The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-03-04
ROOSEVELT GIVEN
HIGH PRAISE BY
HIS SUCCESSOR
President Taft Tells of the Close
Intimacy That Has Existed
Between Them.
TASTES DISSIMILAR, BUT
AGREED UPON METHODS
Never Served Under a Chief So
Generous and So Loyal to
Cause He EspOused.

NEW YORK, March Am its issue
OF March 6, Golfers Weekly publishes
an article by President Taft under the
caption of MY Predecessor in which
he says:
mn. Roosevelt and l came to now
each other when he was chairman Of
the Civil Service Commission and l
was solicitor general, in 1890 to 1892,
in Washington. We we're both sub
ordinatcs in the Harrison administra-
tion. We lived in the same part of
Washington, he In Nineteenth street,
near the British embassy. and l in
Dupont Circle. Our wives knew each
other well, and some of our children
were born about the same time. We
found, after discussion, that we agreed
In quite a marked way in our views OF
proper political methods.
mo one associates With Mr.. Roose-
welt Glossy without having the strong
est possible affection for him. His
mind, his disposition n his tempera-
ment are all of that class that would
rather make him agree than disagree
with the people with whom he comes In
contact. But this is not to say that
he does not enjoy a controversy and a
fight according to the rules of the
game, for he does. He believes as
strongly as possible in team work, and
I never served under any man, or
hope to serve under another man, so in
tensely loyal TO the cause which we
were both seeking to uphold and so
generous in his acceptance of the full
fpgnnp SiliIifN fpr ntc ,tbnr.Ji,ata n,
the Mork AS Theodore Roosevelt. /
never served nnoer another who was as
generous IN his praise of those who
worked with him and who was as Wild
ing to accord more than their deserts
TO the men who were shoulder to
shoulder with him in the fight. That
characteristic of mis- has been calculated
to'tie men to him with bonds of steel.
Oh ImpuIsivc Nature
The general theory that Mr.. Roose-
welt is OF an exceedingly impulsive ma
ture Is perhaps justined to the extent
of saying that he had a marvellous
q~uickness for experimenting a question
and reaching the uub Of it and almost
an Overwhelming desire TO decide and
get rid Ut The issue presented as
promptly as possible. | never knew q
man who worked as far in advance OF
what vas to be done and who kept his
eng gements with reference to what he
mad agreed To do as provldently as Mr.:
Roosevelt. Perhaps 1 value this virtue
more highly because | lack It myself.
The result Of quick decisioi and action
might have impaired the success OF
Mr.. Roosevelt's career if 1t had not bee !
that lie has been flecr than most iuea
from that pride of opinion watch pre-
vents many men Il ON admitting their
error, reversing Their Judgment and
changing their course. | nave had to
DO with a number of presidents and
with "a good many chiefs, and ] am well
Within Lie truth when | say that
never met a man who, upon proper
presentation. would reverse himself rs
Willingly and with as little trace of OBJ
stinscy or unreasonableness as MI.
Roosevelt.
"Thc relation between Mr.. Roosevelt,
and myself has been one of close ana
sweet intimacy. 1t has never been
rufhed in the slightest degree. and
do not think that we nave ever mis-
understood each other. Mr.. Roose-
Nelt's tastes and mine have not been
the Same, In tbs matter of athletics
ne takes to those games more violent
than ! am suited to and more violent
than I like.
af4e Champion Of Poor,
"He has tho strongest literary sense
md a power OF application in reading
current literature that to me is mar