Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-21
CUMM|NS IS SINCERE TAFT @PS RECALL
Deadlock in Convention Would Also Urges More Just Justice
Elect Him. Friends Saw Before Gotham Lawyers.
CANDIDACY HURTS TAFT |SPEAKS Al IHktE DINNERS
Bound Delegates Held Be Drops in at tennessee society Func
Presidents Campaen ton and Jewellers Banquet
CROP OF FAvoR1TE SONS DUE SOCIALISTS" HIT
Of 1eos-Roosevet. Course on Program
Also Urges More Just Justice
Before Gotham Lawyers.
SPEAKS AT THREE DINNERS
Drops in at Genessee Society Func'
ton and Jewellers Banquet.
"PLUTOCRATIC SOCIALISTS" HIT
Senator Reed, Who Follows Presi-
dent on Program, Scores Gov
eminent Control.

NEW YORK. January 2o.-with q
feeling denunciation Of the principle Of
| judicial recall, delivered to the Bar
| Association Of the state Of New York
at Its banquet tonight, President Taft
| concluded a busy evening here. which
| he employed chiefly in spoechmakine
at three different functions.
| After plea Tor simplification Of legal
procedure, which he argued with much
earnestness before the company Of law
yers, Mr.. Taft waxed even more in
cisive in coming to the topic upon which
he evidently felt SO deeply.
I'VE do not believe that all people are
fitted for popular government" he said.
some Of us don't dare say 80, but I do.
fitted for popular self-government de-
ponds upon the restraint that the minor
ity can place upon the majority to see
that justice is DONE
Hates to Utter the Words.
1--WE OF the bar are called upon to de-
eide whether we are going to protect the
institution of tho judiciary and continue
it Independent Of a majority during the
time that 1t is deciding questions Of law
and justice.
1.-The judicial recall! The words them
selves are SO inconsistent that / hate to
utter them. Are we going to make our
majority can flood the halls OF justice. de-
eide every action and override with popu-
lar passion and prejudice every principle
Of this government, the greatest God ever
made?
You must bear In mind that this mat
ter Of judicial recall is being agitated
the country over: that the men speaking
for 1t are many. What call your at
tentiOn to is that 1t is necessary that good
people like you should speak the truth
that's in you in favor of courts and their
independence and the restraints OF the
Constitution that were imposed by the
wtsest ancestors any people ever had.
Revision Owed to the People.
In reference to the simpMfcation OF
legal procedure the President said he had
had feeling that the bar and the bench
lowed to the people greater effort toward
making the administration Of law e.
fective and just by expediting justics.
II am glad to know" he said, "that
there Is now profound effort to study
where 1T Is that we can shorten litigation
so that delay won't make just judgment
unjust"
Referring to the French code, which
had been dwelt upon by Ambassador Jus
serand in an address earlier in the even
ing, the President said that, as with us,
there was "a tendency to assume that
iitigants were made for the courts and
the exercise of the refnements Of reason
rather than vice versa
Leaves for Washington.
There Is much the Same tendency
there as with u.s." he continued, ITO
keep the antagonist paving in the vesti-
bule Of justice. We have not yet reach
ed the secret Of promoting real justice
but l am glad to know that there ts, q
movement the world around to secure re-
FORM
The President referred in this connec-
ton to the movement ito do away with
litigation in the federal courts"
Throughout his speech the President
was frequently interrupted by applause
and cheers, and his declaration that he
was not afraid to express his opinion on
his denunciation OF the recall brought
the big assemblage to its feet.
The President was driven from tho
Waldorf directly to the Pennsylvania
terminal. where he took train, leaving
shortly after midnight for Washington.
Speaks at Three Banquets.
President Taft visited New York to-
night for the third time within a little
over month. He came from New Ha-
ven. Conn.,. at o'clock In the evening,
after attending meeting Of the Yale
corporation there today, and was the
speaking guest hero tonight at three
banquets. He dined with the New York
state Bar Association In company with
Ambassador Jusserand, Senator Elihu
Root. president OF the association; Gov.
DIX and nearly a thousand others at the
Waldorf. The lawyers gave the Presi-
dent a round Of hearty cheers.
After enjoying the feast he left tho
lawyers for q while and dropped in
upon a gathering Of 500 jewellers at the
dinner OF the A-carat Clue. and then
the Genessee. returning later to speak
at the Bar Association banquet
The nearest the President came to
anything political in his early speeches
| watch with which they presented him,
and 1t was not certain whether his
reference then to difficulties in run
ming involved his avoirdupois or poll
tics.
II brought a watch with me, but II
stopped" he told the jewelers.. "Your rep
resentative has kindly presented me with
| another. which UP to the present has run.
Whether 1t is association with me that
makes running difficult do not know,
but up to this time have been very 'un.
fortunate with watcher"
Barometer Of Industry.
He told the jewelers. that their trade
was the barometer Of industry. and that
the hundreds Of prosperous faces at the
banquet was an index to prosperity.
Before the oociety Of the Genessee he
| President said that New York city would
| be bad place If 1t were not for the men
who came from the country.
On his return to the Bar Association
dinner shortly after 10 o'clock, the Presi-
dent listened to addresses by Senator
Root Ambassador Jusserand and Robert
C. Smith, member Of the king counsel
at Montreal, before he was called upon
as the last speaker.
Ambassador Jusserand spoke on the
laws delays, reviewing the attempts in
years gone by to simplify legal pro-
cedure. He was glad that at last mem
bers of the bar themselves were leading
in the fight for humanity's sake to aboi-
ish the delays from which they do not
suffer. His address was mainly of an
academic nature.
Senator Root spoke Of the principles Of
justice, and declared that If they are to
be subordinated to the majority the liber-
ty of the people would soon be lost He
said many Of the old theories are being
questioned these days, and that the prob
to,,oo nfronffnU the bar uoro v,,-ro earl