The Nome daily nugget., 1908-07-31
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@F"ifr\ if""kS, tH an entertaining character sketch in tEe FortuightIy Re. view says uf William Howard Taft. the republican candidate for president of tne United states
 He Is iu every sense big man. Whenever some peculiarly difficult CT complex problem arises he Is at once drFurtd Co solve L. Work on the Panama canal. for instance. is dtsor- sanized and threatens tu stop through the friction of multiplicity of boards and thr resignation uf one eugiuser-tn- chief after another. Mir Taft visits the isthmus. looks into things. decides tt4t The army engineers are the men ts dig the ditch aud au is peace and ffHsr-ss.
 cuhl again. conducts herself by the usual Spauish-Amerfcan route ta the yerg brink of revolution. Mr Taft stops in. examines. hHmors. coneiIIales. takes over the whole business If gov erHment and almost makes the out side world question thr gravity of the situation by the eass with which he adjusts it
 The American and Japauesc papers and tho people who rad them srowI at one auuthcr over the immigration difficulty. Mir Taft. cn route for the Philippines. calls in at Tokio. has an audience with the mikado. and tHe ru- mafs of trouble arr dissolved in a douehc of sanity.
 An ully controversy of personal changes and recriminatinus breaks out between two American diplomats. Irs | matter altogether outside Mr Tan's department, vel hc goes Co him for set fIement. and he settles it. "Ga oyer 1ud src Taft about it." is formula sn often on the presidents lips that It has passed into he slang of the day and the war seeretary's nickname General utility .Hm." gives both tho popular and the official measure af his capacities
 He has a peculiar gift of ubrieating sagaeity He raa4ts+ jolIHy and con eiiiatiun. All men instiuctvely like and trust this huge good humared gi- ant. whose mere physical immensity i@presses one with q sort of guarantee If inEincibilily He crashes through problems and tangIes with the alI-con- dueriug certainty uf smiling. pa- tent, supremely human steam reller l have met no anp. even in America more wholly destitute of fussiuess and Iaffectation. Nothing seems to furry him or break tHraugb his reserves of genial placidity Though scarcely less hadEered than Mr Roosevelt himself. he never cXplodcs. He has the even ness of temper. tho chccry setf-con- tinence, which iI would be positively dangerous for man of his colossal bulk not to have.
 There is a hearty and most winning Inaturalness in his intercourse with peo- ple He has all of the average Ameri- cans indifference to cxtcrnals and ap- pcaraucc snapshot of Mir. Taft. seated at his official desk, would make an admirable study of democracy in undress. His mind I should judge. is n healthy and vigorous rather than a pliahle instrument IL works with a ponderous probing thoroughness. one would not look to Mir Taft for any original contribution to the philosophy of politics any more than one would expect him to hubble forth in epigrams He is not a man of wide interests and has as little of Mir. Roosevelt's many sidenesscs as of his flashing alertness or his somewhat volcanic tempera- ment
 But his qualities. if of the minor or- der of merit. are strong. genuine and servieeable. He has had far more than the ordinary candidates experience of men and affairs and night responslbill- ties. and MT Taft. like Golden. is one of those men on whom no experience is wasted His administrative apti- tudes are unquestionable. He has that kind of hnpeIsonal disentangling mind. of perspective and judicial balance, which when united with an engaging personality and q dependable charac- ter makes it's possessor a court of final appeal for rriyte friends and public colleagues"