Gilpin observer., 1909-03-04
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT GATHERS
OLD cRoNIEs TO BID THEM
FAREWELL.
FOR HELPERS
SPECIAL COMPLIMENT TO SECRE.
TARY GARFIELD AS TYPiFY-
ING GOOD WORKERS.


Monday gave a farewell luncheon at
the White House to the members OF the
famous "Tennis Cabinet" and others
who have been closely associated with
him during the past seven years. The
occasion was memorable to those who
surrounded the President and the lat
ter's farewell words were not entirely
free from notes of regret, if not sad
ness.
Aside from the distinguished gov
ernment officials who have served as
among the Presidents chief aides dur
ing his administration, and also as his
companions at sports of different
kinds, there were present at the White
House luncheon men whom the Presi-
dent had made friends with when he
was roughing it in the West years ago,
and with whom he had gone on num-
erous hunting expeditions.
The President in his remarks follow
ing the luncheon, said:
"Gentlemen You are here nomi-
nally as members, or to meet the men,
bers of the Tennis Cabinet-that is
as men with whom at tennis or hunt
ing. or riding or walking. or boxing,
have played, with whom have been on
the roundup, or in the mountains, or
on 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 repre-
sent 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 this country
has ever had an abler or more devoted
set of public servants. 1t is through
you and those like you that have done
the major part of what has been ac-
complished under the administration.
Moreover. in a vast number of cases
the doing of the work itself has been
your only reward.
THE credit has come to me, to the
chief of the administration. For exactly
as men like to symbolic a battle by
the name of the commander, so they
like to symbolic 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 successful administration, sue
cessful from the standpoint of advanc-
Ing the honor and the interests of the
country must be managed as ours has
been, in a spirit of the most loyal asso-
citation and partnership. There are
many others like you whom | would
have given much TO bring here today:
but there simply was not room enough:
and so have brought you here partly
for your own sakes. but primarily as
representing thousands of other work
ers; as representing all good faithful,
fearless 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 supreme test which
takes into chief account the spirit of
the service rendered.
so while | greet you for yourselves,
I greet you still more as symbolizing
| others: and in saying farewell to you.
shall take as symbolizing all of you one
who leaves public life when | leave it:
man who made a real personal sacri-
flee when seven years ago he came
here TO take office at my request;
man who has stood ever since as the
type of what a good public servant
should be: a man who for 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 Ba-
con, Mr.. Justice Moody, the postmaster
general, Secretary Newberry, Secre-
tary Garfield. Secretary Loeb. Solicitor
General Hoyt, Assistant Secretary
O'Laughin, Assistant Secretary Win.
throp, Assistant Secretary Phillips.
Comptroller Murray, Commissioner Nc
llhenny, Hon. John c. Rose. Hon. Har-
ry l. Stimson. Hon. Lyman NJ. Bass,
Clifford Pinchot, James B. Reynolds, w
w Heffelfinger. Capt. Luther $. Kelly,
Yellowstone Kelly" whom the Presi.
dent first met on the Little Missouri,
at present an Indian agent in Arizona: /:
w. w. Sewall. the Presidents old
guide; Capt. Seth Bullock. Commit ssion.
er keefe, Henry S. PEtchett, john
Abernathy.