Taft from His Boyhood Days to Presidential Chair

FRIDAY MARCH 5 1909 2 TEE WASHINGTON HEBAXD l HIS BOYHOOD DAYS TO PRESIDENTIAL CHAIR TAFT FROM f capable of greater altruism than and six their children a far rca to learn the rudiments the simplest play was seen at one affair with AssIstant Secretary of State bad ever been suspected I N a recent cat j only inclined to matters of the elemental branches and r char- Francis B Loomis and he reported Judge Taft was not one the ¬ go of the local theaters of De- United States In a false posi- wore glad arid proud to I charges against Loomis to the State beHeve the by one the problems of th acters remarked You cant do partment The investigation tell to M tion In remaining in the Philippines he Thus one his on United States cir-¬ Philippine advanced toward settlement nothfns with a fat man when lies Taft who went about the work with had a life place the the I only t dis- his services already One question alone that of friar pretty thoroughness bench where road which may be taken as a characteristic cuit remained sore spot Mr Taft were justified j imperatively lot promotion lands a that cover that the charges not marked him Con- ¬ good indication ot Ute determination I to Washington to lay before The report he made drove Herbert W to the Supreme Court in fulfillment of canto many men of ganeroBs- ¬ which he believed seems te carry so diplomatic service It HfetoBg ambition He was practical- gress Information BoweR front the his would do great deal to put down much avoidrapeis to suecese cost heavily to make that de- ¬ ly certain within a few years he a not Mr Taft that unfounded criticism of the Philip- ¬ But as Dr Iynwua Abbott wrote cision He soaack the blow because he would receive the desired appointment- of the ¬ ¬ pine potter He sine came to ago Ute IMUI Inaugurated to- though the above all else Mr Taft is an altru- and action long about believed It was righteven But largely secure from Congress tbe necessary day as Chief Executive of the nation fer blow struck a friend ist with a combativeness just as searching a career developed as the sunshiny good nature money and authorization to go to Rome the next four years They have talked There was no for negotiate troubled question of the ia the case of President Taft From the which keeps it hidden most of the time sad the a great deL about Mr Taft as a fat statement of the friars lands He has a first by tradition training and tempera He needed only the man He is not a tat maR law and proposition tte President had to snake Going Caused Regret- stands straight moot he was marked for the good broad chest alrt he the public experience of his father and to him in order to accept it was with great misgiving that the Is semtefecle all the It Below that chest there a the fine record of his grandfather turned Mr Root went at Mr Taft with Filipinos saw Mr Taft prepare to leave round stomach gov- ¬ 5 hint lament as a But It Seat the Wad of a him naturally to the consideration of W7ltTAPt- skill which has made were much afraid ¬ directly the two the island They that that conies fro dfaeipatfea or settIn- ernment and public affairs So soon as WIfl1AFT fr1GcM- lawyer He contrasted Mr began an active places justice of the Supreme Court and be would not return But ha made them dulgence It is doe to the fact that he graduated he to take Ar 10 TERRa AG- and part in the business of electing good and tf chairman of the Philippine CommiMion e solemn promtee that be would come Taft has a powerful GOastitutioa to °IFAGL post dignity honor and comfort back and they reluctantly acquiesced in take enough exercise responsible men to office He started one a of does not perhaps learn politics from the POUnd up He for life the other an office of the most his Journey Takes Lots of Exercise entered into ward politics and worked- extreme dISUnity tilled with perplexities did work te Congress and pre- occupant risking his He his This is perhaps hardly all the truth at the city polls Republicanism was his and harassments its pared to redeem Isle promise to the Fili- ¬ a th tradition He made it his health and eVeR his Ute from tropical for President Taft certainly takes ah by birth and ¬ pinos go to Manila via Koine conviction sad certain to be assailed per- and back exercise that h has opportunity for own also by personal disease negotiations Vatican His When he returned to Cincinnati with sistently and malignantly by the enemies for with the And those who were with him te the trying to do but with health was badly impaired His friends danced the ink still wet on his Yale diploma of the work he was Philippines iemembertog how he once an suca as no American physicians advised him to remain in ea- young Taft had te go to work at opportunity and the night out with a f the nost In to help pay the expenses of his surely none since the tune of Lincoln country but be had givon a promise- order poor this hueastfc of the FMoiae ladles would course at the Cincinnati Law School for had bad the opportunity to lift a go back and he never hesitated people up into the to ardly doubt Ms sowitea The truth while Jai family was of excellent position r PR ignorant anti helpless This was ta 062 and during that vteit 1te was from light of liisrty and set them on the path Taft Is to be booed In Cincinnati his father far a pros- ¬ bout I TArT to freedom national unity to this country there was talk of of his being a man wealth sad > hind thePrefact the friends of On your pective vacancy in the United Stat s Su- ¬ tit prime A You wilt have to resign Judge vouth are the frteadc of his In Newspaper Work Limes ship said Mr Root and you may preme Court the goal of Mr Taffs am ¬ nan in years and experience a man who So It was that William Howard Taft never have another chance of going on President Roosevelt spoke to him his as done great and tpiendld work for became a newspaper tuna He began as the Supreme Bench But we need yI- aboutbIt it while be was here and said- ways his heart fe stfM nuntry In many a reporter on the TimesStar owned by n the Philippines I do not see bow I could give the va- ¬ iight his nature sanay Iris laugh free Ws halfbrother Charles P Taft and Makes Ills Choice cancy to you If It comes I noM you end ready and his fattb as firm as it his work m coveting tho courts was so AM right we sold Mr Taft TM go where you are was in those days over forty years ago well done that It attracted the attention That was great day for tile Philip- It has always been nry dream t be in a replied Mr Taf when he captained the gang te Cteete of Murat Halstead who engaged him at pines and for the Uaued States as weH the Supreme Court opposition hosts hi- But if you should offer me a just Shi1 taU agaiast its a substantial raise In salary to report That day Mr Taft became godfather to time Congrrs ¬ now and h at the same ButchertewH the courts for the Cincinnati Commer EMT a new nation should deprive me of my entire salary AS wa- > Presideiit WHHan Howard Taft cialGazette During the time of his The work of President Taft in tile Phil governor of the Philippines I should R 1M only continued at Mount Auburn a suburb of r work he not his ippiaes te detail tmportaace straight for times people expect n sh law studies assiduously but kept up his all its sad heel incinaatl September tt 1S57 When he would require a volume to tell His at- to keep my word smut I shall not desert had interest in practical politics and his them was yet a boy in knickerbockers he politicians titude at first was one of concffiatie boy contact with the practical and Mr I believe I have the missionary spirit Become Old BUT to his friends ward heelers showed him to be imbued and the Ffflpteos believed because opposed retain- ¬ he told the Senate vnd among them he was already a loader courage goes in- Taft was known to be to with that sort of that ing the Philippines they would be on He was a good playfellow a iue too to win that Greeted Return captain of a polling place able to negotiate with hint at once Ret Oa Ids return to Manila te August ponderous for a ftrstclass He was a watcher of a that there might be no mistake as to his Itt champion I found Ills the reception iasebaM team but he was a in these early days when it was reported intentions one of his first announcements he reward ia wtmmer audI a lender In heavyweight to him by another watcher that a tough when be arrived te the Philippines was given him by the people He plunged At athletics He had inherited brains dunes who was hanging around was a declaration of the definite purpose of once late the business of the commission to ¬ physique and a happy dispostdoathreel- attempting intimidate some of the the United States to maintain their sov-¬ amid soon became tngrioniii in the nego- ualtues which early ben to show voters ereignty over the islands Commoner tiations for the friars lands Then earn 0 themselves He loved to play but h- Which oner asked Taft Taft also declared that tbe commission a command from the President to return iked work too almost as well as a boy- The man was pointed out and Taft would decline to treat wtth men te arms to tile United States and crept the va- ¬ s he has m later years As a lad he started for him The practteaT tOIl personal maueaces to affect Isle decisions with whom It was the function of the cancy on the Supreme Court bench But vas Inclined to that curiosity of the mind tichut WM a big stone mason who did In the dosing years of Mr Taffs serv- ¬ army to deal that the miHtary govern- ¬ Mr Taft believed they needed him where Thlch leads a boy to orb an that te not appreciate the practical

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