Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1907 — Taft and the Presidency. [ARTICLE]

Taft and the Presidency.

Washington, Dec. 31. —To set himself exactly where he is as to the presidential nomination Secretary Taft saya that his “ambition is not political;” that he “s not seeking the presidential nominaton;" that he does “not expect to be the Republcan candidate,” but that it “would not be true” that if “the opportunity to run for the great office were to come to me I should decline It.*