Show I I PRESIDENTIAL ORATORY 1 t Y I A paper ery c friendly to President ent Taft rather c extravagantly hil praises the speeches that he lie has bas made ou 9 u hi hi journey It thinks they the have ha made him him ex ce exceedingly e popular with the thc masses They ha have C made the thc people feel the president pres Pres- Went ident because c he lie has talI talked ed with them face to face nd iid he is a hearty strong man who gives git s the idea bat he is fond of g gOod od dinners and good cheer chee au and would like ikC to fo o be he in accord with all ali his fellow men n. n Whenever l' l he lie Je discusses a law point he does t t with absolute precision and aud great ilo cr power He i i. i j A d tJ finished lawyer l' l and aud was long enough upon th the tho b bunch bench uc to obtain a full realization of how much the thc co courts have to do 10 with the thc government go of the country coun ti try Ot or Ol more properly speaking the establishing rf cf f their il influence 1 on on the people and impressing upon thc them n the thc need of obedience to the laws n But t outside of his legal discussions the president dent ilent Iia has nowhere shown himself essentially Sd Sometimes we WO van call ju judge ge a thing better belter b by comparisons com Coin 31 and so we we would woul say his speeches arc arc- moa arc mOlt mOlt- more after those of Mr 1 McKinley than Ull any other o of ct the tile presidential talkers Anch Andrew w Johno u used d to make a fine speech except when sometimes lie had abo aboard ld too much booze But of or all tile the talking presidents not one at one it l least hot one of these modern days days compares a compares hi ii l r Speaking king with the thc speeches made by Dt hat Har lJ rison OD In Ju his speeches as president when he hc anie west be he was most happy an and his speeches ches were iere adS adjusted ad ad- S to his audiences But lut the thc genius of the man v n. more in the speeches he be made when w he heas 1 was ws- ws filE first t nominated before he w was s voted for for resident rhe They were incessant he hc mado every Cl day cIa I and el c every one oneal was as a a classic i ri L Those speeches ought to be he in book hook form ane andi and i r ought t to be in all the schools school in ill the 1 at i lea least t in all aU the high schools They show shou a fertility of ot thought n n. depth of learning and the faculty of adapting the talk tolk to the occasion which has 10 io parallel among speakers unless it Je ic JG those of Kossuth Kos- Kos when in iii n this country which were appeals for his country and day after day and week weck after we weak k bo he charmed his audiences b by the magic of his cIo clo do I I President Harrison was was so so absorber that that- very vety many people mistook him for foi being cold and arid his manner and bearing were such Mich that he did lid not except ox ex ol on close acquaintance draw men to him but in our judgment fifty years rears hence the verdict of scholars and thinking men will be that t he lie was about the greatest t of the thc presidents x |