Bisbee daily review., 1906-07-29
EZRA GREENE
 IN WASHINGTON
He interviews Messrs. Taft, Shaw and Fairbanks on
 the Presidency.

llie lcSluollCy, After Id seen Secretary Lobe and he'd convinced me it wasent no use to cherish hope that Mister Roosevelt mite be perswaded to renoo his leese on the White House. l decided to go
 on to Washington to look at them fellers who are sed to be sittin' round a hoping the Republican party will ketch them off ov their guard some day and surprise them into exceptin the nominashun.
 I'd herd a good deel about Mister Farebanks and Mister Taft and Mister Shaw and the rest, and after my ex- perience with Mister Lobe at Oyster Bay I wanted to meet some other grate men to see i. they were all like him. They wasent.
 When I got to Washington a feller to the hotel sed I'd better hunt up MT. Taft first because 1t mite take me s5me, time to. see him. He laffed when he sed 1t and felt kind ov hurt thinkin he mite be laffin at me. When I saw Mir. Taft I knowed what he ment. Miseer Taft sertenly is hefty, offise don't seem none too big for him. and the big building where he has his odnise don't seem none too big fer him.
 Mister Taft, sez I. ''how about the presidensy?"
 ''Presidensy," sez he, whats that?"
 Why" sez I, "the job what Mister Roosevelt has got. Are you a-goin to try to git it?"
 'Is Mister Roosevelt a-goin to quit ?'' seZ MT. Taft, lookin reel interested.
 Then I explained to him careful like about how Mister Roosevelt's leese on the White House would be up pretty soon and how Mister Roosevelt had sed he wasent a-goin to renoo it.
 'Oh," sed Mister Taft, 50 the White House is a-goin to yakent, eh? What's the matter. Don't Mister Roosevelt like 1t? Dos the roof leek or don't the furnase heet CT is some of the nabors objkshunable?'
 I told Mister Taft how the White House was all rite and a tip top phase to live in, but as how Mister Roosevelt pined fer the simple life and as how the cars drumming Penna- ayenoo dis turbed his meditashuns.
 Do you think 1t would be big enuff fer me to live in?" sez Mister Taft, reel serious like but with hopeful lite in his eye.
 I looked them over careful and then lowed he mite make it do by squeezin some. Its old" sez I, but they bilt bildfngs better in them days"
 Well, I'll tell you" sed Mister Taft, leenin over and whisperin to me be- hind his hand, fist like the cheerman ov the politikal comittee always dog durin township campane, I've bin told there's a good job at the supreme court l mite git but ail the funny men on the newspapers lowed as now the suprem bench wasent strong enuff to hold me, and to tell the truth I've bin leetle oneasy about it myself. I've bin a-runnin foot rass:s and things 10 reduse my wate, but folks as sez they want me to be President keep a-comin to me and a-sayiD Mister Taft, you're a-growin every day. and I'm a-giting rite discouraged. If I'm too big man fer suprem jelge," sez Mis- ter Taft. blushin like. "I may have to take that Job ov President when Mis- ter Roosevelt gifts tkro with it.
 Then l went to see Mister Shaw in the big bilding where all the money is.
 Mister Shah" sez I I've come to
 
 Mister Shaw he put his hand over giggled some. "Aw, go long," sez he and quit your foolin'
 When I told him as how I had al- reddy bin to see Mister Taft, Mister Shaw looked reel provoked.
 You don't meen to say" sez he, that you think a man as fat as Taft Is could run fer President and make any hedway?"
 He was worried like when I told him Mister Taft had bin a-runnin foot rases and things to git in practice and he wanted to no what kind oy time, Mister Taft had made.
 Then I thot I'd do leetle kiddin on my own account.
 Mister Taft sez," sez I, "as how he may be bit hefty and not as spry on his legs as some, but as how he's big enuff to hold down >Se job, which is more than some folks is as he could name"
 Well, sir, you otter ov seen Mister Shaw when I sed that. tnou ned sure go plum krazy. Mister Shaw, you no, is bilt a good deel like a skeeter.
 Meenh me, suppose. meenin me-" he shouted, and he seemed to fele so bad I was reel sorry I'd tried to piage him. Well" sez he, If I was bilt like some people I no I woodent talk none"
 MT. Shaw walked up and down the offise and could see plane he was agetated. But pritty soon his fase lited up.
 T list wish you'd show me-" he sez, "a great figger ov history as wayde ever 300 lbs" And Mister Shaw sets down agen with that sort of sat isfied smile you've seen at debatin so- siety when. one feller has advanced argument he thinks the other feller cant anser.
 1 wasent anxious to renoo the sub ject. seein as how Mister Shaw had kooled down, so tride a new talk.
 T no man up in Plainsville," sez I, " as thinks you're just the rite size to be President"
 Whats his name?" sez Mister Shaw, perizin up rite smart.
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