Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1908-09-11
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT.
A Man Who las Done Thlngs.

Responding to the call of the ma
| ton for a man equal to the emergen-
| cies confronting the Republic, the
people themselves have found him
and presented him to the electorate.
Naturally, the people sought among
! themselves for one truly representa-
tive to the highest ideals of American
citizenship. Their self-understand-
ing and correct valuation of men led
them to the individual who more
thoroughly than any other fulfilled
their requirements - and that was
William Howard Taft.
William Howard Taft, of Cincin-
natl, Ohio, probably is the way he
would designate himself. That des-
ignation, however, is grossly made
quate. For while Mr.. Taft is an
American of Americans, he is also a
citizen of the world who, as invited
guest. counselor and advisor of for
eign governments, has exerted an in
huence for peace and international
good will unsurpassed by that of any
other American statesman, living or
dead.
The dignity of private citizenship,
which he enjoys to-day. is in perfect
accord with his temperament and in
clination. There never has been, nor
will there ever be, anything in official
honor sufficiently alluring to draw
Mr.. Taft away from his lifelong iden-
tity with the plain people.
As a boy in Cincinnatihe was ready
to give and take in all the stirring
controversies, mental and physical,
which give effect to the law of the
survival of the fittest. AS a student
at Yale he displayed all the qualities
of wholesome young manhood which
have made that university famous,
and the endearing traits of his char /
acter were honOred at the reunion of /
his class during the recent summer I
by a celebration more delightful to .
him, perhaps, than any other demon |
stration of public favor possibly
could be.
In the frank, fearless manly boy !
hood and college life of William How
ard Taft there was the promise of an
earnest, generous, upright manhood.
That promise has been completely
and splendidly fulfilled. The serious
affairs Of life appealed irresistibly to
he young collegian after his gradua-
ion, and at the early age of twenty
our he appeared as Assistant Solic-
tor in his home county.
Mr.. Taft's professional advance
nent from the position of Superior
Jourt Judge and Solicitor General to
seat on the bench of the United
'tates District Court was due solely /
o a frank recognition of his proved I
integrity, his diligence and impartial J
" in the administration of justice i
nd his loyalty to the Hottest stand I
rds of judicial conduct. It is said c
f him by one who, as a lawyer knew i
i'm well: "He was the gentlest, fair f
st and most upright of all judges be- f
IRE whom l have practiced. He was t
5 incapable of doing an unkind or an o
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1t is, however, in his career since is
IS oluntary-though reluctant-re- L
rement from the bench that we shall a
nd the most remarkable evolutions n
Mr.. Taft's development as an d
merican statesman. N
The country had gone through an d
lsought war, the successful outcome c;
which imposed new and enormous
sponsibilities upon the National II
1vernment, and placed the United Ell
ates in the attitude of a first class e,
,wer, obliged to face the perils of ii
ornament contact with Old World II
.tionalities. Momentous problems pl
ose-partly racial, partly religious, W
rtiy constitutional - all complex CO
d urgent. They required an inn ty
sdiate revision and enlargement OF pa