Mr. Taggart is in his way an even more romantic
figure. A penniless Irishman, he started as assistant at a railway refreshment counter at Indianapolis, where be subsequently became a hotel proprietor and Mayor. Although both are alike in their appetite for work, they differ in every other respect, Mr. Taggart being essentially a man of action, who has gained his experience in the cockpit of party politics, expansive in manner, and exuberant in speech ; while Mr. Cortelyou's relations with the world have been mainly official, his tastes are studious, and his bearing unobtrusive. Mr. Low regards Mr. Cortelyou as the greater anomaly in American politics, hilt holds that Mr. Taggart has more serious obstacles to overcome in the present campaign. But each in his way affords a striking example of the carriere ouverte aux talents,—open wider perhaps in the United States than anywhere else.
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