The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-03

none of him, but little by little he won
them. Then he formed the Civic Club
for their instruction and entertainment
and built a house for it at a cost of
$4,000. Then he was persuaded to go
into politics and later he formed a
Republican club and built a <.ouse for
II at a cost of further thousands. He
had to fight tooth and nail for the
place of district leader, since there are
elements in his own party that object
ed to him and his methods. He had
to fight again with desperation for a
place as delegate to the Republican
National Convention in 1900. He had
to fight in the courts for one of these
places after he had won in the prima-
ries. He continued his fight when he
was so i'll that he had to be taken from
sick bed to carry it on. but he won.
Then he turned the district from a
Tammany to Republican stronghold.
Then he took up the fight against pol
icy players, and 1t was he who made
possible the famous prosecution of Al
Adams, the notorious policy king.
There are still elements in the Re-
publican party opposed to the further
advancement of Capt. Goddard and
he may not win this year, but he has
the backing, indirectly at least of
President Roosevelt, the two being
very good friends
L
| ex-"Big Chief are as different as can
possibly be imagined.
Goddard is TALL slender, quiet,
| modest, and slow of speech that he
often seems hunting for words with
which to express himself. Devery is
burly, full blooded, without a trace of
diffidence, and his fluency. albeit it is
not the f1uenoy of the scholar, has
made him famous.
Those who have been in Oyster Bay
recently say that the President is evil
IDENTIFY making the most of his vaca-
ton in spite of the many visitors
which he must preforce receive al
most every day. He is not likely say
those who have seen him, ever to
get the presidential pallor" which
was so marked with President McKin-
ley during the last year or two of his
life, so long as he can enjoy an out
ing similar to the one of this year.
He is as brown as a berry, his eye is
bright and sparkling. his step is
springy, and he owes all these attri-
butes of first class health to the facts
that lie makes the most of fresh air
and is never afraid of the weather. He
sometimes carries the latter to a length
that is more or less irksome to his
companions. You have ell read the
famous story of his horse back ride in
the rain with Prince Henry, when he
was in America. Here is a story that
matches that one.
Douglass Robinson the Presidents
brother-in-law, visited him the other
day, stepping off the train in the midst
of a pouring rain. The President met
him in an open carriage and the two
drove unconcernedly through the
streets, apparently paying no attention
to the deluge from the sky. The Pres
ident's Panama hat was dripping front
and back, like the caves of a house in
a storm and his clothes must have
been saturated The ordinary man
would have suffered intense discom-
fort, but as Roosevelt drove along it
was noticed by those that watched
him from the shelter of roadside roofs
that he was laughing and talking as
one who is enjoying the time of his
life. Suddenly he saw in a doorway
a man with whom he wished to speak
He pulled up to the curb and called
to the man. The man walked out to
the carriage looking not at all COM
Portable. Robinson also began to be
a little bored for he was evidently as
wet as he wanted to be. When the
man reached the carriage Roosevelt
grasped his hand with a grip of iron
! and held it during the conversation
| which lasted long enough for the
mans clothing to become wet through
and through. Finally the talk was
| ended and the man withdrew his hand
apparently with great relief AS the
| President gathered the reins the man
made bold to ask:
Isn't it pretty wet day for you to
be out driving?"
Oh" said Roosevelt, as if he had
suddenly learned of the state of the
weather, lis it raining? WE'LL well;
it is raining, isn't it? Gid-ap.'
Ali Oyster Bay is still wondering
whether the President was playing a
| joke on his brother-in-law and the
man from the doorway or whether his
mind was really so occupied by affairs
of great weight that he didn't realize
it was pouring.
oyster Bay has always known that
Our Teddy is not one who cares
much for sartorial appearances. but
Oyster Bay has had that knowledge
drilled into 1t anew. His favorite golf
suit, of ancient vintage and many
darns, has long been familiar to his
neighbors. 1t is apparently as dear to
him as the antique plug hat worn so
many years by Senator Everts was to
him. l am told that Douglass Robin
son got SO tired a while ago OF this
old golf suit that he went to the Presi-
Dental tailor, who, of course. had the