The Sentinel=record., 1909-11-05
TAFT PRAISED FOR HIS WORK OF CANCELLATION BETWEEN Dl-
 vIDEp INTERESTS.
southerner Lsuds Chief Executive for Having the Ability to Harmon ize With Smile Instead
 of Big Stick.


 Harris. in introducing President Taft here today, paid glorious tribute to the achievements of the president through mild aid pleasant persuasion rather than by the use of the "big stick" Colonel Harris said:
 ''On the 16th of last January in the capital city of Georgia, it fcn to my lot to introduce to the students of the Technological School the then presi- dent-elect of this great nation.
 T said then. as I feel still, that this was one of the most conspicuous events that had occurred in all my life. Standing before that student body of five hundred young engineers in Gei1rgia's capital to present to them fer cordial greeting and an address. noe who had just been se- lected to preside over the destinies of this mighty republic, conceived to be an honor and ad istinction worthy Go crown life time of iabors.
 But today, in this city, where my life has bSven spent, among my neigh bors and friends, and in this match less gathering of the people of this dear old state, how much higher fin dignity is the mission with which have been entrusted, for come to iDotrduce to you the chief magistrate of the most powerful nation on earth. who is here to greet you in a social way. and to speak to you as your fel- low citizen among these momentous surroundings Then he was only the elected of the people. but today he comes dressed in the robes of office and armed with all the powers that belong to the great constitutional po- sition which he fills in this great con stitutional government.
 An army of bayonets is behind him; the cannon of a thousand float ing monsters of the seas are at his call the tri-colored flag of our coun- try is raised or lowered at his com mand, and the innumefable agencies of this great government are around and about him for honor and for safe- ty.
 And yet I think he comes with a grander bulwark than all these. For as his triumphal march acpss the continent demonstrates, he carries with him the undivided hearts of more than eighty millions of people, whose admiration and good will his first years service as their ruler has challenged and brought to his side.
 Representing all this today, my countrymen, he stands before us ats the most distinguished citizen of any commonwealth in all this earth.
 May I not venture here the state ment that he is indeed verifying all ready the prophecy which his friends made of him when he donned the robes of office?
 gro those among them who have closely watched the trend of passing events, his nine months of adminis- tsation would seem only to confirm them in the belief that he is undoubt- edly destined to take his place in the
 
 very front of the great men who have filed this high position from Wash iDgton to Roosevelt
 "A peer among the peerless. Nay. l think for harmonizing, re-energizing and renniting the sections of a once discovered and discordant people ia cile princeps will be this our first ju- dicial president.
 For judging by the wonderful tact. power and knowledge Of men that he exhibited In grappling with that hydra headed aggregation. the American congress, during the late protracted struggle over the aariff legislation, md the triumph which he achieved iu reconciling conflicting interests and