Evening star., 1913-01-18
CLOVER CLUB GUEST
Taft at Breakfast Given by the
Officers.
MAKES THREE ADDRESSES
Expresses Hearty Good Will for the
Incoming Administration.
CALLS PROGRAM "AMBITIOUS'
Characterizes the Supporters of
Roosevelt as Most Extreme.
of Radicals.
MAKES THREE ADDRESSES
CALLS PROGRAM "AMBITI0US'

oeIlt 1dIt, VINO had a busy time of 1t las
night, attending three dinners and deliv
er1ng as many speeches, was the guest o1
honor this morning at breakfast giver
by the officers of the Clover Club. The
President made his third speech of the
night shortly before / o'clock this morn.
ing, on the roof garden of twenty-story
hotel, to the Medical Club of Philadel-
phia. He expected to leave for New York
with Mrs. Taft at 1 pm.
Good Will to New Administration.
President Taft. in his address at the
dinner of the Clover Club last night, eX-
pressed his hearty good will toward the
incoming administration and his sincere
desire that the "ambitious'' program OF
the successful party would be carried out.
He said, in part:
1--WE, so to speak-and I hope I include
in that first person plural pronoun a good
many of those whom l address-we are
to occupy position up a tree. and are to
look with judicial attitude and views upon
the efforts of others to do what We tried
to do.
Calls Program Ambitious.
"The program is an ambitious one.
l.
is to be increased with foreign nations
and industries of domestic CHARACTER
are to be maintained and all prices are
to be reduced. is a condition that to a
hidebound Pennsylvania republican pro-
tectionist may seem impossible. But per-
haps there are things yet for us repub-
licans to learn in that regard, and. If so,
SO be it. The proposition to emancpate
the poor from poverty is a somewhat ven-
turesome one. 1t has not been accom-
plished yet, but If it can be- then those
of us who class ourselves among the
poor will rejoice. 1t is proposed that
those business men who have heretofore
not regarded the law shall be made here
after 10 regard it. 1t is proposed that
we shall all be better, and that there
shall be injected into the body social and
polite a militant spirit that is to frown
down all wrong and elevate all right.
Not Opposing Progress.
"Now, all wish to say with respect
to this ambitious project is that We do
not wish to be put in the attitude of not
desiring to have every good that hu-
manity can be heir to, and il the pro-
gram that is to be proposed can be car
ried out in one or two or three terms. or
decades, we shall be glad to await its
coming. In other words, by the use OF
we do not wish to bt put in the attitude
Of opposing progress.
Republicans the Conservatives.
''Now, I have no mandate to say what
the judgment of the people was at the
last election. I only have a suggestion
as somewhat interested spectator in
that controversy. and that is, that there
were three parties; that one party (and
that the party which came in third
was regarded as the conservative party.
and the one which would not make the
progress which the people wished, and
which they expect; the other, which was
the other part of the republican party,
went to the other extreme of radicalisn,
Of principles, which would dispense with
the limitations of constitutional demo-
cratic representative government and
throw open everything for new expert
ments in government to make man bet
ter, even against his will; and the other.
and the successful party, was one which
was supposed to have some ambition
toward progressiveness, but still to be
conservative enough to preserve the con-
stitutional limitations, which some of us
think represent the real progress that
has been made in civilization in the thou
sand years of struggle for liberty and the
125 years of preservation of this nation.
Advice to New Administration.
"Now. under those conditions perhaps,
to one whose interest is only that of a
citizen and a spectator, a remark may
be permitted of kindly suggestion. that
1t would be well for the incoming ad-
ministraton to preserve that position.
and not to out-HerOd Herod, because 1
cannot be convinced that the American
people have yet reached the point where
they feel SO celIain that an entirely new
method of government can be adopted
without limitation upon the action of
the majority as contained in our Con-
stitutiOn, and not run a risk of retro
grade movement in civilization. that when
it comes we all should regret
And therefore, my friends, 1 am only
here to express with you every good
will toward the incoming administration.
L sincerely hope that the course taken
by 1t may bring to all-not bring, for
administrations do not bring about pros
perity. but that the course may not be
inconsistent with and not interfere with
the prosperity which but for some OBJ
struction is certain to come to this coun-
try"