Show I We find this persona item In the Chicago I Chi-cago Chronicle Very few are aware that William 31 Tar prospective SetutUtry of IJam and now Governor or the 1hUlpnInoK got aul I start In life through performing tho dan fjeroua feat o whipping an editor His father after a distinguished public career ca-reer had Just formed a law partnership In Clnclulal when a weekly paper attacked at-tacked his private life In a scandalous way It The young man fresh from Tale ut once culled uL th newspaper office and In few minutes had polished off hhi man In tno style Limo exploit called public attention to the victor and ho was uhorlly appointed to public office He hal steadily advanced in prominence ever ulnce und now Is to I he Secretary of W n a position which his father once held i I I true that was not an especially I creditable our for the young mal to begin be-gin bin career But we do not credit the story for there was no opportunity whatever to t attack the life of the elder Taft in a scandalous way for he wag an upright splendid gentleman or the old j school He succeeded Gen Bclknap s Secretary of War In March 1870 and two months Inter was transferred to the AttorneyGeneralship holding that office to time close of President Grants second administration He was appointed ap-pointed Minister to Austria in 1882 and in 1881 to Russia He was one of the great lawyers of the Ohio valley and was universally revered as a fine and noble character The assault upon his memory under color of a story abot thIs t-his son Is wholly reprehensible |