The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1909-03-27
OF NATIONS
CAPITAL
BY Sheldon s. Cline.

WASHINGTON, March 24.-Presi-
dent Taft has been compelled to hang
out the "No Admission Except IN
Business sign. Ever since the 4th
of March the white house has been
in a state of siege and in order meas
urably to keep pace with his work the
president was compelled to labor far
into the night. Even the extra hours
were not sufficient to prevent the ac
emulation, so Mr.. Taft will be obliged
to his we'll wishers if they will defer
paying their respects until his desk is
cleared. He doesn't want to refuse to
see any one, for he believes respectable
Americans of whatever walk have a
right to call on their chief executives;
but there is work which must be done,
so the present callers will have to show
real reason before getting past Seere-
tary Carpenter.
1t is one of Mr.. Taft s ambitions to
lfldht HIS tiIlInlStldtiOn hHONH U III
democracy. People who call at the
white house will be received whenever
the president s official duties will at all
permit, and it isn' t going to involve the
unwinding of a lot of red tape to Sc
cure an audience. Only a small frac-
tion of the American people, of course,
co., o,,no - N1oeb.nrr+a 90 +ha ,roc;
dent is going to the people whenever
he can. Mr.. Taft undoubtedly will
travel more than any OF his predeces-
sors, and when he travels he is going
to see as many people as possible.
In his inaugural address and upon
occasions Mr.. Taft has let it be known
bility of his high office, but don t i'm
agine for a minute that he is bowed
down under the weight of that re
sponsibility. In the three weeks of his
administration he has hardly had a
minute at his own disposal or at the
disposal of his family, but he appears
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the enormous amount of work he has
to do as he would out of a closely-con-
tested game of golf. One old white
house attache declares that he even
has President Roosevelt "beat to a
frazzle' when it comes to clearing up
a desk-full of work, and any one who
ax,,. onxv NJ paoooxo14 az xrorE Enau-C
that the man who beats him at it is no
loafer.
In the passing of the CROUCH Rid
ers' as a preferred class for office
holding many good folks see a cause
of rejoicing. There is no contention
that the members of Mr.. Roosevelt s
Spanish war regiment have not averag-
ed up with other office holders, but re-
formers have long preached against the
idea of an office-holding class in Ameri-
ca, and President Roosevelt. they claim,
made such of the men who served I'M
der him in Cuba.
If President Taft has a prediction
for any particular set of men it prob
ably is those, soldiers and civilians,
who served with him in the Philip
pines. He knows how arduous were the
duties there, and he knows the ones
who made good. There need be no sur
prise if a good many men who served
with Taft in the archipelago are called
to high places in the Taft administra
tion. But, it is pointed out this would
not be a parallel ease to that of the
Rough Riders. If President Taft APP
points men who served in the Philip
pines to office it will be because they
have demonstrated their fitness for ad-
ministrative affairs, whereas the quail
ties which characterized the Rough
Riders, ability to ride and willingness
to fight, have nothing to do with civil
administration.
President Taft is not a faunal natur-
oI,.4 nor xyo+ n ornitbo1opist b,4 ho