The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-21
BROTHER CHARLES" WHO FINANCED THE TAFT
 CAMPAIGN, IS 6s TODA-

CAMPAl(TNs IS 69 1O4(k4A A slim. slender. white-whiskered, quiet. scholarly man, with a forty horsepower brain, is Charles Phelps Taft, who provided the fbarrel' to finance the presidential campaign of his ..Ixid brother BiII.'' Mir. Taft will celebrate his sixty-ninth birthday to- day. Like the President, he is a na- tive of Cincinnati, the son of AL phonse Taft, Attorney General of the United States in 1s7e-7. It Is not so wei known that he Is only the half brother of President William Howard, Attorraey Henry Waters and Head Master Horace Dutton Taft, and the fraterraI relations existing between the famous quartet have always been those Of full brothers. The mother of Charles P Taft was Fannie Phelps before her marriage to the eminent judge and .statesman. while the moth CT of the President was Louisa Maria Torrex.
 All Of the Taft 'sboys'' were educat-
 
 ,s4 man He completed his education at Heiledberg, the great German uni verrtty. and also studied in Berlin and Paris before returning to Cancin- natf to take up the practice of law. After ten years as an attorney he bought a controlling interest in the Cincinnati Times. That was in 1879, and six years before he had led to the altar Annie the daughter of David stnton, g Cincinnati millionaire Mrs. Taft brought her husband a consider able fortune, and he has invested it so wisely that it has grown to be hf- teen millions or more
 MT Taft took to Journalism as a duck to water. and from the start he made a brilliant success of his news paper property. A year after purchas- ing the Times he secured possession of the Star and consolidated the two pa- pers under the name of the Times Star. which has become one of the papers in the Ohio afternoon field Although his seventieth milestone Is now but year distant, MT. Taft con tinues to exercise a close editorial su- pervision over his journal.
 The Cincinnati magnate is as slen- der in figure as his distinguished brother is rotund. His hobbies are baseball and the collection of rare porcelatns, paintings and books. His investments in major league baseball President, he is a devoted fan. and he often leads the roofing brigade in his native city.
 It is said that Charles P. Taft con- trfbuted s4oo. .ooo toward the expenses of brother BilIs' first campaign for the presidency. and this year he gave $15o,oo0 to aid William In bis hope less race for the White House. He was the largest individual contributor tc the 1e12 Republican campaign fund.
 MT Taft has been prominent in Re- publican politics in Ohio since his early manhood. At twenty-eight he was elected to the Ohio House ct Representatives. and in 1895 went tc Washington to represent the F1rst ohio district in the Fifty-fourth Con- gress. Since then his political activ- ities have been confined to acting al delegate to conventions and electora colleges.
 The Charles P. Taft home in Gin cinnati is a treasure-house of beauti tul and costly pictures, statuary, bron- Ees. bric-a-brac and porcelains. The Charles P. Taft smile. while not SC broad as that of Brother Bin,' i. none the less delightful. And tht Charles P. Taft long. snowy beard ii easily the whitest thinb in the srnok! city of Cincinnati.