Show s = BROTHER CHARLES p HAS GREATLY AIDED WM H TAFT IN RACE FOR FAME Cincinnati Editor Is a Man of Hobbles the Biggest of Which Is the Republican Re-publican Candidate for President Cincinnati In a quiet corner office of a high building which he owns In this city with only a bookkeeper to Keep him company you will find any day when he ls not In Now York looking at old masters and porcelains a Quiet slim white bearded man But for him William II Taft might never hart gone to the Philippines or become be-come secretary of war or a candidate for president Did wo beat tho P on the base ball extra last night Charles P Taft calls downstairs to tho editor of tho newspaper which he owns Ho on joys his newspaper which has as live ly headlines as any In the middle west Baseball Interests him equally with Galusboroughs and Sir Joshuas He owns a large Interest in tho Cincinnati Cin-cinnati baseball club in the gas works and the street car lines In the lending hotel and the opera house not to men tion much real estate or rather ho and his wife together Her fortune ho has multiplied One day the editor told him of a smart baseball reporter who was lookIng look-Ing wistfully at a broken down league team and sighing for capital How I much do you want Charles P asked tho reporter One hundred thousand dollars Very good said Charles P who had been watching that young man for a year Well go Into partnership A quiet man who makes business deals In this fashion naturally needs only a bookkeeper yr H y6v l r gx 9 4w + t r ld k s Charles P Taft and when ho wants a stenographer he can send for one downstairs in the editors office Everything the Herr Doktor QB he was called among his fellow American Amer-ican students at Hledelberg has touched since ho came home from finishing his education In Germany seems to have turned Into money or art He has been a Republican mostly most-ly with the local boss though sometimes some-times against him On tho boardings of the city he has been cartooned villainously vil-lainously as a sinister interest and smiled over it and bought another china jar In matters of music and art Cincinnati agrees that he Is her foremost citizen How do you like the Interior of the hotel he asks the visitor from out of town for Charles P looked to the mural decorations In person They are deservedly praised In the evening he goes to an old fashioned house once tile Long worths whose domestic establishment establish-ment Is maintained for less than that of many houses occupied by a man of onetwentieth his Income But no one of moderate means could afford such furnishings To be vulgar about it there are well over a million dollars worth of art treasures In the Taft home Dealers say no false masters or imitation Imi-tation hawthornes have been sold to him Ho has the discrimination of the wise buyer and the taste of the connoisseur Seated among china of i the Ming dynasty ho reads tho baseball I base-ball extra of his lively newspaper He never brings business home unless it Is William Hs campaign William H Is poor Ho knows nothing of fortune for-tune winning The only way he could make money would bo practicing law Charles P Is willing to have fame in tho family but It must all descend on one member From the day that the elder brother saw the gift of Will for making friends and for dictating In an easy way a legal analysis of a bundle of documents that younger brother has been a hobby surpassing all the old masters Ho has always been trying try-ing to show Will the road to opportunity oppor-tunity knowing that once Will was started he could do the traveling himself him-self |