Note 5 — Chapter XVI · Governor Taft, 1903

A year ago a man of wide acquaintance both with American public life and American public men5 remarked that the first Governor of the Philippines ought to combine the qualities which would make a first-class President of the United States with the qualities which would make a first-class Chief Justice of the United States, and that the only man he knew who possessed all these qualities was Judge William H. Taft, of Ohio. The statement was entirely correct.