The Coconino sun., 1909-10-15
FRANK HITCHCOCK, THE MAN
Democratic Newspaper Pays Pleasing Tribute to One of Nations's Fore.
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should be. by his mentality.
 In blunter, more comprehensive language. his ability-to do things. The length of the shadow counts for naught. He may be d giant: or, he may be dimutive lilliputian in physique. But the lustre of the ray; the hrilliancy of the beam; the heat of the fire: the magnetism that draws and controls men and situations emanates from the brain-the human dynamo, trans hitting power, light and life, and governing the workings of the world with a clock like precision that is wonderful in the contempla- tion of its silent and invisible force.
 So it is of little sequence, wheth- CT by birth a man be "a Russian, Turkish, or Prussian, or perhaps Itailan" whether he be whig or tory-a populist or prohibition ist- democrat or a republican Baptist or a Methodist. These are mere incidents to everyday fife and are brushed aside when the real measuring stick is applied; when the unenvironed individual stands for the test. and the pages of the book of accomplishments are slowly turned backward and reviewed, And so this morning, we are pre- senting Frank Hitchcock, the man, and not Frank Hitchcock, the poIi- tician. He comes to the city this evening in the role of a private cit, izen. and will be received and en- tertained by the people of Globe as one of the nations most distin- guished sons. and a young man of extraordinary promise who is plac- ing in history some of the bright est and most facinating pages in the fife of American statesmanship.
 As assistant to the chairman of the national republican committee during the Roosevelt campaign. Mir. Hitchcock made such a bril- liant reputation that the manage ment of the Taft campaign was thrust upon him, anG his success in this undertaking marks one of the brightest pages in the political his tory of America.
 While the warmest friendship existed between Mir Roosevelt and MT. Taft, and the latter was the avowed choice of the then presi- dent, the Rooseveltian popularity. within and without the party, was so intense that 1t assumed the form of bomb in the nominating con- vention at Chicago, rolling around the hopes and aspirations of MT. Taft and his campaign manager with ignition imminent and the political destruction of MT. Taft, so far as the presmidency was con- cerned, inevitable. But with a wisdom that commanded the admi- ration of the entire political world, {, Hitchcock huttered about in the great convention hall, here and there like a butterfly, smiling, beamning upon and cheering with the patriotic as they paid tribute to their champion. It was a work of political art, of matchless uiplo- macy, of adept engineering, and the credit, the honor, after all, was for Frank Hitchcock
 Representative citizens from ev- cry nook and corner of the nation cheered for Theodore Roosevelt, and. the following day, they voted for the nomination of William Taft ! for the presidency.
 The only obstacle had been re- moved.
 It was a victory for Taft.
 1t was a greater conquest for Frank Hitchcock.
 The mental dynamo had accom- plished it's work; the plans of the master mind had been consum- mated an achievement that gave to MT. Taft the greatest honor the nation could bestow and placed Frank Hitchcock in line for similar recognition at no distant date.