburbs az luncheon rendered him
there by the Cincinnati Commercial
club, and was formally accepting for
Mrs. TAFT and himself silver rose
bowl presented by the Cincinnatians.
The president said
Mrs TAFT and | esteem tho COM
ing of the Commercial club here 10
attend our silver wedding as the chief
pleasure Of the occasion.
1T Is not long since we left Gin
einnati. II Is only twelve years, and
twelve years IN the life OF man. or In
the life OF "A nation. or the life of an
association. as We grow older and look
back $ not j pefied OF very long iura-
tion. But we have to measure time
rather ny events than by the tick OF
the watch and certainly In twelve
years II has fallen to my lot to have
a great many unusual things happen
10 me.
ITO be transplanted from one civ,
ilization to another from one contact
AS civilian or as the arm OF the ad-
minlstration Of Justice. TO the chief ex-
ecutive. for the time being. OF ninety
millions of people is tremendous
change and TO have the last four
years made a period such as / have
experienced Is 70 prolong the period
until 1t seems almost a lifetime. And
then TO come TO Washington and 10
remain six or seven years, under con-
dltions so different from those NJ
home. creates a period that has much
greater distance to H. so to speak.
than the mere months or years Of Its
duration. The effect that it has up
on ones life and character Is some
thing that one realizes sally but can
not explain,
"To so from the somewhat hum
drum but always delightful life of a
Judge, who could retire from public
life in sense without being exposed
to criticism, to place where there
seems to be nothing but criticism. was
"A change that only man who has
been through 1t can fully understand.
The prospect of going back to
less active life has I'm ii at this time
some phases that are welcome and
some that are unwelcome. The neces-
sity for labor which will follow my
retirement, however relieves me
somewhat from any anxiety on that
score. There is az yet 50 far as nave
been informed, no provision for an eN-
president; and while | do not wish TO
hold out any competition 10 the two
lawyers who honor this club, | wish to
say to the rest of the members OF the
club that | shall open an office ana
bc ready for business not at an oid'
but at very new stand.
TT will be new when my son Rob-
ert comes back to Cincinnati To prae-
tce law, four generations I'm Cincin-
natl, and while 1t has been pressed on
him and on me to have him so soma
place where possibly his emoluments
would be urger. ! am determined ana
he sympathmizes with me, that he
shall go to the home that knew his
great grandfather and his grandfather
ana his father. and there he shah
work out his life under the influences
that hope will be favorable 10 his
success-at least In restraining him
within the path and the limitations of
an honorable life.'
The speech Of presentation was
made hy James Albert Green, presi-
dent of the Commercial club.