The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-03-29
TRIALS OF IAE
TRIP ARE GREAT
Presidents Journey Has to be
Managed Diplomatically.
TOWNS GET IN SQUABBLE
Bailey of Kansas at Washing
ton to- Fix Things.

Washington, March 28.-In arranging a
Presidential trip such as Mr.. Roosevelt
is soon to make, the greatest problem
is to steer clear of local and fractional
squabbles in the places where the Presi-
dent is to be entertained. There are al
ways people in every locality who see in
these events an opportunity to exploit
themselves. Sometimes the purpose is
social. sometimes political, and more Oft
en- it is merely the mad thirst for no
toriety 1t is an opportunity for the
self-assertive and aggressive to shoulder
themselves into the glare of the calcium
light
All this makes it very hard for the sec
rotary of the President, and for the Presi-
dent himself. He is in constant danger of
Being captured and being carried off bod
lily by the wrong people. 1t gives an
element Of uncertainty TO the programmes
of entertainment. Unseemly squabbles
are imminent and the distinguished guest
IS liable to leave behind him a train Of
heartburnings. There rs wrangIing now
IN every city and town where President
Roosevelt proposes to stop. The White
House is flooded with protests by tele-
graph and mail. Senators and represent
stives have been crowding the executive
Offices trying to straighten out local en-
ENGAGEMENTS. Seattle and Tacoma are
hardly on speaking terms. St Paul il
complaining of Minneapolis and vice YER
sa. Kansas sent its governor and
laIo s,ff III
faction There is trouble in Los Angeles
and in San Francisco and all the way
up the coast 1t was in such matters
as these that Mr.. Cortelyou was of in
estinable service to the Presidents whose
trips he managed. He was diplomatic
and firm. He became well posted. and
able to steer clear of the rocks and pit
falls. His successor. Mr.. Loeb, who is
Just getting his baptism in the art, is
beginning TO wish he had never been
born.
A smaller number Of persons will ac-
cctnpany President Roosevelt on his COM
ing trip than were with him on the
western trip last September. or the trips
through New England and the south
which preceded il. So far as can be
learned the party will include Secretary
Loeb, Assistant Secretary Barnes, Sur
& eon-General Rixey, three stenographers.
three messengers, and two Secret Service
men; John Burroughs, the naturalist,
VINO viii accompany the President
through the Yellowstone Park; John Muir
who viii act as his escort through the
Yosemite; one representative of each Of
three press associations, one representa-
% rod
newspapers, one official photographer,
and one representative of each of the
two telegraph companies.
In addition, room will be made on the
train for six of eight representatives of
the daily press local to the territory
through which the special train passes
from day to day These special news
paper men Will be changed as the train
continues on its way. For example, in
the middle west men representing the
Omaha newspapers viii be with the train
through Nebraska leaving it at Council
Bluffs. where their places will be taken
BY men representing the Iowa newspa-
pers. Later these men will disappear,
ard as the train approaches St. Louis.
men representing the newspapers of that
city will get aboard, and presently in
their turn give way to others. There
has been q. strong demand from certain
eastern daily newspapers for places on
the special train, but il has been neces-
sary 10 refuse them.
The speeches made during the trip will
IL important. for they viii probably com
ment on the work of the Fifty-seventh
congress. and furnish some forecast of
the Administrations plans in the way Of
legislation in the Fifty-eighth. In all,
the President will probably make more
than 100 speeches. long and short, while
h. is away. From the point of view Of
physical endurance alone he has under
taken a large contract. No other Presi-
dent has ever mapped out such trip as
the one which Will begin on April 1 and
end on June 5. When it is completed, the
President viii have covered the entire
middle west. the southwest, and a portion
OF the northern half of the middle west
The people Of every section viii thus have
& chance to see him.
The special train viii be in charge of
Secretary Loeb, who viii make his initial
bow 10 the country at large in his new
Office. Mr.. Cortelyou. as soon As he be-
came Secretary Of Commerce and Labor. |
turned over all plans for the trip to Mr.. |
Loeb. who has since been busy working |
Cut the many difficult and annoying de-
tails