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 value of a ice oa the Federal bench several Onto ment would continue indefinitely and that be was He cabled back Between the covers of his book and scholar m polities He demanded to know railroads were te the hands of receivers the commissioners were prepared to stay Great honor deeply appreciated but doing potts ¬ Whkh often leads a lad to be dubbed a what Taft was around the v appointed by hint One of these receivers la Manila for three years to see civil roust decline Situation here most criti nilksop by his friends But Old Bill Taffs answer was to send his right t was Myron T Herriefc his warm friend government well begun cal from econrmic standpoint Change to re-¬ ¬ Taft though he found ample time for the stonemasons Jaw with the result Judge Taft booM that some of the Hits Straight Out I would create much disappoint study did not lay himself open to the that the bushy went down and oat TORT S if ceivers Including Mr Herrtck had per- ¬ ment MId lack of confidence amour tfc tIn- The same which lund I ritkisms of his chums He found time Now then saW Mr to Ills > He summoned them to directness marked people Two years now to follow of Taft mitted rebating bin esteem lawyer a for play but be found time also for Isis friend Jets ted out what the trouble come and use kiss Mr and Mrs Herrk a and juis hold greater importance to the development- AfJBlGlNO I nahi duty m life which was study and te DID 1 fRESIDENT TAFT were entertained at his home The next hiss in good stead te the PttWppteos He of islands than previous two year Chop 1 those days be laid the eoraerstoae of But there was no more trouuw one f 1I MArtUA day Mr Herrick and the Judge wont went straight to his purpose Be had era rinderpest religious excitement la m amazing ability displayed lit after smash ia the Jaw bad settled h WLDurnW4 down to tIM courthouse There te the cone to the Phflippiaes on a miauioii to drones monetary crisis all render most years of getting through an amount of Good in n Fight Judges ottre friendship was disregarded fulfill whirls it was necessary to concili- unwise tile change of governor Noth ¬ work that would stagger an ordinary it became a business meeting t lug would satisfy individual tastes mr One not get the idea that Taft as- 18K he ard I ate the Flnptnos He began by doaring nan When he wrote to John F Wa- ¬ wait ht the world sad ft was only now that the period from March until Myron asked the Judge you than acceptance These are srn timer s a young mon was pugnacious bully PJaVJnauves was the have away all subtleties and false understand- ¬ lter whom be dismissed from the chief or a be held himself m posMJoa to take a went to the That been rebating of ray colleagues and of two or m A good deal of ings There was to be no concealment- tr nincership of the Panama Canal but he WU Iways ready to bt ill a wife In im feeUag that he was te time of the pauSe North Mr replied by presenting a leading Filipinos consulted confidential wore been invested In Ken Herrick no deception Front the first he told t v T1S a cIIIIJ m aal It h good CUM especially for somebody doe condition to support a wife they era capital had showing some NON had Look forward to time when I car arr rt E cINtJ when tbe hard statement that them the worst that could happen to k f until tt entirely frisilnl For instance there watt Ids encounter married They spent several mouths ia tacky and T teawe and been paid to sMppevs by Ids road Judge Ale aa offer but even if it is certain coavtettea thut- Envoy on a happy wedding Journey and thuss corporation after another them Thereafter he was unhampered- It can never be repeat I e was but vdrtiBj a with a man named who eae Taft was greatly shock ¬ that uiui Raft tan a parses we in his honest to win their friend ¬ > sdIML he returned to Ctodaaatf to take up his to torts now decttne Would not assume to an- r ossessed Mm eYe as a oy at bfackmaJBng newspaper hi Cmchmuti wet if you nave been permitting rebating ca- duties once more as a Judge Authority permit- ship Tbe that three months of hIs swer ta such positive terms in view f Prominent in School Rose Held high be sternly you cannot be reer in Philippines Mr spent te printed a scurrilous article about aid we the Taft words of your dispatch If gravity cf t dteposfcte TOBtem ASTrnys Gooilnatnrctl AhnoK before he realized the situation ted to escape studying Philippine of course with this Tafts father Judge Ahjdionso Tuft an was the character He nation here was not necessarily known TO Jests without number have beea aimed young Judge found he was exported- Fortunately for Mr Herrick he pet out to win the sympathy and confi-¬ Howard Taft stood well up toward the artIde that was so palpably thins that the money had been be better than it can be known in Wash- ¬ plentiful avoirdupois of Mr of railroads able to show that the dence of the Filipinos He I euI of his schooL He devoured the the Judge his Moods only laughed at the Taft to naurtrfrtT the affairs made be- talked with ington and These be takes ht the good nature m grocery corporations banks paid on account of contracts them was always Interested and sever newspapers and works of htetery JaM a coal mines fore he became receiver and which be Order frem Rnesevelt which they have been sent lohiceo plantations stock farm and al-¬ betrayed tile least symptom of weariness fascination too him i Ids caw the child titBat ow BUr though It was not a had felt bound to fnMIL judge Taft Any Filipino was welcome at Mr But Theodore Roosevelt would not tak One of the earnest relates to the days most every kind of enterprise in which with great relief Tans was truly the lather of the man To wughing matter He started for Reaes- heart tile explanation home or office and every man had an op- ¬ no for aa answer He wrote to Mr Tart when be was goreiaor of the PhlHppinw Northern capital could be Induced to ea- These claims are undoubtedly Just lay when be has taken the oath of of odice un the street lie met portunity to say all that he desired My I r W During one of his excursions late Use in-¬ were all m proceedings which he said and I win enter aa ovter for De r Will I JOB avIdly SWTT old Tan and the h of honor in Is yowd uiua Reee asked Taft ter Tiny after faithful effort fcr a anotfc to TTT a i sfTsr- ie pd be cabled to the then Secretary of re-¬ payment hereafter jihiaie let Frians in Control the nations gin bis essential tributes are Rase admitted that be was and started terior obliged the Federal Judge to appoint tbeir But sattcTT oa tie bM you ted I Cod that I rvM- nay half- War Etthu Yet direction- me seth Judicial questions Mr Taft soon learned that the principal yen and ood nuture sympathy a ufek of to something but before be ceivers and to ajtstimr general kw tvbdn hose o I C1rr Rode forty mules oa aorMback today TV to Plttptoos CBBrt nrry haw e- way through Oki BflT picked him up ranititudinou business affairs Played Favorites factors the disaffection of the I ut my I th grr r justice sisnniia to with ready fooling fine of ths deor ia jraor > > IT- wrath a bodily sad Aung him down with a crash during- while on Federal were the domination of the friars who t tat lifter all rid willingness do Secretary Root ca- ¬ Do you know said Mr Taft Several times the TM fS nmak an te t r m I MB the Pr hot ar to battle for die right on the pavement He dWat eveu need to The Joke tau k that re- had been in charge of the churches their I bled back casual conversation at his house re bench Judge Taft declined to grant fcee the vtoir add The rapctoibilitT BT err r and a capacity for work that te unlim- hit him Be sfanpiy put one knee ht the a any ¬ fr Glad you are feeling fine how is the gardtap the details of his professional quests of him by xPreatnvnt Har- enforced expulsion from participa- ml framtrty came tpoa v aol tl itforr ited These JaR the numiUcs that old small of the Mnekmatters back and rub- ate ncponsbQity in la horse when I went to the Philip appointed In tion in tbe government except te suck eacnot ibak tk or tir t rr Rill the achooiboy displayed matured fnto paving Muss until career that rison the roan who him I jfeU ne jndg => i ms r bed his face the me roost pur- ¬ to no demon if K t iiy time rendered firmer by expert wttto rage Another Jest Is attributed to Justice ptees the thing which disturbed attorney the Attor- ¬ unimportant places as they could After the moat CBcfnl tfca aft ear and Rose bowled pain and possibly how the case the district it ht nwt Brewer of the Supreme Court of the was whether I could chase the oppression and tyranny of aa I eat in do wini you dniied and t fnOW TH let you up If ymfn get out of tows lan ney General and Mr Harrison were all IId irdtt k- an addrenc to students purely executive affairs I government I have eon irrrvocmbi to the risnri tha I oaia- Old B Taft finished his tonight said Taft United States In to administer an extension of time Judge unjust and arbitrary their I Yale te said to have more than anybody hw asking for ppcfet JFM to UM Snjxtx Court in the ncre r- ourse at Woodward Hfe School ia 1SH Rose managed to get out a smothered of Justice Brewer was astonished oppor- unsatisfied yearning for education aad I remarked in a kind of anecdotal aside when I discovered that the process of Taft thought they had had ample their inability to secure a title and paacft anted In Junre Skins raacmtioc ant lilt Lnte- lie went to Audover where he prepared promise and he was allowed to rise WtJaki ia pace with Ide as proacr- Ids speech government was exactly lire tunity to prepare their ease and refused i v tin for Yale His father bad been rlertsd to Now saN Taft come down here to running a able possession of their homes W years TB potttest man conducting big corporation request Neither friendship nor per- ¬ a iUKtiiMtt Kfwxnv wr the Yale Corporation He was the test tomorrow night again and If youre stffi Secretary Taft Is the that of a their The policy of attraction had been THBODOKE BOOSFTfELT alive I have heard that recently he were hundreds and thousands of sonal obligation ever Interfered with his working extremely well for about three alurmus of the old college t be honored here this Is ouiy a starter There I T falOlle In gave soot be met but the same action on the bench Taft however made another apr so It was a matter of course that young But was an The blackmailer had I a street eN ait lib new situations to months when Mr Taft began tbe estab- that wnmen life I found that Mr has always had a fine scorn for government some and cues more renounced the positii Taft should become a son of ElL When he I enough and cincinnati was freed of Isbn to three cccurs in badness Taft lishment of civil in of Su- ¬ come to me A young lawyer once i which his ambition craved but t entered Yale at the age of he forever It was while be was Judge of the executive experience had mere technicality the municipalities and provinces There whii Cincinnati President on bench owing to the filed papers in his court in a suit against gave Filipinos view underatapdlag of his duty held him bark was an erect nearly sixevefeet tan I So passed the two years during which perior Court of that while I was the again he the a new tad organ- ¬ prosperous foot I from The arguments he presented this nd weighing over 29 pounds Bat no William Howard was going through Taft first came into contact with hard times If It had been a a railroad ca behalf of a girl whose of then new governor He had premfeed Taft deetoloaa would have bees pe- time were so unanswerable that be re- ¬ ix>dy ized labor and rendered those period the chances are I had been cut off in an accident The that they should as large a mess called him fat then He was a the kw schooL He received Ids degree in I bat ceived a cable from President RooseveK cleancut youngster solid with a dividing first honors of the with which threatened to become a vital issue familiar with the general executive tition was not skillfully drawn up and tbe ure of participation te their government lid im lass I campaign have at- ¬ All sight old fellow you can stay figure that showed power in every Mae another industrious student He was ad- ¬ of the last He made dear at work because there would ben Judge saw that the clever railroad las was possible This involved teaching time his position as to the rights of and bankruptcies It de- ¬ Filipino Tie was hailed by the athletic contingent mitted to the bar and began the practice j that fewer receiverships torneys would demur to and the them how little equipped they were for Educates the I He right of would So he us accession > taw hte old Oman be labor asserted the laborers and the Federal court as usual murrer woo have to be sustained such participation Mr Taft and the Then began the process of providing a t their ranks and of with fathers but ¬ ¬ I to em- with mat point- the footballrat enthusiasts saw ia him a continued Jaw Interest ia pottttes and to unite withdrawing from their have concerned itself largely called the girls lawyer to him and commission held open hearings wherever the Filipinos with education and the up- ployment m order to embarrass their em- ¬ te polities It was I they went Any Filipinos were I rominje rhampfcn Bat Taft was there i made hhuscK a marked man by his oppo ters of theory ed out the defects the and all well on Mr ployer and thus terre him to mike better property young woman welcome say they wish- lift was carried its wy for an not for to snag Even then he saw I neoevcii amended and the to attend sad all education athletic honors sittoa rule He declared the Meets Thcofiarc Taft remained governor of the Phinppin a and be meant to make his only practical method of defeat- terms with them sins of recovered damages t ed They could make suggestions and the most of I that the penal- ¬ before cr takes final leave I > 0- j right of a labor union to impose But criticisms and arguments to their until till when he was called home to opportunity Not that he did not believe ing the gang was by organization SaGcRer General of With Jniison Harmon hearts ties upon its members for refuting to President Taft as no limit lis- I Secretary of War He had found in t n ath1f tits He held it to be the duty And be Malted warfare on the bosses Isle fa content Mr Taft set He comply regulaticas to expel I there is one other tact I Mr Taft dU not cosine Intent of every young man to be a good ani- wtth a counterorganisation of youm with its or the United Sat s tened fcr hours to the longwinded dis- islands a sullen suspicious and disvn them for failure to obey the union rules recorded and that IS that it was the law to lea laterpretatloa and exposi courses of men who had no conception I mal for the reason that it enabled him man who were pledged to see that only to be years tented people a people full of hate sri incumbency of office tion front tile bench In the later the true principles of self I to do better te his studies A sound dean and able men were nominated for Retires Under Harrison during his this I whatever of distrust of the Americans a people who cf Us service as a Judge the old Cmcte government Once or twice some of his body was a sure foundation for somd once Two years after Ida election to the that be met Theodore Roosevelt I were ready to fight rather than submit to This college nail law school at which he had grad- ¬ less patient colleagues protested at the I work was his theory at Firwt Public Berth Superior Court President Taft resigned- It was natural that these two men decent government It was Taft wr > and has been his theory ever since At had somewhat behind tb waste of time When bud boost practicing law for to take the dire of Solicitor General of should become close friends Their uated mien go changed them from enemies into friend Yale he in fel- ¬ he himself with Let em on replied Mr Taft Joined the exercise of his ¬ ideals were much the same they were times Mr Taft associated worked gymnasium one year be was called to his first public the United States under President Harri For once tha Futptnoe shaU have a He showed them their limitatixs h lows in the wrestled ¬ application aad Juusoa Harmon slid some other eminent Be was appointed assistant son This te Itself was a striking com- alike In tbe intensity of chance to say alt they want to pointed out their possibilities He show I and played football but Ids athletics service or and the power for work lawyers of Cincinnati and founded a new Coun- ¬ mentary on the ability ef the nan He the desire be put them in the were for exercise and yeret1oamooa prosecudag attorney of Hamilton men was devoted to tbe service law school which followed the case sys-¬ Tour of Provinces them their weakness years Each < to an end not an sod in themselves ty and his activities fat that ny was then thirtythree old about Judge Taft was dean When It came time to estaMteh provin- ¬ way of becoming strong He taught th m Ice ¬ his country It te said that even then tem of Instruction C fifteen years under the average of Solici- of Held in Hlgrh Bsfeeni best be described lit the words Joe Theodore Roosevelt had his eye on the of the school which became in conjunc- cial governments the cowartojlDi mud a the dignity of labor and showed them th Moses one of his court bailiffs He tors General tion with the old one the law depart- paths progress He lifted them out of The hold that be gamed in the aec President Taft found plenty of work Presidency of the United Status as his great tour of the provinces visttteg of of the members his etass be says ultimate goal ambition was the ment of the University of Cincinnati more thirty of them some of them the slough of despond and superstition tiors of has to get every criminal late confronting hIM te his new oafee aad Tafts was serving on than fan He wanted chief Justiceship of Supreme Court It was while Judge Taft put on their handled held ever since sad many and various we at once on his accession he had to take the two or three times Here Mr Taft came and then feet and the peRlUfattar They worked sfanOar Maes the the Federal bench that the Spanish war ways have members of the daM of IS the momentous question of toe seal fish- ¬ along conchs face to face WWI the people of aB the made la the next year President Arthur world knows whither those lines have led broke out and was fought to its testified to the esteem In which they hold seeking a way out of a factional fight eries a contention between the United of ail the problems which islands and won them as he had those It was with some reluctance even that ¬ both men- alan Greatest him He hfcweetf testMes to ft In one found way by ap- ¬ States and Great Britain which the Brit war behind was tbe dtsposi- whom he had met in Manila IK each Mr Taft ceased his work In the Philip-¬ lit Cincinnati the out enough- The acceptance by President Taft of the that left f his speeches before the campaign he pointing Mr Taft collector oC internal ten government had been astute tkm of the Philippines and Ms people province a public meeting was held for pines to take a Cabinet office but his ob- ¬ to carry to Use United States Supreme United States circuit judgeship in Ohio discussion of law Mr began were mitigated by slid revenue there The job carried a good I President McKinley realised that the the the Taft jections the fact that Court emphasised once more the fact that Taft duty laid upon it by reading the law and explaining such as Secretary of War the islands would I ww ra MJUBM M jiwvnior of OM FMnvptaes salary much snore tissue Taft had ever the public bad little thought for United States had a J- col- ¬ The situation was an embarrassing one servant PhilippInes and be of its provisions simply and directly so still be under his general supervision He in October MH I mm JDe ill th cd tie earned before ia his ftc The office the mere financial emoluments of stiles not to abandon the cp- with inly mod If tbe decisions were against Great Brit- foundation that all could understand He took care was not quite deserting the people who ia wnuts I lected more than 3HMM anauafly on reputation be won as Solicitor began his policy of laying the iry tack with A wry punfni JBoes The ain country would not have held The had spechV to show them how many matters were trusted te And then too he bad taunt whisky and tobacco and h was bore that by handling Important of a superior civilization wIth him 1rmt nee iin d just as weD as we herself neeessarOr bound by it If It was General the of needs the people to left to tile determination of tile province before Isbn another gigantic work calling IfltiHia that Tuft got that business training reference to tbe of at it Tb woe ia her favor thou the United States would eases had secured hint a reputation to itself and how largely they would share full powers of man the super-¬ asrs t- which m good in be governed and with definite reference for the a iev always tiny trvmteA Mte- stood him such stead enor- I but e Pave course been bound by the deci- ¬ which would have beea worth aa government invited building of P uird The ow o- years he called upon to of the welfare of the islands both materiel in their Then ha vision of the the Panama fT rrtticMi it that tim after when was I mous income In private practice but the sion t was therefore imperative that V general discussion CanaL He had hardly taken his chair in ipt Wl fD ad tie day had JadIrd perform important judicial duties ht con- appointment HarrisOn was lid moral aiawhm rPCTytfcfcg is tbe United States should win of President previous The business over there was always a his new office before the canal problem tht rtr4 that a nection with the supervision of terse a long step goal of Ids A year to 3M President lie r sadau swwt to lraftb n with the dna I Ia Expression toward the tie Kiafey lad made the trial of a crvfltea banquet and a balls Mr Taft made came before him was wry business enterprises including railroads Clear sires and ambitions he hesitated cmch dntrea d wbca a cah fn w and set commission smut this had not beets a it a point always to take te at the ban- ¬ His nrst step was to send down to tie me hy T r But the office for some reason was not One or the distingcisbed characteristics came to landed a Cbianun onctat to that at alt when the opportunity hint success He needed man for even quet one of the lending native women isthmus that CoL Gorgas who half cleanei Yal lad hPr attractive to him and after tea months Is clarity of expression a btn 45Itn of Mr Taft In spite of the financial sacrifice involved among people of Influence and impor- And he went religiously through the up the pest bole in Cuba and made it 11 aD the rbu bad tberrd to Mr service he resigned going back to the go IB which be was Judge tM dnr Pwspfcaeity ar d perspicuity hand The district over men high station In public courses At the that boris he surprised sanitary and safe and behind r> l flnr in that rriehntinn I had forcrt ti in tile woes practice of law includes Michigan tance the of 1 i was opeDed hand with hm This story Is toW of an the States of Ohio growing opposition to the members of the party by leading out gas In his work in the Canal Zone hrt whra this ohlcgnm I le- It was plain however to many who Kentucky life there was a sto I winbm This i what it aid old tilipiao who krew Mr Taft m later and Tennessee and President our remaining te the islands- the wife of Ute local pre for the Mr Taft aad the administration Thu v knew William Howard Taft that a man Judge f f ycai Bin jwi we are with yon tat years and who had soze opportunity to Taft became associated there with I want a ama to head the commis- ¬ first dance It was the old Spanish came that lost of problems about th i- of his quaHocaUoas was needed in the err jtbhe m are doing YALE William B Day afterward Secretary of sion he said to Secretary of State quadrille sailed the Rfcjadon It was building of the canal which are not ev > n ri the m had rwuniH sad tboof arto pubttc service of Cincinnati and he was observe him Nv that State and now an associated Justice of H Day test morning when they a complicated figure but Mr Taft went yet settled Mr Taft went down t TIWI to rriJd not haw an h rt- brought ofac again as assistant The Filipino could speak no English William min Aon ooa into Supreme Judge H ¬ r the Court and with H in hardly slip danced rela- naW s giwa m irfire tt> but one day he told an American what wore dfecnasteg the situation who through with a and Panama and straightened out the ft ljw 4r n9h roM the county solicitor a Job which be held for Lurtoa who is still on the bench of that hirdeaa whirh we e Met light at that tine than position he thought about Mr Taft sad some of strong honest and tactful a man ot as well as the lightest Filipino there to tions between the isthmian republic ar l two years He left this at the position ¬ circuit Judge Taft retained Ids f gratification na- that mae frcs ttaw mm I oovld fed Bnetf- governor of Ohio Joseph She other Americans he bad known in the education and executive ability a man the Immense of all the the Canal Zone Then came thr organi- st < ndinK flbow to Qww bcxarae I knew that they instance of the t eight years and during that period situa-¬ Harmon Judge islands He smoothed off a little space r who te fearless but conservative JIll tives Mr Taft had foreseen that zation of the work its beginnings under v ir B most
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