Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-11

a line of action.
The members of his cabinet will
emphasize his plans in many speeches
which they are scheduled to make
during the summer and autumn. Two
or three Of them will travel as far as
the Pacific Coast before next October.
Secretary of the Interior Ballinger
will start for his home at Seattle
within a few weeks to be absent
month or two. Secretary of the Navy
Meyer also expects to go to San
Francisco during July or August. He
is becoming quite adept at public
speaking and is occasionally making
public addresses on general topics as
we'll as upon the Navy.
Republican Senators and Represent
atives are also taking their cue from
the President AS soon as Congress
adjourns they will return to their
homes. where they have unusual OPP
pcrtunities for disseminating ideas
about the plans of the administration.
The political campaigns this year will
be very few and of a minor character,
but Senators and Representatives
have numerous engagements for
public speaking. The President has
been in consultation with a great
number of these officials, to whom his
views are quite generally known. His
decision for quiet administration &C
cords with the bulk of Congressional
opinion.
1t necessarily follows that the nine
Departments OF the Government Will
not be active during the next six
months in pressing new matters to
the front. These departments have
now been well organized under their
respective heads. The leading ideas
insisted upon have been economy of
administration and sincere adj
herence to high standards The
Treasury Department, of course, will
be intensely occupied for months put
ting the new tariff law into operation
But that is not work which will stir
up new issues. 1t will fall largely up
on the customs division of the Trea-
sury and upon the group of officials
who have such tasks in charge
The changes in officials have now
been made, as far as the President has
| in mind to go for the present. Neces-
sarily more new men will be appointed
when he returns to Washington in the
autumn. All the important officials
will hold their places till that time,
according to the present programme
The President will eventually name
half a dozen ambassadors to European
Courts but he wishes most of the en-
cumbents to hold on for quite a while
| yet. He will discourage office seekers
| from going to him at Beverly, on the
ground that their interests will be
served just as well by waiting till he
| is back in the White House again
There are always numerous Senators
and Representatives who want to adj
wise with the President during the
months of July, August and Septem-
Der. He will ask them, except when
their errands are very urgent, to post
| pone consideration till the late au-
tumn.
On many matters the President de-
slres to measure the sentiment of the
country. That is one of the objects Of
his proposed trip. He also wishes to
make his own presentation OF the pro-
gresS of his own administration for
| the first few months of his tenure. He
VIII devote some time during the sum-
| lner to shaping up these statements
and to determining where and when
they shall be made. He intends that
his explanations and statements shat,
pc dlgnified and in keeping with the
traditions of his office, but at the same
time furnishing the country the in
formation the people are entitled to
have at first hand
Washington takes kindly to all these
summer plans of the President. They
are regarded here as presaging a very
successful year and as certain not
only to increase the prestige of Mr..
Taft as President but as sure to en-
nance the confidence that Congress
ana the states will have in him as
President.