The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-03-11
SMe New PRESIDENT
THE SECRETS OF rAFr,s SUCCESS.
BY FREDERICK PALMER.


THE SECRETS II TAFTs SUCCESS.
EFT the public diabuse itself of any error that William H. Taft is i'm
ply a smiling ma carrying an Ill can to whom success has always
- ome easily. No slfmade corporation head who rosef from office boy
is more the product of application. He la the art which concea art in this
respect. Where Mr.. Roosevelts energy expresses ITSELF alpaby, Mr.. Tafts is
expressed in a immense reserve force of vitality n endurance.
asked four men who had been intimately associated with him a IS assist
ants, each in a different capacity, what was the secret of his successa vs. an ID
mnisrator of great varied and complicated affair. Their answers follow:
have never known such a listener After hat first smile nc a andshak h
without a question, to tai every pgeonhole in your head that holds
anything he wants"
g "A gift OF absorption of the truth of a situation by association with the
men with whom he has o deal"
8 The easy way in which he takes responsibility, clearing a full desk
with an affirmative or a negative in most cases and a sentence of direction a $
to what is to be done lin others"
4 1T may all b. traced to the Taft If after Office hours. who takes up a
new and important subject in every detail"
TAFT,s SMILE AND FRowN.
r. p rs dominant note is kindness. I recall an incident in the busiest Off ante
= convention days when he vas on his, wa to he capitol to Tabor
with Uncle Joe A cable cal raj into a bcycist NOT far from where
his carriage was passing. III jumped out % see if he couldFdo anything to
help. which "a like hin, of course but equally characteristic was his re-
mark to the policeman: You may take my anne 1 IA something Of the
accident ant I'll be very glad to tell 1T" said thu citizen ness
His friends not infrequenty impose on his generosity. e they may g o
ne too many times to the well of hisg good nature. H e an b ngry from
head to foot in a "a to make The room shake. Som derencton Of duty
some signal of dishonesty, suddenly arouses the temper 0 whose great
patience with the white mans burden" first made him generally known't to
the public. Wallace suffered a famous visitation. 1t was enough for the Taft
set of principles that he chief engineer of a great work had given u p his
place in a time Of trial to take more pay. A certain subordinate IN 1.-THE Philip
pines who had played a miserable trick stood dumfounded lin the doorwaya at
sight Of the usually smiling governor changed intoa raging one.
TAFTes TALENT FoR THE GRAND TACTICS.
Il p oTHING in Mr.. Tafts career except the recent campaign has ntted him
1\ for understanding thu chickering's and factions n bargains in patron
= ' ae of small politics. They belong in the crossroads to on sde from
But he is ready to learns and after that mistake in Iowa and he met the Alh-
lson and Cummfns leaders, he shook thu hands of both most conspcuousy at
too. He makes ID for lack of experience in the small tactics of the political
world by his talent for he grand tactics III the strategy of great affairs
ing with a gentler REIN make them pull tosether-coriers Inauguraton Num-
4 Der. March G.