Show TAFT TALKS TUB TO THE Gov Guild Explains His Position Position Position tion Regarding Tail of Ticket NEW YORKER GETS FUNNY HEIR APPARENT ANGRY AND JUMPS TO HIS FEET Boston March 3 A great audience assembled at Symphony hall ball tonight and heard addresses by Secretary of War Taft t United States Senator Elmer J Burkett of Nebraska Governor Cur Curtis Curtis Curtis Guild and Lieutenant Governor Eben Ebert S Draper All the speakers were guests of the Republican club of Mas Massachusetts Massachusetts Massachusetts which held its annual din dinner dinner ner nor In the hall previous to the speech speechmaking speechmaking speechmaking making The address of ot Secretary Taft fol lot followed followed lowed lines similar to the one which he delivered in Kansas City several weeks ago Gould Would Not Refuse Governor Guild took occasion to deny that he had been a party to any ar arrangement arrangement by which he would receive the nomination for tor vice president He added that should he be selected he would not refuse the nomination I Discussing national affairs Governor Guild said We may not all agree agree I do not with certain methods the present pres president presIdent president ident has employed The skillful use of knee and is sometimes better for steady progress on a long Ing road than violent with the spur SPUl The great essential fact tact is that though in this or that detail the president president president dent may have been wrong in method he has been sincerely fearlessly and everlasting right in principle His successor is to have no easy task The four years before us are crowded with difficulties and dangers The best brains among us are needed for the tasks we have to lace face Taft His Candidate In this transition period Into which we are plunged every kind of radical radicalIsm Ism Is daily suggested The next pres president presIdent president ident should hould have a thorough knowl knowledge knowledge knowledge edge of or constitutional law and the lim tim limitation limItation oi oi the powers of the national executive and national government I believe that among good men the best for us today is the canal builder the jurist the diplomat the adminis administrator administrator administrator the American whose private character is as white as his judicial ermine William H Taft of Ohio Later Secretary Taft was escorted to the Hotel Somerset where he made a brief address before the members of the Boston Real Estate exchange |