The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-11-26

In Olsyeland's administration
many may remember tho preSiden
was taken 10 task for going int
Canadian waters while fishing amonl
the Thousand Islands and fuss wa
raised about II. though Cleveland
had his headquarters on an Ameri
can island. Again, in his admin
istration, Cleveland went more thar
three miles 20 sea on a steamer
trip from the Carolinas to Wash
ington. Tho authority OF a govern.
ment reaches only three miles tc
sea, 50 that Cleveland did leave the
United States on that trip. Prosl'
dent Roosevelt went much further
10 sea than Cleveland.
When Harrison Came Near.
Harrison once walked out on a
bridge across the Rio Grande where
IL forms the boundary between the
states and Mexico. In mid-stream
a line painted across the bridge
marked the precise border and across
IL Harrison would not pass. Nc
Kiuley saw the same bridge but did
not approach II.
All this Is perhaps Irrelevant and
has 70 do with the way these ira
ditions arc kept, rather than With
what they are.
Mr.. Roosevelt will have one OF
these customs to disregard should
he decide to accept senatorship at
the hands OF his state IL has al
ways been a moro or less vaguely
defined. hut we'll established GUS
tom. that ex-presidents shall retire
from politics or aggressive Interest
in government. Tho rule probably
was established when Washington
the Western Cincinnatus they called
him for it--having como from his
farm TO the revolution and the pres
ideney. went back To Il at the con-
clusion OF his second term in Of
flee, to die In retirement three years
later.
The RuIe---Its Making and Breaking
Monroe, whose general polish and
breeding gave the presidency more
conventions than one, added to the
strength OF this custom when he
president ought not later occupy
less exalted place in affairs. thereby
possibly demeaning himself
Washington, as has been said, re-
tired and died at Mount Vernon In
1899.
John Adams and the Sects.
John Adams, disheartened by his
defeat at the hands OF Jefferson,
whom be hated with an unforgiSins
choler for a time, retired to his home
in Quincy, Mass, and lived quietly
for some years. SO bitter was he
that he drove away from the capitsi
at o'clock on the morning OF
March 4, a few hours before the time
set for Jeefferson'g arrival, leaving
the author OF the Declaration OF In
dependence TO so through with that
simple formality as best he might.
But Adams lived long quarter cen
fury after his retirement, His an
ger and modification wore away In |
time and he came into especial note |
again In 1890, when he was a dele
gate to the Massachusetts, constitu.
declared that no ox-president should
be party leader and refused to
take part in politics.
But. for that matter. the rule had
been broken before Monroe really
established It, not by the actual hold
ing OF office, but by the public in.
terest John Adams manifested az
ter his disappointment and retire
ment. nmAgt W{Nr1F
II may be interesting to know lust
what the presidents did after their
retirement from office; how many
81 them aided in the hallowing OF
he rule and how many chose other
paths At the outset II may be
1aid, a. applicable TO President
possible case, that only
two men really held federal office
subsequent 70 having been president
John Quincy Adams and Andrew
Johnson.
But many others were active 20.
itlealIy or otherwise, thus failing to
Idhere TO tho sacred theory that a