The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-04-02
GEO. N. JACOBS, President.
liMYRoN CARLETON LoueH, Editor
<. IN. DAVIS, Business Manager.
-lTERMs oF SUBSCRIPTION.
MR. TAFT ANp.THE PRESIDENCY.

: 7 No.
1t seems unfortunate that jealousy
would enter the breasts Of such men
as Senators Foraker and Dick OF Ohio.
toithe extent that they would offer
chailepgeIin I'm order to force fight on
! Hon VIM. i. TAFT Taftass not a
politician In the sense Of that term
y as applied to Dick md Foraker. They
shave control Of the organization and
eiectlon machinery and Foraker took
isfup the negro end Of the Brownsville
ttaffair IN order to get the colored vote,
so Taft will have an unfair fight
brought on by willy and designing poll.
ticians., He is a clean and honorable
man iand,ope who has no thste for mod,
q ern politics, the buying, selling, cOerc-
Wing Kind. The Washington Post gives
I very nice analysis of Mr.. Taft's
make up which is well worth reading,
rs follows:
Y. Nov that Secretary of War Taft
8fhas become, according to the state
ment Issued Saturday in Cincinnati by
his brother, Charles P. Taft. candi
date not only for President, but also
for United States Senate, 1t may not
be Inappropriate to describe the Sec.
/: retary's actual personal sentiments up.
4 on the question Of running for any
elective office.
$50 many OF his friends understand
I hls5feelings on the subject that none
Y of them would violate his confidence
\ by explaining his real feeling. In the
first place, the Secretary has dis.
I taste for the game OF practical poll.
tics, although he has been thrown into
contact with politiclans-Dublic men
care politicians, II must be remembered
since he left college. He does
> not like to see men scramble for pub.
s lie Office, and abuse. claw. and even
traduce one another in their eager.
ness TO get appointments.
\, t""He is extremely reluctant 10 he
st.,irawn into contests involving the dis.
I tributlon OF patronage. although on
y several occasions his advice has been
{ sought and followed by President
9 Roosevelt. The quiet and dignity Of a
judicial Office have always been nppo.
Y site to his tastes and temperament.
* Nearly year ago Associate JUS
tice Brown Informed the President
that he was ready TO retire from the
Z Supreme bench, and the place was Of
fered to Secretary Tart. The Score.
~ tary virtually made up his mind TO
accept II, but continually was dissuad,
( ed from so doing. The influences
q that were brought to bear upon him
we're exerted by members OF his own
family, who believed then, and still
are Of the opinion, that his manifest
destiny is TO succeed Mr.. Roosevelt in
the White House. II will be recalled
that before It was announced that he
kbad declined the justiceship the Sec.
rotary conferred with his brothers. anil
At was generally understood at the
time theft counsel led 10 his final de.
cision. II is a fact with which his
close friends are all familiar that he
laid aside the. proirered crminc with
genuine regret, because the Supreme
3 Court had been the goal Of his amhi
ton, for many years. Even now.
stnnid Chief Justice Fuller conclude
Z for one reason or another, to retire,
tie Secretary would not hesitate m