The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-01-07
URGES A NEW REFORM
Arthur and Mckinley Worn Out With
Trivial Matters.
SHOULD CONSIDER GREAT PROBLEMS ONLY
Would Turn Over Patronage to Cabinet Min
listers and Let No One lnirude on the
Presi, eat Views Of Sarcastic
Ex-senator.
NV the Associated Press.l

~ by LIE <ASSOLi0bCu lCSo.J
washington, Jan. 4.-The Washington
Post will print TOMORROW an interesting
and important article by ex-senator Will
lRm E. Ch1Hkller. the President of the
Esnanfars y !l.s y Commission. entitled
v.sWanted by the United States, a Presi-
dent" The article is a strong argument
for reform in the present methods OF
conducting executive business.
Mr.. Chandler assertsi that president
has now only three lobjects in life:
First, to see 10000 people year; second,
to accomplish two thousand little things,
and third, to try to do 200 great things.
In the seeing of so many thousand people
about trivial affairs and in giving his
attention to the thousand of little things,
the President, Mr.. Chandler insists, is
worn out and becomes physically unable
to grapple with the great problems to
which he ought to give his undivided at
tention Mr.. Chandler cites from per-
sonal knowledge the cases of Presidents
who have almost succumbed under the
strain, instancing particularly President
Arthur, in whose Cabinet he was Secre-
tary of the Navy. and President McKin-
ley, to whose impaired health Mr. Chand-
Ter attributes inability to recover from
the shock of the assassin's bullet. Mr..
Chandler expresses his regret that Presi-
dent Roosevelt. s'even with his quickness,
his acuteness, and his present untiring
industry and unbounded energy, has given
countenance- to the idea that he will do
all the appointing himself, and hear all
that any one has to say concerning any
appointment.
Mr.. Chandler thinks that the great
weight of the pressure for office ought
to fall upon the Cabinet ministers and the
President ought to have more time for
important things.
What is wanted in the person of Mr..
Roosevelt says Mr.. Chandler, "and in
every other person whom the twentieth
century may see in the White House is
a President who will be allowed to serve
the whole people with all his heart and
strength, with all his mind and body, in
the discharge of his official duties, un-
hindered by the pressure upon him of
so many thousands of his countrymen
as have in recent years encroached upon
the time and patience of our Presidents
or compelled them to do it by impairing
their physical health and over-straining
their meatal powers. The time has come
when access to the President except at
public receptions. should be limited to the
Cabinet ministers, Senator'S Representa-
tives and Ambassadors, and to such other
persons only as are given interviews for
public purpose after written applications
have been received and carefully con-
sidered. The public receptions of the
President should be few, and there should
be no intrusions upon his social life,
which he should be allowed to regulate
according to his own will and pleasure,
and no person should take offense be-
cause not invited to his presence or find
fault with his selection of his company,
whatever may be its race or color.
This needed change of custom will at
first. no doubt, be unpopular. 1t will be
condemned as unrepublican exclusiveness.
II will require, to begin, the new rule, a
President who has been a man of the
people, who is known to be at heart