The National tribune., 1909-08-26

Missouri, dropped In to have O talk re-
Gently. He has been taking his vaca-
ton at Nahant. only few miles away.
and wanted word with the President
about his trip thru that State, about the
Republican Census Supervisors for Mis-
souri,. all Of whom have not yet been
named, and about the prospects of a
good. strong Republican fight to keep
the State in line next year. The Presi-
dent Is very anxious to see the Repub-
| licans carry Missouri next year, and
Senator Warner has q similar anxiety.
because he comes up for reelection.
and Republican majority on joint ball
lot in the Legislature is very essential
to him.
Representative Samuel w. Mccall.
the sage of Winchester. Mass. has been
the Presidents only visitor from the
National House. The Massachusetts,
Senators and, in fact. the whole Con-
eressional contingent from New Eng
land have given the President wide
berth and have not come around to
bother him. They know he desires a
rest here. and as they have no particu-
lar errands with him they prefer to
keep away. The Western Congressmen'
with the exception Of Senator Warner,
have kept away, because their errands
were disposed of before they left Wash
ington.
The procession Of Cabinet officers
continues, and probably will be kept
up as long as the President is in Bev-
erly. Attorney-Gene Wickersham was
the third member of the Cabinet to
come in the course of two weeks, but
the President had also met Secretary
of the Navy Meyer over at the Myopia
golf course in the meantime Secretary
of the Treasury MacVeagh will soon be
the fifth Cabinet caller. for his visit
from Dublin, N. H., has now been defin.
itely arranged. One of his official subor-
dinates. Assistant Secretary Charles d.
Norton, of Chicago, came to see the
President on some mysterious Depart
mental mission, and then proceeded
to Dublin before Secretary MacVeagh
came. A schedule has already been ar
ranged for Secretary Of State Knox,
who will be with his friend, Henry c.
Frick, in a beautiful North Shore resi-
dence by the end of August. The ex-
elusive Boston families on the North
Shore have not been very friendly with
Mr. Frick, but the visit of Secretary
Knox will give the place official dignity
which probably the exclusive North
Shoreites cannot ignore.
There the program of Cabinet visits
ends for the present. altho there Is lit
tie doubt there will be more of them
before Sept. IA, when the President de-
parts. The coming of a member of the
Cabinet is chronicled here in Midsum-
mer as a very important event, and it
undoubtedly is. Nevertheless, when the
rush of Government business Is on and
things are normal in Washington hardly
a day passes without a Cabinet officer
visiting the President on official busi-
ness.
These things, however, concern the
little world of the Summer Capital at
Beverly, and the rushing business the
two telegraph companies are doing indi-
Gates that they are also interesting the
country at large. The President may
not work very hard during the Summer
months. but he cannot get away alto
gether from his duties. President Taft
is made to realize as much every day as
he sojourns by the sea. takes on deep
tan from exposure on the golf links,
and gives order to his chauffeur to be
careful about exceeding the speed limit,
even IL the Presidents auto has to take
the dust of some upstart citizen, by the
accident of riches able to own a cottage
in an exclusive Summer resort region
and to possess costly machine to carry
him over the costly North Shore roads.