Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1907-10-10
III SUCH RECORD
FOR ABSENTEEISM
poosevelt's Admin stratiOn Beats
All Others in This Respect.
HITCHCOCK IS ROUNDING UP

The POstmasters In the interest OF
cotelyOu for Republican Prssidsn,
tsI NomlnstIOn--JchnsOn Boom Not
conHned to Minnesota.
s..cial Correspondence The Daily Sun,
washington, D. G. Oct. 9.-With
The President away on politics and
,unting bent, and Root and Taft, the
.vo chief members of the cabinet,
,r foreign parts, and the other men,
nsrs of the administration absent
from their departments on politics
4, private business, the Government
If the country is running with. the
Republican understrappers at the
holm. This has been pretty much
tbe case all the summer, since the
President left early in June. No
her administration has such rec
ord for absenteeism. Nor has any
other administration spent so much
time on partisan politics and inter.
terence with local sQuabbles. Every
.jnd of excuse has been made to send
out the cabinet officials and their as
sistants to do the preliminary work
10 round up delegates to the next Re-
publican National Convention. Sec
rotary Taft has made speeches IN all
the States where he could do any
good; Secretary Metcalf has been for
months in California and the other
Pacific States; Secretary Cortelyou
has been in New York, in close touch
with Wall Street and the New York
politicians; Secretary Bonaparte has
been rusticating In Canada and his
Maryland country home, and incident
ally has helped to muddle up Republi-
can prospects in Maryland; Secretary
Meyer has been boosting up Senator
Lodge for control of the Massachus-
etts delegates; Secretary Garfield, be-
sides spending the summer In the
West. ostensibly on Government bust
ness, but really on politics, then took
another month at home in Cleveland
10 help fix up the proposed defeat OF
Tom Johnson for mayor by the Presi-
dents favorite, Congressman Burton;
Secretary Wilson has been travelling
all over the West at Government ex.
pense and II the truth were known
the other cabinet members have not
paid out much from their private pur-
SeS on their political junkets.
Assisant,P Postmaster General Hitch
cock has been rounding up the post
masters and instructing them to- Sc
cure delegates to the Republican Con.
yeution favorable TO Secretary Cor
'elyou Pinchot of the Forestry Blu
eau member of the Tennis Cabinet"
1as been in the Rocky Mountain
states trying TO overcome the oppo-
,.'lon developed there on account Of
me Enlargement OF the forest re-
serves. The political expeditions of
,anv others might be mentioned who
1a'" put in more time for partisan
purposes than for what they are paid
Co Booker Washington and other
'.muistration negro leaders have
Teen attempting to turn the current
To- darkcy voters away from Foraker,
..' With no effect, outside OF the
."sro Office holders.
N' my but il has been a siren.
ummer, and after all the result
'"k, quite doubtful for the admins
. ton. unless the Office holders can
induce the President TO run for a
ira term, for they at heart fear a
.'N d"al with another candidate. The
..' men are now accusing the Cor
..' boomers Of using the patron
-. n' the United States Treasury
a.. 'h" Postoffice Department 70 force
animation. and as far, as the
>..'h"rn States are concerned they
t." 40 doubt rounded up the Office
1'rs. who compose the Republican
."-'F here, leaving out the darkey
.'r'.ne.nt.
." Democrats. while they have
..'n - active as their Republi-
rndS are much encouraged
Republican divisions and fac
fights, but are still at sea about
I'd. lead the party. The trend