Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1908 — PRAISE FOR HITCHCOCK [ARTICLE]

PRAISE FOR HITCHCOCK

Taft Quotes Aeneas In Letter Read at New York Banquet. New York, Dec. 4.—Frank H. Hitchcok, manager of the Republican campaign; Treasurer George R. Sheldon, who found a million and a half dollars to defray expenses, and William L. Ward, who promised Greater New York to Mr. Taft, were dined by the Republican club. Mr. Taft, from Hot Springs, wrote: “Not the least of the burden the gentlemen in their positions have always to bear is the criticism of the jealous, of the nervous, and of the ignorant in respect to the conduct of a campaign upon which so much of importance hangs. The greater these crises the more interesting is the recollection of them.- As Aeneas said to his followers in the storm, ‘haec ellm forsltan xneminlsse juvabit.’ ” It was remarked that if the letter could be regarded as a sample of what Mr. Taft intends to produce, the people would be on good terms with the classics before he would leave the presidential chair. “Nothing short or ugly about that ’meminisse juvabit’ business,” said one guest. Another translated the words as meaning “beaten to a frazzle.”