Bisbee daily review., 1909-03-23
TAFT JUST
 AS STRENUOUS
 AS ROOSEVELT
New Presidents Obesity Is Not in the Way of Accomplishing An Extraordinary Amount of Work

WASHINGTON. March s0-s.Thc next president of the United States" said Theodore Roosevelt to the Wash ington correspondents a day or two before his term expired, 'may De a better pres dent than haze been. bnt doubt that he will be more inter ssting-" And get in all bis stirring career in the White House it ss doubt ful if Theodore Roosevelt ever crowd ed moro lively minutes into the sa-nc number of hours than has William H. Taft into the first two weeks of 8 administration. Stripping those two weeks Of all unusual incidents 1t may be said that they have been more in dicatiYe of the general policy of his administration than the correspond ing period al the beginning of most former administrations.
 The executive stan givo 1S.000 as their official estimate of the callers at the White House since March 4. and it is probable that this is larger than in the first two weeks of any pre- ceding adruiuistrat on. T. is safe 10 say that S9 per cent were principally impelled by a great desire to obtain first hand evidence as to what kind of a man the new president was, and to speculate in what ways his ad- rniDistration would differ from that Of his predecessor.
 Added Sense of Responsibility.
 They found much the same William IT. Taft of the campaign period; but added to the geniality they had been taught to expect was a sense of re- sponsibiiity. a political poise, and an amount of personal asgTessiYeness which excited comment.
 The rest of the citizens of the Unit ed States have boen bus ly engaged in scanning the news reports iron, the capital, and have found much that WAS significant of tho force and trend of the neS administration in the acts of Taft's first few days. Taft will be accounted the first president in 76 years to have been inaugurated with in the capitol building. IL s known that on that stormy March morning he contended strongly against go revolutionary a proceeding. and was only brought around 10 it by the rep resentatiops of his secretary Of state that an exposure to the raw air might result fatally to the aged chief jus tice of the United States. Taft will go down in story as the first presi- dent to have his wife by his side in the triumphal march up the avenue following his inauguration. It is pos sible his action in this regard will be- come 9 precedent Then, aga D, Taft is the first president to have been a guest at the White House the night preceding his Inauguration.
 TO Be President of All.
 In all the complicated motives of an ambitious incoming executive there must be one which he himself regards as paramount For George Wash ngton, 1t was the establishment Of a staple government. and to Lin coin, that government by the people and for the people should not pass from of the earth while Roosevelt expressed the ultimate ambition of his administration, that every man, rich or poor, should be accorded a square deal" So it is thus carly de yelOping that the keynote of Tafts ambition is, ss he expressed it in the souths "tO be the pres dent of the whole country"
 No other northern president has passed the pre-inaueuration period In the south, and it Is most unusual for a president to appoInt two members of his cabinet from the ranks of an opposing political party.
 Usually, the dearest indication Of the course or a new admin stratioh is 10 be found in the inaugural ad dress, and in the initial appointments Mr Taft's address was not starJllus There vas nothing in it the public had not been led to expect, and yet there was nothing which was theore' ical or beyond the reach Of early ae- complishmeBt