The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-12-14
WAYS OF THE PRESIDENTS.
Stories Of Men Who Have Occupied
the White House.

Jacob Riis told the other day of Pres-
dent Roosevelts love for detail. 'He
became interested in the inspection of
tenements through one of my books, !"
said Mr. his, "and one day called on
me- We talked the situation over and
then he laid down the law to the fac
tory inspectors in a manner that made
their hair stand up on their heads. He
WAS governor at that time. One of the
inspectors undertook to dispute some OF
Mr.. Roosevelt's statements and the gov
ernor simply overwhelmed him with a
mass of data which he had gathered per-
sonally. During the talk he told of his
experience with discouraged Italian
fruit peddler. He had asked the man
how he was prospecting. oh he said,
what | max on da peanut l losa OH de
damn banan." That has been byword
With Mr.. Roosevelt ever since. When
ever he gets in a quandry on a matter
of public policy, in which any course
he may take will be found to have some
drawback. his intimates are very apt to
hear him say: What maka on da pea
nut | lost on da damn banan.' I"
SlcVclduu anu tnc LOdIcIS.
Not many years ago, while residing
in a transporting but delightfully."- cul
tured and refined community | found
that considerable Indignation had been
aroused among certain good neighbors
and friends because it had been said of
me that l was willing to associate in
the field with any loafer who was the
owner of a dog and a gun. l am sure
that / did not in the least undervalue
the extreme friendliness of those inclined
to intervene in my defense; and vet, at
the risk of doing an apparently ungrac
ious thing, their Kindly efforts by
promptly conceding that the charge was
too nearly true to be denied.-Grover
Cleveland's Fishing and Sporting
Sketches"
Harrison's Way.
The late Senator NJ. S. Quay of
Pennsylvania was bitterly opposed to the
denomination of Decentralization. Quay
maintained that Harrison could not be
reelected and the result showed the
correctness of the Judgment. During the
convention at Minneapolis, when Quay
was trying to name anybody but Harri-
son, one of Harrison's friends went to
Quay and said: Senator why is it you
dislike President Harrison so thorough
ly?" "Well,' Quay replied, lone rea-
son is this Harrison never does exac-
tly what you want him to do He al
ways puts some embarrassing trimmings
on. Should you ask him to lend you So,
he would not do that. Instead he would
hand you 4.75 or 1925"
More Light on Lincoln.
Lincoln, like Roosevelt, personally OBJ
Jected to having a bodyguard, but for
the same obvious reasons was influenced
to submit to the custom. One of Lin
coins bodyguard of four men, William
Ii. Crook, relates in Harper's Magazine
how, in patroling the corridors of the
White House at night, passing and re-
passing Linaoln's door, he frequently
heard him moan in his sleep An inter
esting incident was that when Mr.. Crook
on being summoned to the presidents
room found him struggling with needle
and thread. He was sewing button
on his trousers. 'All right he said,
looking at me with a twinkle in his
eys; Just wait until repair damages .