The Washington herald., 1908-04-20
CAMPAIGNING WHILE
IN PUBLIC OFFICE
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announced that he contemplated trip
to Panama in the spring and world
voyage to the Philippines in the autumn.
He made a weekend trip to that Yale
dinner, and was back in Washington the
following Monday. Quite a week later he
was over at New Haven 10 attend a
meeting of the Yale corporation. A
week after hts return from Connecticut
he was of for a boat sail down the
Potomac with a few congressman, to in
speet forthcauons and witness target
practice. and got back 10 his desk on a
Friday.
These items are mentioned to show how
the travel habit grew upon the honorable
Secretary. During March, of 1901 he con-
tinued his out-of-toWn activities almost
weekly. He was in New York March 10.
of Sunday. to attend a meeting of the
Martyrs Monument AssOeiation' In New
York again the following Saturday, TO
confer with landscape artists about
beautifying the American shore OF the
river near Niagara Falls, and then on
again to New Haven 10 attend another
meeting of the Yale Corporation.
Ia Demand as Speaker.
That brought him up close TO March
80 The President had ordered the May
flower to Charleston. S. c., to be in
waiting for the Secretary and his party.
Before the Secretary had left Wash
ington in a private car. his itinerary in
and out of the West Indies for a month $
trip was announced, and also plans for a
long trip into the West soon after he
could set foot again on mainland soil.
He was back In Washington after al
most one months absence. during which
he had Travelled 5.S4S miles The Western
trip at first was announced to include
speeches at Iowa and Minnesota uniYersi-
ties. but, like nearly ali the other speak
ing trips the Secretary has made since
then, this trip grew greatly in speaking
magnitude.
In the meantime. however. he made a
trip into TIE Middle West the week fol-
lowing his arrival from the West Indies,
TO address the Dayton (Ohio) Y. NJ. c. A.
of a Sunday, and the Commercial Busi-
ness Mems Club. of Cincinnati, of a
Monday, so that he reached Washington
again the following Wednesday.
Il was repeatedly asserted that these
trips We're not Of "a political character,
Somehow the public was catching on
that the Secretary of War was a genial
speaker, ready TO deliver public addresses.
Invitations began TO pour in upon him at
a rate that would have staggered even
d willing vacation speaker. as Vice PTesi-
dent Fairbanks. They seemed TO come
from territory that was strategically i'm
pOTtant
BY early May IL became apparent that
the Secretary would have TO make two
summer trips into -AIississiPpi ter
ritOry, where he had planned 10 make
but one. II was at that time that ar
rangements were begun for a visit 10
Oklahoma. II gave the Secretary more
trouble, because of the turbulent situa-
ton In the new State, than any other
speaking date in his busy life for the
last eighteen months.
Continued on the Go.
The week Of May Z the Secretary spent
several days on a boat in Hampton Roads
resting. but took a few hours off TO IN
spect the jamestown Exposition He re-
turned 20 Washington 10 remain in his
office most Of the time till May p, when
he was off 10 New Haven TO attend a
meeting of the Yale Corporation. Tn
daunted at the thought of a railroad
train he took a Sunday trip 10 Leesburg,