The morning journal-courier., 1908-12-15
EARLY RESPONSIBILITIES.

EARLY RESPONSIBILITIES.
 It will be interesting to watch and see If the political blg-wigs and their satellites travel to Georgia to see and consult with Presldent-elect Taft as they have been visiting Hot Springs and Washington to sec and consult him. If they do, then he will have to forgo the rest he needs and begin at once 10 virtually exercise the duties of the great office which awaits him. He found lt a strenuous task to run for the presidency. He is now finding 1t strenuous task to get ready for the office. In office he will find it a strenu- ous task to attend to Its multifarious duties
 Our Washington correspondent. fin his letter printed In Mondays issue of The Journal Courier, drew very sugges- tive word picture of the passing of Roosevelt and the coming of Taft as provoked by the presence of the latter in Washington last week Said he: Tt Is to the next president of the United states that the politicians are paying court. It is to him that they arc of fering suggestions, making their peace, begging for patronage, and paving the way for the future It s tho next president, and, not the present one who is being sought for political plums Judge Taft's waking moments, and they have not been few since his ar rival fin washington, have been so strenuous that they would do credit to the chief exponent of the strenuous life, From early in the morning until late at night he has been busy discuss ing every conceivable subject, from a postmastership Tn Nebraska to tho Is suance of many millions of bonds for the preservation of tho natural re sources of the country"
 Tn responding at one of the banqucts of tho New Haven Chamber of Com meree many years ago 10 tho toast of The President of tho United States" Senator Hawley laid stress upon the loneliness of that official He never lacked company In fact he was the victim of constant Importantly, but 1t was very rare when he would be war ranted in trusting to the sincerity of his callers. Senator Hawley then went on to describe the spirit of com petition as between the official having patronage and favors 10 dispense and the official or officials seeking patron- ago and favors of him He declared that that situation made constantly towards a kind of loneliness which in tho end actually penallzed tho president for the honors heaped upon him. Now according to our correspondent we sec 8 phase of that truth exemplhed. President Roosevelt has but few moro weeks In office and hence little or no patronage and favors 10 dispense. President-elect Taft will in few weeks be in office with four and probably eight years of service ahead of him.
 Doubtless there are those who feel a trlhe sensitive over this apparent in- difference to service performed, and this new born concern in behalf of ser vice to be given, and perhaps there Is reason for It. but the more one studies human nature the more one will con- clude that lt Is the natural thing to court those possessed of power at the sacrifice of those whose power has al- ready begun to wane. It is question of mourning the dead king while vocif- erously hailing the new king For LhlldltlN lll' 'bulllN Ild6 III us HtN "king" man who by training in the public service may be called the best prepared citizen to be raised to the presidency of all citizens who have been given that office, Even he will at times find himself on the Hawley theory perplexed to reconcile his sense of the fitness of things with the sense Of the fitness of things as viewed by others who have private axes to grind but here again fortunately Mr. Taft haq seen pretty nearly every kind Of 6 political problem worked out, and will have to guide him knowledge of fun damental principles
 There is still another grateful phase of this taking on of the new love be- iore the old love has departed, namely the realization of the public men that the next President will be his own master without any show Of couceit