Show TAFT IS WILLING makes statement regarding candi dacy for pres dency washington secretary taft made the following statement saturday con cernig his presidential aspirations for the purpose of relieving the burden imposed by recent eions upon my friends among the washington newspaper correspondents 0 putting further inquiries to me I 1 wish td say that my ambition is not political that I 1 am not seel ing the president al nomination that I 1 do not expect to be the republican if tor no other reason because of what seems to me to be objection to my aval ability which does not appear to lessen with the continued discharge of my own official duty but that I 1 am not foolish enough to say that in the improbable event that the anity to run tor the great office of prea ident were to come to me I 1 should decline t for this would not be true |