Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1901 — MAN WHO IS CREATING A NEW GOVERNMENT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MAN WHO IS CREATING A NEW GOVERNMENT.

picture of Judge Taft is said to be the best likeness of the first American Governor of the Philippine Islands, to whom has fallen the great task vi of making order out of chaos, substituting American methods for Spanish bribery, organizing courts and municipalities, giving the right to vote to those fit for the franchise, and, generally, “creating a government from the ground up” where nothing but semi-barbaric ideas of government have prevailed. Judge Taft is from Ohio, is a graduate of Yale,. and is a son of Alphonso Taft, Secretary of War and Attorney General under President Grant. He was judge of the United States Court of Appeals when appointed chairman of the Philippine Commission, from which he stepped info the governorship when that office was created.

JUDGE WILLIAM.H. TAFT