The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-03-02
TENNIS CABINET"
IN LAST SESSION
Roosevelt Gives Luncheon to
Many of His Old Friends
LOYALTY is C0MMEN DED
The President Speaks to the Guests
AS Close Personal Friends Who
Aided Him In Work of Ad-
mnistration.
LOYALTY IS COMMENDED

Washington, March President
Roosevelt today gave a farewell lunch
con at the White House to the members
of the famous tennis cabinet" and
others who have been closely asso-
ciated with him during the past seven
years. Aside from the distinguished
government officials who have served
as among the Presidents chief aides
during his administration, and also as
his companions at. sports of different
kinds, there were present men whom
the President had made friends with
when he was roughing it In the west
years ago, and with whom he had gone
on numerous hunting expeditions. The
occasion was memorable to those who
surrounded the President today and the
latter's farewell words were not en-
tirely free from notes of regret If not
of sadness. The President in a brief
speech laid emphasis on the point that
no administration had given its chief
more loyal support and he stated that
the country never had a more devoted
set of public servants than those men
through whom he said most of the
work of his administration had been
accomplished.
The President in his remarks fol-
lowing the luncheon, said:
"Gentlemen-You are here nonninally
as members of the tennis cabinet
that is as men with whom at tennis
or hunting, or riding, or walking, or
boxing, l have played, with whom I
have been on the roundup, or in the
mountains, or in the ranch country. But
really, as you know, you are not here
for that reason at all; you are here
because you are the men and because
you represent the men with whom I
have worked while 1 have been Presi-
dent. No administration has ever had
finer or more loyal service than you
have given, and l do not believe this
country has ever had an ADLER or more
devoted set of public servants. 1t is
true you and those like you that have
done the major part of what has been
accomplished under this administration.
Moreover, in vast number of cases
the doing of the work my success has
been your only reward. The credit
has come to me, to the chief of the ad-
ministration. For exactly as men like
to symbolic a battle by the name of
the commander, so they like to symbol
lie an administration by the man at
the head, forgetting that the immense
majority of his acts can be done only
through others and that really sue
cessful administration, successful from
the standpoint of advancing the honor
and the interests of the country, must
be managed as ours has been, in a
spirit of the most loyal association and
partnership.
There are many others like you whom
l would have given much to bring here
today but there was not room enough
and so 1 have brought you here partly
for your own sakes, but primarily as rep
resenting thousands of other workers;
as representing all good faithful, fear
less public servants who strive their best
to do what the public need demands, and
who, in the last analysis, stand all on
the same level when judged by that su-
preme test which take into chief account
the spirit of the service rendered. So,
while I greet you for yourselves, l greet
you still more as symbolzing others. and
in saying farewell to you I shall take as
symbolizing all of you one who leaves
public life when l leave 1t; a man who
made a real personal sacrifice when seven
years ago he came here to take Office
at my request; man who has stood
ever since as the type of what good
public servant should be; man who
the last two years has been one of the
most useful cabinet ministers who ever
sat at the cabinet table-Jim Garfield. +"
Those present at the luncheon were:
The French ambassador, Secretary Bacon,
Mr. Justice Moody, the Postmaster Gen
eral, Secretary Newberry, Secretary Gar
field, Secretary Loeb, Solicitor General
Hoyt,' Assistant Secretary OLaughlin, AS
slstant Secretary Winthrop Assistant Sec
rotary Satteriee Assistant Attorney Cen
eral Woodruff, Assistant Secretary Phil
Ups, Comptroller Murray, Commissioner
Leupp, Commissioner Neill, Commissioner
Smith, Commissioner McIlhenny, Hon.
John C. Ross, Hon. Henry L. Stimson,
Hon. Lyman M. Bass, Clifford Pinchot,
James B. Reynolds, W. w. Heffelfnger,
Capt Luther S. Kelly, Yellowstone KEEL
ly," whom the President first met on
the Little Missouri, at present Indian
agent in Arizona; w. W. Sewell, the Pres
idents old guide; Capt. Seth Bullock,
Commissioner Keefe, DIR. Henry S.
Pritehettg John Alternately.
magnificent bronze in the form of a
crouching cougar was given to the Pres
ident by his tennis cabinet" the pre-
sentation address being made by Henry
l.. Stimson.