The Sentinel=record., 1912-01-28
TAFT WANTS WANTS
 HOME STATE
ARRIVES AT NEW YORK ON FIRST LEG OF HIS SPEAKING TOUR
 THROUGH THE EAST.
Addresses Ohio Society Dinner and Win Hasten From Gotham to Ohio
 to Try to Swing His Home
 State-RooseVelt Meeting.

New York. Jan. 27 President Taft came from Washington tonight on the first leg of five day trip to in- clude also Clevelahd Columbus and 4 --i-.s4 Ohio, with a total of IT speak ing engagements before he is back at. his desk in the white house next Thursday afternoon 5Tvrrr- banquets. two luncheons, three receptions and five miscellaneous engagements are oa his schedule and in six hours to- night he made q flying start by at tending three banquets and a grand ball in New York.
 The flying start was interrupted however, as the president was being whirled in his automobile from the Pennsylvania station, where he arriy- ed at SEQ D. m, 10 the home of his brother Henry w. Taft, ca West Forty-eighth street. At Forueth street and Seventh avenue, in the height of the homegoing traffic rush, the Taft machine dame to a sudden halt The embarrassed chauffeur reported out of gasoline" The president took the annoyance good humoredly He step ped out of the limousine and found room in the big open tour'ag car in which the secret service men were following him. Before the transfer was completed great crowd gathered. chaffing the absent minded chauffeur and cheering the smiling president.
 MT. Taft hurried on to his brother s home and dressed for his even ing engagements. These were inter esting for their addresses to natives of his own state. Ohio, 10 others of West Virginia and st 2 gathering of aerdna#ts- and lastly rec ognttnon of the work of one of the most prominent Hebrew charities of the city-the Home of the Daughters of Jacob--which had the president as guest at it's grand ball Nearly 10000 persons were present.
 The Ohio Society dinner at the Ho- tel Astor, was his first appearance
 When he arrived there shortly be- fore o'clock he was escorted into the banquet room by fife and drum corps of the Seventh regiment He was cordially received
 President Taft speaking tonight at the WaldorfAstoria, to the Ohio so- ciety of New York, delivered prob ably the most impassioned speech ne has made in many months. directed against the "nostrums or reform, and particularly aimed at the recall of judges He said
 With a population keen, active, alert, intelligent and reading, it is not to be expected that any movement can escape Ohio or be without its sup porters in that state Hence green baekery populism, free silver at six teen-to-one, all have held their sway and found a considerable part of the people who were willing to try the e&- pertinent of each new doctrine which was to take away from men the ne. cessity for wealth and labor and make the deserving rich
 We have noM reached another pc riod when another new political nos trum or series of them, is being preached throughout the country and has found some odgment in our dear old state We are told that there is period of unrest throughout the country and in Ohio especially; thai | the movements ts against the things | that are. and in favor of new ideas which are to metamorphose our insu ltutions and bring about a condition where only the just shall have lux ury. and only the undessrving be poor Like all nostrums of this kind, the reform is not to proceed from tho people themselves in the change o the individual, but is to be fotnd il the machinery of government undei which the individual lives and has hi' being It Is to impose on the s0f ernment responsibility for the hap piness of the individual that it neve had before We are today enioyinl greater per capita holding of prop erty by the individual than ever il the history of the country Neye
 before has the equality of opportu nuy manifested itself as 1t does toda
 in sll states
 But in the course of this progres
 which has been made there are eoI
 rupt men who have been able to a'