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Show The President Elect MR. TAFT was on Tuesday last elected President by a great majority. A solid south, with three or four small states west of the Mississippi, sustained Mr. Bryan, but the re,st, aggregating a vast majority, were for u-njaftiand Sherman. The most marked returns "" were from New York City, which gave a majority to the Republican candidates, which shows either treachery on the part of Tammany or that the great money center discounted in advance any possible excuse that the stock manipulators might conjure up upon which to flurry the market. Perhaps Mr. Taft, in education, experience, training and intimate acquaintance with public affairs, is the best equipped man ever elected President. Ho has, withall, a temperament perfectly per-fectly balanced for the exalted place. He Is calm, deliberate of judgment, kindly of nature, self-poised and strong. He ought to exalt the high office. So trained a jurist as he will naturally nat-urally insist upon obedience to the laws, but so broad is his patriotism, so profound his reverence rever-ence for peace, that there will be no outbursts of rage from him, no threat., no unseemly criticisms criti-cisms in short, the very opposite of what we have become accustomed to. He will be much such a President as was Mr. McKinley, but stronger; his judgment will be as steady as was Mr. Harrison's, his nature as kindly as was Mr. Lincoln's.' His administration ought to draw the people nearer together and Invoke a deeper patriotism pa-triotism among them. |