The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-08-03
THOMAS TACCART.
THE MAN WHO Is NOW SLAT
ED FOR THE DEMOCRAT
&c NATIONAL CHAIR.
MANSHIP

Has Demonstrated That out in His
Own Stale of Indiana by Some
Wonderful Political A
chievements-A Good
"Mixer"-Other
News
New York, July 2S.-New York
World: Twenty-seven years ago
when the girls in the lunch counter
at the Indianapolis Railroad station
said "Draw onel" the faucet in the
coffee urn was turned by red
checked, blue-eyed, broad-should-
cred young Irishman.
Tomorrow, unless plans change
over night, or Judge Alton B. Par
ker sends message TO the contrary,
that same Irishman, still red cheek
ed, will be made chairman of the
democratic national committee and
placed in charge of the Parker and
Davis campaign.
His name is Thomas Taggart. In
/ the years between 1877 and the
present time he has been county au-
ditor of Marion county, Ind, twice,
Mayor of Indianapolis three times,
chairman of the democratic state
. committee and a member of the
| democratic national committee. He
has grown in a business way, too.
He grew from the lunch counter in
the station to restaurant of his
own, then to the proprietorship of a
small hotel, then to larger hotel,
and finally to the ownership of the
Grand Hotel in Indianapolis and a
chief interest in the resort at French
Lick Springs, Ind.
When Taggart drew coffee, sold
sandwiches and handed out pie al
the lunch counter he was smiling
good-natured lad. full of energy and
with faculty Of making everybody
bis friend. He has not changed
His smile is just as CHEEKY, his eye:
twinkle just as brightly and he
seems to grow more energetic as he
gets older. He is the, .sublimateo
type of mixer" He knows ev
erybody in Indiana, knows abou
everybody worth knowing in New
! York and has great acquaintance
among politicians and statesmen il
all parts of the country. He ha'
been active iu politics in Indiana
} where every man is politician
, since he walked there and got hi
lunch counter job in 1877. He ha
, won many fights from the republi
J cans and has been interested in {
large way in national democratic
politics since he became member
. Of the democratic national commit
tee in 1892.
Taggart is just what be is eaid t,
be-a politician. He believes Ii
getting results. He does not theor
ize. Hecdoes not plan complicatet
campaigns. He gets out and get
votes. = He can see an advantage a
quickly as any one, and good dea
I quicker than many. If he is place,
. in charge of the Parker campaign h
will have an active canvass starte'
d in ten days. He is familiar with tn
t methods of both democratic aud re
Q publican national committees. II
s knows the workers in all the states
q He makes no pretensions about hi
j own status. He says the way
win a campaign is to win it; and b
Q proceeds on that theory, withou
e bothering about the ethics Of th
game. ,--.
q Taggart has had an ambition
p be chairman of the democratic na
: tional COMMITTEES since 1900. Thel
/, was much dissatisfaction anon
b democrats with ex-senator Jane
It K. Jones, who managed the Brya
b campaign in 1896, and Taggart sal
o he would like to try his hand at i
Mr.. Bryan sent word that Jone
must be reelected. He said it woul
not be fair to take him from th
t craftsmanship because he lost
1896. Taggart acquiesced cheel
fully. He did what he could
fhelp Brayan in Indiana. The
:. when the present campaign cam
d on he frankly stated his ambition
= again.
u Il Usually the national chairman
: ship is supposed to seek the mar
d Taggart thought that folly. b
d could not zee why a man wh
thought himself fitted to run a n.
tional contest should not say 6,
He realizes fully that it will be
great thing to win with Parker, an
le he said last winter before the non