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Show TAFT IS THE MAN Averted Civil War And j Anarchy In Cuba It has become axiomatic at Wash, logton that whenever trouble occurs anywhere in the world beyond the power of the ordinary agencies to deal with, Taft Is the man who must be sent to straighten It out. Not only did he bring order out of chaos In the Philippine, but he aiarted civil war and anarchy Id Cuba, settled the dim-cult dim-cult problem of the friars' lauds by a visit to tho Vatican, started the vast activity at Panama lit effective fashion, and then went back again to adjust a threatened struggle between two Jarring States. Though the Secretary Sec-retary of Peace, he carried ou the War Department with a strong grip upon iu details, helped reorganize the army and create a greater starf, auu incidentally found time to make a tour of the world and to travel all over the country as a fasirlslng favorite fav-orite for the Presidency, It is not surprising, in view of hisachievments, his record as a getter of results, as a doer, that President Roosevelt should say of him: " Taft Is the biggest going concern In the country." He keeps going all the time. He works from eight In the morning till midnight. He not only works hard, but plays hard, laughs hard, sleeps hard, eats hard, and sometimes hits hard when roused, as Bowen and Stevens would be willing to certify. If he keeps going go-ing with luck thlsglant boy will reach the post for which destiny has been training him through these busy years. The Presidency, Is without much doubt Just what President Roosevelt has called It, "the hardest Job on earth." To achieve success In It much more tllan intellectual equipment equip-ment Is required. Indeed, It may be doubted If a genius of the flrst rank could, under present conditions, make a success of It at all. Given a fairly strong mind and wlh which pertain without question to any man who reaches the White House, beyond that success or failure is largely a mat-ter mat-ter of temperament. Chief of the temperamental qualities is tact, patience, good humor, in the last analysis the ability to work well and smoothly with men, to avoid friction, to attract loyaltty, to get the best possible out of subordinates and out of the co-ordinate branch, the Congress. Con-gress. The Presidency Is now so big a post, Its duties are so complex, they ramify so extensively and Intimately to all the activities ofthc Govern-, ment and of the people, that tl c human-naturo side of the occupant of tho high chair Is of far gcater Importance Im-portance than the Intellectual side. . President McKlnley was a good example: ex-ample: Mot Intellectually great, but well-balanced, a good Judge of men, wonderfully clever In extracting from men the best they had, whether of thought or work, he became known as an adroit, smooth, eminently successful suc-cessful managing director of the Government. Mr. Roosevelt more intellectual and orlglna', more courageous, cour-ageous, more the reformer, with a broader grasp of things and a far gtenter desire to initiate and complete, com-plete, a leader, not an opportunist, gets on fairly well with men, too, most men- |