The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1909-03-01
Credit Has Come to Him as
Synbolizing the Government,
Declares the President.
TENNIS CABINET LUNCH.
Singles Out Garfield as Type
of Man Who Gave Right
Support in Affairs of State.

WASHINGTON. March l-Prosdgnt
Roosevelt to-day gave farewell
luncheon at the White House 10 the
members OF the famous Tennis Caoi'
net" and others who have been closely
associated with him during the past
seJen Years. Aside from the distin-
snished government officials who have
served AS among the Presidents chief
aides during his administration, and also
MS his comranons at sports OF ditferent
kinds, there were present men Wh"W
MFR. Roosevelt had made friends when
no was roughlrg it In the West years
ago and with whom ne had gone on
numerous hunting expeditions
The occasion was memorable to those
who surrounded the President to-day
and the latter's farewell words were not
.r,,rely free from notes OF regret If not
sadness. The President In or'ei
speech said ,.u..
Gentlemen: You are here nomlnaisy
as members, or to meet the members OF
the Tennis Cabinet'-that is, as men
with whom AT tennis, or hunting. or RID
Ing. or walking, or boxing. ! nave
PLAYED, with whom have been on the
round-,,p. or In the mountains, or in
the ranch country.
because You Are the Men,
"Rut. really. as you know, YOU are not
here for that reason at alI-you are
here because you are the men ana pc
cause YOU represent the men, with
whom have worked while have been
president. No administration has ever
had finer or more loyal service than you
have given, and do not believe TINS
country has ever had an ADLER or more
devoted set OF public servants.
1T is through you and those Ike you
that | have done the major part of what
has been accomplished under this adj
mlnistration. Moreover in vast num-
her of cases the doing of the work itseii
has been your only reward.
The credit has come to me, to the
chief of the administration. For eN'
actly as men Ike to symbolic batie
b. the name of the commander so they
like TO symboli2e an administration ny
the man at the head, forgetting that
the immense majority of his acts can
he done only through Others and that
really successful admin ,stration' sue
cessf,l from the standpoint or 7dEanc-
my the honor and the interests Of the
country. must be managed as our has
been, in a spirit OF the most loyal as
ISOLATION and partnership.
sinules Out Garfield.
"There are many others like You
w.bom would have given much to
triug her to-day but there simply wasn't
room enough, and so have brought YOU
here partly for your own sakes, but
primarily In representing thousands OF
otter workers. as representing all good
faithful. fearless public servants. who
strive their best TO do what the pubic
need demands, and who in the last all.
alysis. stand all on the same level wher
JUDGED by that supreme test which
takes into chief account the spirit OF ths
service rendered
whether a man is a Cabinet Minis
ter, q bureau chief. a marshal, an In
dian agent, a forester, letter-carrier, q
member OF the ife-saving service, q
clerk In q department or workman In
nayy-yard. or whether he holds ont
OF hundred other positions makes moi
the slightest difference II he puts hi.