The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1908-07-16

It is expected that this will be a large
and comprehensive biography. much of
the material for which, il is said, Mr..
Cleveland has himself put together.
Secretary Wilson, of the Department
of Agriculture, left for his farm in
Iowa last week. The Secretary has
been at his desk almost daily for seven
months, and says he will be glad to
get rest.
The Secretary will be gone about two
months. 1t was stated in his office yes
terday that with the 100000 which
goes to the Bureau of Animal Industry
great amount of new work would be
undertaken which will be of vast bene-
| fit to the whole country.
Secretary Elihu Root has gone to
Muldoon's again. Muldoon's. you know,
| is the fayorite resting place of states
men now, who have money and time to
| go thru with the exactions of the great
prize fighters methods of 'toning up
1t is explained that Secretary Root is
not ill, he is just worn out. and went to
| Muldoon's because he could there get
| regular hours, regular feed, and regu-
| lar practice, with no possibility of in
| terruption of the routine of anything.
1t is said that Muldoon gives his per-
sonal attention to all these matters, and
| the man who tries to shirk has to leave
l he VIII mol JULIET Will ii fldu WIN -
not willing to live up to the proper
conditions.
Harry A Garfield, son of the late
James A. Garfield, and brother of
James r. Garfield. Secretary of the In
terror, received the degree Of doctor
| of laws at the commencement exercises
of Dartmouth College held June "a.
Secretary Taft has received the
| largest postal card ever handled in the
Washington Post Office. 1t was three
feet long and two feet wide. 1t came
| from Baltimore, and the special deliv-
/ il impossible to use his bicycle, and had
to go up to the State, War, and Navy
building on foot.
The postal card was sent by the pas
senger department of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad. 1t was an enlarged
union station in Baltimore just as he
! was boarding the train for his recent
| trip to Cincinnati. Just behind him
stood the negro porter of the Pullman
| car.
Written on it was the following mes
sage:
Dear Mr.. Taft: We congratulate
you on having made such good start.
"P. S.-We note that you have the
colored vote behind you"
On the reverse side Of the card was
| printed in duplication of register pos
| tai card, except that the expression
United States of Taftica instead of the
United States of America was used. 1t
/ bore Sc cents worth of 2-cent stamps,
and a special delivery stamp.
| Mr.. Taft enjoyed a hearty laugh
| when he saw the postal and ordered it
| to his home. Special arrangements had
to be made with the local postal au-
thorities before they would permit its
passage thru the mails.
4
Here is the opinion of Secretary VIII
| son on the Republican candidates, ex-
pressed just before he left for the West:
| Secretary Wilson. of the Agricultural
Department being asked his opinion of
the Republican ticket, said:
| IF the American people had set out
to educate a man for President as they
arrange to prepare soldiers and sailors
for their life work, they could not have
| outlined better course than that thru
which Mr.. Taft has moved. A thore
| legal training, with experience on the
| bench; comprehensive executive and
| constructive work in establishing the
! Philippine Government on rational
and stable basis; the reorganization of
| Cuban affairs, and the application of
sensible methods in Panama, his expe-
rience in the War Department, which
has brought him into contact with the
| execution OF the laws concerning a
great Department, and into intimate
touch with Congress and its methods
| all these experiences give him COM
| prehensiye view of and familiarity with
the governmental affairs of our people.
MIR. Sherman has had the best ex-
| perience in which to train the presiding
officer of the Senate. Long experience
| in the Congress, acquaintance with its
members, entire familiarity with the
4 toI. fg in itentf
an education in the affairs of the peo-
| ple) constitute an admirable school in
which to train an American statesman"
4
Mrs. Cleveland. widow of the late
ex-President Grover Cleveland, has
sent the following to the press:
"Westland, Princeton, n. j.,
/ July Z. 1903.
"In our great grief there has come
| to my children and myself from all
4 over our country, and from other lands,
expressions of coincidence in our be-
reavement and of a participation in onr
sorrow. My heart is touched by these
1 and by all the tributes paid to Mr..
i Cleveland in word and act. / am deep
4 ly gratified for the comfort that God
gives in this way. ! regret the multi
tude of these messages renders it i'm
possible for me to send personal
word of thanks for each. The press has
kindly offered to bear for me this ex-
preston of my own and my children's
gratitude and appreciation, and l hope
it will reach all who have thoughts OF
him and of us."-F'rancis F. Cleveland
It is probable that the Congress will
vote pension of 5000 a year TO Mrs
Cleveland. 1t has been done for the
widows of all ex-Presidents, except
ing Mrs. Harrison. She was not the
wife of the President when he was
filling the chair, but was married to
him after he left the White House. She
is very wealthy woman. anyhow. II
is said that Mrs. Cleveland will be very
: well fixed in life. Her tastes are not al
all expensive, and she lives quietly al
all times.
4 Everybody is making suggestions OF
how the stars shall be arranged upor
the field of the Flag. and a great many
| are trying to fix the stars so that each
will stand for State. and the people
of each State shall know just which one
represents them. Each for all and al
for each" is the motto of the stars or
our flag, and 1t would be invidious dis
tinction to try to name any one of them
Furthermore, our Flag is known the
world over for its field of blue with it,
stars in rectangular rows. To change /
! now would be to change the Flag ant
, then we would no longer be able t.
, boast that we have the Oldest flag in tn,
world, because the minute we change
! the stars in the field to make one BIZ
, star, as is just now being suggested, We
. change the Flag SO that foreigners viii
- say "Ahi a new Flag. Whose, l won.