The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1910-09-22


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loyal friend he aaWaJs WIS enc. and al
tle secretary Of var yielded TO his
ief,s win, accepted the trust ana
Braveiy faced the prospect Of 2 lob
AZ difieuIt as any that was ever de-
'1ibeFately ASST gned BY one human be--
ing another. He IS. + wrote, MI
I eveIt OF Mr.. Taft after the noEni7
nRtion and before the election. .'tlle
man Who feel Is in an especial
sense the Representative Of all that in
which dDe1ieve in political life. Z
Artar enunlerRting the qualfhc lions
ifesarded by him as desirable IN
ltraa friend Of reform occupying the
presidential chair, Mr. Roosevelt con-
ltinued MS high ,eulogy of September
8, 1908: ''In Mr.. Taft we have
man who combines all of these quail
tiles to a degree which no other man
In our public life since the Civil war:
has surpassed. TO flaming hatred
OF injustice, to a scorn OF an that
Is base and mean, to hearty sym
pathy with the oppressed. he unites
entire disinterestedness, courago|
both moral and physical OF the very
highest type, and a kindly generosity
OF nature which makes him feel that
all of his fellow countrymen are I'M
very truth his friends and brothers.
that their interest are his and that
all his great qualities are to be spent
with lavish freedom In their SER
vice.
True words, but said with gem
crosby characteristic Of the sayer.
Another's opinion in which Mr.
Roosevelt heartily conceded may be
added here without serious incon-
grufty. '"To define him in a SEN
tence," wrote the Rev. DR.. Lyman
Abbott in the outlook of April 4.
1903, 'Mr. Taft is a great brain and
a great heart in a great body.
= The new President elected and in
augurated. the former executive
adopted Immediately the attitude
which dignity prescribed and deli
cacy suggested. The long period,
not yet ended, of seIf-eRacement and
scrupulous avoidance of anything en-
barrassing or intrusive began wheu
Mr.. Roosevelt welcomed Mr.. Taft toths
White House. How pleasant 1T is to
recall the numberless services OF
commission and omission rendered
SO unostentatiously by the retiring
CHIEF Magistrate to the friend whose
general relations to himself he had
described in these terms: HE and
4 have on every essential point stood
in heartlest agreement, shoulder to
shoulder. Tkare is no fight for de-
cency and fair dealing which I have
waged in which l have not had his
heartiest and most effective sympa-
thv and support, and the polices for
which 1 stand are his policies asi
much as mine" Generous words
again: but from March 4, 1909, toll
this twentieth day of September
1910, when for day or an hour or
minute has Theodore Roosevelt be-
lied them?
When MT. laIL duNGuG IL " SASt-
tngton divided that public attention
which Mr.. Roosevelt had been ac-
customed for many years almost to
monopolize he showed not sign OF
jealousy or envy. When the new
president found himself unable,
with due regard to his imminent re-
sponsfbilities, to adopt some Of Mr..
Roosevelt's friendly suggestions-as.
for example, with regard to the coil.
.tinuance of James R. Garfield in his
own cabinet as secretary OF the In
terror. Mr.. Roosevelt acquiesced like
a man and friend, and allowed nc
nnspoken resentment. even, 20
canker his sensibiIities. In fact. II
was to remove himself to quarter
SO remote that there could be no
suspicion in any mind of attempted
surveillance that Colonel Roosevelt
with his arms and ammunition betook
himself with splendid abnegation 10
africa. where for many months he
shot and killed Smithsonian speci-
mems.
pleasant too as study in loyalty
and unselflshness to follow Colonel
Roogevelts course after his emery
Ience from the jungle. How prompt
ly was the Hon. Gihord PinchoS