Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-06-27
''1[NNiSCAB|I[T' TOGO
Taft as President Will Do Away
With Roosevelt's Sporty
Young officials
ROUGH RIDERS PULL TO END
Probability That Some of Presidents
Favorites Appointed to Office Will
Lose Their Jobs-Taft Has His Own
Intimate Associates and Advisers for
Personal Aids.

Especial Washington Correspondence.
Washington, June 27.-Secretary
Taft is expected to bring about one
important reform as soon as he is made
president. 1t Is freely predicted he
will abolish at once and without cere-
mony President Roosevelt's tennis
cabinet" Some folks with special
antipathy for the tennis cabinet" are
giving it until the afternoon of March
4, next. Then, they expect its dis
missal as one of the very first acts OF
Mr.. Taft when he Is indicted into the
executive office.
Another interesting body of which
Mr.. Taft, if elected president, is ex-
pected to make short shrift is the
Rough Riders. These compatrots Of
the president have ridden far on war
memories in many cases to the great
disgust of some other folks who sought
office and found their way blocked by
the presidents comrades In the on
slaught on San Juan Hin. 1t is human
nature to be resentful in such cases
and so the Rough Riders have drawn
antipathy on themselves and been the
subject of all manner of cruel jibe
jest and witticism.
Makeup of "Tennis Cabinet"
President Roosevelts tennis cabi-
net is composed of Robert Bacon, as
sistant secretary Of state: Lawrence @.
Murray, comptroller of the currency:
of
corporations; Clifford Pinchot. chief
forester; and James r. Garfield, secre-
tary of the interior. The rise of these
young men, who have enjoyed to a rare
degree the friendship and confidence of
President Roosevelt. has naturally ex-
cited no small degree Of Jealousy
among other officials who saw them
selves outstripped and among aspir-
ants not in office. President Roosevelt
is not slow to promote the men who
enjoy his close friendship and natural
ly he has seen to it that the young men
who play tennis daily with him on the
court back of the White House offices
have not been overlooked. In the case
charged by critics that responsibilities
have been put on them for which they
are not equal, at least not so we'll fitted
as plenty of others that might have
been chosen.
1T is not necessary to discuss wheth-
er there is any ground for criticisms
of this sort. The fact remains that
under the expected regime of Mr.. Taft
the tennis cabinet" is not likely to
exist. One important reason why It
will not is that Mr. Taft is not much
of a devotee of the game of tennis.
He takes most of his exercise on
horseback and If he becomes the oc-
cupant of the White House he will
probably keep up this practice.
Fewer Picturesque Characters.
1t is expected that in general Mr..
Taft as the successor to Roosevelt will
not gather about him and attract unto
himself so many picturesque charac-
ters Not only will the rough rider
find his entrance to the White House
less easy, but the man who has ridden
a bucking broncho ar freed a cata-
mount will not be quite so numerous.
This is not saying that Secretary Taft
will not make a democratic sort Of
president. AS head of the war depart
ment he has always been easy Of ac-
cess for a cabinet member. but many
of the characters that have become
familiar figures about the White House
in the last seven years, will not be
particularly drawn to him.
No doubt, Mr. Taft as president will
have his own special cabinet. Most
public men in high station do About
the president there is a "'kitchen cabi-
net" of some sort whether it's members
play tennis or not. Mr.. Taft has a few
close friends and advisers about him
now, men whom he consults quite
apart from officialism. Doubtless some
and perhaps all of these men will be
close around him if he becomes pres
ident. General Clarence R. Edwards,
head Of the bureau Of insular affairs,
will be one Of them. He and Secretary
Taft ride together daily and talk freely
over political and other subjects quite
apart from things strictly official.