Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-05
At THE WHITE HOUSE
President Plans Hunting Trip
in Africa.
WILL GO AFTER BIG GAME
Starts Immediately After Expiration
of Term in Office.
SON KERMIT TO GO WITH HIM
Secretary cortelyou VIII Probably
Hold Down Lid in Washington
During Summer.
WILL GO AFTER BIG GAME
SON KERMIT TO GO WITH HIM

Immediately after the ending of his
! term March 4 next President Roosevelt
will start on an extended hunting trip in
British East Africa His second son. ker-
nit. now in the preparatory school at
Groton Mass. is to be his companion
| II the present plans are carried out the
trip will last fully year When the ex-
petition starts it will Re equipped with all
modern weapons for killing elephants and
other wild beasts. Some preparations
have already been made
The President has told few friends
he looks forward to the trip with the
greatest pleasure. The President goes as
much to study the African wild animal as
anything else. He wants to know the
nature and habits of beasts in their
homes.
Upon his return he will do considerable
writing.
Disposes of Reports.
The authoritative acknowledgment that
the President is to get away from politics
a long time after his eight years in the
White House will be of interest in dis
posing of stories that he is to become
United States senator from New York TO
succeed Thomas c. Plat; that he is to be-
come the head of Harvard College. or of
some great institution to be founded here
by Andrew Carnegie. as we'll as many
other stories regarding the sphere of his
future activities
President Roosevelt is confident of the
nomination and election of Secretary Taft
as President. His departure at the very
inception Of the administration of his
friend will. he believes. dispose of in
situations that he is to be the real
President
That the President will again get into
politics after a long season of rest is ex-
pected by all his friends. The senatorial
proposition is attractive to them. They
are now making plans to have him elected
senator from New York in place of Sena-
tor Depew. whose term will expire two
years after next March.
That would be right in the middle Of the
administration of President Taft, assum-
Ing that the Presidents representations
are correct. If the new President is to
have much trouble 1t will begin about
that time. Nothing would be more pleas
ing to Mr. Roosevelt than to get into the
game in aid of his friend.
Cortelyou May Sit on Lid.
There is much anxiety in some quarters
as to who will sit on the lid in Washing
ton during the absence of President
Roosevelt at Oyster Bay. 1t is expected
that Secretary Taft. who has been holding
down the lid each summer for a number
of years Will resign his position about
July L. should he oe nominated at chi
cago.
Secretary Root was asked today if he
would probably do the lid act He assert
ed most positively that some other cabi-
net officer would have to be the weight.
The Secretary of State said he intend
led to leave Washington about June 90 and
he would spend about two weeks at the
esta blishment of Muldoon refitting himself
physically. He would then go to his farm
ton oy,I
summer.
1t is now pretty we'll understood that
President Roosevelt will. transfer the hon
or of holding down the lid to Secretary
Cortelyou unless that official should be
nominated as Vice President and find it
necessary to get out of the cabinet.
Man With the Iron Jaw.
Charles A. Moore of Brooklyn. n. Y,
we'll known republican and tariff protec-
ton leader, was at the White House to-
day when Secretary Root arrived for the
cabinet meeting.
Il named him the Man With the Iron
Jaw twenty-four years ago." Secretary
Root told the newspaper men, as he point
ed TO Mr.. Moore.
Then Mr.. Moore said he and large
party of New Workers were proceeding to
a republican national convention to try to
nominate Chester A. Arthur. Mr.. Moore
was a dealer in machinery and happened
to have one of his catalogues with him.
Seeing in the book a piece of machinery.
which Secretary Root Iaughingly said
looked like Mr. Moore, he pro .eeded to
name the latter The Man with the Iron
Jaw"
When Mr. Root became Secretary of
War and Aguinaldo was on the warpath
in the Philippines he sent Mr. Moore
commission to capture .Aguinaldo and
bite off his head. The joke can be APP
preciated by those who know Mr.. Moore
| is one Of the largest men in the country,
while Aguinaldo was hardly in the light
weight class.