The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-30
WHITE HOUSE FAVOR
 FORFEITED BY LODGE
BAY STATE "BOSS" NO LONGER
 ADVISER OF THE PRESIDENT.
Shaw, Too, Meets FrOwn-Iowan Likely to Omit Omcial Family Soon, as Are LoOmis and Gar.
 AeId Also.
Walter. Wellman's Washington Special to Chicago Record Herald.

Walter. Wellman's Washington Special
 to Chicago Record Herald.
 Important changes have occurred in imminent. The most surprising of these is the finish of Senator Lodge of Massachusetts as a chum and confiden- tial adviser of President Roosevelt. Lodge is down and out, and Secretaries Root and Taft are the big men of the present and the future. Secretary Shaw is out of favor and will soon retire from the cabinet without any regrets on the \part of President Roosevelt, though he will probably follow his usual course and give the retiring Secretary of the Treasury handsome farewell MT. Roosevelt is exceedingly generous about such things. Assistant Secreta- ry of State Loomis Is going to resign to go into business, and Commissioner of Corporations Garfield, one of the Presidents closest friends, lost a cabi- net post when he gave to the public his unfortunate report on the beef trust last spring. In good time he may secure a seat in the cabinet, but he will have to wait. as the President thinks this not an opportune time for Nnis promotion.
 
 without doubt secure in his place. despite the cotton report leakage and !. the bitter fight that Is being made on him by certain persons and news papers President Roosevelt thinks Mir. Wilson far and away the best Sec retary of Agriculture the country ever had. He takes no stock in the criti- cisms of the Secretary that are daily spread broadcast in certain circles.
 n that part of his work which has to do with the farmers and with efforts to promote scientific agriculture. It Is probable the President will endeavor at l the earliest opportunity to strengthen (the Secretary's hands on the admin Iistrative or executive side without dis 'turbing his prestige as head of the department
 MT. Wilson has done well. He is a jealous and effective worker for the interests of the farmer. The Presi- dents view is that the cotton scandal may have occurred under any admn- istration of the department. just as the best of bank presidents may have 6 rascally clerk or cashier in his employ.
 Secretary Wilson is not tho member of the cabinet from Iowa the President would like to get rid of
 Senator Lodges downfall Is surpris- ing to the few persons who are aware of 1t. For many years he has been Theodore Roosevelts closest friend. It was Nr. Lodge who made Roosevelt a civil service commissioner and gavo him his first chance to win distinction in the national field. It was Lodge. too. who helped Roosevelt into the assistant sec- retaryship of the navy. where he won renown as the man who did as much if not more than any other to make the American navy the best In the world in accurate shooting. and where he had the distinction of ordering Ad- miral Dewey to sail from Hongkong to Manila to smash the Spanish fleet.
 Lodge has been so close to Roosevelt throughout all the years that no one has imagined the tie could be broken. But the end has come. It has been approaching for a year or more as the President gradually discovered that his earstwhile chum was altogether too grasping and peculiar properly to be- long in the Roosevelt class. There is no denying Mir. Lodges ability. He