Weekly journal-miner., 1909-09-22
HAMMOND PARTY
 BACK. FROM MINES
(From Fridays Daily.)

his party yesterday afternoon from a visit to the properties of the Verde River Copper company, known as the Pfau mine.
 Mir. Hammond stated last evening at the St. Michael, where he and his party are stopping, that there is nothing he could give out at the f'res- ent time.
 ''I regret exceedingly that l must leave in the morning for Los An geles," he said. ''However, shall be back again in October when the presidents special reaches this fine city, which I consider the most beau tiful in the southwest" /"
 The Hammond party was taken to the mine of Judge D. E. Parks. In the party were Arthur L. GarfOrd. Elyria, Ohio; Frank Keith, Fred S. Pope, w. H. Burnham, F.. s. Berry, Dr. C. l.. Lindley, H: H. Johnson.
 MT. Hammond IS an intimate per sonal friend of President Taft. Dis eussing their relations, "Praetieal Politics, leading weekly, says:
 'Jaek" Hammond, as the president calls him before everybody, IS one of the inrer or unofficial cabinet of the Taft administration. This ;, rath- CT distinguished honor, in an ad- ministration which is supposed to be going along without taking anybOdy's advice vsry much. Roosevelt had two cabinets. one to order around and the other to play tennis with. Taft has two. one consisting of nine men on whose backs he has dumped most of the hard work of the administration, and the other consisting chiefly of John Hays Hammond, who haunts the golf links instead of the tennis court
 Now this is not saying that NIT. ! Hammond is the real Warwick of the Tagt regime, for Frank H. Hitchcock would get mad at that, and then we would have a cabinet row. But the truth is that William H. Taft has a liking for hIs old friends and is ae- customed to turn to them when he wants good advice. More than one important appointment which pOmpOus senators have ponderOusly approved has really been determined upon after receipt of a note from some old erony in the mans town telling Taft that the man was "all right" The presi- dent keeps in touch with old friends in every part of the country, even if some of them are back numbers as politicians, and when ticklish local questions arise he drops them line, in care of the country postmaster, and takes a lot of stock in what they report back.
 So of John Hays Hammond. He was a eollegemate, although two years ahead of Taft at Yale, and long be- | fore Hammond had been condemned to death by the BOer government for trying to secure a few rights. dia- mond and otherwise, for the Uitland- CTS in South Africa, Taft had learned to esteem him as one of a thousand; and so he regards him now. Nor has Hammond sought to trade upon the favor with which he is regarded by the president of the United States. He wants to strengthen the Republi can party and is willing to give time and money to that end. If he wants anything for himself, he can have it.
 MT. Hammond will be one of the ex- eeedingly small party who will ae- company President Taft on his autumn swing around the country. He will join the party in Utah in September, and what he cannot tell the president about conditions in Mexico and the American mining regions the Gug- to tell him. For the present, he mo tors over from Gloucester to the Taft cottage every few days or joins the president on the MyOpia links when no other distinguished citizen happens along. He is not of the J. Bourne class of golf players, either, for Hammond amounts to something.
 What his future will be in Ameri- can politics is an interesting question. Hammond has brains, money, tact and public spirit. His mOney-maklng may be over. as a main pursuit, but his public life has not begun. He is only about 54 years old, which is almost coltish. and he says he wants nothing 1 in politics He has a voting resi- denee in Gloucester but, being rich and also eanny, he is too shrewd to offer himself as a sacrifice to an | o..ror ,lac+orota If JOhn Hays petS