Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-01

NEW YORK, December The Out
look today publishes an autograph inter-
view with President Taft by Francis E.
Lsupp. former commissioner OF Indian
AFFAIRS and well known or.many years as
q Washington correspondent. The ar
ticle. entitled President Taft's own
Views is as foIloEs::.-,s, -
In the glow OF an open wood, fire. rest
ing in his cottage at the Virginia Hot
Springs, after a trip OF forty-nine days
with BOG speeches TO its credit. President
Taft chatted leisurely with an old friend
about MS experiences in ONCE. The talk
was frank, unstudied, direct, all the
Presidents remarks being drawn out by
questions asked or comments passed on
the spur of the moment, few of which
call for repetition here This outline,
written from memory. obtained per-
mission 70 present to the readers OF the
Outlook. because 1t seemed to me likely
20 convey to the public mind juster
impression Of the chief figure in our
national life than could be derived frcm
any more formal presentation of even
the same subject matter.
In response to a suggestion as to the
had In starting their administrations, the
President said:
Democrats Helped Elect Him.
Though / had had some executive ex-
per.ence in the Philippines and as Secre-
tary of War. it was no adequate prepara-
ton for the multifarious duties of the
presidency My first task was to gather
material for my cabinet
You have been criticised, Mr.. Presi-
dent said the visitor, fer bringing
two democrats into a republican cabinet" :"
And plead guilty to o.e. You must
remember, that | was elected by demo-
cratic votes. probably polling almost as
mans a. Mckinley did in 1896. Let's
see: 1 carried greater New York; came
within IL, votes of carrying Boston; car
Yied Missouri, including a 15.000 plurality
In st Louis. and carried one elector in
Maryland, three congressional districts
I'm North Carolina, and more than third
Of the counties Of Georgia OF this last
feat am especially proud, because my
highest political ambition has been. and
still is, to take the sting out Of the
relations between north and south.
have no Quixotic idea Of being able 20
break up the solid south myself, but 1 am
trying TO lay I'm Il at section a strcng
foundation on which our party can build,
so that another decade may perhaps wit
ness change.
Places Given to Negroes.
sIn appointing Dickinson. the finest type
Of southern democrat. / aimed to honor
the south; but suspect that some of his
party friends made him feel uneasy in
what they affected to regard az . false
position politie ally. However. my selec,
ton Of Lurton and Lamar for tho Su.
pre9ne benlh and my promotion Of White
to the chief justiceship L reJoiced to make
because I was giving great strength te
the court and at the same time showing
10 the south that under a republican ad
n,inistrat!on its eminent men We're not de-
MED a part In the highest offices ant
functions Of government.
What I have done In this line ha!
been without the sacrifice OF any interes
Of my own party. I have appointed many
them. like Lewis. Napier, Johnson ant
McKiniay, Offices of essential dignity a
Warrington. What l have not dore Is Il
in % the south south itself. I ns 1 have appointed nom
where ] knew that rae feeling wa.
strong. and have preferred giving larg'
offices to well equipped negroes OF tn
higher class to scattering q lot Of petit.
ones among the mass OF their race. Thi
is not because j lack sympathy with tn
negroes, but because I want to see then
advance. The worst thing could hav
done for them was TO keep alive any Il
feeling their white ne.ghbors cherishe
toward them, but IL stiffens their self-re
spect and spurs them TO more thorough
preparation for public service II they Sc
political honors going to their worthless
leaders.
The other cabinet officer you had Il
mind. surp pose. was Macveagh? ques
CONTINUED on Tenth Pa9e.3 !.