Arizona republican., 1908-06-29

happy when he is doing the right | thing as hard as he can do it, no matter whether it please any one else or not He likes praise as any one does, but criticism cannot stop him; in fact when he is reused l do not believe anything on earth can stop him. He is the quick-footed fighting elephant of modern world politics. We have grown up and they have asked us to sit in the eternal game of the nations and we have bought an awful stack of chips. Bill Taft | is the only man in the country big enough, cool enough and honest enough to play our hand"
 Taft Loves Common Sense.
 There is nothing quarrelsOme or lpragmatical about him, but he has never allowed anyone to impose on him. That was his record from boy | hood. Around his old home in Gin | cinnati he was the boy who never had to whip the other boy twice. At Yale he found time to so thoroughly organize his working machinery that i he graduated second in class of one hundred and fiftytwo and yet his athletic record was a splendid one. As a lawyer in Cincinnati he rose steadily without building up a court pull which interfered with his going on the bench. When he took his seat on the wool sack he. lost none of his friends among the lawyers and they found that the best way to practice in his court. was to do exactly as he had done when he fought them, viz: put their cases inside the common sense of the law and hope to win only when they had a righteous cause. He knew the law and they knew he knew | it and any attempt to bulldoZe or Ihoodwink him merely made him smile. When he went into the cabinet the first thing he did was to find out what he was doing and to get infOr- mation from anybody who had it and then use it. Very soon the men around him found that while their tnew fellow controller of the country's destiny was not a genius. he was a lbig powerful, clever. quick, keen lsighted workman, absolutely trust worthy and thoroughly good natured. He was never too big to be wrong, never too small to rise to the most gigantic task and he played no fav-. Orites, though everybody could have his friendship and assistance that de- iserved it.
 His Triumph in the Enemy's Camp. 1 A politician might have done what he did at Cooper Union. in New York, a few weeks ago, by adroitness. What man in the country could have done it as Taft did it? The audience was the Peoples Institute, in which are to be found the essences Of the great East Side of New York. There were some wonderfully brainy men and women there, all too pleased to have an opportunity to fire their in ltelligent questions on economic mat ters at a leading exponent of prin- ciples to which the more radical so- cialists, single tax advocates and anti-imperialists are opposed. Taft advisers and the New York gentlemen who were anxious that his appear ance should go on record as a sue lcess, urged the speaker of the even ling to avoid any controversial topics land pronounce his doctrines on the tariff and kindred subjects, allowing This own personal magnetism to win lover his audience, but without warn ing of what he was going to do the big man waded into the labor ques- ition and his fairness. his breadth of lview and his sincerity were a revela- ition to his hearers. He met every lquestiOn with a fair and informative answer, and every shaft of sarcasm with jolly shot of repartee that turned the meeting into an assem-
 blaze of intensely interested friends and no one denied that he had by fair m
 How He Gathers Information.
 Some men have the faculty of all
 lowing assistants to gather informa- tion. digest it and present it for use Taft pursues a different course. He has a discerning eye and the same judicial eability which made him so great a success on the bench. When one stops to consider how much there
 is to know about Panama. Cuba. Por- to Rico. Hawaii, and the Philippines,
 which no statesman living in the
 United States could possibly get from reports and correspondents and which could only be learned by the average
 man in long residence in each re- zion, one is astounded that the big secretary in his hurried trips should have been able to form conclusions
 
 so just and accurate. The American policy in each has been successful be-
 cause Taft framed it on a correct
 knowledge of conditions. Quite in . this way he knows the inside work . ings of the various regions of the United States and of every country . he has traversed. How does he do : it? By asking questions where he knows he will get the truth. One day in Cuba a party of gentlemen seeking him to present a memorial. found him in the back room of a little country store in deep conversa- tion with the old man who owned the . place and who had not the remotest idea that he was entertaining the . man who held Cubas destiny in his i. hands. In the Philippines he made l. long trips with great attendant hard . ship into the interior of the islands
 and though he received the reports
 of the local authorities with great . interest he paid more attention to the Illuminating side lights he could gath CT from talks with the servants and
 the poor people of the region.
 Always Asking Questions.
 At every step in his long trip from