The Sentinel=record., 1912-01-21
TAFT DENOUNCES
 JUDICIAL RECALL
PRESIDENT MAKES ROUND OF An- DRESSES IN NEW YORK. BUT
 AVOIDS CANDIDACY.
Says Members of Bar Must Decide to Protect the lnetsutlon of the
 Judiciary

New York Jan 20 With a feeling of denunciation of the principle of judicial recall, delivered to the Bar Association of the state of New York al its banquet tonight. President Taft concluded busy evening here, which he employed chiefly in speech.making al three functions After 8 plea for simplilication of legal procedure, which he argued with much earnest ness before the company of lawyers, MT Taft waxed even more ncisIye in coming to the topic upon which he evidently felt so deeply.
 "We do not believe that all people are fitted for popular government he said Some of ms doAt dare say so. but 1 do, and the question whether q person is fitted for por1lar self vov- ernment depends upon the restraint that the minority can place ur1n the majority to sec that 'ustice is done
 4We Of the bar are called upon to decide whether we are going to pro. test the institution or the Judiciary Iand continue it independent of a ma iorlty during the time that 1t is decid- ing questions of law and justice
 Tine Judicial recalli The words themselves are so inconsistent that hate to utter them Are We going 10 make our constitution a liquid thing so that a majority can flood the halls of justice. decide every action and override with popular passion and pre- iudice every principle of this govern ment, the greatest God has ever made2
 You must bear in mind that this matter of judicial recall is being agi. tated the country over that the men speaking for it are many. What call your attention to is that it is necessary that good people like you should speak the truth that's in you in favor of courts and their independ- ence and the restraints Of the consti- tuition that were imposed by the wisest ancestors any people ever had
 In reference to the sinlplification of legal procedure the president said he had had a feeling that the bar aad the bench owed 10 the people greater ef. fort toward making the admlnistra. ton Of law effective and just by ex- peditlng justice.
 President Taft visited New Yora tonight for the third time within lit- He over month +-
 He cane from New Haven, Conn, at 6 o'clock in the evening, after attend ing a meeting of the Yale corporation there today, and was speaking guest here tonight at three hauquets. He dined with the New York State Bar Association in company with Ambassa- dor Jusserand. Senator Elihu Root president of the assoeiatica Governor Dix. Joseph II choate and nearly q thousand others at the Waldorf
 
 The lawyers gave the president a round of hearty cheers
 After enjoying the feast he left the lawyers for while. and dropped in upon gathering of 600 jewellers at the dinner of the Twenty Four Carat Club and then attended the dlnnec O. the Society Of the Tennessee, returning later to speak at the bar association banquet.
 The nearest the president came tc anything political in his early speech es was in thanking the jew eiers Tor a gold watch with which they presented him and 1t was aot certain whether his reference then to difficulties in running involved his avoirdupois or politics