The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-13
100000 FOLLOWS TAFT'S GOLF CAME President Cannot Win At the
 Myopia Links CENSUS MATTERS AHEAD Secretary Naael Will Run Up to Rev. erly To Discuss Appointments
 of Census Supervisors
 With President.
CENSUS MATTERS AHEAD

Beverly, Mass, August 12.-There Is a large-sized "hoodoo camping on the trial i of President Taft every time he goes out to play golf. He has not won a game this
 week. and he Is thinking seriously of
 sending for Walter Travis to come up and pull him out of the hole which grows
 deeper and deeper every day. MT. Taft
 has played twice with Travis and is anx- l ious to strike a winning stride again.
 Today the President had John Hays Hammond as his opponent on the Myopia
 links and lost the 1S-hole match by one up.
 Two cabinet officers are coming to l Beverly tomorrow. Secretary Nagal. of the department of commerce and labor. 1 is coming to take up with the Presi- dent the matter of the appointment of more than 300 census supervisors through out the length and breadth of the land.
 Postmaster General Hitchcock will be ] here at the same time and will probably i have an important part in the division l of the census plums.
 Cecil Lyon, republican national com i mitteeman from Texas, also is expected in Beverly tomorrow. The President an- nounced several days ago that in Texas, as well as in eight other states of the so-called solid south" he would di-
 vide the census appointments equally between the republicans and democrats, i the leaders of the two parties to arrange ] the division on a satisfactory basis. I E. Dana Durand, director of the census, ] will also be at the Taft cottage tonor- row. The President has turned over rec 1 concentrations for census places to the de- partment heads having the matter in
 charge, with the general instructions that
 the men to be selected shall be of un- questioned ability and fitness for the l important offices they are to fll.
 Mrs Taft came down town again to- day. She enjoys her little shopping excursions into the city, and as few peo-
 pie recognize her, she moves about with 1 few curious eyes to follow her. In the
 midst of her shopping today Mrs. Taft
 stopped at one of the corner drug stores and with Mrs. More, her sister, had a
 glass of ice cream soda.
 1 A woman who has called twice at the | executive offices in an effort to have 1 President Taft grant pardon to broth CT, who is serving term in one of the 1 federal pentientiaries, has started much speculation In Beverly. It is said that she 1 has been several times to the golf links, l where the President was playing and 1 has tried to have an interview at the l cottage. Secretary Carpenter has sug- l gested to the woman that pardon cases l are only taken up through the depart l ment of justice at Washington and must 1 be thoroughly investigated and reported on by the officials of that department be- | fore the President can act
 President Taft will not be able to go
 to Panama next year, as he had intended. | He had expressed the hope that he would
 be able to visit the isthmus every year.
 With large session of Congress on his l hands all of next winter and spring,
 however, he thinks the chance of getting
 to Panama at a seasonabls time of the l year Is very remote