The Washington times., 1908-02-17
Look! Bang-Sh!!
Hitchcock Sh!!
On Taft'S Job
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shoe Policy in Booming
War Secretary

Watch for reforms in the management
OF the Taft Presidential campaign.
The great ''Sh-h-hl'' is on the JOB. All
over the works there is the dominating
presence Of the hush. On the walls
the silence sign is the chief decoration.
Frc nix H. Hitchcock, having mus
seve- "a his connection with Posts
Department, today quietly moved iut5
seven rooms in the Union Trust Com
pany, where he began his work as MAJ
ager of the Taft boom in the East
He has seven rooms because he thinks
his being in the seventh. and his callers
in the first, viii keep everything prop
eTIy secret. II is hard for his voice or
the voice Of his caller 10 carry through
five rooms, from No. Z 10 No 1.
Apostle of Mystery.
Hitchcock is the great apostle Of the
mystery worker. He wants no brass
bands. and he hates the red fire. II
he ever has to use the hammer. he viii
do his knocking when the implement IS
covered with felt. He is the great
hush
Therefore, politicians are wondering
how he and Vorys viii get along. Vorys
is the man who likes TO get out into the
glare of the monday sun, sound the
dinner gong collect a crowd and then
scatter circulars, postcards, and hand
bills telling what q great man TAFT is.
He believes in the power of the pen.
But Hitchcock bows before the shrine
OF the whisper. Sometimes he gets
reckless and mutters- But the whisper
i9 his long suit he receives a caller
and whispers to him. He receives an
other and whispers some more. 4 third
comes, and il develops that Hitchcock
is just getting into line trim with the
whisper.
No Handful Worker.
No handbnls for him telling who
Taft's grandfather was, No postcards
giving estimates Of the ballots at the
conventioni Perish the thought that
such precious information should be
vainly lavished on an unappreciative
pubNci Far be II from Hitchcock TO
waste facts on the people,
If there are estimates TO be made, he
will write them on his cuff and then
launder the cuff himself He guards
every fact. The whisper is the only
means OF communication that ne trusts
Thus, the stream Of callers VIII tip
toe 10 see Hitchcock get the whisper
and then get out What a CON- rast be-
tween this and the flood of literature
that has come out OF Columbus under
the management OF NOrys.
Politics makes strange combinations
Calls at the White House.
Mr. Hitchcock called at the White
House during the morning and slipped
out of the Office building unobserved
after his interview with the President.
Mr. Hitchcock entered the main front
door OF the Office building. bur no one
saw MIN come out, although a dozen
newspaper men were anXiously await
ing his egTess.
II he left by the front door he must
have flown over the heads Of the crowd
in the ante-TOOm or have put on the in
visible cloak used so frequently BY the
characters in fairy tales. There is a
side entrance leading from the Office
building 10 the White House proper. and
thence to the eastern terrace opposite
the Treasury building. IT is supposed
that Mr.. Hitchcock left by this route.
probably TO get down town more quick
~ than he could have done had he gone
out the front door of the Office building.