The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-03-06
sHtGA DISBURSEMENT.

llu 5IessEH6ei, pupioh
..ea atS Cincinnati, Ohio, one OF the
foremost chSpapers in this colln;
trys and swhlehkis always strong eli-
;torially.f has The; following to say con.
scernlng sour5new President, VIM. H.
n s
On Thursday oi this week. Mr.. Taft
became President Of the United
\ States. The beginning Of a new adj
lalniatratlon lis always Of great i'm.
portance Ito the nation, and becomes
niore sahs more Important with In,
& creaseS inEp population the development
:of the country and 4lhe advance in sci.
entlhca iscoyeries. Washington was
President 81 Id nation OF less than l.
5000 ;SMr. sTaftsis President OF a ma
9Ion with more than so,ooo,ooo. The
area % airlyswell settled territory is
9also8 twentyttimes as large. In Wash.
i angton's time the nation was poor:
now SSlsS fiths az century ago, life
WAS simple \ now civilization Is very
icpmpli catea "a hundred great cues.
Hons ofsnati onal interest have arisen:
$oflS which the fathers knew nothing. It
fsS true. that seach 9nge has Its own!
oblenla. and the men Of Washing.
ston'ss day Ind theirs. There are also
sstnany fund laproblems common
:tosallS ages: and some principles Which,
are sternal 4. But there are, in ad1l-'
ton many new questions, and partic-'
riilafl u many new applications Of old
ntfnt piles More depends today on
;fhe sort ofsman we have as chief cx-
ecutiye. 81 the nation than ever before.
There lis 20 he assllttle change 1B
isspossible ID sdlange of men. Mr..
TAFT was elected as the representative
OF die Roosevelt policies Mr.. Roose:'
welt himself could p-obably have besn
Rejected Fffs he haa,nut definitely stat.
ed fourssyears ago that he would not
iaccentaa thtrl5term. There is no rea-
SON ID doubt Mr.: TTtrs honesty, or
Ills bellf Tin the policies Of his pred
secessor; hence IN one sense. the nrw
administration will he Al continnance
pfs thesones of Ithe1ast seven years. But
no two men ARE alike. Mr, Taft would
not worthy TO he President were
lie not an inlepenlentS man. With his
own metho1s. There, are often many
good ways o. accommodating the same
result The President Of the United
States, who represents in himself the
gpyernment ithe@people. is entitled
toSthe$loyal support Of ali citizens in
eyeryse fiortto3d do iustlosi and TO carry
outS Tue great principles for which
goyerhmentsls founded.
ltS hasabeen ssald That Mr.. Taft has
mad tie best training for the Presi.
deneyS of any man In the history, Of
lthstnatlo E1tiis{true TINT most Of the
yesFiys Presidents lad served rs Sec.
retary2s 90 State In the Cabinet OF a
predecessor: and most Of the early
Presidents bhad the best training for
thes once the nation: afforded. Most
presidentsShavc been men with roliti.
cal xperlences But Mr.. Tait's train. ,
ing the Presidency hns been IDEAL
HIS Snnlyersity comse and study Of
law were both important and the
numerous positions he filled for short
pertods all gave him valuable expert.
etleeSin sWork;ah he Is now called on to
perform: The position In the Phllln,
plnes Tried ones administrative abIll.
10 aheiltniosk It;may be said that
tifeg oyernn,ent4o f the Philippines Is
eHtirsl fterent from that Of n the
's'atteb States and that the Reople
MD eoptllti Ions iRre altogether tferpnt. z
THIS is strlle: But the; genius for adj
ntstrstiops nav tsi3 shown In \ oneS
iRIsss a well Y les thu other. It$wasSth
sbllltsy 70 meet snew lions TO! get
along With the unusual Snndf the ilnex;S
8 Y.