The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-15
ROOSEVELT TALES
ST. LOUIS REPUBLIC TELLS
 SOME OF INTEREST.
How Roosevelt Cut Red Taps-An other Phase of the Reprimand of General Miles-pennis Flynn and His Offended Prsrog-
 ative.

Thomas J. Akins, Chairman of the Repub. lican State Central Committee. is . great ss En,ss s :: ,S. sSs public One dses not have to be very long in 2 crowd with the new distributor of Missouri MT. Akins's three weeks visit in Washing ton gave hip an opportunity to observe the
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 saturday afternoon Mir. Akins resaled many East. w the he s osg the President appeared. There must have s @ .ns oned him to come nearer. .;s ms ether sIs p.ops swsys esn wait Now what is 1t you want!'
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 Not many public men would perform for newspaper men-that is, willinsly.
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 ,.Yeu know how Foessvsit w.s roasted matter of fact. the rrssident aid r.prim.nd the General and in the manner teld in the s.1s of is told % M rss He ".S' i" :smstSins ss. Ss @ iiSsr.ns ' ths, @ rsprimsnd. Roosevelt asked Niles Niles wa. the s1 guest of the Prs.id.nt at sn a ner. They are good friends. The General ad-
 h. anat S tn. reprimand was . good thing. that he should not have talked so much. ana that tn. brakes were needed. The two men are enough alike to appreciate each other.
 ,ss sS s.S :s; "ass ordinate informed Roosevelt that it would take three days for the order to be signed ss,t,,, Sy the necessary department heads and the Too much red tape remarked the Presi- he y: ..n.S the p:SsI: And and Tss
 Discovered the Reason.
 Dennis Flynn. delegate from Oklahoma, is ns of the n mos; popuis. men in Governor Jenkins was turned down for Fer tion of Roosevelt. on oeession Flynn can put on pretty thick coat of dignity. So in "" MT. Pr:siSsnt,' h. said. T understand my friend Jenkins, AS the Representative why you dd not say something to me about it! l think I have right to know: 'Ine frcStdont did not hesitate, but, show. ing his teeth in his characteristic way. he simply bit the words off: Now as you say you really want 10 knew he explained. I will tell you. I have 1t on goed authority that this man Jenkins accepted S3.ooo worth of stsck in a corporation, which stock was ernor. gave the corporation q contract also understand that you hold e2o00 worth of stock in the same corporation. That fs the reason I said nothing to you about the removal
 "F'lynn told me his only regret was Una, he did not have more stock in the concern Tt is surprising the ease with which Roose- welt treats politicians He wants everything done in the open. One day while was fr thes reception room Senator Deboe of Ken lucky was saying something to the Presden, about an appointment. We couldn't hear
 Y" No. senator.' he exclaimed; T tell you that will not do 1t. I will not. These mat ters mus come through tho regular depart mental channels
 "As peboe passed me, he said: What we need is President. But just the same he was back the next day with the papers prop. erly attcstsd by the department. He had re- covered from his bad temper or the day be- fore. They all do, I think. The politician. have discovered that the President is not afraid to speak his mind. but that in doing so he bears no malice.".