Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-04-24
CAPITAL CHAT.
Continued from Page One.)

Forum, of New York City, has paid
him the unusual compliment of asking
that he repeat his Kalamazoo, Mich,
speech Of last February on THE
People, The Railroads and the National
Authority" At the close of this week
the Senator will address the Young
Mems Republican Club at Phila-
delphia; next Monday he will deliver
an address on President Grant, before
the famous Americas Club at Pitts
burgh. and April 80, he will speak be-
fore the Republican Club at Trenton,
n. j., state in which he hopes to
secure some delegates. May 80, which
is Memorial day, the senator will de-
liver the Grafton on the Gettysburg
field
Secretary COrtelyou, Of the treasury
department, is also out on the hustings
this week, which is viewed as having
significance in political circles. There
has recently come a great demand for
his appearance in upstate New York
with which the politicians possibly
| have something to do. He has con-
scented to make several speeches this
| week in cities like Utica and Syracuse
| on the governmental problems of the
| hour.
In spite Of all the gloomy prospects
| for the Cortelyou boom, the secretary
| is known to have recovered from the
| stunning blow the President admins
| tered for the purpose Of putting him
out of the race entirely He still
cherishes the belief that he may be a
| dark horse candidate in the Chicago
| convention, which fact may have
something to do with his current tour
Of his home state. He is not so well
known in that section as he is in the
vicinity of New York City, where he
spent many years of his life. The
politicians think they see in his
activity some confidence of being able
to get the New York delegates after
they leave Gov. Hughes. For it is
| recognized, as has been said heretofore
that the Hughes boom has been
collapsing and that by the time it
reaches Chicago there will be but lit
tie vitality in it.
The President now thinks that the
nomination Of Secretary Taft is certain
enough to warrant him giving atten-
| ton to the question Of the secretary'S
successor. For as soon as Mr.. Taft is
nominated, if he is nominated, he will
necessarily have to resign and the
President would have to find a new
| Secretary of War. 1t is said that the
| President will surprise the country by
designating some one for Secdetary Of
| War, whose name has not been
mentioned in that connection. He was
highly pleased at his success in pick
| ing Charles J. Bonaparte as Secretary
| of the Navy without being found out
and he apparently is trying to dupli-
| cate the feat. The name of Assistant
Secretary of State Robert Bacon, who
| was a classmate of the President at
Harvard and who is member Of the
tennis cabinet has been suggested for
the portfolio but that turned out to be
bad guess. Mr.. Bacon says he would
not have the job and will, under no
circumstances, be the next Secretary
of War
1t is really no easy thing for the
President to fill an important federal
Office in Washington without having
his plans given to the public. AS soon
as there is a vacancy, the newspaper
correspondents who know the names
of available men very well, generally
spread the list before the public. They
|
administration circles, whom he is
likely to want to promote. AS soon as
he begins to advise with prominent
Republicans about filling an Office the
fact and the names under considera-
ton are likely to leak out.
And so it happens occasionally that
the President likes to get the better of
those outsiders who fill the big offices
for him and who start public discus
sions about the availability of this
man and that and who are often
responsible for delegations approach
ing the White House in behalf of the
mentioned men. And when he does
succeed he chuckles over it when he
talks about the appointment with his
newspaper visitors.
Any cabinet officer the President
might nominate from now on will have
but a brief term to serve. But little
more than ten months of the present
administration remain and in that
period no new cabinet official could
inaugurate any important depart
mental policies, or do much that would
make him remembered as cabinet
officer None the less there are many
Republicans of ability who would like
the distinction for an ex-cabinet officer
is an ex-cabnet officer and the behold
| ing public does not stop to inquire
how long a man was in the cabinet.
In recent times the President has
had a fondness for choosing members
of his tennis cabinet for prominent
| places. Secretary Garfield was
promoted from the tennis court.
Lawrence o. Murray, another tennis
cabinet man, was made comptroller of
the currency. Postmaster General
| Meyer is one Of the tennis cabinet and
it has been suggested. without much
| apparent reason, that he might like the
war portfolio. But other tennis
cabinet men have also been suggested
for the place and probably chiefly for
the reason that they are in the tennis
| cabinet.
! VERDICT FOR DEFENDANT.
Waldo County Jury Decides Brooks
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