Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-10-07
Roosexelt ! Ru.y Man.

i Washington, Oct. 7.-President Roose,
Welt wound up his busy week of confer.
A ences with a day devoted to Populations
To mention few Of them Is sufficient
to show the wide range of interests the
4 president OF the United States must bt
prepared to comprehend. The first dele.
/ CATION was large one of Spanish wa,
veterans, and with the president spent
no little time, talking over the stirring
| times about Santiago.
Besides these soldiers, there was q
formal representation from the missions
airy interests to consult the president
about the release of Miss Helen NJ.
Stone, kidnapped by bandits. They
found him not merely interested, but In
tensely 80. and they came away salts
| fled he would go to the extreme limits
of his power to save Miss Stone IL possi-
BILE and to avenge her IL necessary.
Then there was the industrial commits
sion, which called in body" to pay
respects" as each member explained.
"A number of New York leaders talked
over appointments in the Empire state.
and similar delegation, headed by ex-
Secretary Herbert, saw the president
about the vacant Alabama judgeship.
Finally, the president received a num-
Der Of the officers of the National Con-
gress of Mothers. Mrs. Roosevelt is at
least nominal member of this organi-
cation, and when Mr.. Roosevelt was
governor of New York he received the
mothers congress and startled some of
the good women by saying to them in a
public address,: 1.-THE boy that won't
fight is not worth his salt. He is either
coward or he is constitutionally weak.
do not know which should punish
my boys for quickest, for cruelty or
flinching."
The president did not repeat Saturday
any OF his former remarks, altho some
of the women rather expected an explo-
sion. Instead, he expressed his appre-
citation OF their great work in the COM
munity, and they went away saying:
Hes nicer as president than he was as
governor
President Roosevelt has taken a new
departure which will startle the old
timers in Washington but which, at the
same time, will do away with the pedan-
tic name which has always grated on
the ears. The executive mansion" has
been doomed and the white house" has
officially taken its place. For years all
the presidential stationery was dated
from the Executive mansion" congress
appropriated for the executive man
sion," and the bombastic and undemo-
cratic name was repeated in every Off
cial paper on the subject.
President Roosevelt's first social step
has been to change all this. The official
stationery now is headed 1.-THE White
House." and invitations to dine are
dated from 1.-THE White House" and not
the Executive Mansion"
The presidents reasons for the step
are both characteristic and natural.
There are under ordinary circumstances
some forty -f1ve Executive mansions" in
this country, one in each state, but only
one white house." 1t is the desire to
rerpetuate the name officially, which is
historically and conventionally correct,
that has induced Mr.. Roosevelt to make
this change.
Some Of the old timers In Washington,
particularly those who pride themselves
on their pedigree and love the lordly
sound of the word mansion" are OBJ
jecting already to the Innovation. but
the plain people, or those who have
heard of the change. like 1t and COM
mend the president for the unflinching
Americanism of the whole proceeding.
C. NJ. Phelps, Forestdale. VT, says his
child was completely cured of bad case
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