UNITED STATES PRESIDENCY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 269, 6 November 1908, Page 2

UNITED STATES PRESIDENCY

MR. TAFT'S ELECTION ASSURED. m. !• - • -November 4. 'li. laits election is ulrendv certain ns he receives i»8 x of tl* Electoral Lolli-ae. Only 13 votes ure still doubtfill. Mr. Tail's nwjoriiy cxeewta that Siimed by Mr. Roosevelt i u ,V W jersey, New \ork, and Massachusetts, but there is u decrease in tile middle and western States where several Demo-' era tie Governors have heeu electea. •Mr. Bryan received a solid vote Irorn the south. -Mr. Tuft's majority for the whole country is estimated ut 1,0110,000. The complexion of the Congress is uot changed by the election. President Roosevelt telegraphed his congratulations and Mr, Xaft replied: "This victory affirms conhdeuce u • your administration.''

BIUTISII PRESS PLEASED. I.oadon, November 4. The Times says .Mr. Tuft's electiu.i is partieuhirly welcome to British people, who believe Mr. Tuit will continue tj encourage the increased cordiality wilh Britain which Mr. Roosevelt began to promote. Mr. Tuft's installation m mlice will be a guarantee of the stability of the American foreign policy. EFFECT ON LONDON 'CHANGE. London, November 4. Prices of American railroad securities on the London Stock Exchange show a brisk advance. There is great excitement, recalling the boom in the Kaffir Circus (South African mining) shares.

FEATURES OF THE ELECTION. Received 5, 8.55 pjn. New York, November 5. Mr. Taft's great vote in New York .State, and the Democrats' debacle in New York City, .were the most astonishing features in the election. Mr. 'laft carried 30 and Mr. Bryan 10 stateij. The Republicans have secured a working majority in the House and a twothirds Republican majority in the Senate. Mr. Taft claims that he was elected by the business men of the democratic and republican, The farmers generally supported him, and lie &i<o received his share of the labor vote. President Roosevelt declares that Mr, Taft's nomination was a triumph over, reactionary conservatism, and his election a triumph over unwise and improper radicalism.

The American Press display acute hostility to Mr. Bryan, and the Democrats throw upon him the whole responsibility of defeat.

WILLIAM HOWARD TAI'T. "The career of William Howard Taft. to my mind, affords the strongest hope for the future of public life in the United States," wrote the Americaa correspondent of The Times on Jane IX "At a period when the air is rarely free from reports of exposures, corruption, and scandals in American politics, the character oi Mr. Taft, and some other public men who might be named whose integrity is equally unblemished, may , be pointed to as a type which, there is every hope to believe, will become more and more identified with the public servants of the Republic. , . Mr. Taft springs from an old New England family dating as far back as 1679, and is the son of a statesman and jurist of high repute—the late Alphonse Taft, who was Secretary of War in General Grant's Cabinet and Attorney-General under Arthur about the time when, his son, the future holder of the former oflice, was a student of Yale. Following his admission to the Bar of the State of Ohio in 1880, at the age of 23, Mr. Taft had some experience as a law reporter for Cincinnati newspapers, and subsequently entering the office of the prosecuting attorney of Hamilton Comity, where he became assistant solicitor. Between 1883 and 1887 he practised law in Cincinnati, and in the latter year, before he was 30, was elevated to the 'bench as Judge of the Superior Court of Ohio, by Senator Foraker, then Governor of Ohio, whose political supremacy in that State was later to go down before the rising star of Mr. Taft, as recent events linve shown.

W. J. BEYAN. Mr. William Jennings Bryan was bosn at .Salem, in Illinois, on March 11), 1800. having Irish hlooil in his veins. Ho studied law in Chicago, and practiced his profession for several years in his native State, and afterwards at Lincoln, Nebraska. Then he turned to journalism, and became editor of the World Herald of Omaha in 1894, afterwards becoming both editor and proprietor of "The Commoner," which he publishes ia Lincoln. In the contests for the Presidency he was defeated in 1896 and 1900. In 1904 Judge l'arker unsuccessfully, represented the Deinocrates. •Since 1857 the Democrats have only had one President and two terms of Presidential oilice. From the founding of the United States in 1857 the Presidential chair was occupied by a Democrat six times. Out of 25 past Presidents, 18 were lawyers, 2 'soldiers, '2 statesmen, 1 planter, 1 farmer, 1 public official. In paternal ancestry, U are described ns English, 5 as Scotch Irish, 3 as Scotch, 2 as Dutch, 1 as Welsh.