World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1904-12-08
WASHINGTON
LETTER
tFrom or l,egnlss Correspondence.

The President will give q small
Cabinet dinner at the White House
TO night. The hrst dinner in hon
or OF the PresideOt and Mrs.
Roosevelt after the New Year
will be given by the Secretary OF
State and Mrs. Hay, who will In
augurate the new fashion of giving
a dinner to the President without
the necessity Of inviting all OF the
Cabinet. The report seams incre-
dib!e, but probably has some foun.
da.ion, that Cabinet ofit1rs and
their wives actually find each
other bore when they are COM
PEELED to dine together dozen
times during single winter.
Hence Tho new departure.
There are accumnlating evi'
denccs that President Roosevelt
will do ,xact!y what he thinks
right during tho forth coming ad.
ministrauou. 1t the same time
I,t is only fair to say that, even at
this early moment, be feels an in
creased sense OF responsibility, II
is thought that he will not incline
to bo dangerously rash, as he
might If he were under-restraint.
Beauclcro," exclaimed Genera!
! Clarendon, "There is no managing
! him. Curb him ever 30 littlo and
he's up on his hind.legs directly.
tive him his head and throw the
bride on his neck, and he stands
still. Tho strangest fellow for q
rational creature" Roosevelt
seems to be q type OF obstinate con.
servat,sm, like Beauclero, He
means TO please himself by being
, very careful what he does. Al
ready be has given valuable Of
fee to Senator Cockrel when q
thousand Republicans were clamor.
ing for 1t. He has designated =
grandson Of StonewAll Jackson 10
be cadet at West Point. He an.
nounces that he will visitthe South.
He will reconstruct his Cabinet
according TO his OVID unaidcd
judgement, probably appointing
as one of its members Col. Bon.
aparte, known to Republican
leaders mostly as - civil service
crank Ho now takes tho inau-
lguration in hand Just as he did his
own campaign and declines to 10,
it be run by the local ofiico seekers
] For month certain local officer
Aeekers have been demanding the
management OF the great iunction
as u traditional right, but Wednes
day the President, without con
i sul,ing anybody. turned all thei,
3 distinguished faces to tho wall ant
appointed General John M. Wilson
a post master Of military method'
to be Head Of the inaugural Com
Q m,ttee and.Eirec;or Of what Mr.
II Dooley calss 'the Feet Shnmpeter
or biz io-do out OF doors" II il
needless 10 say that there are sew
,eral illuslrious Republicans IN this cit,
who have withdrawn their dis,inguishc
admiration from the Chief Executive.
For good many years Congress. Y
the guardian and conservalor Of Vii
city, has been afflicted with bronzehos
omania under the influence OF whic
our parks have been decorated and o,
arm, cnmmcmora,ed by a large detarl,
ment 81 metallic cavalry. There Al
10 more ,han thirty bronze statues on q
w city streets now Of which nearly twen'
are equestrian Congress ffnds itse
n face to face with bills for six NOR
including Washington, Grant, Lungft
low, Mcclellan, jefferson. Robert NJ
n rls and Pierrel' Enfant
Ofthe various horses standing /
~ prsncing General Thomas rid,
~ the most spiritad one and SEQ
~ A. the lcast spirited and most aulhel
nis tic. II was modelled from u
msse which be really rode